Show M MAJOR JOR YOUNG OUr G MA MAKES A REPLY Y Tales Takes Tribune to 10 Task for Slanderous erous cr us Attack on 01 resident President Smith REVELATION CLEARLY CL DEFINES DEFRIEL DEINE at Washington Misrepresented ild tid Misconstrued FacU lit Iii tile the Case Casc Replying to editorial mIsstatements HOl W Young hats tho the following to the thu Tribune To 0 tho Salt Hll Lake Tribune In your editorial of ot Sunday AUlday you OU reasserted by Inference that President ru re I revelation told toil one at It lt j I and nOd another r thing thine here hero I You TOil YI staled that ho the Mormon Church lias 1115 lus a ti claim df Of t direct und util constant revolution n from Almighty Clod and Ind this Ihl Is I tho th of revelation which Is II now officially denied by hy tho Mormon Church ChUh and 11 that my toy lY in itt tho the Herald that there was confusion of th thu use u e of ot the words rose reve revelation lation and 1111 Inspiration by hy Smith II In iii an ati ni explanation that explains Smith out of ot his prophetic In audition addition to these conten lions tons you Ol ask Isk me tue why there Was ele In II tho the Tabernacle It If there thero wn 1 no In lit Washington lol and all second R why wiy the explanation only became necessary When Wien tho the testimony was IS printed Prin ted lr its 11 full to Ii lI Smiths testimony was pub hy h tho the government nt In Washing ton taB and hero here This testimony test mony won was and nd miscon misconstrued II uell after atter publication The fhe Tatter Duclo so 50 explanations were to 10 correct in and ml and Ind cannot honestly bo be 1 con colt construed as o admissions or explanations of o by I President re Smith at lit lt Washington At Art to thu tho alleged contradictions be he tween testimony and sermon penult I Imo I I mo 1110 to point out that 10 II President Smith In answer to Dubols ns as ni ap nIl appears I pears on 43 of ot the record states that since becoming president of the Iho Church ho Ito ItC hail had received no revelation from Clod Oo which had Imd been submitted to a n conference of ot tho the Church Chirch and that Ir his ha sermon at ft tho the Tabernacle c ho hu stated that God Cod had not nt glen given him a it 1 revelation upon any ally new nw to bo be observed or handed down doun as os u a I guido gulle to 10 the tho Crunch Church that hat In II Washington ho lie ns Its appears on page age uge 09 DO or nf the Record necO that God Cod had shown to him by b revelation that Is divine t truth n a fact t ct which he lie reasserted In Iti the Tabernacle that t he hs stated in II Wash Vashi Washington ington that ho had Md had Impressions of trio 1010 Spirit on bin mind very vcr frequently p t III 48 mid Ind that u IL knowledge or of prin principles hitch had hll been revealed i to him shown to him on oi which he ito 10 was Ignorant be he before fore tore p I 09 01 9 unit anil 1111 that In III hid discourse 0 he ho assorted that he lie fervently believed that Go Gait lied had hit manifested to him hll In lit II hla hil capacity many matly things many I principle and oftentimes moro Inure wi Nun than OU IB iii II inherent In hint him himAs hll As Al to your assertion that the tha Mor Mon Mormon I mon loon Church claims direct Und con colt constant COl stant from God Clod dud dU your OUr further that this Is 19 tha thu kind of revelation which Js he s now officially denied by the Mormon Church I would remind you that the tho Mormon doctrine of or revelation roola lon Includes udes the con conception of ot both bolh revelation by the tho per pcr honal onal did and nd guidance of di divine II divine vine ln nUl revelations by heavenly h Inspiration and further that white while nay Saint living In the line lne and Ind acting within the scope cope of ot his hil duty Is entitled to Inspiration revelation tion ton by personal or other miraculous manifestation Is not held to bo ho un tin unbroken unbroken broken and Incessant but bul to bo bet vouch vouchsafed upon as ns Clod loil DOI may moy will wi this kind of ot revelation being the tile ex cx extent tent of If Us its Is claim debt of ot direct and constant revelation the tho Mormon Church lute has not ilot lol denied Smith Sin ith In iii Washington quoted the pas passage passage I sage lage from froni the thu Doctrine Coven COen note stating That whatsoever who you ou I Ihal 1 shall hal speak when moved movell upon by b the i Holy loly Ghost shall be ho the word or of the tho Lord which he applied not riot only to himself hut but with wih equal force to ev cv every ever cry ery er Elder In tho the Church that revelt revelations for the government and guidance of cit the tho Church come conic only through the head hoat of the Church that revelation fame canto by the Spirit flint of ot tho the Lord lArd as well wel as Oi by hy a n visible appearance of the AN Al AI Almighty mighty or of ot on angel that n it 1 rovola revelation revel tion lon might 1 come by an nn audible voice oleo 01 or by an In Inspiration known and heard beard I I only by b the concerned 1 person or by writing as I In the case of ot the Hook Book of ot Mormon orron und rind that it I Is la a n fundamental tal til doctrine of ot that reve revo lations are lr given Ien to tl the Ihl head of the Church hero here Is 18 Surely Burely no abandon abandonment abandonment ment meat of ot the Mormon doctrine or f rev revelation revelation elation ellton Having lEaving these facts In itt view there Is in II found absolutely no surrender of Mormon rolmon tenet or violence to 10 Mor Mormon moo mon mOi Ideals Ideall In President Smiths asset asser assertion tion ton that ho he hoe has tl no 1 formal rev re revelation elation during his presidency That substantially the Iho entire entre Church believes Joseph F Smith to be susceptible to the at the Ibe Spirit of ot the Lord and Is II a n lit lt and the thc proper channel through whom tho the Almighty will 11 reveal re al Himself Hm el upon oc cc occasion casion Illon cannot be gainsaid Not NOl having announced announce a n formal revelation to the tue Church during his Incumbency no run one should have hn been bean bOBI surprised od at t his frank in II Washington If I h hI he Is to bo be criticized It I should be In this case CUSO Cle Cleus as us usual with wih him not for tor evasion und and but rather for tor or unflinching frankness and uncompromising honesty of ot statement nt Your further point the tho confusion with which tho the words rove reve lation littion Int Ion and Inspiration w re rel by Smith at lit Washington es its II I 1 fancy but little attention I did not assert as liS you Infer President Smith was os confused as to 10 the meaning of those these words warda merely that h he confused their use my meaning would have been more accurately expressed had I sail said that he ho Interchanged their use UBe My communication to 10 the tho humid Herald quoted by hy you OU clearly states tel that Ire Pres ident Smith and slid his hi questioners rue had different conceptions of ot tim tho words this fact act no led lod to the tho contu confusion Ion sion In the tine use UIlO thereof to I al at Your Yur editorial writer affects to believe that these theae words are aro so clear of ot definition and so easily eully distinguish distinguishable able Clue one from the other oilier that rot for or n a achurch church member to 10 err In their use Is flat her heresy hery y and yet I venture the as nl assertion that there thore Is III no ho general agree agreement fluent ment In this community or elsewhere as Ia to the exact meaning of these words ROd and that It will with h he Impossible either for tor the tho editor of ot the tho Tribune or any IllY mem niem ber Lien of the staiD of ot that paper to Indi Indicate cate cat whore shore revelation r ends and Inspiration In begins or how holY far one Is 18 coextensive the other oilier In San fords I iii of ot Religious II Knowledge I the tho following defini tion of nf revelation Tho rho word tion stands for tor the act of God In III nick milk Inn int In truths know kno nto nb man and then In a 1 sense cence for tor or the truth Itself which Is thus nde known and In Inspiration Is II defined ns nil follows It is I a name for that divine Influence upon the lenders nod and teachers of the tho true trun r ra f ligion who were nt at t once o ce the hu human humon moo mon agents of the tho revelation and tho tue I chief authorities of the men like hike Moses dose Isaiah lealah John nod and Paul Yours Your truly W V YOUNG March larch 37 n 1905 1000 1 05 |