| Show PRIVATE VIEWS NOT CHURCH AUTHORITY 1 thic disreputable tribune dijune tries to wiggle out of its ito falsehoods in rela relation tiou to an isolated extract from an article that appeared many years ago in the star which it declared was delivered by an apostle in the taber ole but it will wih not do its object in manufacturing this new version of an old story which it has told in several different ways was to make it appear that the sentence was current authoritative and official after falling failing to ex plain its reason for lying in this way it dodges the question in characteristic fashion and says we presume that the takes inder elder J W cummings as an authority that expresses express its opinion it thou then goes gees on to make a purported quotation from alleged remarks of the gentleman named who has been dead for many years to this we reply the trouse tribune pre a great deal indeed presumption su assumption and wilful f falsehood a make up the sum total of its fanatical assaults on the mormon people we do not know whether the gentleman named ever made the remarks attributed to him or not and we do not care we express a doubt on the matter because we know the tribune is given to the trick of putting words into mens mouths that they never uttered and intentionally misquoting mis quoting the language of its opponents but whether the gentleman made the remarks attributed to him or nt not the NEWS does not take him or his alleged words wards as an authority that expresses its opinion 10 his views were his own they we are no authority for the NEWS the opinion of this paper is that which it expresses in its own columns when the NEWS refers to any established doctrine or regulation of the church it quotes from the recognized standards dards and not from the personal utterances of individuals who ventilate their own views and are alone responsible for them when the tribune 7 culls from old discourses and articles sentences which when it away from the context it thinks suitable to aid it in misinterpreting the belief of the latter iday day saints and ignores the authorized declarations of principle and practice which the church has accepted and which are contrary to the individual notions thus made prominent it is doing dirty work suited to its pages and congenial to its writers but every reasonable person who examines it will see that it is a very poor cause which depends upon such unauthorized utterances of old time individual opinion as the basis of its contention and refuse to notice the present authoritative declarations declaration of faith on which alone fair argument in reference to the question can be founded the views of public speakers and writers on questions of theory are one thing the adopted creed and discipline of the church are another thing and when the two come in conflict the former is without force and the latter stands as the end of controversy it ills to time that opponents of mormonism come down to living and existing conditions and leave the dead past to lie its place in ancient history and if they wish to obtain any hold on public respect they will oease cease the kind of work of which the tribune 7 nd makes a specialty and which renders it necessary for us to make an occasional exposure of its meanness and mendacity motala has electric lights |
