| Show X IT WILL NOT SUCCEED pape papers rs are publishing dis obes from ogden utah giving an u it of a meeting of josephites Josephite sat P at ant place at which it was resolved to liane joseph smith of lamoni to r ake e ogden the headquarters of the called led ac reorganized church it is homed ed in the dio dispatches thattie that the mor utah is I 1 the of I 1 church in on eve great upheaval also that since auction action taken by the church on the gamy question the people see no difference between the two at t but will be more likely to josephites in order to get wot or the ack into favor with the government Is further surmised that if there u a div division islOn among the utah mor court would hand supreme ODB e the r to the josephites much of the property which has been con torch ach Y sis to is a very pretty little scheme iest not t likely to succeed in the manner red it if joseph smith of lamoni faria inclined lined to shift his quarters to there is nothing here in the y of such a change of base babe he is free to come herera here as any minister of of the sects and has as much right build a josephite meeting house as the methodists have to SI itAlo id a university there out hut as ae to any upheaval of the in utah we think the surmise entirely entire v groundless the agitation 21 the action of the general confer aein in regard to polygamy poly gamy has bas subsided the people generally have quietly ted the situation there is no ander der current likely to produce an n or elc excitement of any kind political division that has SS kea place lace in the community has s no arence ce to or bearing upon any tor controversy the idea too that with the polygamy pol poly gamy settled there to is no great difference between the two churches is en fallacious there are many es t points of difference between sern and there Is a no more likelihood JI considerable n number u m ber of the any aoah h latter day saints going over to tr josephite church than of their aa catholics or quakers the and water imitated mor imor of the josephite 1 1 sect has 0 attractions for any one who has gafton aw of the rich stream flowing from zo genuine fountain to be in the ides idea sought conveyed via game dispatches that joseph smith hereditary or patent right to the of the church is hostile to the spirit and essence of mormon doctrine the revelations of god de flare that three presiding high priests ts chosen by the body appointed and ad ordained a ned to that office and upheld by ay tte the faith and prayer of the church form a quorum of the presidency denly of it w was as by virtue of this calling and authority tho rity to th say nothing of a higher couvee that brigham young and his counselors and their successors d therefore the notion that brig AM young usurped 11 something that belonged by right to joseph smith so without foundation in truth or rea aton the desire exhibited by the pro of the movement to make odgden the josephite headquarters to obtain much of the church property which has been confiscated 1 I shows the mercenary motive that lies behind the scheme it is not without support at the fountain head of 0 indeed there is reason to believe that this little plot was laid at lamoni and is now being hatched batched out in ogden on in june the herald the organ of the sect published at lamoni iowa had an editorial head ed Cu curious ilous if true in which it was stated that the government in confiscating the mormon church property had on its lands a white elephant y and the following bugge suggestion st ion was made as to its disposal in the church of jesus jeaba christ of lat ter day saints as it was organized and under the institutions obtaining for the first fourteen years of its existence there was a legitimate purpose in the pursuit of which all the moneys of the church were and could be employed the sustaining of a ministry for the preaching of the gospel surely should the government seek in the right direction could there not be found a people an organized body of the followers of the nazarene who are preaching the gospel goi we think so As the Jos josephite ebbite organization has bas started out in the work of trying to gain possession of property held in early times by the genuine church and is now engaged in trying to oust a small body of religionists who legally hold bold the title to the temple ground at independence missouri this hungering after the property of the latter day saints in utah is quite in keeping with its previously developed appetite but we do not think that in this instance it will receive any gratification the Jose josephita Josep phito bite sect has no more just or lawful claim or on the confiscated property than has the methodist church or the society of freethinkers the attempt to attract public attention to the scheme and enlist public sympathy in its support springs from the most sordid and worldly of motive and we are of the opinion that it will not succeed As for the plot itself there is not the slightest probability that it will prove anything more than a conspicuous failure |
