Show CIVIL AND CHURCH LAW if is not true as stated by a wilful of mormon doctrine that the theory of the creed is that if he a mormon apostle or high priest is ordained and after that pretends to be moved upon by the holy ghost his word cannot be doubted by any of lesser authority there Is ie nothing in the creed which teaches this but bat much which the opposite it is very evident that the writer who pretends to explain what the mormons cormons Mor mons believe does not know anything about their creed and in addition that he endeavors to falsify evan even that which rethinks he thinks he knows in answer to the question can any man tell where the church leaves or off and the civil law begins begin with cormons mormons Mor mons s we answer yes every man with common brains who reads for info information can tell the dividing line is sharply drawn in the published doctrines of the church it Is clearly perceived by its members there is no difficulty in comprehending pre hending it if any person desires to do so the revelations contained in the doctrine and covenants to which allusion has been made are declared to be simply laws to govern the church and subjection to I 1 the powers that be embodied in the valid I 1 laws of the land and in those who administer them to is enjoined until christ comes whose right it is to reign the extent of the application of church rules is defined to relate to church chuoc h fellowship and the limit of church authority to be ca cation tion every soul Is left free to f think believe and act for itself and none are to be in bont bonnage lage one tp to another neither is any power of priesthood to be exercised except bf persuasion in meekness love and charity by instruction and light to the convincing of the mind the point where the church leaves off and the civil law begins with mormons cormons Mor mons cannot be better defined than in the following faolu the doctrine and covenants seq BOO j tion v 4 6 67 7 we believe that religion is ansti buted of god and that men are amenable to him and to him only for the exercise of it unless their re lillous legious opinions prompt them to io III fringe upon the rights and liberties of others but we do not believe that human law has a right to interfere in prescribing rules of worship to bind the consciences of men nor flor f dictate forms for public or private devotion that the civil magistrate should restrain crime but never control conscience should punish 0 guilt but never suppress the freedom of the soul we believe that every man should be honored in his station rulers ad ano magistrates f fa fatels as such 11 belin being 4 place for the protection of the innocent and the punishment of the bilty and that to the laws all men ow respect and deference as without them peace and harmony would be b supplanted by anarchy and adm terror r human laws being instituted for the express purpose of regulating our interests as individuals and nations between man and man and diving 1 laws given of heaven prescribing rules on spiritual concerns lor for fath W and worship both to be answered by man to his MI maker we believe that rulers ruler s at states and governments have a right an 1 I are bound to enact laws for the art lection of oil citizens in the I 1 atee exercise of their religious belief balleaw AW P we do not believe that th they haap ba rl right in justice FAM to debur deprive citie 0 of this privilege or pros proscribe tin their opinions so long as jk a and reve reverence are shown to w t laws and such religious opinion ff 0 not justify sedition nor conspiracy |