| Show ft t 1 6 FOURTEEN YEARS AGO ssi sas i s i i tiie tile june has just passed on thab day jay ayr ajr years ago the prophet and patriarch joseph and kyru hyrum saulli basely barely aae irid arid s nd idt idi inhumanly manly murdered by a vile lle lie mob while P ian lan in carthage jaul jail the circumstances of their martyrdom the the pledging 0 by 46 he 14 executive lve ive thamas for rord of ili his bis s 0 own andee ilalie sta sae of i aim alm and aia honor atno eliat tha thy they should be safely protected are BO so notorious that we hall hail colell 11 ll on thein here but what a ho host at 0 af lk if e fl e chions do ea esthe e 4 the rean remembrance marance mb rance I 1 ok or what alime a time of exita exultation lalon for the devil and his emissaries and of mourning and sorrow for the saints was that I 1 th v in murderers of joseph and fhy fay rum smith iho hop T qa tha h a tile tilo the execution ii foul ded deed would be the system which jose phwe ph ax the instrument in the fhe hands of i god of f founding they imagined imag inia inea that bebas be was i the 11 aad rl s of oi the fhe system y and a d that gat det to cause it to and die dle diedt didat it was only necessary J to kill himl how grassly they were de b ill lil Iii story stork pait past fourteen years bear s illustrates p fourteen Fou reen years that period has haa done in in spreading a knowledge know ledge of mormonism I 1 a andin nd ar I 1 ts ame re that h has been li promise A biliti ta lwe ime 0 of f ll 11 his death the I 1 nalof name of the prophet joseph wa was s widely known and defalle of the principles principle fhe he i widely diffie diffused j yet when y com compared ith iab the present time I 1 me how obscure b be uri was was ih thione throne arle aile llie and confined to narrow limits the he other A few nations had heard of his name tut but but with the majority 1 I 1 t was wa ii only known f pr evil false reports had penetrated where his apostles had baba not two or r three nations had heard beard their voices roles X but yet comparatively little had been done towards the word of the fod jord through u h file flie angie angel I 1 ii to him before th the e i i tion of this church that his name should be known among the nations for the theA vork work which the iha lord ld ill lil should 0 ulf uit pe perform r forg form by llis ilis hib hanas hands hands should cause aue the righteous to rejoice and the wicked I 1 to rage with theone the his name nam es should hould bedad be had in honor 1 with wilh lh the tiia otier otner in reproach at j since his hib ills lils d death c a th however lip hp Vever wever weyer much 11 h ag beef been idone towards accomplishing accomplish ing this the na giors now remaining rema Tema inin ining that have not heard his 1 name nahne and ind whose ahoe ears have not been saluted by the e me message I 1 siao arp of i a 1 p af pf f which he wis was the first bearer are arp but few indeed from f west to east eat from north to south has this message been heen carrle carrie car rieti 4 its bearers s P penetrating in j almost every miry stra stia sea and traversing almost evey eiery land landd have iw circumnavigated circum navigated the globe on ota 1 tery every tory I 1 continent 7 is his bis name had in ili honor by ithe the ii abbs und and ind in reproach by the wicked i little did ha ha enemies think aw when h i en they I 1 so cruelly cruell y siew slew ew him hi i m that this would be bethe the result little littie edid did hey think that they were ting to bring to pass and abd fulfill fulfil that which had bad been rort fort ald through him yet ei hib this his doubtless f was the casa fo of of I 1 the ke av work 0 rk being berng retarded by his death it recel received ted Ked an am impetus it increased i in in power and importance beyond the abe calculations dof of those who knew by phenies what the result would be but ibcal curably beyond thai thal that which those who opposed it au sup aup supposed apos posed edit it ever would ubi upwards ris of awen twenty y eight years ago beford fo i ra thit this church had an organized existence on the earth arth it it was foretold to the world what this would grow 11 to men alen pois possessed essed odthe of the giff rite ift of pro prophecy checy testified and plainly pointed pointe d ont oot from the scriptures that this was the work of god the work vork which the prophets in an cieni clent days daya referred to tb fourteen years 5 ears elapsed and it lt g grew graw q r and prospered an every ciery in indication di of beco becoming all that had heen predicted still the world would not believe beneve but I 1 what it was a hatched in the brain of 0 i a cunning impostor to stop its farther r increase was waa as the grand thought that occupied the toe milid mind of prie ana people peole prof assor 1 land sand non professor but how bow was vas di the question the ne answer was not ion lon long iong del Ael delayed ayed it was kill the man inan that first PT propounded ii it take 1 way away the inas bakter ter spirit acho by his hia im impost postures urea haa bas kept the system iier fier aud and it will mill fall to t pieces rices the ne plan was adopted the nie pro I 1 bullets were infamously murdered but the internal infernal mei tei ernal ae dence T iee fee fahed in ia accomplishing the iua object 1 A again 1 1 men e n sg iaea gift ift of prophecy prophet f foretold 1 J leathia lh athis athia t is vas dif nota noto rif ot 0 o b e the end af pf otibe lh e ift 1 ij t i tf i i a syster ks te ip abul abut u t t that b at 1 its lis B perpetuity and increase ip creage crease w were ere idill still 1 sure the wor world id belle belie believed ved it not t they thought the cl aline of bf mormonism was I 1 i 1 eh lh anoche ahot ther tier i period eri eti 6 d af four fourteen ten Leh 3 years eh rs however 1 1 1 ilas lias iab lab 1 ela eia elapsed 6 pied pled jibe system has bas still in creased and spread abroad at naught the puerile to retard ar or crush crushia cru shit it sefiye world wilt will lot biot even now 15 that the predictions made relative to it will ever be fulfilled they still misapprehend the na and tade tendency of this work still altri blit bitt buleto e the kun cun cunning b 1 in I and anti ess esa of inh ini man mah i what whal h really proceeds d s irom arom drom ithe iisdor R Q t gol gal and still think is indebted fois for atit ity its s g acce acce kand gand ssi and vespe god h hrs has as c called a kled tied to preside rp side over jt if oi of course r se hav haying in this idea it ft is ia L a natural th they eye should tb think i that abat he removal remd val either elther by I 1 1 l eare or 0 otherwise ther wisa of the tha leaders of tah chii people ta the means oil vil 1 thie tiie system and dispersing its followers ampre fallacious idea than this or one better calca I 1 ai eato in i s I 1 e ad wo s e who indulge i n a ua g it ine lne i f i I 1 e I 1 i can n not we well weli libe ilbe be entertained det let atan satan ance once 8 succeed c iii n instilling it into ib the e minds of men and when god has a priesthood on anthe the earth they age afe are very apt t to be some bome of tu e instruments insi insl lie he will use se to deitoro d destroy it iki iti the experience of the past should teach the he world theres th ereis and has been a mure than thlin human dreding antig and guiding alding th the progress ss I 1 an develop iq system T hos hys 41 s is apparent oni on every page of its history As well might man attempt to arrest by liis ilis puny vinyl and adl I 1 impotent ni 61 e t V arm r m the ibe al revolution of bf tue tile af pf planet an t on which we stand as t 0 stop tile the progress greis grebs of this borki by the sli sil shedding edding of the ae bloo dof of those thas e whose duty it is to pres preside ideo over it the success t 1 of the pasi past 4 1 fourt ce ri ye yearb years lairs I 1 proves tans tins tt ns s i |
