| Show WALTER al GIBSON HIS EXPULSION FROM THE CHURCH the saints wil will be much gratified to learn of the safe return of elders ezra T benson ani an lorenzt lorenzi snow olathe oin the tha quorum of the twelve ap apostles astles from a brief but interesting mission to the sandwich islands they left here on the 21 of march and returned on sunday forenoon having made a speedy journey our thero there and back and accomplished the task absi assi assigned 0 ned them by the first presidency of the chu church chuich manner mannen w sho abo should uld think I 1 satisfactory to all acquainted with the circumstances cum stances in the aate afternoon rnoda cf cx sumay sanday sunday both were at the tabernacle and related in interesting Barrat narrative lve lye their journey and travels by land and seap seal bea sea meeting with the saints on the island of lalawai Pa lawai lanai their interviews with walter al gibson and what they had bad learned of his hia course and of or their thein action thereon which was waa ha s bened to with attention loa ioa throughout 0 1 I is not our purpose to give a summary sumi nary aary cf of the narrative in this article but the many rumors in circulation in this city touching I 1 the p proceedings of gibson prior to the departure of these brethren seem to call for confirmation or repudiation and it would have afforded us much pleasure to have repudiated the charges against him but we regret that te vie worst of the rumors was too true frue rue and we ara are forced 1 to a vow avow 1 like the Q leen of sheba that the halt had not been tou told walter al gibson furnishes another item for the page 0 of experience in this intensely interesting work ile he came to this territory oa his way to the malay islands in the fall i of 49 he was accompanied ballis by riis hs llis daughter two sons and a few other persons whom he had met somewhere west of the missouri river the latter we ire understood to have been delighted li a eted with capt gibsons gibbons Gib sons picture of the i islands of 0 oc anica joined in the adventure he had proposed and had come thus far on 03 their journey together we never enquired of the relations formed among them and how they j terminated but bui some time after the Cp taini arrived here and began to boget get acquainted the persons about four or five in number if we mistake not bod sod sod eod their outfit and returned east again dissatisfied with lle ile lie hs interruption to their dream by the tarrying of the captain in this city every facility was afforded him her ber hereto eto lecture in our public places p acea aceb and in the tabernacle nac lefand and ana personally perso bally some of our most dis aia i tin tid unshed citizens showed him marked alten alien j tion which we were pleased to see lie he is an educated man ot of extensive travel and observation and somewhat known in the eastern 1 states more particularly in washington where he spent a large portion os 01 his time in i I 1 seeking reparation from holland through this government for his incarceration in prison i oa on one of be the malay islands by some representative senta senti tire tive of the dutch h government Hs he was always poite polte affable and toll toil the beai beat etory story and made the most out of a smail small thing of f any man we ever listened to his lectures were very interesting and cap to eat pat that cliss who aee eee with kith ita tickled eara ears and understand with their thir digestive dig esthe 0 gans perhaps it would be difficult today to aay day 1 to hear the avowal but bat many who will read thir tan which seems growing into a sketch will recall to memory I 1 how ow interesting a gentleman tieman vm was gibson and how many woud would have been ready on half a word aiom the proper quarter ter to have forsa forsaken their irrigation 0 fields and adda anda doble 1 dwellings to marea marolt 1 for the orange orange groves gro eoj the thie rice and the spice fi ids AP uhre whre re the richest odors known to the senses and gods were waited on every breeze breezer some listened and wondered and one now no more but bolder than the redl real kenred to whisper humbug 11 dren drea 1 turea aad to question questin the fourteen feet timers not including therein the cadle appendage pen dage and to otherwise doubt the intensely interesting interest ine lne tales of 0 perfect deerb deera with borns horns and hoofs complete only large enough b for ornamenting na the lid of a anuff snuffbox box and convenient enough fo for a vest pocket in course of time he sought baptism way wai i soon eider elder gibson and not long after was his bis way to the states to bee see his friends he made a rapid tour through bome some nort northern hernand and southern states met wit with lithe tithe the saints in new york tork and managed by the same course as more recently exhibited m the sandwich islands to represent his ilig importance here and atall made for blk bia immediate return and so rode back to us again comfortably fort ably by stage 11 while the poor saints had bad to labor and fast fait to repay what Ahat was borrowed on his false representation that ahat he was wanted immediately 11 had be he been smitten ii with the hopes of an early return to congress I 1 be could not have bave been more urgent in hla hia hastening back to our mountain I 1 home Hom ejust just previous to the elect elections ioni loni we admired t tie be tle gentlemanly courtes courtesy y that gave the stranger the he fullest scope for bis his talents but we breathed freer when we saw blua huun let severely beverely atone alono lie soon Te turned to bib bis dream coed again the favors of aladia manifest destiny and looked westward well do ire ive remember a voice whispering in our ear carb carp grit if he is honest all will be well the lord will use him it if he is not hot be takes with him enough to damn him and fearfully real have the words been fulfill fulfiller el ile he moves on to the pacific coast lectures in san francisco and speaks double to his bis hearers he ile is accused of mormon tendencies and denies it finally be he reaches the sandwich islands and soon makes his presence felt feit among the natives his short residence here and the usual jetters letters of commendation were his passports to the confidence of those who had embrace em bracel the everlasting gospel from the teachings of our faithful elders many years ago time rolls on and letters lettera jea zea ch this place that the bland tha courteous cour tends tenas the devoted the he disinterested humanitarian was writing b a new page of history and fixing to an addenda not in the pro gramme of salvation immediate attention was wag given to the cries of the poor and the oppressed in the islands and without delay elders benson and snow wera fent tent to enquire into matters there to learn what gibs gibb gibson n was 0 doag 0 and to adopt such measures as circumstances demanded they were e accompanied thither by elders joseph F J smith IV IV cluff recently from the danish missid mib mis fl i and ama L smith of this thia city who had all been on missions b fore time to those islands on arriving at the island where gibson had bad purchased his bis plantation they found there was neither misrepresentation nor romance in the charges against 0 him the captain had bad mad mada ia a good thing a out of the believing g natives ea in a remarkably remark short space of time and had lad prostituted prostitutes the fri IrI influence fLuence which his standing with the people of utah gave gac him bim to his own aggrandizement a walter waiter af bf gibson iho who a little mra m ra re than tian three yearb yeara ago ao had to slowly travel through our settlements lecturing lect elect by the way for or assistance and by the by leaving behind bim him some terrible Burm isings is now a very w wealthy man possessing po his bis acres of land by thousands his sheep bythe by the saunie same high figures and his horses an cattle geese and turkeys in droves to 0 obtain tain them he be hag haa claimed the possession of an authority which neither god or man ever conferred upon him and the holy and sacred priesthood that he professed to revere he dispenses its offices and titles as be he would groceries gro cries in a country store ile he has ordained 1 mn Apo apostles atles high priests and seventies elders and everything 0 else and even the women received from his hands the honors of priestesses and evereth ng else that his cunning biln b could suggest to touch their venera veneration tion while in return he touched their property and the only justification he has the impudence and the hardihood to set up is if anything thir thin 9 more damnably black than the crime itself tiia tha the llie natives were ignorant says be he and ordaining them to the priesthood was merely a stimulant to unite them and make them more tractable and useful to whom to walter M gibson shamaon shame siame on the man who wiio could play with the credulity of the simpie simple and use the sacred name of the lord for the vilest purposes of deception elders benson and snow went to him with the utmost kindness in their hearts and tried to ma make ke him realize his bia position but be he was wed to his idol and after dolg doig doing more in the way of long suffering buffering and forbearance forb earence than we would have shown him they cut him orf off r from the church of jebus jesua christ of litter day saints on sunday randay afternoon after the they ther had bad made a public report of their mission president young e stated briefly that the charge charges against walter 31 gibson was not for own I 1 ing property orto or tor for r claiming it dorrio for no ong one one cared how much he had IE he only did good with it to the poor nho mho who had fiven given iven it but the charge was his persistent persi stant refusal to be dicta jedby the priesthood and on the motion of the president the action of elders benson and snow in cutting gibson oft from the church was iu stained sustained by the whole congregation we have extended this article far beyond the limits we at first proposed and far beyond what the man himself is worth but this exposure of his course has a moral that will not be lost losi on a portion of our readers it i 1 not the first time lime in the history of movement that we we have kiowa of dark dys ia in distant missions but we tre need not tell the saints that those days have gone past for ever it ith Is with mich m ich satisfaction that we can look barklon baa upon uhe the past and contemplate through what the coulch has passed ania and see bee today to day the certain overthrow of evil men M en in their weakness their thein folly and their pride might ten fifteen twenty or 0 r mo more re yeara years ago travel in forbidden paths and for a while with comparative impunity cover up their tracks but today to day a tithe of such non barad barag or villainy would find them out and send them to their legitimate place quicker than they ever dreamed cf of and all rejoice that it is so now and cannot be repeated the baie bale saie spirit that watches over this work now was with it from the beginning but the people had bad not the experience to arp fi by bi it understand its a admonitions and instructions but patent is now the fact to us all that aitt sitt judgment overtakes the hypocrite and aul ani the transgressor and nothing can shelter Bli sil elter eiter the one or the other well could we point to persons once prominent among us ris and say here and there are the rocks and shoals on which they shipwrecked ed and now they are either buried in almost utter oblivion lying stranded and bleaching a on the track of the noble ship or are working 0 out the destiny which fulfills fulfils the wrath of man shall praise bim him 11 elders joseph F smithy smith bV W W cluff alma L smith and the others now on their vy way ay to those islands are men cf of tried integrity faithful and true men enjoying the codi coni confidence dence and prayers of the pries Piles priesthood thoo d and of all good saints it if the natives in the islands give heed to their teachings and follow them they will soon witness the power of god and see crumble before it the superstructure of walter da M gibson it is a cons consolation dation to the saints that the he lord has baa promised the honest and pure in heart will ba sought out an ani I 1 delivered liv ered wherever they may be for a firne time the wicked may maj and traitors to god and to his ichii kingdom n dom will find the world rea ready ay to praise them and hoist them on an to the pinnacle of popularity and fame but that path is soon trodden and the end thereof is is contempt death and eternal disgrace THE S favored with a little irtle leise leisure on saturday last we reached the nii ali nill mii i tary parade ground 1 l near the jordan about noon and bad had the gratification of witnessing something of th taj parade and inspection of the second brigade of the nauvoo legion we were pleased to see so favo tavo favorable raMe a turn out and from what we observed we judged that general richard his staff and the coonel colonel inspecting were very well satis satia satisfied fied with the rank and fie present we are not mich m ich on the military but wo we have considerable admiration for tor well drilled citizen soldiery the frequent changing t of locality makes it difficult for captains to keep up their companies but we are glad giad iad lad to bae gae the effort made and we think the present pride of the citizens to be efficient in what they undertake will be encouraging to all concerned THE bowery ROOF we understand that the next three days claim the attention ioa of the bishops to a new roof for the bowery the bisters sisters in the tabernacle on sunday afternoon voted heartily for the tho change of the sear bear ifor for the green leaf we expect to seo see it on sunday weather permitting aji ajl right rights |
