Show OF PAST AND rnest prest PRESH T APOSTASY AN examina examination lion ilon of all the tho apostate schemes which have been concocted for the division and overthrow odthe of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints reveals the curious fact that they all bear the marks of a common origin the kapsol ot of years and the change of men make no difference in this respect if the pro gramme of the apostates from tho church in Kirtlan dand that of the apostates in nauvoo and that of those ofleter of later laler days a s be compared the similarity is most striking I 1 g if they were the production of 0 one brain they could not be more alike alik even the langdale lang language in some points is almost identical in n kirtland the doctrine which joseph had taught the organization which ho he had perfected and the ordinances which he had administered astred were all divino divine go so said the apostates but he madalien dalien ha dalten darten andaas and was no longer a prophet he had transgressed they said and because of this his power and authority were taken from him the nauvoo apostates took precisely the same ground everything that joseph had taught and done up to a certain point even including the acts and policy which their predecessors the apostates at kirtland had objected to was correct but they affirmed that he had fallen because of something which hohag ho had just then done he began to aach teach false doctrine they said the possession of power had spoiled him he had become so intoxicated by it that he did not yield that respect to others which was justly their due in fact in sd of being the prophet ol 01 of god wh which ich ach ho he once had been they declared he had become a tyrant the prospectus of the paper which they started at nauvoo stated that its publishers had bad as their object in publishing it to restrain and correct the abuses of the to ward off the rod which is held over the heads ortho of the tho citizens of nauvoo and the surrounding don dou country to advocate unmitigated disobedience TO 11 AC to advocat and exercise tho the freedom of spee speech chin in nauvoo independent of the ordinances din ances abridging the same to give toleration to every mans and sustain ALL alili in worshipping wor shipping their gaad gaab okd according ago ape to tho monitions munitions ions of their consciences oien cien ces as guaranteed by the constitution of our country and to oppose with uncompromising hostility any linoir OF AND STATE or any preliminary step tending ending to the same ac the cunning of these apostates is apparent in every line of this prospectus its writers knew the views of the enemies of the church and they artfully worded their prospectus to appeal to them pandering to their pre prejudices and thinking thereby to evoke their sympathies and to obtain their attention and 3 support upp ort yet none knew better than t they hey that to establish a unit or one man power in the sense which they wished it understood or to effect a it union of church churchard Chur chand and katel Stat ewas was not the aim of joseph smith or the people of the church in the expositor itself appeared half a dozen columns of cards I 1 and I 1 IM man an if estoes in the shape of a preamble resolutions ai and id affidavits of the publishers and their fellow apostates but with all these they wished the public to know that they were still latter day saints Saint efin n fact the only pure latter day saints sainta for they scid said sald As for our acquaintance with the church of jeg joe jesus jogus christ of latter day saints we know no man nor set of men can bo be more thoroughly acquainted with its rise its organization and its history than we have every avery re asonto rea sorto soito believe N we to arev aro are we all verily believe beli bell eyo evo and many of us know of a surety that the religion of tho latter day da saints originally as taught by jose joseph K smith which is con contained contadino taine taInO in the old and sew new new now testaments book of covenants and book of mormon is verily true and that the pure principles set forth in those thosa books are the immutable and eternal principles of heaven He avenand and speak a language which when shoker q K in truth and virtue sinks deep into the heart of every honest man 4 we never look for consistency in apostates ta teb tes from this church for of all people th they ey are the most illo illogical gibal and tent ten the 41 prospectus of the expositor and the contents of its first ahk only number cumber are but fair specimens of this inconsistency in one breath calling ja joseph eh a prophet the doctrine and religion which he taught the immutable and eternal principles of heave heaven n and in in the next denouncing him as guilty of everything that is low and vile and glar blai clamoring noring for his blood napoleon we believe it was who said that there was eni aly y one step from the sublime to the ridiculous we never knew an apostate from this church to undertake to defend his hib hi s own course and to assail the presiding authority in the church who did not ii e rh clr i A t tion of this 1 afforded in the case of these apostates at iau Jau nauvoo yet the language and conduct of men of this class elass were the same isam f e previous to those d days ays are the same game cameto to hay day aad will be bho teo 6 as long iong long iong as satan can entrap dupes duba and mike make mae them his willing tools the publishers of tho the br expositor were seven in number and around them rallied tiie ilie corrupt and the disaffected to the number of nearly as many more the they probably did not number awen twenty all jold told yet yett they had the cool assurance to try and persuade the people that they were the church and while claiming the doctrines which god had revealed through jo joseph eph as their own they declared that he and those who followed him were all wrong and that if they ever did get et right it A would have to be through throng ah e ir reforming and reconstructing a ageman go I 1 they were not apostates oil oli n no 0 t is true thea they had been cut off from the church but what difference did that make with men who believed the religion of the latter day saints as originally taught how curiously history repeats itself they only said what other apostates years previously had said and what other apostates years subsequently are saying baying today to day and doubtless what apostates will iterate and reiterate in years to come that is if men continue to yield to corrupt and iniquitous influences among the advertisements in the expositor vas was ras one which to the was full of gushing philanthropy the th e publishers did not say that the expositor was no personal speculation but two of them did what they thought would be equally effective william and wilson law who as merchants and millers had fleeced the people and defrauded them by means of false scales in their mill offered to grind the grist of the needy saints one day in the week toll free but even this philanthropic dodge failed with all their efforts they never secured enough followers to make it difficult for a child to count their number on his fingers the whole scheme collapsed and all their belief and knowledge grof of a surety that the religion of the latmer latter lat ter day saints sainte is verily true suddenly disappeared ired to be heard of no more |