| Show good befi 1 I AND GOD BLESS lavi y rj u MONDAY morning ridel elder left by utah central train for ogden where he tooh took tiie the U P train eastward his hia destination being lincoln nebraska where he is to take up hist abode in the thu state prison at that place he was in charge ot of georgea A black ex bec sec rotary of utah now a deputy marshal spec specially lally appointed and mr brother of the united states Ar mars Mara marshai arshal hai haJ he goes as a servant of the most moat high gods god sentenced by a human court to tworea two yearb years a imprisonment and a fine of for tor obeying a commandment revealed revea reves Jed iod from heaven and thus witnesses to god men and angels that he regards a divine law as superior to a human law the latter having been framed in abrogation of the former george reynolds is one ono whose dally dilly life is above reproach an intelligent man a good citizen a kind husband a loving father modest truthful peaceable and trustworthy having been condemned to these penalties for lor honorably marrying two wives in imitation of some of the best men who ever graced this planet he voluntarily surrendered himself at the depot this morning being on hand some time before the officers detailed to escort him and cheerfully in excellent spirits and full kalthof faith falth of the cause for which halb hats ho is imprisoned took farewell of a host ot of friends among whom were ladies who bade him good bye with a fervent god blees you jou we wonder how many of those who stand as the accusers of george Reynold reynolds sand and his brethren would have thus voluntarily yielded themselves to the officers if the laws of morality and good order which they have broken had been executed against them and when eternal justice shall tear away the veil of their deep hypocrisy and mete out to them their true deserts will vill they not call for the rocks to hide them and end the mountains to cover them rather than step forward to receive the tho penalties im buffer brother reynolds has not to suffer re lifee the tho martyrs of the latter iatter days da y a who have gone to prison and to death for the word of the lord and the testimony of jesus he does not leave his wives and children homeless and desolate nor will he dehave have to pass borough the bloody trials and harrowing scenes that blacken the annals of missouri and lilt illinois nois ris hia sojourn in durance vile will be brief and to wh whatever alever length it may bo lao prolonged his family will be cherished by a host of staunch friends frienda whose prayers will ascend to heaven heaten in hib his behalf he ire will return in honor and triumph even if the two years of his imprisonment are fully folly spent in confinement and his name will be numbered with the honored list of those who have buffered suffered for the truth george reynolds reynolda may be called a convict but before god and all just men he be cannot be called a criminal we echo the words ot of his hia friends this morning good by brother george and god bless you 21 |
