Show A PIOUS FRAUD A SHORT time ago mr elliot F She shepherd proprietor of the now new york mail and express WM in this city and sought an interview with the he first of the church which was waa granted he conducted himself respectfully fully and at his request the principal doctrines of the church were explained to him in which he manifested much interest and appeared very pleased and thankful for the attention shown to him bim his return for or these favors is a tirade of nearly four columns long in the mail and Ex express preas every paragraph of which contains at least one untruth it ft to is ae designed signed not to report the information obtained in the interview with ahe first presidency but to interview himself give his bis own crude opinion on matters of doctrine which he does not understand and reproduce stories with which some unscrupulous liberal stuffed hlin him and which he greedily swallowed we have had occasion to know for years year that we the at and E had on its ita editorial staff tan some person or persons who were antl anti mormon malignant and unprincipled di but being familiar with the protested professed piety of the pro praetor pr pir letor we did not think he was re for the falsehood and bitter ness exhibited continually in that paper toward our people benow see where the blame lies and the true character of the hypocrite who controls its col dumns with a scripture text at its ito head every day it ik is one of the most moat unprincipled and abusive sheets published in new york aud there is none that panders more to the depraved tastes of the lower elements of that seaport city that professedly religious person has hag not even the instincts of a gentleman to say my nothing of the graces of a christian Christia ij I his langu language aae is in coarse and abusive he be calls eminent men by vulgar nicknames which he picked up in this city and which indicate the class with whom he be affiliate dand he be indulges in personalities slit which no ordinarily respectable in would resort to even it if they were true and which are utterly and contemptibly contempt ably false ft fir r tur instance stance in describing president wilford woodruff he says his right ear is beginning to refuse to hear bear and one of his bis eyes is somewhat turned outward of president george Q cannon he be remarks his right eye its is also turned outward concerning joseph F smith he be tells thic one of his eyes eves also has an outward turn although though it is pretty well concealed by a pair of gold spectacles there are thousands of ladies aud and gentlemen throughout the united states who from personal introduction to these gentlemen will know bow false is this description and who willesta will wil lesti estimate the ef fusions of elliot T shep hordie they ever see them at their actual worth this will show the character of the mart man and the reliability of the rest of his tirade he makes out that these veterans in the advocacy of C hurch church doctrine were nonplussed nonplus sed at his h Is questions on out subjects ejects with which chic h they have been as an familiar for half hal f a century as with the letters of the alphabet and he parades his own opinions on those points as though hough he was an authority that should be viewed as the end of controversy when they are but old sectarian notions notion that the mormons cormons Mor mons shattered battered an and d cast to the winds wind years ago by irrefutable arguments and scripture citations even mormon sunday school children could fatt those questions for him without a trace of the hesitation and confusion which he pretends he caused in the interview with those eminent ex of our the presidency of the church As a specimen we clip the following he asked how they got over the warning contained in the book of revelations not to add to or subtract anything irom from the canon of scripture this question auest iou was like pouring hot shot into the first presidency bachof each of them squirmed armed in his high back armed swivel rocking chair uncrossed and crossed his bis logo legs anew and turned red in the f face ace but as usual smooth bore cannon was the first to recover and find his tongue re he said that he thought the hook book of revelations was written before johns epistles and before hi his gospel and so 0 o although in the sol collection lection of the bible it was wad owl out lat last those warn ings in T aly applied to that particular book and n not to the whole of scripture some thing similar to johns arning was also said in the book of deuteronomy twice over and yet everybody know knew that thai the tha canon 0 of f se scripture kip ture had grown since moses time if this view of the case is correct then it is simply a question whether the books boblis of mormon are authorized by god to be added to the canon of scripture their earthly origin is too patent and their teachings too beastly and confused ever to have been authorized of god dod the original nalof of the books was a religious fiction 10 prepared by rev mr crawford an invalid minister an n ohio who tried to make a litie lit le money by selling them to a cincinnati publisher in this he failed and afterward the book lell fell into the hands of joseph smith who altered them to suit his bis own purposes and pretended to lo find them in a cave near palmyra N Y thisbe this he doubtless doubt les did for he had put them there himself for the express purpose of finding them there himself one of the beastly revelations reva lations is that the saints should establish a boarding house and should never charge joeph for his board and rooms it will bo perceived ercel ved that in even the exploded spaulding Hpaul Rpaul ding story he is 18 not dot correct givina gi vise the name as crawford and the place ohio while the book of mormon boa UHS nothing in it about tile alie bo boarding houe hout kell or anything like it this shows that the man bats bag not even the ordinary information of the commonest anti mormon writer his ignorance to la equal to his mendacity through a all 11 the four columns he be flounders and blunders in the same fashion and ungrammatically exhibits his vulgarity and falsehood falee bood we do not care to follow him further it would be a waste of time and space and it would be giving him more attention than be or his bis batch of nonsense is worth his reputation as a fl hypocrite to is established in the east but the west will now know something of his bis character he is connected by marriage with the famous espi capitalist Vander vanderbilt hilt it is in related that when the noted man was asked his opinion loti of the canting shepherd he replied he Is more kinds of fool than any man I 1 ever met meva if the blunt old financier had added the word liar to his bis description we think it would have been perfect and complete |