Show f u It II r Mr Smiths Open Letter Opened II Inc HWi l 1 u r Cher word with you jou ou Mr Ir IrI r l I l t M I U k M SL 1 Smith Title This IH In on onI onI I I i punt nini cr if your jour our open letter to the IheI I i tu 1111 du Saint since III my tom titer t tin l iti 1 n 11 rl culling them to lo depart fr H th h 1011 1 of or the authorities of ot oft tae t c i h her hilI ir ii h I d Jesus J HUH Christ whom whim hOIl yoU jou jour yoUrl r rl plot i M l rn Ml III Luse f III leaders I do du not firno tr observe I n a ru hi h of tin the t our i for Cor Ih time the sleep sheep know tl 1 t tin k nf of Ih the hood Good Shepherd lint and I iv it so n r t c o e itie nose x will not 1101 follow li II i I i na to 10 your our earlier declara t I U i i t from the IIII record hv l i 1 I II II Ih flu fart that In III UK Its hl hili t rid c I the Reorganised church hurch vl I I It rn 11 i r was not t h I tl th pI i from root the evil ell one ones onesi s si 81 l I it f of ot special pIRI I N II I which always characterise I I p I hunch of or Jemm Jesus Christ bu but buttin tin the i fc did attend what Is IsHi II 11 Hi l I the Mormon Church t I i l 11 i u us as III in the days when you your om omi f r i Hi tu h Prophet Joseph t ri N i i 1 i r it n and consequently II II that T r r i I was wan Ih the truo o I l n yu u were terra completely beaten h 1 and the tho fact Now I i n t the assault on another I f that an till to the pro I i 1 through your our father CAther t It h lu voice of oC will willU willI t I U i 1 t handed down V i 11 in fly 1 I I n i dispute with whit you ou 5 i i Ts Is II wholly with thel the tho 1 l r i l 1 which you ho have va Invoked i I u letter In that document tl ft finin III th the revolution gh given eu euI t I 11 jl lh i ii t Jospph Smith on nn Jan Jill JanI 1 I I I ui e and ind Covenants sec pec nod and C rS R For thin an M r I put upon linen his hili head that hint hinti 1 i I u shall hull also be he put upon the thel l 1 t i art him Mild and asI ns nil 1 J it concerning thin IheI 1 I I the hp 11 earth rth even evell so en 0 I say nay says i s v t nt tit Joseph JO lh III In thee lice and amid In ht Ini i I ill I the kindred of or the t earth Hirth rth I 1 I V h did 1111 you jou to tn mean especially j I III h ft it II c dien If IC y jou bad bade e r pith ih th and amid verses i i 1 m in It u Mould would have shown i I Man on that the of ot ofte otI I 1 I II t I tic te Ir It put ut upon the head of ot 1 i i t mv Illy v him was tens nn nu holier t I M fl lc e N e that hunt Jo JoM Jot 1 M I t M i el titer him hMO have place 1 I n u uv us e fries to NOn gen hv did you jou OIl alo mis misI I hit thit imitation to hr mean thud that t N King icing and nd blessing therein l I I In 10 s alone when whon r ti ct Knight Wait u IT in ht that house and 1111 for his hla generation I 1 in an n from Will generation to tog toi J g I i that Hyrum Smith was wall II a c similar blessing that J 1 I l Law Jaw Amos Amo Da Dc Dai I 01 i it II u IJ Foster William Marks arl 11 Sherwood and others who i i M I to 10 p Pit pay y tock stock Into the theU I U were treated In III the s Lab autel I Hid Did you jou ou think l the Lilt Lat r lIiM tM who whose e attention you jou OU 10 1 I amid uld not lint rest read the whole hole uni n 1 I I thereby r what a Ii ai IiI i I fi iud you were wore attempt ik k upon lIton them I 1 MI m S FLIPPANCY r I ming i lug hack huk to your jour our CiA claim re F I 11 nalce and to an ani I tut i j t or of the IIII quotation you OU made h time 1 I will digress to 10 oth 1 f t our letter You are arev r I v h our charges ag against the I r of nr f hie Church hurch of Jesus Jeu l day Saints One of or oft orI t I c ills I u la that their spirit I be he h one ne nt more inure of or commercial 1 l lal anti and political power i i It Vh n you OU talked J th that Ihal t power did you i l 1 I society and andA I A J 1 n r n Ih Ito Agricultural 11 the Com Corn tr O lending house Anti and other I loll at ii movements under the dl u II lOr f a i 1 Prophet Jo Joseph Ph IheI the I 1 I PW he hI re I u a an tin i I matters and that ha ho II a eve tup In politics WI wan A i 1 s n of or and Ancl d for tor the of n i Ih the United d Or Ori I i living ft antl the clown l to elicit j t Ih i a r antl Mormon u II y th that out 1 the chI chief men of or the hureh of or Jesus of ot I hits stand In antagonism to the KII government gov guv of or this country Those men nOli meny ally y Ih they do Ilu not They I hey have hwe the ad HI of or you jou In knowing and being Able to 10 represent correctly their own views while you jou OU neither know those views not nor represent them correctly You rout ire are merely retailing a 8 falsehood Did you jou OU get 1111 It life because the clamor damor 1 H III III against those thOlf men Includes the well 1111 Worn om cr cry of oC of ot law 1111 1 fn you caught II up the HIP falsehood did 1111 you recall that the Church of ot Jesus Christ Christof of ot Salute balms wj was expelled expellee tOm holm Missouri on just that lel while your join grandfather the Prophet presided over aid It Or that thet your grandfather spent months In lu Libert Jill Jell and ami was Indicted on charges of 01 burglary arson larceny theft and 1111 stealing lIng which false fh charges were never heist In n hut but were C evaded ded h by hIs hili escape from drunken amid his going over to Illinois whore the Missouri lIlI tried In III vain to retake him Or that thaI at the time of ot his hla In III Carthage jail he was wall under tinder 1 arrest on just juet such sucha t ta a IL charge as you jou on make Whatever you jou OU play limy iliA hA Ilava thought though I your accusation that tha tho the leaders of or the Church of ot Jesus Christ of ot Latler Saints today tiro ure In Jr the slime same position loll lion the lie loaders lenders of that Church were In InIn InIn In Ohio MIf Missouri and Illinois when yon jour was lu its president you jou 01 and anil till be leader of at your church nr are In tho the name category n tie nil tho the thop p persecuting PO pe seta IH tH who hounded your our grandfather and his hll brethren to 10 their donth depth And yet el you nu Oll tall talk of or th the Iha cause of ot Injured inbred Out neon such mich detestable atle hypocrisy you joti better a little on repent R ante net yourself TIm Thin orricK I will return now to 10 your jour our claim of ot thin the prophetic for tor your our father the he hoed head of oC the church You 1011 say hay that ho Ito atone tibiae lies has the keys of ot that Hint The fhe Lord 1011 disagrees with you jcu CU In iii the VI very 1 revelation you jou have quoted 1 from trout and anti says saja H Hj Hy Hyrum rum tum from Front this time forth oth I appoint unto hint him that he ho may be a It Prophet anti and a Ii Be Seer and a tor lor unto M My Church an nit well us tie My h servant With duo apologies I 1 prefer to In believe 1011 rather than then you jou And flirt further he i I l nil RII your jour our attention to 10 the fact fuel that every right of ot lineal suit sin alien about which you jou OU prate so much applies on nil well to 10 the Iha family ml I nf of Hyrum us nil to that lint of t Joseph Smith h The JI particular revelation to which you refer rere knocks the underpin underpinning ning from rom your ou our claim to 10 belt be beIt beIt It lt 1 I am ant not nol surprised tint that you jou oU tidIed tu to quote It full tulI fully Your our U is directed to 10 another Item In III that Mine Mille r revels revelation wIH bait tion The 1 jl is there commanded to build hulid Temple In III Nauvoo and In and her stokes to he be th Ih the place for your jour baptisms for tor your jour our dead deml and 1 If when the Church hind had had harl time such hou were not built buill wherein the ordinance nf or I for the and for Cor w which the he same name Walt Willi from before the foundations of the wand your jour i for your jour our dead dood cannot be acceptable unto me ttO for lor 01 Ih therein r ln are the kp keys of or the Itchy Holy ordained that you jou lofty honor and glory Of or course toune you did not quote that for It Is hi Mil Hit unequivocal front from the Lard that list when Temples are lire built hullt I In h which to 10 perform baptisms for the dead the he existence of ot those Temples Temple oath and the of ot that particular ordinance should he be h outward I evidence to All nit UK its to tn a the people among whom Is IA th the prophetic tI attics for therein mo are mothe time the kee IWI of or the 1101 loll Holy Priesthood DIdOU Did jou OU fall full to 10 present that view of or the i use ruse he you IU knew knell that only with the huh Church of oC Jesus Christ t of or Latter day are arn those Temple and those baptisms 1 The IO presentation of or this thin truth alone Alono would have hao been fats fatal to 10 your jour our claim chain hence you ou omitted It MOnIC There here Is le something more mere In that revelation to come cone home to you jou 01 In III It the Lord Loki declared that If IC Ills people hearkened to tn the voice of ills III ser servants HP Me I whom He Ile appointed to lead ad Ills Ilia people th train latter hItter not he move J i JOll Oll out of their pines It rc This lilting your ou I father N ta family II HH JIM well ell us ua any other ether family III In the Ihl Church both HI us to the I and the tha reverse for Ind I Ino II no respecter tor of tit persons lie lit go goes i on to I HII any that It If Ill His people did dill not hear the till volt of nr servants whom HP lit I Ih should not be bo so 10 o blessed I and I J will not 1101 perform the this on oath in th which I make unto you jou neither fulfill the tha hit which h je ye 1 expert expect at Ht lilY inv hands mantis the Lord 1011 for rill Instead of t bless blessings logs ings JP ye t bv hy your our 0 nit own n works bring cur sings wrath Indignation and judgment upon your jour our own heads then flum by that panic revolution lie Hit appointed Young Voting and 1 hl his brethren of ot Ih the Twelve to hold hoM the keys to open up 1111 this HIP author It 13 of ot Ills kingdom upon the rOIl four cor COl hers of fit it th thin HIP earth lint and to 10 send Ills llla word to tn ever Y Thus TIIU hod e appoint 1 cd rd 1 HIP Twelve to 1111 Ills 1111 I Ithe people when th the First Flut residency Presidency were taken awn away awny nod In Instead of hearkening to the votes voice n nf of those servants appointed 1 by X y this same I through your jour grand Brand grandfather father th the Prophet your r fathers lher fam famIly Hy lIy pursued the opposite course e the theford Lord ford rod Id not hot fulfill the promises they expected pd l neither with regard to In the thu aloo house nor 1101 nil any other hart purt of ot the blessing and by IW their own arts ads they brought condemnation on nn Item To ro bo be sure stirs In any III effort to In the Lot ier da you jou would not quote from the word orrl of or II mid lIi h record tho Ihn things I have hero here named NOI ONKS jo That revelation of ot JHn Jali 19 ID t HI U has Ins yet jet Pt another matter of ot vital that Import Important importance n e c eto to you ou 01 as well hell as UI to 10 the l atter iy It H pr presents to each of at you ou iu the of ot HIP le Lord im Young Voting and the Twelve ru dve rol o the thO work I 1 hate pointed out also Ilso South Smith to 10 be he a n Patriarch h bj by blessing rind by right of or lineage to hold bold the be hue leYK of ot blessings upon all the people to tn hold the pilling pealing blessing blessings of ot the l t hurt hur h heven even the Hol 1101 of oC promise to tobe tobo tobo bo be a Prophet 1 a n eer ant Hint n it I to 10 tho Church as well wIll as na the till t Joseph These Theil were tie the anointed of ot the Lord an tin wIll welt AH ilK w was aa the Jos Joseph Joseph eph himself In the tho word of Ot the lit 1111 t tto to Joseph the flip Seem given In III jell Maich Ach 80 30 1880 1889 tie the Lord Curt ed are nil 1111 those that butt III lift JIlt up th the heel against mine anointed they shall not hn have lase eo right to tin thin rl nor their posterity niter after t them from generation to nn full er ers era family and AId you jou ou yours Oll It If II hi hive r lifted up I the heel against the anointed of or the Loid you jou have havo hA Bald said the have sinned when tote they have not done no flO but have done lolle that t whit which h the thin Lord commanded mid end by hy the word I of or th thug through your jour our own r rtha the tha Prophet you jou mo ate dept iv d ci dot of ot the right ot of time the unit and so 0 are your jour Ju Jut just t as 1111 long Iong as tie they walk In your our un on unhallowed hallowed footsteps Yet Yot Pt 11 claim lAlm lo ro have an 1111 right lo n I the hI kj keys of ot ottha the tha prophetic I Kor Ivor or lo to the these there e many years Arl Oath God has denounced your jour our debt claim nH nut false It and II II the tile In la open to th tip world You alt are I 1 as us as was 1111 the HIP house of ot the Ihl Priest LU WI In ht tho the Onto lime of ol lh the Samuel 1 Once Onee mote mom e and I have mitt done for tor the hue PI The rhe promise that in III him hunt anti and andIn In lu his hla seed need Ie should Ih the of ot tin the milli 1 th be lie wan tens made to 10 tho oho Prophet Joseph and sud so liO far Cpr ao III he IB lit colt 1011 on corned It II Is le fulfilled to the vary HY letter letterii lettera ii a similar promise Mas sous mode to Oliver Cowd Cowdry r but hut bv hy his live heel h th the anointed It I wax unit ilK taken from him oe hI i s It hits bus been taken frum tram your jour father and hi lilt Ilia and fi far a n simi similar mar lar reason The saint promis and the added gifts gift end and powers of or the Ihn patri patriarchal archal and prophetic o 8 were Hr stared Id upon Hyrum Smith whose to the he vokn volt e of ot the th servants whom the Lord appointed and were wre not lint roved mover out alit of or their place In At that runt family alone of lit ill iii the Ihl fit families of at the earth oArth U in centered the voles of oC Go God In lit the very v r n revelation you jou have quoted h b by HU HlA ordination Ii h bv Ills h by HIli II promise rom I by hy heh own II so toll and to His appoint d iu au and b bv by ever right or of f ige In that family Is Ip centered the th 11 patriarchal chal and sud prophetic o II In fn this and the promise that in then them und and II in their s seed d elicit shtil the kindred of or the e earth rth I lie he bl blessed md No Nn Mr r Frederick M 1 l you cannot Indu i c th the to 10 prefer the disobedient unfaithful family to the obedient faithful one nit Your effort to mislead the ri iy Saints will fall The sheep of ot Ih the II Ou U fold Snow no now the tune voles voice of at this the O basil od herd henl and 1111 A stranger t they hey a ill 11 not ColIn fol Col follow In low Tho Iho hour hoes Is III meet melt for tor jour our 0 own II re rp repentance JJ shut and obedience to Und in that you may twin gain a II tight to tI tin the Holy 1101 Priesthood lost by your fathers dl Ie gurd Bard of ot the command of at Ooh to In hit to 10 hearken to tn th the olce of ur th Ih rr whom hom the Lord appointed Hive liar pmt nu the Ihl courage and honesty thim thus to 10 rI AnI and uh obey in III the fore fan of or s urn end II pi jure ns as did jour our df rr fr I tn press you for OI l I ne If It Itou you jou ou would hi he a n do tin H a Pr H a work olk and timid hilt bun u II A Moue l I |