Show it OP A I In Ozark to Io d letter a to the editor ot of the tho Deseret N WI a short u ugo o askim or orIn In InformatIon concerning the teachings of at President ham Young in rein relo tl n to Adam Adom A personal letter war as written In reply rellY giving the desired cx plana lion The Lamoni Iowa organ ot of the prints tins private letter and endeavors to make mako It appear that the writer Is taking UP a controversy with the author of at a work called Utah In Contrast Tho Herald makes makell very cr free with the then n name me of at the tho editor ot of the News New and also strains a poInt to thaw show that ho he has V undertaken to apologize for tor the tho teachIng ot of Young Youn Younon on this subject We legaNI the action ot of tile the Herald In as contrary to the ethics of at respectable Journalism and an un unwarranted warranted liberty to take with a private We simply addressed V 0 personal letter to a gentleman who mado mad private Inquiry on the tho subject mentioned And liS as to tine the book to h the tho letter I is made to refer reter we wei nothing We hMo have never non the i book or r sin quotations rom It and nud ti never neer heard about Out tt it until tho article In the was ras headed P Penrose nrose vs s Free II 11 Young It If our V orre the letter to the editor of the he was IOS ot at r a breach ot of good manners and It if It wo rag the blame lit ties with tin a tr that published l U It UTo To that there was al nothing In inthe the ot of thich hleb wit 0 are ashamed or that might not with propriety be f GIven to the public It if It wits was obtaIned V Ito In a proper manner and with the con coneen consent sent een of at the writer we we here append Itin It ItIn In full tull as AI published In the Herald L Salt Lake City Utah Feb 1 17 1 OO Mr Anderson Ozark Mo lo Dear SI Jn reply to your your letter ot of Inquiry I 1 have to say n that t V V Yourt In the ot o whIch you OU peak dId not say ay that Che Virgin Mill Mary was riot not by bythe b the Holy Ghost He did no fla say that It was wai Mom Adam lie He did trot say that thai lAd Adam was WUI our Coil What he did say lay on this subject was wall that Jesus Jeus was not b by the tho Holy lie He taught ht that ClU Will WA the tho first begotten of God In the spirit and the tho only be begotten of God In the n h 1 As Asto to Adam ho he t taught u ht that he was God Clod GodIn ClodIn In the sense of being lit at the tho head ot of the tho hunan he wins WIS MichAel tha Ancient of Pays arid and In tho would bl be At the head headIn headIn In that way th the whole human family will bo be related to him RI as hi his o children find In the tho Patriarchal order he the personage with whom honl they will have to 10 do and the tho only one In that capacity Pro President taught faith In that Eternal to whom Adam and alt all bl his race should bo bow In humble reverence who Is IlI our ur Eternal rather and the of at our elder eider brother Christ and Is 11 the tho The Journal of Discourses Is not no now In print antI and I do no not know ot of any volume now on sale how hoger ver verI I have hao I n you th the ot of Pros Pre Predent dent ident teaching as AI to Adorn Il hOning that this will be lam I am Yours Tourin truly C W PENROSE Editor Anyone who ho has read tre Ie discourse bY President Young on tins subject will VIIi that our brief statement oi of its Ita purport I Is that there thero Is nothing In one that Is In with scum the other that we hoe hao neither apologized ed for tor nor disputed n thing contained In that one urmon which has been so much muth misunderstood und rind perverted by the ot of oUr late venerable We I are re lar with tire tho doctrIne he taught ann which lie he dill did not attempt full fully to ex cx plain In the discourse which has hOl been published hed And It should be under that the views view entertaIned b by that great leader and In inspired pi red S lit of the Lord were not expressed no as principles to bo be accepted by mankind as essential to salvation Like tire tho Prophet Joseph Smith hIs mind mimi Willi wa enlightened nl as to nan things whIch were beyond com common non mon understanding and the declaration at t which would bring upon him the op ot of the ignorant The Tho Church ot of Jesus Jesu ChrIst or of Lot Lat Saints has hall fundamental JIles nies to 10 present to tire the world the recep Lion or of which Is II essential to salvation They ore are to be found In the written ot of the Church and arc sImple urn easy eny to comprehend and obey oboy Ihre arc aro men lii III the Church who enter ain ideas Idene ot of it 1 more advanced nature of which although they mil may be In public either rither upon the or In works that have hoo been writ written ten cn are not put forth as upon lay person Tins This distinction ought to o ho bo clear olear to nil Vho Interest theme them relves Inn In such Buch matters That which President Youn Young set forth In U the discourse referred to Is not reached either to the day or to the he world liS as a 11 part ot of the reed creed of f the Church In the theetter letter etter of our WI we simply explaIned In private that whIch wan In private so SI that Ire he might un the tenor ot of President and not with any Intention or of or denying his doctrine or ot it anything that may rave been said upon the subject by op opponents ot of his utterances We do not reo cc nerd the course of the tho LamonI In n this matter as ar r even respectable Iti a 11 piece ot of journalistic Impertinence V |