| Show annj jr UTILE FUTILE 7 tit d people es 1 character r for truthfulness honesty hone y of purpose pur 0 anu moral m oraf integrity inte or ity ha ba been ao so frequently anid nu triumphantly 1 ril til ted it might le be khoii A to id be fully established it bab haa passed through throng b so 80 many fiery ardeal pr deal al has endured BO ba many fu on ah these points from bitter persistent 1 and in ih many M instances cald caid talented i efell 1 enemies e that thap at j 1 1 1 1 it wol would ld ii scarcely I 1 seeni serri more bopre than h a reasonable to e expect ap eat that by this thia time tune aarant would be tie convinced of the folly repeating 0 their attacks attack syr sir jf if any success had ever attended the efforts of those who lave undertaken from froin time ta time to convince e the this base and evil 1 designing people then I 1 iti mi plight ht be elpe expected r ted fed that tbt this huc puca fes pes Ss however little it nii nil might hube bube be would embolden embola en others ot berb bers to follow in bu bui but though the work lorl of f adf defaming amine a I 1 elint the tk character haab has been e en p pursued for foz t years yet success has p neven never attended it in every instance sk and falsehood 0 of those who i oah have a e t undertaken u q her take tahe n it have ba e been been ex ext t posed and their statements completely refuted A of evidence has been iaia laid laia laid beford abb public 1 ct clial sils has been overwhelmingly cond cone con elusive in f favor 0 T oi of our oar purity and an upright in ini i ten mentions tins and it has haa had lad the effect soon Boon eror later to utterly condee rt and render carill contemptible em p t every gaast s co the opponents of ibis this veota wor would be bc anea anease Bym sym r atter atler ablerto tt to I 1 put a ast lio ito sio op ll 11 toa to a system av apparently insignificant deheve tuat that at this ill lii work k was a humbug bumbu too transparent and joseph jo eph smith an impostor in costor ignorant to require a euort duurt part of he th the e iba learned rh e dio to c crush s fi I 1 it t and expose him any story tory puerile arll any no 40 inconsistent incon were deemed deem 1 bunni cier cler ibo A biow blow F mormonism fo 16 the f four oui lin minds winds s and fully to character of its advocates butlo but to the tile chagrin bagin and disappoint me nt of efa cil ill ri cahors of these stories an antt anit K chal chai irmo nisel imp was not liot arrested iq its progress ress sly ily by their circulation joseph smith and his a were stilt believed to be men 0 of f god vod RW and their cods Is vera werven vero fien icon listened T I 1 and b by y many amon among g whom these thebe storsand jand stor storla chang ea had bid been carulla caffi illy annd arid ail all d industriously circulated beark ago ag cr the stories and charges burkes icv i twerp p then thought by qun opponents to be alto aito altogether A eibel elber w sufficient and just whai what vtha veba lva iva was wab needed to cr crush mor cwern a and overwhelm oTer whelm its professors with shame and con co 1 alisi 12 brov 1 d 0 tp o be bp false faise a rd unfounded there vas was no charge or story stork circulated then thin t 14 apt af pf meet witha sith with a co complete M P lete re refutation and abd SRI smi II 11 ari W I 1 every place wh fleere ere it obtained circulation i eron tron that time to the present this tb i a iaus laus A 11 ed At to 0 kaie klie bAhe bethe e case this cyst system em andt liis ilis people have lived down every charge tha tItas been brought against them the stories and maa mia 8 nat nit we mere were re in in vogue wat way T t I 1 PI 11 quarter quarte rot ota ofa c century M ury agoy a that thab were then ira eo 0 be bar barriers Ts in the way of V the he progress ogress p r J of 0 if his this t work and thein the in crease of this people age ago are how scarcely if tyer ever referred 14 toy tor 1 noi not 1 nan 4 4 ablat has I 1 any judg the be credulity of mankind or that b abis ahls ebis hi PP P to telly willever wilt will them theme the whole world or that thai portion of it that is posted vl dip rip passing event sis J thou ay nod noi not alwa attas ys be fie ace act acknowledged tibi I 1 I 1 ste sie ld t ed ef c their falsity the opponents work and the til vlis vilS biers fiers of the character of this people therefore hae have had li aa to lo repeatedly alter their irac I 1 dici Vici the tile old charges and hae hite had bad to be laid at one side or r sent to some country where the people were about re receiving e IV ili and where th ey would W 0 e w ananew and new ones bites have been substituted in 7 i f I 1 t f their stead issaji bue but the new have hayg eder ever ever aver p shared ba U a similar fate with the oid old their falsity has blaso been made manifest and the wick wickedness edness baid luid macic malice wilf of authors nily ally ekpo exposed sed the toe world wor it might lit be li thought thou atwould bt would begin M 1 after I 1 ter all that has passed to see this people in stir tair true light the attempts to destroy iti ati r character for virtue I 1 and evy avy try ryot loth foth ben ber er good quality have been BO so numer cs oela ceis med ted of f to 10 varied a na na hat hit to n so 0 fugn tou tob 1 c convinced d that this people arel arlei S r ig bl ou asp 1 0 ap tid pura pu fri tri 1 peo 1 1 5 ut 1 N e 14 do d 0 i ro gex rex ex that t thip th isy hilj brithe belthe abb cal case ge yva IVA y ew ouid havet ailed profit by the eap exp experience e re I 1 nc e of or ill III the e past if f we werd weri were to 0 look for such fi results suits at 1 ppe besen sen fa As weil weli well might P w we e ke look looked e adfor for tor then when we resided ip in the states as aate to took look for them now Who does doea not f floriy oby 1 actual or from freaa reading ng ah that at when N ii arid arld were we i re accuse accused 4 of every imaginable 0 i crime that mr nu gerotis disinterested men men w who ho did not buloti belong I g adour to oun our church churm and whose reh refi glou s P re 1 i 1 rj i 1 j u 4 ices icren 1 4 HO 0 wise favora bleto our eudoc 20 trines published their testimony iri in tion of every charge that had bad been I 1 made against us these thesa contradictions I 1 I 1 Q had fiad 1 v weight t ight 91 ii with 14 man many y fir the tine being and when whence ive I 1 were driven fr from oni our bomas and 1 baided bailed to take refuge n jigs these theae k I 1 Y wilds many Jl bought hought 0 ug g h t I 1 we e were a ai cruelly persecuted and unjustly treb treated ted people bat these s in many instances only 1 pd fa r a birli period wex wey tuey I 1 i Tema rema remained ined as aa a I 1 thing it 1 19 gitil itil h e next storm of lies lles iem lem rode forth aud and si swept eil eib them tham avay apay away tway then they NVer w ere forgotten esst elSt gotlin i since ev we ha have haye hen uen here it has be beau ea I 1 I 1 ie sam C charged ages i V nave have have i hee bee der ber n ajae ma destories sto ies les have hiva lleen been heen f f fabricated abrica ted andoire against us of tle the most dost damning M nature but they have been X fully ol 01 ay false in et evry f ry ins talice and thet that th with the tia Arni lists 0 bithe d ai ve 11 I 1 0 bade hadl ivia evidence en c e 0 t their f falsity al ity iaia laia befar thomm this has generally caused a reaction foli forthe the time being but buti it lias has las than was nece necessity necess ary arx iry to gi give ve our oppose I 1 s ti ule uie to td recover q from the effects of I 1 I 1 their thein failure a aud id to concoct a new plan of attack cherra Wh erra eira w new batch of tiei ties came caine forth they have hava been aa ready to believe belleve teem as they iverc ivere hip hie old 1 I 1 i n i il i 0 nesland nesi and all he evidence in oue one yo tji they previously may have had is as though ib never bad had alj art existence we look for thia wis to c oh 1 long iong on gasmen gatmen agmen are influenced as the 0 are at A present there is ri not 0 t a sufficient amount of mall mati manliness lineas or oz good principle about those to mould and public take lake a straight forward forward I 1 independent n course in re regard ard to this peo people ae they mey and bb bow iv to the thi f feel elifis irig wat that ia let u popular pu it ar for i the r f if f jabe jit be aca aga aulls aliis this i 0 pe people kiil e i th though O u h t they h e y m may ay b be e s satisfied a t i s fi e d if i f e evi evl v i de dence n cel cei ouid bould satisfy thal that it s allol all ail tight if the reaction bedbour fa will either S bly ft ain aln nothing about the he matter ter or be very careld careful not to compromise the themselves in the least while chile satan hag haa place in tb the e hearts pt f the children of men they ibey will continue to 0 act acdan in this manner towards this people he lip t seems to have the power to blind their byis eyes to tzi the inconsistency and oily olly folly oft oatlie lIe lle course cours 1 e and aind they become become i the instruments in his hands I 1 to carry out his purposes 1 of this however f alk all al may be assured red that the fate which has bli bit hitherto herto befallen every one that has bas us used ed his i exe exertions rations to vilify and defame this people and aed ra their doctrines will be the fate of t those do se who ho may in ul eik elk tool fool S 1 the Hamana nid fid mn predicted I 1 I 1 1 I 1 k k wi his downfall beford morde althan aithan this can be predl clAd coh concern cern |
