Show DUPLICITY Among tho most persistent unit most I unscrupulous of ot the of it the Mormons aru tho the active apologists i l j jt t tho the ll Itu Its I h s an nl 1 I many inan of ot Its 1111 it chief devOte most inot of their time k public discourses to misrepresent misrepresenting ent J i 11 ing i up LIt strife against tho Ic In III the different States of tt the iho Union and seem to take extreme extremo delight 1 lIght In III holding them up to pUtlI I reprobation There ore are a n number of ot ofton thom them ton who hl insi nn 80 Itching desire to toeo toreo reo eo their names in print Ih In III seek by attack attacking 4 jug ing tho the only nI body lOI bod which stands oduy air U f tho thu Church of or Jesus Christ ot of Lat SaInts Hint with sith nn an unbroken n Una of I authority organization from fromI I the Iho late date of ot Iti It H o by y tho the 1 Prophet Joseph Smith April C 6 ho to bo b In that Church hut thIr th lr had hall no ox ex prior to the tho year yeal 1861 sixteen l years I nt to tho Prophets I I One of ot the most meet mO t blatant of ot the tho thet t I prominent agitators among tho the chief r Is IC C Smith who Exhibits onu small mall cunning III In 1 dhe he ms that ho he composes s in his I potty itty 11 11 warfare upon the tho Church lie we wc noticed ll article ankles on Mor tor torL L luon tuon In tho the Kansas City Ity Jour Journal L nal ial but W paid no nf attention to a let lett t lei iti t I therein from that writer Sump Some of Jf our friends In Missouri iA vere annoyed by iy his hili attempts to t III loft loit and place In n 1 t ohio light t the doc toc doctrines doctrines trines trIne and doings s of the Church and azIl In their behalf wo w now nw touch lunch upon por POI portions of tho the article to 10 I ho Hint his wain aro are of ot orpo po Ii little Importance to 10 occupy jutco In iii s i these I columns column CI i but liti t ho hoMen M Mcm an Jt Ji Men Iiii cm who hl worn formerly fJ o a the Church established d by hy Joseph and nuI who afterwards 4 Vu or of tho thc Church of or which Son cn 44 Smoot la I 1 an nn Apostle renounced nil all to and 1111 association with tho ki Church Chinch 01 Ranked by Joseph Smith i 1 they the accented tho the rev revo revolution lotion lution on nn polygamy Tho rho follow Ing fhi glinted from trum tills this document what Is hi renounced by IW Its II acceptance Y All Ali 11 covenants bonds obligation t ic gation oaths vows VO 1111 us j or expectations In proof of tt this renunciation tion he Ii t cit s Iho t It n i tient of ot o f Latt ci cir r Saints on their arrival upon tho the i coll of thou trinh ns 19 It i wai call called tt it ed 11 occupies much pico In quoting n ing In trout from a n i number of ot tho the Apostles D who Wrote upon uon the subject and the reason reasor why wl hr tho the FL renewed their covenants cOIen l tho the troubles difficulties awl I through which they r had hUll hadt t to the cruel murder minder of ot their lender l the persecutions which i they the haul hall suffered their toilsome ft Journey ourn ocr oer and mountains peopled only by h bands of or This 1 III of the history or of those people has lia ha been Leel published hell In lii hemispheres has hall lia no mote more tearing bearing upon Ion the point sought to bo ho minde prominent by b C Smith than thon It II hUH bus upon ullon the tIme nebulous theory I I of if o planetary formation or the c Very of ot the north pole Jole tills finin the tIme thet t on Oil celestial celestini puts one Due In mind of oC the tho argument In favor t If f t total abstinence from froit food toad based 1 upon nn run quotation from lure Paul Buld It Is IK 1 good neither ty tl cat cal flesh nor drink wine vIne lne nor imor uny au thing whereby thy brother t or Jr Is offended or 01 Is ts weak wI ak Rom cI 1 21 1 The however at III time the word anything leav leaving ing out the following words word thus made Paul nn tin authority for tor Mi his folly EThe Imitator of ot that bit of duplicity a Il Low few words ortIs from the tho Ih roeln revelation i thom tion rind find omits the tho connecting phrase l which if IC ho Ito hud given theta them would put a n upon his hh entire i deliberate lec of ot duplicity and fraud nero Hero is II tho paragraph in iii Its ItA entirety from which Ileman Heman C Smith has hns ex IX extracted c a n small mall portion and given It Itus Itt t us Its an nil entire sentence and nril placed upon I It A n meaning utterly foreign to Its pur 1 I Jort fort jorth h Anti And verily I a unto you jou OU tint th the tha conditions or of this law Ia ni II All 1 bonds obligations 1 oaths oath vow performances cs connections I or that are I not made entered Into Inlo ant I by y th thC tho Holy 1101 Spirit of promise of ot him bun 1 vho Tho ho lt h I both hoth as us well 11 for time limo J Ii emid lilt for all nil eternity and anil that too most inot holy by revelation mid I through time the th medium of ot mine anointed T ham 1 I have appointed m un tho the earth to hold this power lower mind and I have ho ap up appointed I pointed unto tinto my Joseph to hold thin rower power In the i II Pst st t days mind there thero lf lit never but bulone one on Oil the earth carth At nt n a fin oOn n whom horn II this power the tho keys of ot this Priesthood are arc conferred of up miP II y virtue or force forc In after 1111 lit resurrection front tho time dead for fori i all fill contracts that tire urt not nol mails made unto i this end ent have hll ve nn an end nil when men arc ar j ead t I Is III T there anything In that thul In the na flu nature ture turc of n a renunciation r Can there lx IH i from any nn document t or nn an 1 of or the tho Church that the I Saints on reaching tho the I vales of ot tho the mountains renounced th the I principles of or their faith Was ns not nol their t In renewal of or their former covenants COV l a Il virtual declaration of or their iL adherence r to them They had clung J to thou tho a principles all the trials truls succeeding the murder of their Prophet and Patriarch allt they had hod kept up tip tho the organization that ho Ito had hod established by divine comand coma nt The very Apostles from whom lieman C Smith quotes were ordained by tho time Prophet and were acting under the authority received from him In his Ma lifetime I It was their duet chief object especially that or of Provident Young to curry carry carryout out strictly the teachings Instructions and injunctions of ot tho time Prophet Joseph He lie himself Instituted d In Nauvoo It was os no new thing thin thing tho the sun suit In Its very cr nature It was a the reverse revers of lit a I renunciation for tor It Il was WIlS m repetition Thu Th he absurdity of Heman C Smiths assumption all Is eQualled tiled by his hilt absolute falsehood In wilfully stating that the acceptance o of the revelation WON wn Ill In It Itself self a renunciation of oC former ronnel obliga obligation lions tion etc et The declaration therein Is i simply a n statement that all nil contracts not entered Into In tho time man mann mannor nor ncr ordained of Cloth Clod have nn on end nt at leath Nothing else Is conveyed In that paragraph No 00 such mich lIen Idea as us he h advanced ID hi warranted by the Im lan guage used lie He has litis and alil perverted It to accomplish n lI h hIs ils own wicked nun purro OHO e Now ow note that I lie he 10 gives the th date of the rebaptisms as us August 1st and aol then note further that tima t fhe tIme the revelation which he garbles was WOI not presented pre to the people In Utah until 1852 1152 live five yours years lar liter Inter r It 1 w wat rend rond In III Nauvoo to tn but a II few tew of ot the Saints chlell those who hO were v re high hl h In lit the authority of ot the and then IlIen by h way of oC corn com that the principle might aught he be established dm In the lifetime of ot the awl Patriarch facts as thor thoroughly established as us the mInistrations ministration of ot heavenly beings tho the translation of ot the he Hook Book of ot Mormon and the l lion of the Quorums of the Church by revelation So when the took ook place pineo they were vera ere not lIot an nn accept acceptance once mince of ot the and were Vore car COI certainly not In iii renunciation of ot any nn for ner mner covenant obligation doctrine or and anti I an C Smiths Sin I Lits fab fabrication rn fa b lion of ot fallacies Is IR scattered to time the winds and und he ho stands stand exposed by his own effort i I The venom and with which those assail the Church founded rounded by hy the thi Prophet Joseph and I which has hIlS been beon perpetuated In III nil all Its parts timid and princiPles les are Indicative of ot tho ho spIrit by which their system H of ot con contention and ant tricky trick disputation Is III mint ani animated mated There Is III no profit In paying much attention to It The Time of ot Its builders are tire BO so utterly devoid of ot reason and right that they ought to receive no recognItion from people who it are re post lost etl d lImit Hut wo we 0 have no quarrel Uth lIth then them thenor or their followers AVe We Ve do not attack them hem most of ot t the time time lime we so 0 do not notS S say iy anything In reply to their assaults as We e have spoilt spent this much tIme limo and space pace for the tho benefit of oC those who de desIred sIred Ired us to notice the nonsense In tin and anti hope hOe It II will be sufficient it at leist least for Cor the present |