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Show 1 - . - Church Deportment s- M NEl, DESERET SATURDA;).r, APRIL 20, 1940 - 7 - -- L ewes 1 , 1 - Number V 1 ,., E. By the time .JohnsCon's, Army was ATsent to Utah the name of Brigham Young was attracting such widespread attention that certain people in west-- ern New York wrote long and bitter articles about him when he lived in ' the Genesee country. "The Ontario Republican Times" Published several such articles In 1857 and 1858 . A.--1 was any cause for complaint, it might with more propriety have been made whom the complaint . ment that there was such an effort by those against ..., s made.: I made by VSOMe persons, butt tsay - , "In writing what I have, I have again, as I said in my previous coin-inumcation, . that this together with ' had no desire to screen any one from the attempt to heal Otis Gilmore and deserved censure, but have tried to Joseph Hickox, must have happened defend some from the unjust censure long before he came here that has been heaped upon them. I "I have made many inquiries conhave endeavored to keep truth on My side. I know there are many persons this child And affair, depd eer.ning' have found but two persons who re- - whose reputation for truth and veract- member anything about it One per- - ty will not be clilled in question, by son says he thinks a few persons had any class of people in the community ., met there for a prayer meeting, the where they reside who will be willing child was sick and there seemed to be. to testify to the truth of my state a sudden suppression of the senses; ments. We had perhaps as 'good an they did not think the child was dead, opportunity to become acquainted so they prayed for it Whether this with Brigham's character as any one. is a true version of the story or not I He lived not more than five or six cannot say, it certainly looks more rods from our house, and worked for as carpenter and Joiner, or reasonable than that rational beings my father , and professed Christians, would gathfarm, a good part of the time er around a child they knew to be during the two and a half years he remained here. I can say truthfully dead, and pray for it to be restored to life. H. complains of being greatly- - during that time we never heard or knew of his committing an act inconannoyed by the hollowing, screaming, hellish of and performances Brigham sistent with' his profession as a ChristIan. I hope no one will infer from and his followers.. But as I have showed pretty conclusively, I think, what I have written that I am a be-that there was no such performances ' liever in Mormonism. I have nothing in the neighborhood after he came, it to say in commendation of his char- is presumed he has reference to the acter as a Mormon. Bad as he is now, held there it is hardly an excuse for persons to Methodist prayer meetings "sonie years before. They used to fabricate such falsehoods against his meet, 'pray, sing, get happy and shout, character before he became a Mormon Just as Methodists have always be- - and publish them to the world for truth." lieved 'it their privilege to do. If there these miracles." I take upon myself the responsibility to assert that ;ery are one of false, I - these statements . know as every person does, who was acquainted with him, that he pever at-tempted to perform any such miracles., He was not such a- boisterous, hollow- ing, screaming fanatic, as he has been One man named Beebe told some ; he was simply a private - represented , life in about his early strange things member of a Reformed Methodist So 'western New York. He had much to citty, probably in the town of Men- say about Brigham young trying to don; he could not have been a meincall a dead child back to life. Most her here for there was no such socie- of his stories were so ridiculous that ty in existence in the place at that an anonymous writer, taking issue time. At the time he came here there with the accounts wrote a lengthy ar- - were not more than three or . fouryer-correct to in whichhe tick sought sons in the vicinity who had ever been u the falsehoods. This man certainly . members of the Reformed Methodist had no axe to grind, but felt it his Church. "He was not a leading titan, in the duty to tell the facts about a man who was being unjustly denounced in the church, neither had he any followers, yet the Methedist Society that existed region ,where he had been converted here some years before, are spoken to the Mormon faith. of all through H.'s article as being the We quote at length from this in- - followers of Brigham Youngwhen the truth is, many of them never saw teresting and friendly reply: him,; perhaps never heard of him "Brigham did not come here until - I cannot learn that he ever visited the the year '1829. We have dates, by place previous to his coming here to which we know when hecame . also live. Brigham is accused of taktneto., when he left. I can't say where B. part in the attempt to raise the dead said he came from, but I know posi child of Asher Huntly. I,c.lro not wish to be understood as denying the state-- . tively he came here from the town of . . Mendon, and I am informed by a per-son who is very well acquainted with his history, that previous to his living 0, In Nefidon he lived in Oswego and worked as a ship carpenter there. He , did not live in the house with Phineas, they did not both live here at the same time. I have conversed with two persons lately who say they visited both families In the town of Mendon, but a short time previous to Brigham's removing here and staid with . the family of Phineas over night. Phineas and Lorenzo lived together while here, and it is believed by some that Lorenzo has been mistaken for Brigham H. states that Brigham set , , . 1I, 45, - L - - on-th- e - - , -- - . , ,. - ' , ., - ' - ,.:.......... ,...:.,:,,:.,:-....,:-::- .......,,,::.::::,:-- ',,,,,,X.,K,,:::,:,q'-,-,:,-,,,.- , '''..i.' 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