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Show ENOCH’S LAMEN'I‘. ~— Beloved brethren, sad, sad, is my heart at the treatment I have received from the hands of my friends in this city since my return from the southern part of my kingdom. After laboring and planning as I have done all the past winter to get up a “Holy United Order” that would result in great blessings to this people in gen- eral and my family in particular, and then to have such men as Hooper, Jennings, Eldredge, A TRUE STATEDIENT. day for this absteminous City Council when Bro. “No city in the Union has tried harder to Young found he could not make sugar, and the prohibit or control the sale of intoxicating only use he cbuld make of'an immense amount beverages than has Salt Lake.”—Satt Lalce of burned molasses was to distil it and call it Hera! . ‘1 rum. For, when he found that Bro. Staines We are ready to vouch for the truth of the made a large sum of money out of it for him, above statement. 'Didn’t they forbid every one he could not give up the business, and this has but our President from selling whisky years been the means of thwarting every endeavor on ago? And didn’t they even buy out hislwhisky the part of our City Fathers to prevent the mill with the intention of selling out' all the disgraceful traflic. Yes, Brother Herald, we stock and shutting up the sheebang? They would gladly endorse your statement. Little, Groesbeck, Day, Sharp, Hills and a host have done it, too, but the old boss was too sharp of others whom I could name_,who have grown for them and made whisky faster than they BROTHER WELLS bewails the Saint’s prpgress - fat off my people, to turn the cold shoulder on could sell it. Didn’t they charge so dear for it, ing the wrong way for the past few years. They me and treat my divme material inspirations as too, that the poor drunkards could not afford to have been reading books, establishing schools, if I wanted to swindle attending 1e ctu r e s, the people out of what little property they have «building-railroads, and following other wicked Babylonish customs instead of paying their tithing, marrying many wives and following counsel as they should have done. Sorry for you, Daniel, but wherever the snort of the ' left, when it 'is w+ll known 1 have never been graspin g after riches, but ever had in view the spiritual bless— ings of the people. Of course the enemies of the Kingdom have charged me with appropriating a few millions locomotive is heard, out of Church funds to there will be found the civilization of the nine- my private use in the teenth century. shape of houses, lands, farms, theaters, moneys. bonds, etc., but dling with holy men. want to keep the people under the control of laws which date back to Abraham you. must remember that steam was But, as I have stated, unknown scores of times, “ All lhave of this world’s keep them as far away from it as you can,nnd be sure you ncier let them send \a nook, for the they are alWavs med- goods are on the altar” (except what my family ‘i If you to him and ”Wmmaered) up tfe b‘laWt‘l)’ of the kingdom and intelligence cannot , exist harmoniously together. BIO. Daniel, used as God’s Prophet shall dictate, and if the Saints had but placed their property in the that curse of the kingdom, the press, is daily throwing shot and shell against the battlements same situation great .blessings would 'have been showered down upon their heads, but now they have turned a deaf ear to the counsels of God’s servant, to the divine plan for the consummation of all things, (property) . I feel of Zion, fore them, The Prospective “Successor.” when in New York, got phrenologized. When the operat- or’s fingers- came in contact with the immense derelopment on the rear part of his cranium grieved that I shall have he tendered him thefollowiriy o [la [Able :11 nice: “ Young man you must never leave home without to make my usci-nsion 'slone and leave thOse and they are gradually giving way beand if the people are not removed far from their baneful effects the civilization _ and progress of the nineteenth century will surely force a passage a wife, or you may be led into temptation.” who s1n,uld have. susLune 1 me in my last moments, to enjoy the into the very sanctuary and all our labors to purchase enough to hurt them? And didn’t they force upon them the higher civilization of portion a perhap< and “Wald. this fi 5‘41? More of iiiilltt‘ .«0. that it was almost as good as pure Moses and the Antidiluvians will be thrown of what I have gnlh-i‘t'd out of the Ti hing water, wth if it had been left in the hands of away. Alas! alas! It is sad to reflect upon. funds. But as I'have always been Chrtfititlll: to the wicked Gentile§theg would have made it so W this people and ever been willzng to counsel and strong that it might have cost the lives of numTar: phrenologica] and physiognomical editor direct their earthly treasures without purse or bers of the brethren? Haven’t they charged such of the News gave us several learned articles on scrip, I will not at this trying time throw th« in exorbitant licenses that no one could afford to Bender, considered from a phrcnological and entirely of, but will leave one of my seed in the sell the vile stufl‘ unless he was so prompted by a physiogno mical standpoint, in which he person of my beloved son Briggy, Jr., to rule the devil that he was determined to injure his almost put the poor old fellow on a level with over them and direct their spiritual and tem- fellow men at a loss to himself? The only our own Danitcs. Now that the old man is not poral welfare and keep my earthly treasures ii . difficulty they have had in the way of prohib- Bender, but probably an honest old farmer, will tact with my large family. iting it entirely has been the President, and he be kind enough to reconsider his decision, The Lord and the Lawyers are going to fix the ‘ of course they could not fight against him with' and give us those articles amended and approvso that the U. S. laws can’t save them. ‘ out fighting against the Lord. It was a bad ed to (late. Enochim |