| Show II HO U c Y Yh h aZe ip Wt W w l hAve ivo front from two of 0 the li laboring In Michigan a Ie age L ftp ft per iper tIlt contain containIng ot of j log Ing ii from fromIn a Joaeph In a ul Itt It or er r re M IU taU ln which he use the st wit I T of hi his In Into ir Qa sd ill di to Iu the Church which w VM all d on 00 April e C mo IO ana an h his ron ran lit st t Ira im to Wi nil t 1 Ir nl al in into toe time hale The I are art anxious anxious oUI that be bell to tt ll 1 those thoe attacks shan shall b be met by Iy the id sI Sl si t I iret tret News cotte Of If It there Ih re wa Was 41 anything In III them th that Js as m t for tor of or f was I va I new tie or 0 had liat not be b been n replied rep to many man times the t h e News ewa would u I d have hare lIck jo 30 o objection to devote the necessary aku ake u o r Urn mind space In disposing of ot then bent nIH flut there I no Ot In to continually u U stale ui ci 11 hoso about polygamy po i smoothest lia 1 Ay 1 v o 0 with which wine coins of the gentry who th the delight t to regale real their audiences We e do nut not think our missionaries should take pains to 10 those thole objections o of tOt our opponent but tut SimplY the tIt Oo GoM pel lie In Its It anti and let Ift thoo who will vIii listen Ullen to the perversions of tile the adver of ot the tito Church There Ther In is I nn on tine point put forth In III the tirade of ot the UV Reorganized n however which while It has haa been b turned aside many times time may not nut be familiar to t out our friends who era are new to IM J the end and wo we will therefore bristly notice It The position taken by the Church of Qt 0 Jeus Christ of Saints l is II that It has ha never ner been and Ind nd therefore there her coull have been no need of ur the to o have haP hit bOSS been e J by lIy the he tide forming tile tIe faction The proclamation was made when Ihen the Chinch was wa fully tully established that It wa Wit 1 by b the revelation anil al nf f fod j d I t It continue Cli 11 abide nail and stand tand forever It was al alnut nut not to 10 be to another people It U Wit was to prevail over all things beneath the eternal heavens heaven The authority nuth rity gln to the Tint liest Presidency and an to the Twelve Apostles was IS for Cor or the last days and anti for time the Lh last lut time lime The Lord told the Saints Fear not nol little Hock the tOte Kingdom Is 11 yours until I come caine And He lie further assured urell them that The Tue enemy shall hall not overcome Sot So SoD o oloe Doc loe D Coy Cov Sec 87 I 7 U 33 S Sec Sc c M 36 3 7 Sep Sl 38 9 8 Sec c 11 30 SO The of or the tho Prophet Joseph Smith while It disorganized the First Presidency BO so to speak did 1111 not nol anti and a could cOlIt not nOl disorganize the Church If It It hud that effect necessarily then thell every elry time a II President of ot the Church died or was Vas removed for tor any nn cause the Church would become disorganized That Ii Is I a 1 palpable absurdity and worth notice lint Hut It Is claimed by b i tile the people leople that the Twelve In an 1111 epistle seven years after aftertime the time martyrdom of ut tho the Prophet Joseph Smith said 1 We W now having It In contemplation soon soan to tu reorganize the tue Church according to the original pattern Mill Star Vol Yol X p 1 SC SG The Tue quibble that tho t Is raised on this thu fragment of or II a sentence Is character characteristic of ot the tho fraternity that feeds on contention und fattens on u II byplay upon words The conclusion jumped ai at aiby aLby by those who use this subterfuge 13 Is that there was an a n complete completo overturning of at Church government nod that the disorganization was wan such that the Twelve announced this contemplated re lion Now let us look at IH atthe atthe the rent real signification of the words wort of or the Twelve at that time by b simply rending the entire paragraph that has been Imm mutilated Here Hero It Is Since the time murder of ot President lre Joseph Smith many false prophets anil anal false teachers have arisen and amid tried to deceive many during which time If r have dave mostly tarried with the body hody of o the Iho Church or cm been seeking a 1 now lo Ia location locution cation cution leaving those prophets awl anti to run their tare race undisturbed who Ilo have died natural deaths or com coin committed suicides suicide and und we mw now having it III 11 contemplation noon to tho he Church according to 10 the tho original pattern with the First Presidency antI and Patriarch feel fed that It will be ho the lie privilege ego ege Of ot the Twelve era ero long Ions to spread abroad tOad among the nations not to lila hin hinder der dr the gathering hut but to preach the and push that thu people the hon lion honest est eat In heart together from the four barters of tile the earth Mill Star Slur Vol VolX VolX Volx X p II 86 This reorganization then wis IS only the tho organization of tho First Presidency and the selection of a 11 Ia Pa Patriarch made vacant by the departure ot of Joseph nail and Hyrum to an another another other sphere The Twelve were sero pre presiding siding over o r tho the Church they were vora writing to the Church abroad by liy their President Young oun whose sig signature signature nature Is I attached to the tho letter which Is 18 headed I From I rom the Council of ot the tue Twelve leho Apostles postle to the Church of ot Jesus J Christ of ot SaInts Abroad Dispersed J Throughout the Earth It Il gives particulars of at the progress of ot the Church at lit home and Ind directions to those parts of or It In other places abroad The flie Church never stopped n a 1 moment in III n Its onward carter l The Tho Th Twelve holding equal authority with the First residency exercised ext rell those thole functions In n its lLa absence and being empowered to ti ordain anti and sot set In III order nil all the tho other oilier of ot the Church ChUlch they the an In announced their Intention to till tile the gaps that had bad b I been en made by b the tho hands of at as us so that lint when the First was as r be able to perform their Apostolic la in hors hor ors abroad See Doo Coy Cov CO sec see 31 I A 31 is S SIt sIt It 11 Is III pitiful to 10 see s the efforts of ot mU mth guided mm men to twist from Its Us evident meaning for the he purpose of ot conveying never herd Intended Such sophistry can accomplish nothing In n UIt th ond nd that will II In 14 1 of ot lasting set ser service vice Ice to those vita 10 resort to such men meas measure ure ures We should think that by this ImP tints time even eve II thoe tho In that tha sect teet who ate ale the most given hen to the casuistry we here hore expos ICI M would cease from making themselves ridiculous to the Informed w they the can Ian only emily hope hop to hoodwink for tor a little utile oven JV v i the he I mot mOlt simple Viea 1111 they thoy are arc of ot such an 1111 eva evat a t io n the rest relt of ot tt nonien Is Iii worthy only nl of 1 r silence or contempt |
