| Show correspondence A IN VAMA vanla 4 anti in a ORe ode lode i A PITTSBURG pa june 17 15 editor deseret av news nees ces ees after alter the days labor is oer la a while sitting to read the news JEWS ir B mind Is otten often drawn out upon SOME seio bErt bevious ious lous TOPICS clouds hang over oven affairs i utah which have caused mo me inua nosi thought aud and meditation I 1 canut canto find in history where a crusade of just this same cliar cilar character beter deter has ever taku tata place blace in ans any part of the globe we rest ren of direful persecutions having tate tame place in diff different erent parts of the ear earthol earth carth thom DB who ever read of christian homes bein ing broken up happy homes where t tin sound of prayer and praise ascend ascended eo on high where the head of the fakih fam wa was a true christian Cn ristian one of i nob noblemen siemen stemen who was training ui n till children in the paths of virtue and ho lio liness and in those heaven born principles which have been revealed in tyl til t gospel from heaven in these its las days such peaceful happa homes la torn sunder asmunder as the patriarch therm confined within a gloomy cell and th fit sledge ha hammer turner of three hundred da 1 jars brought to bear upon his cwb w seems hard to bear but prison uk ed will not harm a true saint he knot in whose cause he has to sun suta and come life or come desti death he knows in whom he has pi p his trust but there is one thi thing ing he it sni gril grei feel very keenly that his family ut sumner suffer suffering buffering lug ing it will hurt his feelings tt 0 know they have no bread and bulted i and the required c of him to topi would help them along alone awhile mi while they are lacking the tile comforts comfort 1 ol 01 I i i life the product of his tits labor whid justly belongs to his family goes in idaa idad ani an sni i j other channel such a conditi condition oi brought upon his family constitutes severe punishment and thus they tiey R made to suffer who are innocent bli tat have done no wrong those nobil sons of god in prison will be all right it will place a bright star in ahelf crown they will learn by confinement in prison what they did not read realm before their father will not borsak them there the light of heaven heaved wn F fill their souls ana ancl those wao vla via them will see it on their faces god bless you my brethren its 5 religion you ou are arc in jail jall all for I 1 may G bless and comfort your families you yon are taken from them when I 1 look at the pressure pdt put P upon good men I 1 often wonder if mr ill zane andar and mr dickson would do theu the selves what they are requiring of M others I 1 dont for a moment thaia they would I 1 think they would hw show moreon more of a christian spirit I 1 do sir berely think that sooner than do it 11 they would themselves prefer golsto same are to the time may come when tat the scales may fall from their desand eyes 1 they see things in a very iffat ait dif deredi feresi light to what they do now lorek for ex ample saul who was a persecutor w the christian church could not see aa so some in e persecuting the christian church in 11 utah cannot see saul labored labore d haid hard ha to bring trouble upon the saints w their religious views we do not reini read of him requesting men to cast a lon ion lovida companion adrita yet he hailed mev mel and women to prison as they doli dOll do in utah thinking he was doing doine godber god service like they do in utah but ben hen was one atter alter him that he was dot DOI DO aware of and stopped him in his sw r as d crusade the sequel explains itself itsek so almighty god in ills his wise provi p dence may how show the present officio in utah that it is ills his cause they are ar battling against and enable them to ree see lee their true position they would eno edo then as I 1 would to god they knew kneir today that they were AT WAR WAH WITH HEAVEN T they then saul like might labor to bum buk 0 build 1 up what what today to day they are trying to overthrow saul contracted a IL wyl heavy debt so have they though saoi sault af te ter wards paul was a shining I 1 nd labored hard for his lora lord and J basterl yet he had bad the compunctions ot of con sc lencel cei speaking of the in tho the lat iau fl ne eshand shand also rearing fearing that after ing to others he himself should become a cast away if the present officials wll wil who 0 persecute the saints desire to do so there is doo poo doming ing log to prevent them from ironi breinz matternas datter matters sas as they truthfully are but they ibey say we are carrying out but till the supreme rne ine law of the land laud 3 1 I dont denyle dedy deny it but see in history what surre SUPREME 7 LAW kw has casdone done it was the supreme law that the midwives in egypt should butcher ail all the male children at birth it was the supreme law that cast the three tiree tle tie brews in the fiery f furn furu uriece ece it gas was the supreme law that cast daniel into the den of lions it was the supreme law tha that murdered all the innocent children in bethlehem it was the supreme sup remmie reffie law that be headed john the baptist I 1 in n ids his cell it was the supreme law that sailed nailed the savior to the cross in europe it was the supreme law that slew siew so many protestants it was in return the tae supreme law by which the protestants te destroyed go so many catholics we might quote the doings of the su preme law that would make the recording cord dord 11 g secretary of the damn damned e d blush in satans gatans dark oark dominions I 1 will not say it was the supreme law that perpetrated all the dreadful outrages against the saints in missouri ohio illinois etc but if any one was ever brought to justice f for or them I 1 have never learned of nor Us his name As far as I 1 have read of those scenes and been in company with some of those who have passed through them I 1 have f failed ailed to find an instant In static in which these damning deeds were done but what a reverend was at the file head those rev tigers who are arc eager for the blood of saints to be shed have placed their record on high and I 1 envy not their position I 1 prefer to be cast into prison as a true mormon rather than occupy their position this fever that is surrounding gy you OU out in utah and other places is spread pread in aul among on societies it has commenced comm M inba in a soc society lety which solomon kingoff eid kin of israel is claimed to have been the Fi lustrous founder of I 1 mid find there Is one living in this city who claims to be a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and who also was a member of said society in full fellowship entitled to all the privileges but on hearing one night in the hc lodge I 1 from high authority that any member having more than one wife will work a forfeiture of membership arany or any one in favor of polygamy must not be admitted to membership member skip ship he felt as if it he were sitti sitting nr on thorns he being leing a firm believer ia in patriarchal matlage rl age as revealed from heaven consequently he withdrew took clean water and washed his hands and cleared himself it must here be remembered that they had got holding out orr on the brain king solomon its noble fo founder finder was a a holder out he held out a thousand women but if any member of that noble nobie holds out oat two he must be kicked out or if any one favor solomons SoJo mons doings in the least in the matter of holding out he cannot be a member of king solomons society consistency thou art a lewel jewel this man states that mormonism 11 so called is from god aad ltd says he be will worship his god in that way and manner which god had directed that his religion is a duty he owes to kis his his god and to himself and lend that noman no man or society shall take that light from lie ile says when god made this earth ile he said it was all good and that all coming from the same sarae source is 11 9 good 0 0 d also aiso and he knows that the lic 0 1 tr lne ine of patriarchal ARRIAGE MARRIAGE 11 is from god by direct revelation and commandment to that prophet joseph smith and that his secretary told liim while rhile on ai mission that he wrote the revelation direct from the lips of joseph smith ile he g gave gare ak a K 01 his word to this upon the honor honorof of a man UP told the sime same to the brethren in a priesthood meeting this is the testimony of elder william clayton josephs JosePh ls secretary at the time and in addition to this testimony he had one since that time from a source that Is more tha than n human in favor of the divine authenticity of patriarchal ili lii marriage arriage which cannot deny on the dying bed we would say that our prayers and supplications ions morning and evening are for buffering suffering zion it ha has s weighed heavy of late upon us we felt we could not enjoy anything while our brethren faithful soldiers of the cross were in a prison cell for their religion some have asked me w what hat rell reil religion adon is as found amon among 11 the sects of the world I 1 ican lean can not tell I 1 have enquired myself but still am in the dark no one seems to k know now how what religion consists of except the preacher and his bis part of it is the stipend take that away and like ilke last years rears snow it is gone some have asked me what is tiie THE HE RELIGION MIGIO N OF tiie THE MORMONS 1 f I 1 tell them as far as I 1 know it is the willot will of god by way of commandment with a reward for obedience and pun disobedience that there is bau bat one god one divine will consequently only one true religion It its object is the glory of god the happiness of mankind and as the author of it made the earth and all thereon he claims the sovereign right to rule the same by ills ilia own law this to a latter day saint is supreme law and abad the revealed will of god to an enlightened conscience will show man his position why will man use his god given powers to oppose the great work of the almighty wait walt on ye saints of god walt wait on truth can always afford to wait it is the cons coustant constant kant holding out I 1 that makes the winner win H al W |
