Show THAT VOICE drom FROM DETROIT WE are sorry for the man who can read the story told in last evenings NEWS by brother C 1 I kempe without sympathetic emotions being stirred within him I 1 ills trial was a cruel parody on J ustice justice and his conviction an atrocious outrage no matter from wh what a t standpoint it is viewed ile he is a plain and honest man the tenderness with which h he speaks of his little children who have been ruthlessly bereft of his paternal care indicates a heart susceptible of the most fined lentie antle and intense emotions com ined with an unmistakable meekness of spirit there is evinced a unalterable determination to cleave to hig his convictions not only in the face of confinement in the felons cell and separation from those he so devotedly loves but if need be he would confront death in any form on the same ground of 01 conscience while feeling deeply the irreparable wrong to which he is subjected he lie has no anathemas ana themas to hurl at his enemies but is inspired with a similar disposition to that of the 3 laster master of choul he speaks when suffering untold agony upon 0 n the cross father forgive them tm em they know not what they gey do yet is it not a apparent that those who were tie tee the cause ot sending Brother Kempe and his associates to prison were not entitled to the palliating pallia ting condition accorded by the savior to those who were immedi abely instrumental in shedding his blood the men who cruci cruel crucified fled the redeemer were ignorant isnor ant of the fact that they were inflicting punishment upon an innocent personage sumner howard and his fellow miscreants who deprived t ive lve d three large larce and he idless loless fam alies of their natural protectors by casting ti their heads into prison son acted hellri 0 17 being well weil aware that tile the benthey men they were perse persecuting cutine were entirely innocent of the of fences with which they were charged but instead of entertaining lor tor those unscrupulous and cruel knaves a feeling of bitterness he manifests a sentiment of pity and thus exhibits the essence of the genius of christianity in this way he soars above those who have been the means of his incarceration if justice were to obtain such men as kempe would be f free sree ree and those who have brought them to their present situation would be occupying their places brother kempe isa iss is a typical mormon elder and in the leading characteristics acte he exhibits probably di dinners differs affers little if anything from his brethren who have been accorded treatment t similar to that which he has been subjected to the sentiments by which he is inspired only gives an additional proof that no treatment however arbitrary or cruel can crush conviction out of the human heart enose who resort to the process are the worst enemies of their weir race and when viewed retrospectively as they are bound to 10 be in the natural course of time and circumstances esthey they will accordingly be held up as examples of human depravity worthy only of universal detestation call such auch men roen as C 1 I kempe fanatics if you will they are toen toon not only this but they have evinced some of the higher traits of manhood that have caused the names of persons who have shown them in the past history odthe race to bei be bel viewed ewed with reverence |