| Show tim tile reorganization I 1 THE I 1 inconsistency AND HYPOCRISY r OF or THE josephites JOSEH josen HITES SHOWN UP AND till THE CHARITY AND HUMANE nio motives TIVES OF antl ANTI MORMON CRUSADERS S IN GENERAL LL REVIEWED VIEWED D BOYNE BYNE charlevoix mich ditch july 1885 editor deseret wems news it is viry evident to any one who is observing the times that the beor its leaders at any rate are having a jubilant time over the distress tress tresy coming upon the people of utah their secret views of the matter have been f for fon or a long time that in the event of persecution coming upon the leaders of the utah church that people would be bd finally broken up and that the decimated members would easily fall into THE RANKS PLANKS OF THE reorganization I 1 cannot otherwise think than that wb which ich often has been asserted by the reorganization that they have done more to break up polygamy in utah than any other people and now no W joseph and his ethren brethren Dr pretend to shed tears for the misfortunes of those going into prison pric on and the sufferings of wives and anti children consequent upon such imprisonment merciful aint they the one mighty and strong labors night and day incessantly to bring evil upon his bi bic bie ethren thren in order that he may offer them his services as a great deliverer I 1 for eor I 1 or my own pa part rt I 1 think that when the toad offers his services as physician to remo nemo remove the tubercles tub ercles from his fellow toads back that he ought to present a clear skin himself as the evidence of his superior skill otherwise physician heal thyself will only too ollen often sound in his own ears cars when I 1 first saw the HISTORY OF THE reorganization now nearly twenty years ago from the pen of zenos 11 guriev gurley R it occurred to me as something astounding that young joseph smith asmith who for sixteen years from the death of his f ather father was as ignorant of any call by revelation from the proper source to the presidency of ot lne the church as a three year old baby could have the hardihood to assume the duties and responsibilities of such an office nothing but the sheerest she erest ignorance of the duties calling and responsibilities of such an office could even have prompted youil young joseph or anyone else to and then to assume that such men as william hanks who had been a follower and right hand man of chas B thompson the so called AGENT OF for some seven years previous had power to ordain young joseph a prophet of god is so fraught with tolly folly and nonsense that any one at all acquainted with this matter must stand aghast at such an outrage upon common sense Is ls it any wonder that this reorganization iza tion should have introduced the doctrine that the less could ordain to the greater to offices of the priesthood and that it was those who held only the priesthood ordained joseph smith to the apostolic and prophetic office I 1 jt ut has been taught says zenos H gurley soon scoon after the reorganization began that no one conrid ordain an asther to a higher office than that held heid by himself but this is a good time to expose that folly iso so he goes on to show that though the almighty tells us that be he had sent bent peter james antl anti john to ordain joseph and oliver to the apostolic office that it was done in merely rely by those holy personages coln commanding comin manding 11 oliver to ordain joseph to that office and then joseph in turn ordained oliver I 1 tell you sir that the whole history of that beor reorganization g animation is ho so disgusting with wrench ings and twig twi stings tin gs and falsifying of revelation to suit theiron their ungodly odly anti and corrupt teachings that eneis ones gorge can scarcely help risking ing at it T their heir teachings in opposition to the doctrine of TT M MARRIAGE are very much in harmony with their teachings upon the priesthood and awl its laws I 1 whosoever away his wife c I 1 said jesus in the midst of a lc le nation excepting for the cause of fornication mauseth her to commit adultery etc does this language imply that a plural wife was an adul tress before she wa was put away so it is you yov find in all their teachings the almighty is made antagonistic to himself Illin self seif I 1 and to his ills most solem solemn a teachings laws and commandments for a period of over two thousand years y ars by their foul and perverted tea teachings h in we could severely let these irenr alone if it they would let other and much better people than themselves alone and not seek to bring persecution upon ubon them who in the name naine of reason or heaven oare lare are these men of the anaf that they undertake to manufacture creeds tor their fellowmen fel fei fellow meen teen what business have they to rise up and tell you and me and all others other what we hall hali or shall not believe as an article of I 1 bellg ell eil ious ions faith why if joseph smith had never given a word ut ot revelation sanctioning the doctrine of plural marriage I 1 dont for or ahe abe life of me inc see see sec why the utah 6 montous lons ions have not fiot filst as good a right to practice that doctrine under the constitution of the united states as a religious tenet as mr Jo joseph smither smith or his brethren have a right to adopt any other bible principle as an all article of his or their faith why not ot in order that none commit fornication let every man have his own wife and every woman have her own husband the above in romans 7 is often quoted noted by the reorganization as a clincher i richer against plural marriage they seem only to see one half of this thib passage livery man they think of ci course Durse ought to have a wife but as to every woman having a husband oh 04 that is a matter of no consequence yet according to paul in order that cornica tion be not committed in the church of god godit it is just lust as necessary that every wo manof the proper age have a husband as that every woman have a wife it is self evident I 1 think to any man with his eye eyes s open that more wore women are converted in these days not only to the faith of the latter day saints but to the faith of all sects among the latter day saints it is forbidden fo r b adden and for a very good dood and sound iason pason reason too for either sex to marry outside of that church with the one wife dogma it is self evident women among the saints must tall fall entirely of getting a husband yet gods law requires all to INCREASE AND MULTIPLY in order that the earth may mav answer the end for which it is created and lest the names ol 01 i any worthy of being belm fathers father and mothers in israel bp lost ill in the generations to come but what care the leaders of the reorganization for the names of saints bing boing blotted out what do they care whether every woman has a husband or not they look upon the mass of women et ef our time very much as they look upon i a dinner at a picnic where very every one may choise and eat what he wants and the rest may go to the dogs or the hogs though what Is left may be justas lust just as good as any eaten I 1 contess confess that I 1 cannot look upon the vast number of neglect neglected sd women twomey all over christendom many miny of them capable pable of bearing and rearing famil families les ies of children ida n as noble and great as any that have ever eter ever blessed the earth without a sigh of sadness and pain ob oh if that reorganization ion lon I 1 only knew or won would con contemplate the abomination and desolation they are fostering and an d building up in the earth directly and indirectly they would it seems tome to me shrink in ir horror from so blighting desolating and cruel work I 1 mean MI all ail I 1 say their work is cruel blighting desolating and murderous in in a very high degree and unie unies s tirey repent before it is too late future generations will cast stones at their dishonest graves as the returned jews now cast them at at the grave of absalom saying thus let it be done to him who h has as dishon dishonored ered his father and mother thus let it be done to those who have made wives widows and children f fatherless a th erles erless and aud built up murder and desolation u pon upon the earth 11 murderous derous you ask yes murderous in a high degree who is he or she that has acquainted himself or herself at all with the DENS OF INFAMY known in ln every city in christendom and their tendencies and consequences but knows them to be murderous A few years ago the wickedest wick edest man it in newyork new york said to be a certain john alien allen tie the the proprietor of a certain dance house but which more properly might be called a house of III ili fame was converted to god 10 as the phrase has it in relation to his institution be he was asked many questions by various persons and among the rest it came out that the young women ruined la in this institution lived from six to seven and A a half years afterward I 1 and what is said of the young women of this institution is only what may be truthfully said of many thousands of similar institutions all over the christian world there is no population from such sources these young women die in their youth die mourned and are often carted away as any other dead animal and buried without service gervice or ceremony the tho poem beautiful snow is the story of millions who were once the pride of parents and sisters and brothers but they all perish alike ic in the great veat CHRISTIA CHRISTIAN 2 WHIRLPOOL of pagan roman koman infamy and murder one ono is at a loss to know what to compare this monstrous diabolism to and the most talented pen utterly falls fall s to describe its horrors but perhaps if a company of the most heartless assassins should propose to erect a vast factory for the purpose of converting human beings into a fertilizer to be sold at so mucha much a barrel with a capacity for crushing and mangling say one tk thousand t living female bodies per day it could scarcely areTy sc be said to beany beauy be more horrible soul soui sickening and dia dla diabolical ag than the destruction going on 0 n day by day for many centuries past all over the so called enlightened christian world and so used are the people of all ranks tanks of society and so familiarized are they with this species of wholesale murder from childhood to old age that boor and philosopher treat it with like indifference everywhere in christian countries indeed so anxious are all classes to keep up modern christian institutions they seem to have well avell nigh nich forgotten true christianity altogether and when one sees the son of a great prophet hand ill lil ii i hand with those who are constantly making war upon the most glorious diorious principles of the bible and an building up murder and diabolism of this species in the earth he must often ask himself lie lle how hew w the prophet were he still living would regard such a ason abon son for por myown moy roy own part I 1 cannot but conclude that he would reject disown and spurn such a son as a w wilful lif ul and 11 1 gross 1 ross enemy to god and to man ile he is today to day a victim of unauthorized and false revelation and teachings otherwise the whole sacred code from aroi adam to joseph is only a vast avast bundle of oane the most bewildering contradictions and hopeless riddles THE CAPSTONE OF ALL THE CURSES pi pronounced upon man fordis for disobedience obedi ence to gods goda law is that the names of such mell men shall be blotted out from under ll heaven cleaven eaven and abraham fearing such sucha a calamity says to god in the midst of a profusion of promised blessings lord what wilt thou give me seeing igo I 1 go childless andio and lo 10 one born in my house is mine heir As much as to hay say what good are all things to me while I 1 have no son of my roy own flesh lo 10 inherit it so thought thoua ht all israel and so think all of like faith with them but the majority of modern christians especially those who persecute the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons 1 I 1 josephites and all are all at a loss to know what blessings bles bies sinz sins or glory glor Y there is in a family of children so much has their knowledge and wisdom perverted and brutinel bru bruti tined fled fied them I 1 have sometimes thought that some of the crusaders against the utah ns might become at least a little hu humanized zed in feeling fc elins by becoming members of some soine society for the prevention of cinelly cruelty to animals their membership might suggest that possibly mormon husbands wives and children may have some feelings that ought to be respected as well as the lower animals in the josephite Josephl te saints herald of M july 18 1 notice an article headed 31 marriage a ihlae contracts commencing thus ail ali all legal contracts entered int into 0 before a person is baptized into this church should be held sacred and fulfilled 19 the editor intended this article as a lesson for the utah mormons cormons Mor mons but be he evidently did not perceive that in that article hi h aimed A BLOW AT ius HIS OWN reorganization I 1 that at the time he did not realize all legal contracts of marria marriage c of course are all contracts of marriage e held to be legal in any country where they were solemnized according to law the editor goes on f further urtha to explain the words heid ilfeld held sacred and telis tells ns us teat that they mean made holy ai the highest high esst title to respect reverence or veneration 11 and that which is thus made holy is not to be profaned or violated is to be held heid ht ld inviolable its synonyms are holy liholt divine hallowed the above are mr joseph smithson Smith sor W W blairs beairs own words but when he wrote them he seems altogether to have overlooked the grand fact that in zion in these latter days there will be men out of all nations under heaven gathered there thore in obedience to the thu sound round of the gospel men from arabia india mongolia along dija japan china burmah slam Siam Persia and all the eastern countries and tribes where timeout ot mind plural 1 marriages have been a legal institution everywhere among these peoples and where any one of or any number of wives is just as sacred and lawful as any other and now supposing the reorganization to be zion what are they going to do with these legally legally and sacredly esteemed marri marriages a e command them to put them thorn away as an abomination just as they do now the people of Uta hand thus make them violate and sunder their most sacred and holy and inviolable covenants as ropes of sand Is this the way that these legal marriages are to be entitled to the highest title of respect reverence and veneration 7 Is it through ce edings feedings cee cec dings of this kind that the are to come to zion with songs of rejoicing in the latter days Is not this reorganization a jewel of consistency upon the legality of marriage ena end in holding them inviolate and in reverence with what pious regard she holds and builds up the pagan roman institutions of a black and benighted age but hold it is doubtful if A even the pagans of those times were so heartless and inhuman as to upon men violating so sacred an obligation aa that hofmar of marriage why even the priests of modern times in conclave assembled upon this question in eastern lands have not dared to insist upon any one of their converts in those lands violating ng his marriage ma criag ge covenants but these young youn josephites they are so much abre more holy than all other people they cant receive anybody into their church unless be he becomes a covenant breakey abhorred alike of god and honorable men everywhere it is very natural that those who violate marriage covenants themselves should think it no great creat crine crime in others to do so As for me I 1 cannot but think tva tta that there is more manliness in the little finger fanger of the man |
