Show eor the news al M EDI EDITOR roa As there or are many of our friends io 4 ains p i ng wh akk the in these vallies tallies and having been 2 4 1 I 1 y v acquainted with a number of f i c eases a ses b besides e 9 1 ae s my 1 own w that or dr clinton caiato h ha treated of willi vita the samp wind kind of medicine and never failing to T I 1 wire in hi any ca case to t wr vy knowledge I 1 take the liberty with abe of df dr di clinton aton to give a detail of tw the inedia medicine ins and the manner of applying plying Lp the sal same rue I 1 I 1 for the p public ablia good believing it will never rail fait coring if applied in season fc I 1 take a little imper wac a AA U I 1 a f if 3 grind it dovwa I 1 with a kufe fe taft auml na then put pit in a ma sugar of od I 1 id I 1 in 11 wt oft a 1 I and inix it in a I 1 plaster I 1 stiff ph aff ebud enough t to 0 spread OR on the inflamed part and not ran ma off an and A when it has dried so 90 as to feel disagreeable put the second mond coat on the other and I 1 when that arief dries sc scrape it off with th a knife and apply it on fresh aaen a ze as wore until 1 the intimation and and I 1 fw swelling elling is gone if it should bould be in the he head bead so 90 thit that the plaster be applied for the hair dissolve the sugar of lead in water and wet the head with it it I 1 yours tows respectfully i B BT T MITCHELL I 1 we feel obliged to br brother other mitchell for the above communication we will adial adent it in all charity that no doubt this wa vas laid oh ob our table with as pure and holy a desire to do good to the saints as we possess in fo taking up our pen to comment upon it arid and herece here we will say that this subject has been before f u us 9 for some weeks together with several com I 1 I 1 a response to which has baa been deferred I 1 only for lack of time and space god regards the acts of men according to their 1 knowledge as well as their sincerity paul declares I 1 that saul of tarsus verily thought he ingot to do I 1 many aings contrary to the name nameon of jesus of nazareth and why beaise he be did not know knew better I 1 why did he be not know better because like a multitude of preat great men in this day he had been brought up at the feet of gamaliel the greatest doctor of the I 1 law in all the nation and it was perfectly natural that he be believe all the falsehood his master said about jesus jesu just as many now do without enquiring for themselves to learn the truth of the matter while in this situation beli believing evil what his bis doctor told him he came across one of jesus disciples named stephen whom the malti multitude tude were about to stone and believing the stoning to be about right or that it was right to banish such heresy from the country 5 and also being a student of the great gamaliel and hoping by keeping in favor with the common people to step into his bis shoes as soon as he was dead if he did not get ue the chance before and too being quite a gentleman and not wishing to dirty his hands bands by picking up stones he modestly volunteered to keep the clothes of those who stoned stephen so ao that they should not be lost or some thief take them and they be found naked when they had finished their mobbing g but we need not pursue this part of sauls history for our illustrations on the present topic for saul was not in the church be was not a believer in christian christianity ity I 1 he was a popular doctor of the times so we leave him and turn to paul panl paul P aul intimates that he got forgiveness bec tue of ol 01 sauls unbelief he was so entwined around by the I 1 influence of the doctors that when he be heard the truth at first his prejudices would not dot admit of his receiving it hence he fought against the truth till a the light fi aiom om heaven struck him blind when he b was ready to enquire what wilt thou have me to do 11 his judgement jud gement was convinced that he had bad been doing wrong and he be was ready to follow truth troth wherever he could find it cost what it might inight and he be was added unto the church by faith repentance baptism for the remission of sins and laying on of hands bands of the elders for the reception of the holy ghost we now find paul in the church having forgiveness in the waters of baptistin slin for having stoned atoned the saints on account of his ignorance and unbelief and from that day fo iward he appears to have been ready to follow every counsel given him of the lord or his servants except once withstanding peter the president of the twelve apostles and then the president of the whole church his pleasure or pain for which we shall leave without comment only stating for the good of the living that he that boeth such things to the president of gods people on the eath earth ea I 1 th in any dispensation will repent or er be damned M and willing to suffer all manner of abuse and persecution and affliction ani and privation and dwell in by sea and land at home and abroad and count I 1 nt it his h n lira life dai ino if he might win wn the salvation of jesus now in in paul we have a representation of what is n the church of jesus christ of latter day saints for the truth froth is the same in in all oges ages when men come into the church of christ it should be to learn epam all tr urb I 1 and practice upon it if that is not their object their profession prof ci on is false and it will do them no good for mo monism sW is truth the whole truth and d nothing but the truth but on account of ignorance tradition and superstitions superstition some suppose it is right to withstand peter face to face and tell h him wherein he is doing wrong just as paul did they must hold bold on to jibe the cart last imi the e heifers heffers shake tt it to pieces or upset it and the ark of the covenant be broken this is mans natural vanity folly and ignorance but to the point at issue when the ethiopian can change his eva ekin or the leopard his spots then can he who has long been accustomed to give poison to the sick learn to give good healing medicine for if experience peri ence which is good revelation may give the history the vanity and folly of men is such that from long practice in any course not consistent with the requirements of heaven they become so in error they are incapable of discerning it from tru truth th and as the example is n ow before us let all the saints bv it who does not know that the revelator of the heavens has said in these last days and manifested to his saints that if any is is side sick among you let him send for the elders who will anoint him with oil lay on hands a and nd pray and if he has faith he be shall be healed and if he have not faith faid to be healed ac a shall be nursed with herbs herbe and mild food did not our brother who gave us our text and the doctor who gave him the license to give it know this 2 certainly most assuredly but they could not think of it or if they could their prejudices interwoven as with their birth like the sectarian rel religion gion prevented their using their knowledge knowledg eat at the time most needed who does doe not know that lead is not an herb or mild food does not the painters painter who is obliged to quit his business in the meridian of life or die ft aiom om the poisonous effects of the white and red lead he uses in his paints know this he does or else why quit hi his s profession and is the poison of lead abated because it is called sugar instead of being called white or red or any other name or color by no BO means leati leal is poisonous in its nature and that is the reason why we loathe the water of many of our ancient cities because it is furnished in ia leaden pipes iron is ia far preferable for conveying water and porcelain or earthenware is better still j in the blood is the life of the animal and anyta that tends ends to corrode the blood or obstruct its if tree free circulation is poison no matter what its name proper food wild mild food cherishes the ike blood tends to create it 31 and promotes health and strength pure herbs tend to purify and prepare the stomach and blood for thi the reception of food so that when affliction afflict ioa takes possession of our feeble frames herbs art first mentioned to purify and mild food to strengthen that the spirit of god which is the life may not be obstructed ted in its flow to every part of our systems that life eving g ving principle dillus diffused etl into our bodies by the breath of the almighty to constitute a living soul 7 desires a pure and free circulating medium or channel which it finds in the bloodson blo long as the blood remains pyre pure and free but when that channel of commie cation becomes defiled the life fife giving principle is obstructed in its course a warfare commences the patient is sick anti and the circulating principle called life finds its circulating medium the blo blood od too cor apt so that its passage is too laborious it takes its depar departure tuM then the body is inert inart dead and what is at erysipelas ebs A corruption of the blood producing swellings aw sorest sores tending to gangrene or internal or external which if continued long and powerful enough produces death as though the spirit pint were dis disgusted gustea with its tenement and whence the general we source of at erysipelas in our mid midst of there is nothing is in the he ionosphere of deseret to corrupt the blood of the saints date chent consequently we must took look to some other source for fat reason jeason first then we will mention our ear text tho the sugar of lead has been onea the premi prominent mt great gim grand and panacea of the poison tor for scattering disease since the days of ww and where does doe it scatter it to into the blood which aich circulates circulate through the whole system an and from thence inthe weak wak I 1 1 est ani and mot most susceptible itic portions of the body and 1 if 0 there ie remains mains perhaps a few days unobserved and then shows itself in the part in which it is located or if the constitution of the patient be strong enough it may remain apparently inert for years and when a kind congenial healthy atmosphere shall stimulate the medium of the life giving principle toward a healthy action as does the atmosphere of these valli values es the sugar of lead and the corroded parti cles of the system which have lain dormant for yea years presents itself in the form forin of oe a disease wh which lab is very convenient for want of knowledge on the part of the doctor to call erysipelas and this in nine cases out of ten is the cause of those afflictions in our midst called erysipelas did it generate here no it might be in the states in england wales scotland or any other part of the world last year or twenty years ago directly to the patient or through the medium of the parent or parents and their progenitors igors for this is one of the mediums by which the transgressions of the fathers are visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation do we mean to be understood that sugar of lead is in the cause cfall of all the so called erysipelas in the vallies vallie of the mountains P Bysom by ao means eans behave we have spoken of that because it is one of the most scattering and momentary healing poisons that is known to all the race of popular doctors in christendom aud and is the text presented us as by our brother in all a good faith and who would not do a wrong thing knowingly and lead is such a common article particularly term sugar is connected with it it throws the ho hast tit in heart off their fouard and bd irreparable injury is done their they we are aware of it quicksilver antimony opium and hundreds ol of other deadly poisons administered under the name of medicine such as mercury calomel corrosive sublimate paregoric tau laudanum danum morphine god freys cordial and a thousand more of like nature which are at about as good and some of them better I 1 to everlastingly fix the erysipelas in the human system as sugar of lead only they are not so harm less in name consequently not quite so common among u us but their effects effiec ts have been most abundantly feh in these vallies from the use that has been made of them in other climes no one need suppose that alf herbs are good for medicine because god has said the sick should the be 41 nursed with herbs no I 1 some herbs are as bad as minerals opium in any form for common I 1 use garden hemlock colchicum and hundreds of others are as bad as bad need to be and should bedet be let alone by every saint who wants to live and we say to all saints let iet al alone one every doctor who deals deal a out the poisons we have mentioned or poisons of any kind and pass by his practice as you would pass the gates of haft for there m is i no saul in these vallies whose name ought not to have been changed to paul before t this what shall we do then when we are sick just as god has told you call for the elders unite their faith with yours and if you are healed thank god for the blessing if note not act apon theford the word of wisdom which is in perfect accordance with all the move ments of the council of health as established in our city some three years ago for no other purpose than to devise ways and means to prevent disease and for preparing and administering herbs and wild mild food to the sick just as the lord has said that his afflicted people might find comfort and consolation and in the origin of the council to the present moment the presidency of the church have taken an active part therein the principles of the council of health are to administer herbs and mild food to the saints and do I 1 them all the good they can according to the holy commandment and arly any one who is opposed to the principles of that council are opposed to god and his government and those who administer any of the poisons we have named or poisons of any kind as medicines for the healing of the sick are not approved of in the heavens or by the council of health or by the servants of the lord who hold the keys of the kingdom of god on the earth in these last days we have often heard it remarked in a wild loose or tantalizing manner and by men in high authority too that pepper is a hot drink and the word of wisdom proscribes hot drinks and 1 I wish the speaker had referred to pepper for it is one of the hottest drinks we can use 0 ye elders in israel permit us to say gay to you that when the revelation came to the saints of latter days to abstain from hot drinks our heavenly father had no reference to pepper of any kind cayenne cay enne red black or yellow or any other herb of a like nature winch which is in perfect accordance with the principles of we life and salvation he meant what he be said hot drinks not alcohol the hottest and most diffusive thing men can think of in its natural state for he be of that pat ticul arly that strong drinks are not good food but for the washing of your bodies 11 then what did he mean hot drink water boiled over the fire with tea coffee and such like things which were common with almost every one in those days literally burning their stomachs with hot water for the purpose of getting the stimulating properties of the articles boiled in it while pepper and other articles of a like nature pure and hardim hann leni in themselves as mothers mai milk k are good when colds or chais present themselves vesp to restore the natural ue life and energy of the human system and ari arf ra a prominent part and ad portion of the herbs referred to and designed for the use of the saints in the word of wisdom we refer to these things with the best of feelings hoping that at no elder in israel from this day forth will give way to his prejudices so 80 altoe as to cast as t a slur on the word of wisdom or on any thing I 1 that god haw has ordained for the health and comfort of his bis creatures on the earth let tle saints be wise and live 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