| Show DAVID WHITNER WHITMER causes of 0 Ws his severance from the church chuoc h president david bohnof utah stake writes as follows follow to the provo enquirer under date of march i in your issue of tuesday the dinst I 1 am reported to have made the remark during conference that david whitmer wa in adultery at a certain time in his life this is an aa error J I 1 said that I 1 understood david whitmer had bad a cased accused C the prophet of deserting from the faith delivered to MR him white while the latter and others had bad accused whitmer oliver cowdery and so some me others of being guilty of 0 various sins some were charged with being ah hypocrites apo and traitors while others had their eyes full of adultery etc several persons not having church history in their possession have bare sent to as aft many inquiries of late in relation to the cause ot mr Whit mers cy we have haie deemed it best to answer them briefly in the language of recorded history we find the following from the pen of the prophet recorded in the millennial star vol 16 page 76 september 1837 DEAR DEAB BRETHREN oliver cowdery bowde y has been in transgression but as he be is now chosen as one of the presidents or ca counsel lors 1 I trust that ho he will yet humble himself and magnify his bis calling but if he should not the church will soon le he und under erthe the necessity of raising ther hands bands against him therefore pray for him david whit me rLeonard rich and others have been in transgression but we hope that they may be humble and ere long make satisfaction to the church otherwise they cannot retain their standing therefore we say unto you beware of all disaffected characters for they come not to build up but to des troy and scatter abroad though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel or introduce an order of things other than than those which ye have received and are authorized to receive from the first presidency let him be accursed may alay god almighty bless you all and keep you u unto the coming and kingdom of oui lyo lord r d and savior jesus christ yours in the bonds of the new covenant JOSEPH SMITH jr on page vol 16 Mill millennial annial ator we find the following april 1838 the follot following ving charges were preferred prel erred against david whitmer before the high council at far west la in council connell assembled 1st ast for not observing the word of wisdom ad for conduct in neglecting to attend meetings in uniting with and possessing the same spirit as the dissenters ad in writing letters to the me diff senters in kirtland unfavorable to the cause and to the character of joseph smith junior ath in neglect itic the duties of his bis calling callin tc and separating himself from the ciurca church while he be bad a name among us as eth for signing himself president of i the church of christ after he had bad been cut cat off f from rom we the presidency in an insulting insult lag letter to the high council after reading the above charges tos gether ether with a letter sent to the prest dent ent of said council a copy of which may be found in far west record book ab A the council considered the charges sustained and consequently considered him barid david whitmer no longer a member of the charob of jesus christ of latter day saints saint the action taken on april 13 im is evident proof that the trans transgress gress sion alluded to in Sup september 1837 had bad not been cancelled by tence and humility before the lord lor for he be suffered himself to be cut off f from rom the church in preference to complying with the rules of church discipline zi eight ht m months after this action was taken by the high i b council connell at ac far west we find and accor according to the testimony oay of joseph smith that the act was waa inspired by the in ration of the spirit of truth troth on sunday dec 16 1838 the prophet wrote while in liberty lail jail missouri alkow knew assuredly dear brethren that it is tor for the testimony oay of jeus that we are in bonds and in prison but wo we say unto you that we consider that our oar condition is better notwithstanding our sufferings thau than those who have pers persecuted mated us as and mitten uh aaa aa begonia aso witness against us and we most assuredly believe that those who do bear false witness against us do seem to have a great triumph over us tor for the pres aut but bui we want you to remember haman and mordecal you kaow atiat raman haman could not be satisfied so long ag aa he saw mordecal mordecai at the kings gate and he sought the lif life a of Mor mordejai Morde dedal dai and the people of the jews but the lord 0 io o ordered it that haman was hanged upon his own gallows so shall it come to pass with poor haman in the last days those who have sought by unbelief and wickedness and by the elie principles of monocracy to destroy Je stroy us as and the people of god by killing and scattering them abroad and wilfully and maliciously delivering de liverina us into the hands of murderers desiring us to be put to death thereby having us dragged about in chains and cast into prison and for what wha cause it is because we were honest men aud and were determined to defend the lives of the saints at the expense of our own I 1 say unto you that those who have vilely treated us like haman shall be hanged banged upon tivon their own gallows or in other words shall fall into their own kin gin nod and and ditch and trap which they have prepared for us and shall so aro backwards and stumble and fall and their names shall be blotted out and god shall reward them according to all their abominations rh 1 0 1 I would remember wm E mcclellen McClell tn who comes up to us as one of jobs comforters god suffered such kind af belaga beings to afflict job but it never entered into kneir hearts that job would get out of it at all this poor man who professes to be much of a prophet has no other dumb asti ass to ride but david whitmer to forbid his bis madness when he be goes u up p to curse israel and this ass not belci being g ot of the same kind as balsams Bala ams therefore t the h e angel notwithstanding appeared unto not 0 him yet he could not penetrate his understanding sufficiently so but what he bra brays s out curlings cur curs sings logs instead of blessings poor poor amsl whoever lives to see it will see him and his rider pe perish r ish ii like ke those who perished in the gainsaying gain saying of korah or after the same condemnation in fine we have waded through an ocean of tribulation andreau and mean abuse practiced upon us by the ill bred and ithe be ignorant such inch as hinkle reed peck cleminson eminson Ul and various others who are so very ignorant that they cannot appear respectable in any decent and civilized goci society ety and whose eyes are full of adultery and cannot cease from sin such characters as mcclellin john whitmer david whitmer 0 cowdery and martin harris are too mean to meu mention tido ard we had like to have forgotten them i marsh and whose hearts are full of corruption whose cloak of hypocrisy was not sufficient to shield them or to hold them up in ia the hour of tron trouble ble who after having escaped the pollution ions of the world through the knowledge of their lord and savior jesus christ and became again entangled and overcome their latter end cod is worse than their first but it has happened unto them according to the voice of at the savior the dog has returned to his vo vomit in it and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire oliver cowdery martin harris and thomas B marsh united themselves vos with the church before their death hut but D whitmer died as he had lived for 50 years an apostate having denied in ia his hia heart the authority of the priesthood and fancied that joseph had tram transgressed gressed and that he be now or lately has as started a church ot of his bis own mul this thought ought tb he claims has beba in his heart ever since june 1838 he claims that it was an inspired thought still he be has been disobedient to his own conscience and has been dormant unfruitful and seemingly ot of not m macd tien service to mankind as a minister of righteousness since that lime itis it is a apparent t that he has been faithful to emony his testimony to the end of his bis life in relation to the history of the Neph Nep itea hites wherein he testified that an angel of god came duwa down f from rom heaven and he brought and laid before his bis eyes the plates places and the engravings thereon may he be be rewarded lor for his bis f faithful ditlif ul 41 80 in this |
