| Show i Gs TO I 1 I i There Thoe Ie 14 s 1 i flO discrepancy nC between 1 tib jr representations n of Ot leading C antl int ll lI lII l Ail tO 0 Iol aIn lm nII anti proclaims Its Us purpose oc ll c Ono not cot II t I 70 f the th o Mormon popl i ii ltd si sincere ish to re alleged tyrannical rule of Iho from tho th the bl Another net tit attacks f p people openly nh and l lion t tI lyna bigots bIL and traitor the Ignorant I I of or rio false pretenders The TH Salt Sail I Lilko Tribune T true tr c to Its nature and 11 d e 1 stands with wilh one ou oti toot loot on oil of the Uric Ithe assertIng one thing and another tomorrow ns us ius best be suits Its t dark purposes s sJ Recently J I the writer of that t sheet het another attack unon ul the C not merely mer ly upon uv n tho tIo nt of the Is IB usual by I denouncing the beloved founders of ot the t le h anit hypocrites es TIto Tha n n apologist ot or the th shout will of course na M ia it was not ilot an nn attack upon on tho the only Upon the tho th Prophet and Patriarch nut Hut It NUB s us You cannot i ic t I k evil evi of t tho martyrs maryr without Il v t y true truo tr o Saint If allegations of the tho hired character assassin were verc v re true every evory s Saint t would b be a 1 deceiver or a 0 victim of o deceivers The Th multitudes who Bay siY that th t they Have a testimony as fla nto to tho the truth tr of ot the would bo b frauds Tho Tt fathers f tt tU rs and tid i mothers noth r of thousand dl of Saints who hu ho cam cama hero for tor or the I of otle Gospel and o d testified t of ot its He ts truth children and grandchildren to tuck their c would bo ho merely IY faMo witnesses coy cov covered ered eI In Iu their graces Noth ins t less 1 Implied Jr in the t ti i vile vie attacks upon urn the Prophet Joseph J sePI and anel his bin liH mar martyred martyred brother The Tho ho ed Justification lot for the tho as us salt Is as al always the tha revelation lon on tho eternity ct of 01 the marriage covenant referred to us as lS polygamy The Tho c organ orgal of ot immorality alleges that tho the founders l t ot or the Church because ot of their Bins and ami falsehoods f were responsible for or tho the troubles that came camo upon ulon tho 1110 people To Tho The Smiths were vero practicing polygamy declaring it I to be betho tho most exulted exalted d principle that tho the Lord had yot yet revealed cal to Ills His Ils people 1 yet yot they their were BO Chained ot of It they denied It I they said s that tI th t the I lor Lord ord h had d given Iho tho revelation In July Jul 1843 1813 they repudiated the tho Almighty and cund Ills His Hs com coal In Ill n this document of oC 1814 1 14 rIley Thoy vi privately rv preached preach cd that po p Igan was an nn Institution of ot the very veryl l azal yet they thoy publicly de declared declared dared It to 10 bo b a false falsa and an corrupt doe doc doctrine trine trIn and I branded us tIM lS Iniquitous the tho thoman man Inan ian who wh preached It I 1 in this way the Iho Tribune apologizes for tor forth tho th minder r of ot the IhO martyrs Tho The char character acter assassin justifies the tha assassination as of Carthage The Tho facts relative to lo the tho doctrine of or ori i t iO r marriage are aro no secret Thoy They j j j are ur set U forth tor It In tho the history of ot the tho Church with sufficient clearness nad ud frankness Tha rho hu Church has to I conceal Prior to the lie recordIng In of the tho tho the doctrine was taught privately I e by b bythe tho h Prophet and It I was even oven dbY by some lumu Riders Eders who had hUc M re to received It IL us as truth it I vas Il not nt preached to t ij tho the world nor to the tho general body boty of ot oft tu t Saints Saint until later for tor the tho simple jp ji Bon that vary very few lew even the thc Saints were prepared to understand und I Io It o f it ut that time When W en there thero fru an Elder Eeler by b the thc name tum of Hyrum iown went out and taught polygamy lie I not riot only an preached m for tor TICh ho lie had no authority but lut he lIe un undoubtedly preached heresy or url a It false t arul l Id doctrine an al staled In Iii tho tile 1 Seasons for tho the simple rea tea reason son elIn that ho did ilot understand tho the doc Joc doctrine trine trifle C II lt not loL having been instructed therein by anyone who wha could ulvo Ive cor cot correct mC information 10 Prophet Joseph had ha an all experience I li to t th the Apostle Paul WI Vu Vc learn Icum rY from ii m the tho writings of or ID lQ tor II I that thero there In Itt his epistles some lomu things hard had tr which Ihl h they thu that und and unstable wrest as al they thoy tho the other otO cs unto their i f own dV 11 tr I it w avoid this V that tho the Almighty permitted the crad I I tul unfolding of ot tho doctrines contained d 2 In LIt the revolution on It I was t reason rilon that It I was wan necessary f to severely those who wIo without j went nut Hut und and preached some ii t of which they had no 10 ins ing g and and of t which thay th hud IHIl hoard only li l by t rumor They fhe rere not in IR a U to l explain to o tim the what they did Ild not net Jot low Know kno When they the at lt to do ro so they thoy tho necessarily foil 01 r into error and became tile tho chars ot ut off uti i t f il ie rt nut HUt why jill did ei the not Hl to to lay icy the iho matter tic the una Why WAs the thoro re to toY K Y pluton first wilfully carefUlly guarded Why Wh i ius lit I us ask In tn reply ro I I why wh hy dPi did dle our ble hl w oil Ills Hs that Hint c hlll toll tel no 11 that hint Ho lb WIts 11 the tho Matthew 30 1111 4 lId why WW ta t OM this is it p r removed Bua Acts 1713 i When tho the W 1 lust Dut given 1111 i In to tho Iho the Die Church uw ww WI In II a al I u l to o It Il nr vry UCh him i Hur Jur to 10 that halt In IH II which the tho I found fount Wh loi 1 the tho truus waw wal wa f Hint proclaimed that Uio UtO th gospel EO of nt lt J JI Jcl 1 aa n to be hI h uttered to 10 flit ull 11 the world and not to Lu 10 the tho JUI 1111 A IlIg III t Iti 11 i both subs is ill f rn Ihlo In lu thu at ut Q A WU was ia J Tho Iho I VII were ero yere nut not 1111 cl I In lit 11 heir ua us t to their a I tl on Lu a the tha ot o u tho the gospel of ot I 1 and nt tor for n a nUni 1111 Uni Peter J ter worked In hi harmony iWI wiit h him at Rl It Il h I especially no noticed n tred in the tite Inspired InspIre record that thai Pct r eat ett Ct with the tho Hut lut when whoa Came trOt from tr ni drew hack and Barnabas wa WM iso carried away with ll their tl h IU I lula lion lon Paul con publicly Ictor leter Ieler as lI t il If it thou thol a I Jew Jett IV sl after the tho mann r rr of r gentiles und and not n do a mi I tho the Jew JOWl why t thu Iho tw gento to liro us do the Tows Tei Gal 2114 21 I Paul lul himself though lh ugh ho hn h had taken a decided stand on the tho In Involved Rod was sieti to on OlIO loti to if avoid us I ho lie gli l oren to tho the other h r side IIi but with wih tho ho result re UI that ho ht ii was WI seized and ac lid accused it of polluted tho the temple tom le Boo Seu Ache 1 1731 We h Teclo do not liot reject tho the first p tei I and Ini iuie lef fur lor the tho Lord Lard of at the tho difficulties lU In which ilch thoy th y were Involved as us tho the of new truth tn th the Ito th world could cOl ll not understand and lud which h they th themselves did hi not fully comprehend at nt first fret Tho criticism cism eln that receives the divine mission of or Paul and Peter Jams Jamos s cannot consistently c rail rai at tho the Prophet Jo Joseph seph The Tho To revelation of truth Is II al nl always ways Wl graduaL nut Hut ut Wo We must mUs not low lose ourselves In tho contemplation of ot the tie retreating shadows AVo Wo must watch the tho progress p ot of the tho light nut iut all al this Is almost ancient his history tory torr tor now 10 IlO Why hy repeat charges charpes that have been heen refuted Iet led time lIne and Ild iid again n Tho The founders of tIo tho Church mon men of God who would lay down their lives liveson on the altar of at truth They were rero not deceivers Tho Thu leaders of tho tilo Church havo always s been boen bee true truo to their thIr divine dl mission Thy Th leaders aro are no lie IJ exception to the tho rule That Is tho reason n why tho Saints love hove and sustain them with nil all ai their heart and out no 10 matter mater how tho poisoned arrows or of hatred may may full fall tal around them |
