Show THE ME OLD STORY it is simply revived and ana ile ee trimmed trin med for eastern na healers to the editor of the indianapolis journal I 1 see sec from a copy of the journal journal of the dinst that our mormon friends from utah some of them froni from this city are holding a conference in indianapolis this is their right and privilege guaranteed lee d by the constitution of the general and state governments it is to be regretted 0 however that when n hen they visit the eastern states they do not present their doctrines as they are taught and practiced in utah they present their artile articles of faith that sound much like the belief of bible christians bu but t when they explain those articles t in utah they are found to be w widely ile dif different fereal their ap t I 1 wei vel illustrate this point joint they teach here in utah that adam is our god the only being to whom we ellav may look for salvation their dl definition fiti of god is this what I 1 am now god once was what ile he is now I 1 shall be that is adam was once a man he is now god I 1 am a r nan man I 1 shall be a god hence they are polytheists they believe there are many gods of whom toe joe smith is one brigham Bri ghana young is iq another and every good mormon who lives in polygamy 1 and I becomes become the head of a numerous us posterity is to be ba a god brigham young the prophet seer and revelator said in a sermon in this city april 9 1852 when our fattier father adam came into the garden of eden he came into it with a celestial body and brought eve one of his wives with bi him m ile he helped to make and organize this world ile he is ia michael the archangel ancient of days and about whom holy men ha haie e written and spoken ile he is our father and our god and the only god with whom born we wa have to do how does that sort of blasphemy harmonize with that first article of their creed we believe in god the eternal father and in his son on jesus christ and in the llola ghost ghost they teach here in utah that jesus christ was a polygamist married to martha and mary and probably to those other women who so sorrowed sor rowed at his crucifixion here flere is the teaching of their catechism question I 1 what kind of a being is god answer heis he is in the form of man question C G has god a body then answer yes like unto a mans body in figure chapter iv question I 1 are there more gods goda than one answer yes Y eg many they teach also that christ died to save us from original sin and that men must save themselves res from personal ion they teach also that we can be baptized for tho the dead who have bavo died in im perA tenee and by t at means save eave them out 0 of p purgatory purga r at toy bithey mev 1 believe it in c VT ad herice hence joo joe smith it CT hia cevela lion a anda n I 1 plural marriages or 0 polygamy oly gamy I 1 that revelation t th eds with damnation ahse TV do 0 not re ceide and abide in in afa I 1 new cox e nant tais ip if ill hg afi guage ofa of thal thai bogus revelation revel atio g behold I 1 reveal unto you a aj wiland ever lasting covenant W if f ye abide not in tint thit covena coven covenas I 1 ahrn dpn are ye damned abisco This coQ na bant t was con curning polygamy cuenco ilance ill nce the mormon church ira ba ot t given up belief in the doctrine doc trint rd 4 duty of polygamy poly pamy in Int the heinal journal of the insl ins the morato mormon n elders are aie reported as aa si alyin was abandoned by V 11 W church in in 1890 when the courts ruled against it litre here aae a 46 two falsehoods first ruled against polygamy it ati least four years bufore the chi church h pretended prete oded V ti abandon in may inlay 1686 Gov governor error W wl visited the ies in th penitentiary for the crime of p poll 0 agamy amy under tinder the ruling of the cour cou an and offered his hia services ser vices to cecur lecurg their heir pardon if they would plede themselves hem to abi abide Is by the law they indignantly refused to base cese practicing e t poleg polygamy admy and a affirmed r e d t that at they would never 0 give aup i UP but t in ISO when the cormons mormons amoas concluded that they could get statehood a mormon stife stae when sheia they would be free frona from united states law president woodruff the prophet seer beer and revelator of the church advised them to cease the practise of polygamy for the present it was advice mor mons mong are still all livin living 1 I in unlawful rela relations tons with in all 10 ill ev r of cache cou county n ty f aich one of your missi missionaries missionary onari e S la t the he indiana polis conference came a ne is raising a family by a POly polygamous wife though an officer bound to obey and execute the law this fact was recently stated elated publicly in in the methodist conference in this city the sheriff did not deny the soft sofi impeachment be only expressed surprise that be should be singled out the Ri richfield clifield advocate published the following statement from the town of gunnison a few weeks ago which no mormon has ventured to disprove or even deny ri right bt here in gunnison we see enough to convince a stranger 1 e ven even that the advocates recent t assertions are true to the letter C 1 I hansen known as hansen lives with two wives and has three children under six years of age A woman reputed to be the second wife of john metcalf Mot cAlf tho the hotel man of manti mand and children hear his namo gave birth ab about outten ten days ago to another metcalf was here curing during her illness and remained for about ten days ile he officiates in the ceremonies of the temple at mand J A new reen a shoemaker here lives orlon opan ly with his second wife his first lifs lives at scofield Beld this thi 8 summer she visited the pair stay staying stasini ini 0 with them in the sams sama house bous e min minnie nie christen christeneen een a supposedly unmarried woman gave birth some time ago to a child who has since been blessed arid and given the name of taylor it was commonly reported that minnie was the wife of apostle taylor even before the babes birth bitah and its christening has haa confirmed the report it has still further bae been verified by taylors visits to her the last being a week ago ago when he put up biti with her at h her er fathers home and it was vas generally remarked here that the old people and her sisters did more visiting with the neighbors neigh bori than ever before these cases ire are public property in gunnison Gunn isoni if an apostle cannot curb his lustful desires alcan be expected of the corn moo mon every y day people with such facts as the above in every county and community in the state th the e mor mon go to indianan olig oli and other eastern cities nod and d dr clare that polygamy is ia a thine of tile the pat pal pa l w i D now ow abandoned abando alando oed ned W we have no unkind feeling 0 toward the mormon people W we 0 go 90 anamae them and do our mis mia conary word work them era but ohp system is so eo abhorrent to all scrip scripture tuie teachings that we must aleak the truth concerning it 8 E WISHARD silt sil lake alake city utah nov 25 23 |