Show r AS TO BLIND OBEDIENCE The Tho hc News Nev recently reemt 1111 1 some somo attention to nit nil that appeared In Inthe Inthe the Northwestern flirtation Advocate the tho greater part rt of ot which was culled from an on effusion that thit appeared In ho the organ of oC the ho church churchover churchover churchOVer over tho the signature of if Fr Fred d M I Smith a 1 counselor In th the Presidency ot of that f o j clety clel From what appeared In thOM thon pub the tho ni had Iad found lince In Inix ix II local sheet to which wu WI pay pa little It If 4 Un nn attention been use It fl de tar far farbelow below tho level of Decent Journalism jina therefore most of ot the persons whom honi It attacks have ceased even Onn to read let reply to 10 o 18 It 18 Our response e to tu the sen senI I of c the tho writer whose hose name Mme we have hav mentioned was wae simply to correct I the tho fillS conveyed by ty his assertions nud the effect that tho the members member of ot the tho Church of ot Jesus Christ of ot In III Utah wera lerl In a n condition In which they the dared J not i sert their 1 right to think and speak without en eu endangering cuI I their social and religious and anti further that they the were t under on un result resultIng f Ing from frem obedience to the priesthood rho Tho writer named endeavored to It appear that ho be was rae In Utah for Cor tho the purpose if f delivering the Mor Mormon or ormon mon people from Crom rein the fetters which ho he assumed they bound with und and to Induce tho the Saints hero to think for tor themselves them and a rend read for Cor themselves outside of ot prescribed courses laid down town liy a IL dominating priesthood IIi Hit nr contained many In ny sneers and durs agaInst The Tho Holy Hoh Priesthood and name flom personal allusions nil us Ions to the tho editor of ot tho Deseret News Nev which were easily accounted for tor f r by hy the tho company that Mr Smith to keep but to which I ivo wo paki no attention In an editorial i that appeared Dec J 2 1305 1905 we made I orne reference to the chanted charKes In mentioned and stated that There Is h no n domIna lion hy by h the men holding authority In thin Church No 00 member Is 11 prevented from thinking und and n nIP ac he wishes hes or from rend real rending reading ing whatever he h chooses There Is no course courle prescribed for tor them Ih m In that re reo which they are aro required to 10 take or that Is made exclusive Unquestioning ing lug obedience to men tacit Is tl not a J doctrine of the Church nor Is in It exacted of oC any allY of Its It members Therefore tho pro pre tended desire de to free thorn them front from such Fuch alleged bondage Is nothing but hut u n sham We Ve showed also al o that In nil all the organizations nIl and of the Church the tha utmost ulmo t freedom of or thought and sPeech ech la Is 1 4 encouraged and excreted hut but that this does doell not ex cx extend tend to assault upon Individuals the defamation of ot character f charges or Insinuations of ot u a purely j personal nature and further that order oriler and decorum In nil alt till th assemblies ot of oti i tho the H ore are necessary to 10 bo he main v A IJ e to courses coure j of ut reading wo WI J explained that there thero was nothing of ot nn tin exclusive nature In advice given BB nil to tho the best IHl hooks books to tn b bl be perused peril led by members of ot the th Church nor any nn com coni command mand or requirement that limited tha th J perfect p freedom of ot every Church mem niem member her ber to study tu that which he or she de lIe Therefore the Insinuations In made mado by tho th Individual who claimed to have come COlli to Utah for tor the purpose oC or delivering them front from alleged nt wore Were unfounded and hN his pretended endeavors to 10 gl them then liberty were like beating the Mr with n a stuffed club The h 1 of oC tree free thought and free rree Ku rh ch who has hilI noth nothing I Inc ing III to tu fight on that tl M then came clime out with n a batch of excerpts from r II delivered away avay bark In and more Mid nd profusely In 1837 IS j jIn 0 In order to prove NOVe after the tho style IIO of oC logic adopted by II hU hl helper h that the tho doctrine of oC to tt tomen tomen I men la I n a tenet of oC the tho Mormon lormon JI article was va recently noticed In the thc Northwestern Christian Advocate and was vas published In full tull by hy the thO the paper of oC the lie organized church rim Tho rh discourses from which Iho the quoted ed cd Ct sentences were ere re picked out are iere de tie delivered tiet lII t livered liverett during a time of ot greAt groat excite f t m meat ment nt chiefly when wh n the IIII tinny army sent i here bre In the tho time ot of President t was ivas nil on 01 Its III way wn va threatening to t hang the 1 Mormon leaders leaden nod lle Mor Olor Mormon mon Thon property appropriate Mormon women and run riot Ilot In itt looting general generally ly lt when whon they thoy arrived on roil coll Seine Komp very yer extreme extremo denunciations were Indulged In and tho the speaker advocated f obedience to the councils of ot their leaders leader Toting Young at that time being the Governor of oC Utah ns nt well 11 as liS liSl 1 President l re of oC the Church U It t wee vaa necessary sary aty In tn order to carry out Dut the means of ot defense established that tho the peo 1100 people pie should be united nod willing rUling to 10 follow Instructions suited to those thoc times Th TIlt trong urging particularly re rt remarks ret t marks made by tho the lato late Heber C Kim Him I ball hail whose who peculiarities i are remembered remembered I bere by old residents of ot this city ct applicable to 10 conditions then existing anti and Were vero generally genera ly In the spirit In which they were tittered uttered Hut they thoy were were oven even then i I I tho the views of ot the men me who expressed them When spoken under the tho In I I of at the Spirit of ot tho the Lord they th Y were vero In the enunciation of oC I principle When hen they were declaimed under excitement of oC the tha Individual they were wore understood In that light Homo of ut them were In that Jocular strain which was customary eu tomar with I 1 lieber C Cimball t hOd so 90 construed Hut why any per her person I I son bOO of show showing Ins what Is III thi th I I accepted by the time Church of at Jell Christ Chrit of ot day Saints to today I I day go O back buck to those strenuous times for evidences cl to establish c a I point In Instead I I stead of oC taking the thc acknowledged and amid 1 adopted written standards of ot the tho Church for tor that purpose I I Our I assailant III in or order order der tier to Rive some color to his hll assertions that unquestioning to men timen menU U I a doctrine of ot our nur Church picked out small parts purt of ot a 11 L paragraph from a n discourse delivered In 1 6 by hy Ire l dent Joseph Jo eph V F I Smith We Wo quoted tha th I entire paragraph In reply showing that thet there was not nol anything In his hili re rp remarks remarks I marks that taught the doctrine of oC un on unquestioning t questioning obedience to men Our op oo opponent oPponent patient further attempted to bring in inas inas I as II ev rico on Oil his side u a sentence from froman an un Og en paper piper purporting to be bo from i remarks made by b the tho editor of ot the P De I I wet eret Here Is Iff what tho the accuser said raid No io longer lonser ago aRO than tIan tho the of Oc October October tober last he was this doc doctrine trim trine In his peculiarly oracular manner In Iii his sermon rmon at lit Ogden on that date data ho Is I reported to 10 have havo saUl said saUlIn al l lIn In n it 1 nutshell the tho th philosophy of ot tho the Mormon religion consists In iii obeying the thc and living up to the reve revelations lations 1 of oC God as 1 revealed to 10 his hili cho chon tn n 11 servants on earth eurth In this the List dispensation dl of ot the tho of ot times Now Non io for Cor tho lie facts The Time editor of oC oCth tho th News was wan not In 10 on tho the of October last lut Therefore he ho did not lIot deliver a n sermon or discourse of ot I tiny any kind at lit that time lIe He did IUd deliver deller dellern a n I lecture on Murmon philosophy In Inthe inthe the Ogden Tabernacle at lit a 0 different date da te but then did not make mak any ally je me of oC the kind attributed 1 to him by hy tho time Ogden paper The Tho lecture was entirely entIre devoted to the philosophy of or orthe I the Prophet Joseph Smith concerning the eternity of oC matter mutter anti ot of spirit of oC duration of oC space pace of oC and endless succession of beings anti and worlds Including the doctrine of oC pre pie preexistence existence and anti and the relationship between man and amid Deity Dell The subject mentioned In the tho thel l Vapor apor quoted from With not touched ton hed upon Ullon or to we wo do not be he that any reporter front from that jour journal nat nal was present lit itt t tho the meeting So Ho much for or Mr Smiths desperate d effort to bolster up liP hla hIli hi ml misrepresentations concerning unquestioning obedience ol And on examining even the tho remarks al ul alleged to have been made by Ilik editor what Is III there In them that will logic logically logically ally support his erroneous assertion But Hut It U is not riot our Intention In III this nr ni tide to go 10 through tho the numerous ex cx exhibitions of oC chop choi logic and 1111 1 forced rea which our opponent hats hll cd In In the time article artico that appears In inthe the tho organ but our pur purpose pose li Is to show what Mr Ir Smith him hint himself self has hall taught on this subject In Ian Un stiago that thit cannot be mistaken and ami appeared In the Saints Herald of ot Feb II 11 1903 1003 H It t IB is on the of ot obedience and Is entitled Sermon ermon by Frederick Jred M hi II Smith l at Iowa January 15 t 5 1903 reported 1 by Bro Dro Leon Gold TIlls This sermon contains an nn argo argument mont ment In favor tor of ot the doctrine which tile the Is now nosy attempting to foist upon tipon tho the Church In lit Utah as mis ono one of ot UN Its fundamentals anti from the effects ett of ot which he has como come to deliver us After relating several I eral stories titus illus illustrating the tho virtues and ml nn benefits benent and 1 necessity HIt of oC implicit obedience In Including eluding the history of ot tho the healing of oC and the tho result of his obedi obedience ob lI ence lice to tho the Prophet Elisha Ellsha he lie told time the story of oC Abrahams Implicit obe obedience obedience In III the t sacrifice of ot hU ron pon at tho command of lC the l rd He lie remarked r I a Is one thought that I J wish wl h to draw from Crom the lie arid and If It I 1 Ican can mu get Iret ge that lulL one timing thing or on otis lesson le you jou I hall Khali t be lIal ned amid IUlI that Is III the lesson lenon of obedience ol rile enco which Is the result lI of ot absolute faith or In lot loci When Abraham went out Into tho tue now new no coun country try Ir is as a uc we ve are told tolI he did It In n obedi obedience ence nce to 10 a II command nn an 3 as IS he believed P t t front from He lie II saw not where ho ha wan wall going Hn He lb know knol not no why wll the time Ix ni told hint him to 10 K go tJ And y yet et t absolutely nb upon thu th faith that lie he hail had In iod justness he lie went ont Think you yon not lIot that that took faith tulU tulUa faitha a n confiding faith to 10 promulgate multi and to institute such lIuch absolute obedience oI Now Nowthen Nowthen io then have you ever iver heard the tha th late mads or has hall It over ever occurred to you ou that Hlat you OU would not obey ob a 1 torn corn irand of ot flush that command up tip upI 01 I i t ii r in i I want ant antIn antto to In ask you OU here did tills this command of ot i ton th It m ilai ui I tj t I Aiji A Intelligence I mitch hi lit lilly 1111 way When hn ho was wal toUt told to tn leave the hum iun whew he hi had been bean rain mill rained ed cd d where ho Ill had hind settled nettled doun and whore where the most of or ui WI would think that ho would he likely I to upend hl his days cI cIdo do 10 you rou OtI think that statement appealed to t his liU hl Intelligence when he was all told to mop 1110 go Into n a new MI country mind and niche moke ix a 1 now mies And Amii again when ha lie h was wi told lold to kill It III hU his somi or offer his hll hisson son fl ns its a n burnt offering do you yom Olt think them ivas IIII therein that ap appealed pealed to hI Intelligence that It ought to 10 be done tione There was absolutely nh no reservation obedience He lie obeyed Implicit ly I In connection with this Mr Ir Smith d a n passage of oC scripture which the tin Mormons as nil he calls cal us lP have hac havel l been een greatly condemned for Cor citing it Itis IH is this Then Thea Peler emit the other lither apostles answered anti said we t ought to obey God Cod rather miner than moan man Acts Aele v 9 He tie further quoted front Jeremiah antI Isaiah and also from Leviticus to es establish e establish the principle 0 o Implicit obe ohm as n a requirement of the peo pie of God Cod He lIe cited l J Jand j 1 and remarked There Is ono one feature of at this thU that I In irish leh especially to call all your our nt attention n to n That Is that here hurt no wn have hae a being though he Is an nn angel we have hae a n bel he lag ing that Is ls commissIoned of o tho the to do n a special 1111 In I work and perform n It spec pee ml ILI and th the he Urd Ird has baN said aid Obey his voice olce Now the point I wish i I I I I 1 I I I I I I I t I i I I I I to call attention to Is II that when tho th ho has hit commissioned n a certain per ver perron person son ron to do u a curtain certain work to so lonG lung an as that Is la In discharge of oC that work his voice should be obeyed when It Is imi given ghen In his name nam ns IS though It Il wan wall front from tho the Deity himself elt Mind lInd lIndou you ou I say that ro so long IonIC as 01 he Is In tho tim office of ot his calling that person verson III In die chirgo of ot that work rork should receive the tha same salute Implicit obedience by y those thoe who are presumed to obey obe ns ni though the Deity Delt himself elC lf were speaking Can Cams Mr Ir find nn In any of the dis discourse courses course delivered under tinder tho the peculiar circumstances existing away a back hack In 1557 1537 u a stronger enunciation of Dr the tho doc doctrine doctrine trine that thurit tha t he now condemns that he lie heI himself promulgated In the discourse from which wo e 0 have quoted which he delivered as us late hate ns as r Discoursing Discounting further on the unquestioning obedience of ot Abraham which he lie highly extolled d ho he n lIked asked k d again and andI I remarked Hut Bitt did h hue ho hc hesitate No he went with blind faith und and blind obedience and fulfilled that lust Command to the very Iery letter co o far an its till nil practical purposes purpose are arc concerned con Anti And that Is why ihy wh to tome toIne me lute It that this tiuis I Is III one of the tho most thud striking examples of ot obedience Anti And what was the lie result Abraham today tOllay stands as 1111 a II tl ure scarcely par parI by any other oilier man except tho iho Christ mini man In nil mill the history his lor of ot tim world either or profane Anti And why Pimply limply because berul e In him was man Juan manI mant I fluted PO Me of ot tilt the O Implicit obe obedience I th thi world lies has ha over known Anti And I nm ani of ot the th opinion that only In Info Ino fo o tar far ns nil wo manifest manIC t obedience nc some sonie I similar to this will we wo he be profited i ii or In our Iel lit It i ii i n to me mci that thai this faith that i |