| Show OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH ax AN article appeared in one of our late issues showing that the mormon church is neither lawless nor tyrannical it was written in reply to appeals from the organ of the obstructionists here for some young man to come out and proclaim that ina no true religion imposed any obligation to fight the just jua tows laws of the republic and while declaring mil fall faith in his creed that there was nothing in it which imposed any obligation upon any man to give up his conscience to the keeping of another we showed from the authorized works of the church that both these things had been proclaimed from the beginning and that they were in the revelations relied upon for guidance to the church the commands of god in the doctrine and covenants are positive as to obedience to the laws of the land and so plain that the organ aforesaid unable to deny their clearness and force replied on the dinst in this way from the same book the NEWS might have quoted a later revelation which imposes absolute obedience to superiors and might have explained that the latter revelation was the one that governs now 11 1 1 to this we answered on the same day if this is possible for the N NEWS it is also possible for the person who says so let him produce this later revelation if it has any existence or if it is in the same book let him give the page if not the quotation n no response was made to this invitation vi tation for the simple reason that no such later revelation could be produced on april 27 in a late and labored attempt to wiggle out of the bad box in which the writer for the organ found himself he says we noticed the purported command of the prophet to his people and then said in the same book a later command reversed the one quoted and that in point of fact that command had never been r recognized ec by the saints we did not mean that there was a square reversal of the original but that it was fixed so that the see seeming n direct re command could be igno ignored by the mormon priesthood an and people ae even as it was by jo smi smith to the end of his days the dishonesty of this whole attempt to falsity falsify the doctrines doctrine sand and position of the latter day saints is apparent throughout the original 11 of the command about the laws is not fixed in any way except in straight plain language and in attempting to fix his own words so that they can be made to carry a different meaning from a square statement that there is I 1 a later revelation which he knew all the time had no existence h be proclaims to the public what kind of a scribe he is and there is no need for us to come down to io his level and call names however strongly they may be deserved |
