| Show NO XO IN TIlE CHURCH A clipping from a accent number num r of ot ofa ofa a 11 paper has reached this of oC ice flee It purports to be the tho complete story lory sor of a famous Mormon preacher once a member of or the Avenging Angels who at a ripe old ago age has turned counterfeiter The rite story stOl is not yer ery clear Wo We have written for fur furher further her tiler The Time central figure Is described as al a famous i Mormon preacher although It Is safe lafe to tosa sa say that nobody In ho these parts part ever heard hear of or his hiI fame ante lIe He is also said to kayo have come conic west vest In 1819 1849 with the famous prophets band whatever that means and to he be be a Cam fam famous Camous ant antous ous hunter The Item Hem states that his name Is Lee and refers to the tile Moun Mountain aln tain tam Meadow Mcadow massacre and the thc ques question question tion Ion naturally arises whether the au author author thor titer of It Il In his befuddled condition does not confound the alleged counter counterfeiter counterfeiter feiter felter with the famous Camous villain of ot the Mountain Meadow drama who paid S the Uie penalty for or his crime over oel thirty years ago a o That Is la generally generall as ns near as writers over ever come como comoto cometo cometo to the time truth tru h The author authol of oC the Item claims that the alleged counterfeiter now 71 years old was once a member of ot the AvengIng Avenging Ing ng Angels An els and the lie remark Is pertinent that ho must have entered It the tue samu same year ear he lie was born for or that organization tion also known as was formed In 1838 and died an nn ignominious death shortly after Its birth Alto Altogether gather bethel the thc counterfeiter must have been a remarkable able child The reference to the re 10 reminds reminds minds mind us that a strange misunderstanding standing exists in the tho minds s of non Mormons regarding that band They The generally generall suppose it to have hae been a Mormon institution sanctioned by bythe bythe the Church By D it has e even een en been represented as asa a 5 body bod guard to the Prophet Jo Joseph Joseph seph Tho Th truth Is that It was an ana abortive a attempt at ut forming a n secret organization to fight tho ito Church as ns aswell well seit ell as all nil law luw and order Luther used to say Ill that where wh r the tho Almighty builds Ills church satan Is sure BUIC to build his hl chapel and title thlu truth Is 15 well Illus Illustrated hated In the Ule attempt to launch that organization lion The organization known an nil and Destroying D Angels was the lie con conception conception caption of or Dr Sampson Avard at III Far o ar West Vest Mo ro Ho He was w an unscrupulous fanatic who was expelled from front the Church as ao soon his lila vile lIc schemes be cone camo known to the lie Prophet Avard Aard was secretly laying plans to become a the ho Church At t a no time witch when t 4 r persecution raged raped in wild torrents and hearts were bleeding under the thc hands of or oppression Avard round found an opportunity opportunity opportunity of oc preaching the Ute unChristian doctrine of retaliation to some seine willing cars ears Ills aim aim was to overthrow the Church and set himself up as a ruler He Ho persuaded some Sante of or the Saints to believe that he hc had the sanction of Sidney RIgdon for 01 his plans And by I false pretenses ho brought nomo come to together toS gather gether S ther In a n secret organization which was named tho tilo He tried to I organize companies of fifties and tens and place each under the thc command of o oun I an un officer He Ho taught them that lint they thoy i were to go out and despoil the outlying ou settlement and nd that they the might lie and steal with Impunity Many of ot his ills followers revolted at this and left Mm hint and as a soon as Ills hili wickedness became known to t the Presidency of the thc Church ho he was expelled and afterwards sought nought companionship among tho the enemies of the Church This Is the famous Danie organ oran organization organization II It never mever was sas a Church Institution tullon Thomas rhom B 11 Marsh Malsh at one time lime made nn an affidavit stating that the tue Lat Saints have a company con I lIsting of nil all that are arc considered true truc Mormons called and Orson Orlon Hyde partly corroborated this false falsehood falsehood falsehood hood But both repented and amid sought forgiveness S There Thoro never was a organization or In tho Church and It is high time lime that the misunderstanding bo he removed The story Is one of or the peculiar falsehoods that lint live on though everybody bod knows Imo II It Is la not true It Is like the regarding Luther women and wine or tim the fable Cable of or a popo pope having cursed Halle s comet Some yarns ams obtain currency though based on fiction because there are pee peo people plo 1110 who wish they tile thc were wore lure ture tire and the table fable as a a tt t Mormon mali institution Institution is one of ot them |
