Show blood BLOOD 3 tim execution of Bin sin dram the cool and deliberate murderer vrho ho met his hia death with brute courage corresponding to the brute ferocity that characterized his hla crime brime gave occasion to the now vork york jyerald to comment upon the horribly hor method of executing criminals convicted of capital otren of fences ces adopted in this enlightened and Christ christian christinn ian lan country A physician who witnessed the hanging declared that rams neck was wag not broken broten and that he had never seen a mans neck neche broken by hanging the tho herald ree nwe marks remarks that ia s equivalent to sayin say ing log 9 that we strangle our murderers to death instead nf of killan killing g them on outright aright a and nd no alo one oae who hlib has noted physicians ponts reports Za on executed cr will doubt thia this horrible statement i is s true the modern world shivers all al over oven at the mention antion of burnings bur ninga of criminals crIm irim inala and martyrs although a nan man surrounded by name same cannot sive live moro more than three or four min tes aites tea what then can bo said in favor of if a nation so barb barbarous arom that V ilg jig criminals are executed by a system of torture BO to dail dall deliberate borate berate that life lingers in for ton ten fifteen twenty or ev oten oven on thirty minutes after tho choal choking process begins in utah a condemned murderer has the choice of his bis method of death deaths and it is generally mado made in favor of shoo shooting ting the mormon idea la Is that a murderers mur derera blood should be shod ehod in expiation as far as possible of his deadly crime erime which ve wi regard as a sin unto L death this is the blood atonement about which so much noise and nonsense non benee hao been made by our unscrupulous opponents we do not believe in that deathbed death bed or gallow gallows fl repentance which Is preached by bk those blind leaders of the blind who pretend to fit bloodstained blood bloods s stained tamed all lains in five InIn minutes utes utts for the society of the spotless christ it is an invention of gospel and unauthorized priests of man made religions reman li there are sinners whom it is immoss impossible ible ibie to renew r by repentance repe rope ht and the decree is that whoso choso sh eddeth eth mand mans blood of hind alad shall mans mans blood bo be shed this s Is thio thie only personal atonement that thit a murderer can afler offer for his irreparable crime erime how far forit it will answer is for the judge of all the earth to determine in tiie file light of all the facts and a comprehension of all the I 1 the herald in another article makes ro ference reference to the statement of lion hon george Q cannon on this subject and casts doubt upon it that gentleman explained to a reporter tha the doctrine of blood atonement belld believed ved vod in by the mormon P peo 5 pies pie as the lawful shedding of the bo blood 0 d of persona convicted of ca capital espital ital itai crimes the berald herald claims that concisely stated it is that mor morl mons M aa as a religious duty to assassinate anybody Ind icat ed by the church leaders so Ps agapos tato into tate tato against whom they have de creed crena that fate lir lik in support of this charge an isolated passage is quoted from irom one of youngs discourtesy la in which ho he states that lie he lias has known men who had left this church fon for whom there thore was no chance whatever of exaltation but if their blood had been shed it would have been bettor better for them such quotations quotation atlon mingled with remarks intended to tar wrest them from their true intent have often been published but they only serve to sh show ow jhb mallm malice of the persons who make such charges aa as that we clip norm horn the 1 new tow york herald the truth is that the latter day saints or mormons cormons Mor mons mols do no not lot hold any such bloody and murderous furdero vs doctrine as that couched in the above boli soil sentence tence they never did entertain such a monstrous ious idea Iti it is utterly opposed ta U the doctrines of the church laid down ia jin the published standards of the falth faith neither can it be legitimately deduced irom from the discourses of president young xoung or oraby atty other church leader we wo will go further tha than n that if such euch a doctrine could be df drawn awn from those disco discourses urr bes it would make no dim dIT difference trence crenco to the position it would not bof be and could euld not inot ha a doctrine of the church of jesus christ of latter day dby saints because it would be in diametrical opposition to the principles and ten tenets eis cis established 43 church doctrine by direct revelation revolution from god no mans opinions are equal to those revelations the church is not governed by the views of any individual the revelation bof bot god are aro a law unto tha church nothing Not hinc hinL less ims than a nevel rovel revelation atlon from the same source can nevel rovel revelation atlon from the same source can supersede sedo sede that which has haa been accepted by the church aa as the word of the lord the latter day saints aro arc not tossed to mid arid fro and carried about with every kind hind of doctrine they have thad that fl unction from above which tea cheth all th things inga ings which judieth all things and which guides into all truth and the word ot 0 f man ignot is not hot enough for therm thorn on any point this Is not and C cannot be understood by those unacquainted qua quain ted with our faith the order of the church of christ the authority of the moly holy priesthood and the general inspiration of the holy ghost by which every man who does the tho will of the eather father may ay himself know of tho the doctrine taught whether it be of god or uttered by the wisdom folly Q or r personal whims of the speaker it lias lima been represented that our leaders claim and are scon scorned ded infallibility that everything they say is taken for goda god gods a word that thein their ordra orders aro arc to condemn n a pers n to death and other sueh such ab surd powers aro are imputed to them as church arthor author authorities bep vio Vie those selde ideas are a together altogether fo foreign reigh to the very vary genius ot of our falth faith anda onda never ever entered into the of our creed or 04 mn c ajl aji od oar our system syb sye tena tesa thoy they are purely jho tho of our otil cua cup mias mims the weakness s of their contenting themselves with tho truth in any of their ns aulta blood atonement as believed in by the amor mormons cormons Mor IMor mons 11 is that doctrine of vicarious sacrifice to the sinless voluntary victim of which all the tho offerings ofTe rings of the mosaic law and of the pa patriarchal tri archal period pointed as the buba subA tano tabo tahe e of which they were but tha the shadow without atie shedding of blood there is no remission of sin ein 11 andhor that eln which is unto death that the most loleng and mat merciful i cibul of the apostles advise praying for knowing that it was past et th the only ohly valid offering that the criminal aanal can make is hig hia own lefea blood poured out ont upon the ground in willing ex let anti antl make of this w what hat bat tiey please pleas e but let 36 10 man who values the truth truthy ever xe repeating P falsehood uttered by the new bork herald for it J t Is not anu awu never has been a doctrine practiced or believed in jrr by the church of J j carlf of latter day aay saints |