Show THAT REVE revelation TATION A WITNESS W WHO HO hrabb IT READ BEAD BEFORE THE HIGH COUNCIL our readers will remember that in the correspondence which pas passed sed between elder litt littlfield fl e id and d joseph ose smith jr of the reorganized chure church some time since mf smith challenge challenged elder to give the names al ar of f parties who were weno present and heard the revelation on celestial marriage read before the high council agnau at nauvoo among the names given b by elder littlefield was that of leonard lobey lobey the prophet of the reorganized church knew where mr lobe lobey resided and instructed a member 07 of his church in ili high standing to draw up an affidavit stating that mr Lobey waa was not present at such meeting and never heard the revelation read the affidavit was drawn up under the instructions of joseph smith jun and mr gurley who was something of a lawyer called on mr lobey at his home in beverly ney nev jersey and requested him to sign it the affidavit stata stated that mr lobey was present at the hi high h council meeting referred to but dad dad not hear the revelation read when mr gurley requested mr lobey to sign the document lobey objected saying he was present at the meeting and did hear the revelation read and could not sign an affidavit to althe the contrary chiscon this con disconcerted his u tor a and nd mr lobey added it if you will aw draw up an affidavit setting forth that I 1 was there and did hear the revel reve lation read I 1 will sign it for you mr gurley however did not want that kind of testimony and retired rather crestfallen but wiser and has since apostatize a from the reorganized church mr lobey quite recently had business so in the tate state of pennsylvania and while there related the occurrence to a gentleman named samuel harrison leonard lobey is about abou t the only person now livin living who was present at the high colin counce meeting at which the revelation on celestial marriage was read ills hia home is at beverly new jersey ogden herald |