| Show NJ 1 I SPURIOUS AND GENUINE if ift in mankind were as easily dece deceived ived ivea with bogus coin as they are with bogus dacien doctrines es what a plentiful harvest counterfeiters counterfeit ers would reap Butas but as most people pe pay more attention to and care more for the yellow deity that they can handle handie and put in their pockets than they do for their creator of whom they think but little and know less they are not so easily deceived concerning the former it is made a more special sl lecial study and there is not quite so much trouble nor such correctness of life required to V make an acquaintance with it As sure as the lord reveals anything for the salvation of odthe the human family tile me devil stirs up the wicked against it and when he has got them in full cry he quietly leads off in a similar line with h a spurious article articie that the ignorant an and d unwary may be securely trapped when god clod revealed himself to the prophet joseph and the doctrine of present revelation was taught what a hue lide and cry was raised against it some som e folks say now that the only objectionable feature of our faith is plurality of wives and that if it were not for that doctrine we would be a pretty 0 ft decent kind of people almost nit fit 1 to be and might even stand a chance of being admitted into society but we know that the doctrine of arc present revelation n had equally a aa 1 bi bitter bitten opposition to contend with and that those who believed bellei ed in and defended it suffern summered suffered 4 the bost most virulent and intolerant ant persecution pe and BO po it it has been with every prominent principle of our reif relf religion hion tion but present revelation demands of those who would enjoy its bleg bieg blessings sings purity of thought and action and a line of life so righteous that they can have the holy spirit in dwelling with them and as this interferes with a great hany many many little peculiarities of most people and involves a very material change 9 in the honesty of their dealings uprightness of lifland life ilfe and general course of conduct the conditions appear to be thought rather onerous and but few are wl willing illing to seek honestly before god for forthe the promised blessings ake rhe the power powei of evil however is i s more more he will oblige mafi mankind kind with communications from the eneba unseen world without imposing ing any irksome conditions so a doctrine called sil sli spiritualism ritu alisa makes its appearance i becomes widely known meets no persecution other than a little polemical opposition makes converts by the thousands and its adherents declare that they receive revelations indiscriminate immoral ly I 1 moral rectitude purity and righteousness eouse ess not being at all necessary in those who are so favored as to receive them if we misstate or misrepresent we would not do so knowingly I 1 now this doctrine is simply the counterfeit kerfeit ter felt feit of that I 1 which god revealed through the prophet joseph the almighty promises revelation to all men anen and an domen kamen who ilbo will keep his is cam commandments ma mand U dinen druen ments ts and arsa liv live suin eien cien tty cure anvil and holy lives to entitle them to the blessing the evil one offers revelation r e to 11 all ll whether they are righteous or wicked d pure or 0 r corrupt co holy or or unholy but 1361 so far as th the e theory lis iia concerned both hotel come equally in contact with pre pro 0 s prejudices and traditions yet the genuine is repudiated its believers persecuted and met with the strong arguments of 4 damnable berei heresy lff lif horrible blasphemous false prophet tl and other like invincible logic while the spurious passes for current coin and is well received which ever might be thought true or false there must have been something more to contend with than simply art tradition or the opposition encountered in the proclamation of the gospel would not have been so virulent that something was and is tho the enmity that has ever er been entertained by the adversary against the truth and its adherents and against the priesthood revealed from the heavens this enmity is made manifest through those who yield themselves up to the spirit of evil and it matters hot what principle ipie may be taught that has been revealed by god it will be met in the same way and have to encounter the same opposition this all sacred history sustains and confirms does any rational mari man or woman believe for a moment that the outcry raised against plurality of wives is made because the mormons cormons Mor mons live with more than one woman that is done not hidde hidden n and secretly but systematically openly and above board in every city and country of Christe christendom naom but plurality of wives is a principle divinely revealed and ordained and it imposes conditions of purity and continence equally as burdensome on carru corrupt p t and depraved appetites as those which precede cede eede the receiving of revelations from heaven it is a true principle anda and a mighty instrument for the moral and physical regeneration of the human I 1 family this the adversary knows and be he has no desire to permit lids leis government to be wrested from him a government which has its strength in degeneracy gene racy and corruption and alms aims at destroying the human race it is because we claim it ag as a aright right being a vital avital part of our religious faith and a divine command hedged round saith ith conditions to which the corrupt heart is unwilling to ou submit limit that enmity Is up stirred against it and us if we were to discard the th e genuine and adopt the spurious ignore the sacred name and sacred claims of wife and even practice the revolting actions of the free love advocates the opposition with which we now have to contend would cease and we be hal hai hail ll 11 fellow well met with tho those e who act in such a manner throughout christendom and their name is legion we prefer truth to error virtue to vice purity to corruption righteousness to wickedness the service of god to the slavery of satan and herein is the cause of 0 f all the trouble that exists about thea |
