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Show A J ZK. j I 2 V VW larrt xl iruhn's "The ;oL. ore-il- , but fee laborers cne ' ,k & w. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DEC EM BEIL 188(. o. tfOUMON MISSIONS A FAILUIUL 'WALKS ABOUT ZION- - No. Sandwich LDads, with a population sis years 27. .(. tu only At i meeting i.f minister? of the several were liftel fiom Paganism to Christianity, t;.urdes doing Minm woikinUtah, field and In twenty five veais 50?va, Mutely the .nu1 months shire, a ec.mmii.toss was el fern must look well to their laurels. ;,t minted to arrange a list of subjects, coverIn early days great expectations were ing wliat is known as the Mormon iques cherished concerning the conveisiou of the a series of fifteen In the M i (Concluded.) j AX. The MounUtln Meadow Mtinviore. At the cone!,; dor. of the but article by Lee was just parting from Pedestrian, Gov. Young having received instructions to write him, Pi evident Young, a letter "chargto the Indians. ing it i tlm mas-aeilVdetiiau resumes : The next day by appointment Lee waited again on Young. He says; "When I went to see him again in the morning lie seemed quite cheerful and said: T have made this matter a subject of praver. I went r'jht ti God n :h it and asked him to take the horrid vision from my sight, if it uvx a righteous thing my people had dine in killing; those people at the Mountain Meadows. God answered me and at once the vision wa removed. I have evidence from God that he has overruled it all for good and the actum was a righteous one and well intended. Tin brethren actel from pure motives. Young then again enjoined secrecy, and said, it must never be toid. Lee returned . mth and reported to Haight, who was well pleased; and in a little while wrote the letter requested, by Young that appaars in the The official report of Lees second trial, as: to D. Lee of John letter Brigham Young, and is Gated: Harmony, WaHiingtn Go., Utah. November 2th 1837. Twenty-on- e day after his interview with Biigham Young. Now this letter must have hem in Youmfn hands at the time Hamblin saw him, a he says at the. trial Pretty soon after it happened. Now, we quote from this letter to His Excellency Governor R. Young and Superintendant of Indian affairs. Dear Sir. -- My report mnlerdate May 11th, isoi, relative to the Indians ovr whom I have charge m farmer, allowed a friendly relation between them and the whites.which doubtless would have continued to increase had ruf the white man been the first aggressor, as was the case with Captain Fanchers Company of Emigrants, passing through to California, about the middle of September last, on Corn Creek, fifteen miles south of City, Millard County. The company there poiacned the meat of an ox, which they gave the Pah Yout Indians to eat, causing four of them to die immediately, besides poisoning a number. The company also poig soned the water where they encamped, the cattle of thesetllor-- s This unguided policy, planned in wickedness by this company, raised the ire of the Indians, which soon spread through the southern tribes, firing them up with revenge till blood was in their path, and a the breach, according to their tradition, wa- - a rational one, consequently any portion of the nati m was liable to atone f,ir that offense. Ah nit the eC,il if September, Captain Faueht-and Company fell victims to their wroth, near Mountain Meadows; their cattle and horses were shot d wn in every direction, their wagons and property ino-tl- y committed tion;aml they imported The leport was adopted and the il.ie't ministers, many of them, were to write them. We give herewith the T!ie Origin of Mu monism; tuHro: Int Ji-tp- li Smith, Kis Life, Oiaiaeter and Haim-- ; Mormon Kevel.it ions; The Mormon Dity; The Marks of a True Church; Mormon Priesthood; 'ihe Mirnnm Th Method, or way, of Salvation; The Mormon Heal of a Saintly life; Life Beyond the Crave; Spiritual Lifts and Miracles; Moi man Missions ; Polygamy, its origin and argument history, etc. ; Polygamy, the .main-t- ; the Republic vs. the Theocracy; Personal liberty and individual responsibility as related to Mormonism ; the Rook of FEDEsTRl Y A 5, Jews, The Book of Mormon was a mine o wealth for them. Joseph located the residence of the Lost Ten Tribes by revel.il ion. and found many of the elders to be of the stock of Israel, It was provided that every a literal descend bishop should be Moreover two soLumem-sen- t ant of Aaron. bas.-.ie- s to Jerusalem to were dedicate the Holy Land to the speedy return of the chosen people. But all in vain. one man, turned their backs The Hebrews, apon the modern prophet. Nor bar the disappointment of the elders bei-- much !e among the Inconcerning their dian tribes, the apostate Lamanitcs f the Golden Bible, who by accepting Joseph were again to become a fair and delightMormon. In the very first year of the some people, We do not announce the names of the church a delegation was sent west to tell the authors for obvious reasons. good news to the rd skins, but the hionx, niioir-mi t inrite ami Jrom and Crows, and Apache3 and l.rappah'v ?'"l spgirstions nil mi inters and it acker-- - from Jew, Gen- Potawataroies have never been smitten with tile n ml Mormon- - an rar It vancr is to he love for the Moimon faith and practice, and have been as ready to scalp Saint as Gentile. EDITOR. n i ied and republished. holdLatter-Day in Tiie elders never weary Though they accept baptism ami the endowconverts as ments, as they do beef and blankets, with success in making ing up their solemn face and an approving grunt, they and mission their conclusive that proof t message are divine, and that their ultimate yet go on their heathen an bmbarian w.iy-as before. much conquest of the world is certain. Their church is the stone cut out without hand? It appears, then, that the Mormon Church is which became a great mountain and filled powerless to win adherents except from withthe whole earth. The kingdom is spread- in the pale of Christendom. But even here its ing and final victory is within view. Now success is seriously circumscribed. The the argument for any movement or institu- Greek and the Catholic Churches are more tion based upon success, especially for any than a match for the elders. From Russia, limited period, is exceedingly fallacious, for and Italy, and France, and Spain, and Belhas been seen. No hundreds of foolish schemes and religion, gium ho " gathering been suSielrnt inducement can be found for tradhave in century every impostures boomed for a season and then have come ing Pope Pius or Leo for Pop Brigham or to naught. Put besides, the claim of, the Tayior. With infallibility, and the Saints, priesthood is seriously out of date, and has and the Virgin, tin1 wafer and holy water, lost whatever element of value it may once what need of the Book of Mormon, continual have possessed. During the first half of revelation, and divers washing-- ) and anointM'.rnmii history proselytes were made in ings? It is only in Protestant countries abundance, and growth was rapid. Thus where the Bible is known and loved, a ad, between July, 118 and December, 1830, pome where thought and conscience are fiee, that 21m baptisms occurred within the bounds the find prineeples of Mormonism have of the British Mission, and a year later It any power to arrest the attention. But, contained 33,tf) members, but since has even with such restricted bounderies there steadily declined, and now is well nigh ex- arc iimita! ions, and wails which cannot be tinct. Thirty years since, the average emi- scaled. However it may have been at the gration from Europe was upwards of 4000 beginning, it lias of late come to this, that for several years, while for tha last decade the upper and middle classes scorn ami abit liUS seldom exceeded 23ixi, and has often hor the message sent out from Salt Lake, fallen far below. The indications are many and only such as are in condition Intellectth.it the harvest season for the elders Is past ually and socially most abject give g iod to return, or that the Mormon heed. The converts come wholly from thoe virtually had its day and is on who have never read or heard of the Arunge the final decline. the the Utah theocracy, doings of The boast - that ibis, the last and best peasantry of and Swd-England goiiW is to become universal, has a mission and the poor whites iu the back hill Miiiirj to mankind, is destined to save the race. But of the South. Only these pariahs of siedt-lunfoi tuuately, fatal limitation-- , have can he won, and they largely by appeal to been discovered, barriers vvlilch neither carnal motives. like Sand and a hone in this (be ntm..st of faith, nor of prayer, nor of toil, New World. can remove. That is, it lias been conclusively And finally it has always been that it was to iiio liauie-- . Church is nnven that the Latter-Da- y Brigham Young embodied so much of this far easier for the elders to capture proselytes successful of no enginery for making than to keep them in the faith. Tiny could report as I have read in ms report dated Buddhism, be baptized and endowed, and oi domed, but Great Balt Lake City, Utah, January 0. 1858, udiilt upon Mohammedanim,or r Biahminism, oi Confucianism, is power-1- , only to fail away. For, to many tlucH, mds and directed to lion. James ff. Denver, Comto touch the heathen heart, or to quicken like a craze it came on and rose to a climax, missioner of Indian affairs, Washington 1). Ci" appalling ignorance and spiritual tor- and then waned and away. Of the C., ami litterally quoted the closing worship-- I eleven witnesses and the firA qn-- um of "about the 22nd of Boptembcr etc. por of the cannibal, or the feti-These letters were produced in the 2nd Fearr. o serious attempt was ma D till 1852, apostles aisnoA all became reprobat in trial of Lee as a part of the testimony for old then will; great a lot, no less than 106 ful apostasies occurred in Kirtland an . 1dm were sent to t lie four quarters of the Missouri. Scarcely one in six ever emi- the purpose of exonerating Young. Lee lied but as he says: "Brigham Young lobe, including ImiiaJ'iiiua, South America grated from N'auvooto Salt Lake, mmlhig knew when he got that letter ju-- as well as .1 the Pacific Dies, but a few years later to church tables in Great Britain between v'i I 1, of futl a that but it was not a true letter, and that were Dee. the never 131 June 1SD and trophy, baptisms returned with was of most it written according to his orders tales were excommunicationand only the 3I.5IC with touching and while hetvven July ls32 and Dec. (Aii to throw the public off the right trail, to cast failme. The result was nil, and all th blame on the Indians, and to protect second assault has been ordered. Which with 12,507 received, not less than n'IH h Mi-itin- - brethren: and Young certainly did. on one durcutoff. In the Scandinavian is a lamentable and ominous to The letter was intended to deceive them? t a 'dmrch which ah no follows the g,?pei the from 32 ls3n 18o gam years ing the rice with-- s were J3,Hu, the lossc- - by church i!isf,pjine tii.nl of sending it-- i m Brigham Young, say the Mormons, and ElPenrose especially. der AD before the were 11, or sn legitimate only emigration, purse ip, The public, K is claimed that since UM not and wields Ihe potency of all Says Lee, and by Y'oungV inN-mn to acorders. mmU have mutual gift-- , but bus no ies, than a million l, but wih t'e t' n ii'.n Imiieeee Li , believes at the of the human family cepted the Mormon -- fi am tim everything that Penrose a- - the us the most libu.il ry but in Murp contrast, not the growth of Jio.gm ' one mite of tlm-- e in membership mt e r reiigi,.m- - bodies. The inoutii pioierf Mir:uonism, fays about him, , 'he maintain 33 missionaries .a i? h.'tdnd theuxand (7'" huAlig hoi the JtHiir; aULeugh What lie s2'.d o. various part- - of the earth. Smith, once D.Aed ilm good thiogsuf tin Lain Any it as a i',e. Brigham could imt but sooner or later have spued then know it befu.-- and whn he inserted it in Kingdom e! 13V"ad-i death. before his ;iUd x'm - ;m- - j nut of tn:r mouth with iingu-- t. . m- -. and John Taylor. fety year-- hL--t strongs when w- remember th.it a- - a r A- - hi report. i. I - places the mss,(icre m Dus I uter. on j 'i.'i-.- h nueasy and tin unstable md more tii.m 2 i m i, v hiie Lie only thn with 1.oh w caught ,rganiza-.gu!j - 22a I of September. IU hid his Dili, iphN (( ampbellite-..- ) r. view with Young ou the 2P:h .ml from the same time, hue about the 2uth he knew that the deed had taken pi, tee Methodist a The S'io.ikb.. to hourly mere than two weeKs neU're ioh nune mm Clmrch can couvrit l.w-r are, but nlwav to be mo .1 Ho. Poogreeat ioua .I ts 3,'st) I who v.Mr t.ry ty his ascription of it. This is one lie am. u oi.. the P ipti-t- s iu a single region f rr. Threfre l!.e enue was reu which Young was "particps enminL' i ff , , affirmed that M vrmonAm - like a gion c U ) Ilt ltJ V .1 ;'i oi I amomr theTelogu-- , h.ne ! 35 ,, 53!?!. llj th&t (wH i (ti V Lj : y ntbor . VxJtK.. life yea-.for leu it gJiU3 .I'.nually 'd e) a-- non-succe- s FH-mo- re kil-iie- n-- propa-gnd.ih- as m r ly pos--a-v-- pa-st-- pa-sag- d e; h ' - 15,-38- 3, w-- , :i d, go-pe- -- to-h- rm ,'') . snr-i!!eA- Jo-it'p- h ! e. i- i - , . I -- i- l ! ? ! ! ... s Again, Lees fabricated report was not made out until November 2A 1857. Hamblin says "he told young all about i t pretty s. u after it happened" I recken. that from September 2! until November 10. nearly two fc i.'w ry xvrr i iv t iioujijU AV'U to CV't! till pretty sum after it happened. Therefore the probabilities are that lie had had Hamblins true report before he received this bogus one, and would consequently know that the report was false when lie read it, even if Lee hud not told him, what hr natr) he did in the irtercieri'. So, that nupponing Woodruff honeet and true, and the sen of the Prophet (Seumbes air actual interv iew between Governor Young and it is probable that the information received from Lee, was corrected before Lees report came to hand and that Brigham Young knew it war a fabrication. But further ; Yuli rigs report to the Coni mismoiter of Indian Affairs in which he quotes Lees bogus statement is daUd, January c, UtSrdnety-nin- o days after the interview with Lee of the 2'Mk of September U57, quite long enough to satisfy the conditions of ILunMins pretty soon after it happened and to demonstrate to the honest hi heart atnung the Mormons that Brigham Young Governor, Prophet, Seer, Reveiator and Penroses philanthropist and statesman, introduced the statement of Lee Into his report knowing that it was a lie and with the intention to deceive the Indian Department, and through it the general public, and this conclusion does not in any way depend upon - $ 1 M. L, -- the truthfulness if Lee, Penrose admits in his lecture that if President Young was informed that John D. Lee and other white men ware engaged in that awful massacre that he is an accomplice after the fact and that the responsibility should be placed upon him; it doesnt belong to tire Mormon Church. Let us look at Ms argument. The church is not responsible for the acta of Brigham Young, nor for the acts of any Individual," He is responsible to the church when he violates tin law of the church. In the lecture he quotes an expression from the Book cf Doctrines and Covenants against killing. Tenrose further goes on to give his audience the provisions that are laid down for the trial of every individual from the First Presidency down. And then clinches what I suppose he would call his argument by saying that any movement that is made, tv he rightly chargeable to the church, must be endorsed by the church as a body, must be done by common consent of- the church. The church never endorsed that deed, never I suppose he wans edified approved it. ecelesiantieal action. I would not misrepresent the good elder now in exile, or supposed to be; but the argument, it seems to me, might be put in fewer words and more tersely thus If Brigham Young were accessory in would have been excommunicated. Not bciuf excommunicated he was not ItS COE LMITM.U;. Mormon IVrjnry. Mormon, Mr- -. Fairy, of Ogden, was eon- wied iu Judiie lieinieivon's ourt of perjriy but tiu judge, knowing that bur religion t..rV; ... . t- .... ii, u.sa me.cy upon her und Ami the Jhserei suspended the sentence. Vi t ill. ku i!. - t 0 ilh liiGG.1 ttxi bnul OUtT'ilUg Uidl Vili one pervm had been thus convicted. I hereupon llie Tribune said: J ! How was it with Augns Canu-mwlem liemit-Hiiu- iy swoib thui be rial uoi know the names of or hew many wives ha George u. Cannons wn-svhad,' How wile ir wish John Taj lor, when he swore that he knew n. thing of any record of Mormon marriages? How was it wills Dame! H. AVelia when he swore to ihe gaum thing? How was H with Geoiga y. Fanuou, when he -- o!em:i!v wor liefire a Dqugressiona! CummitU-- that he was not a polygamist? How was it when tisou Pratt swore that he knew nothing of any record of n nisuriaires? How was it with the son of Presirou-cluident Taylor, who took the d oath ill order to secure a seat in the Omucil. and who at the time was a polygamist These are inereiy a few cases of the lug chiefs, copied from memory. To descend to the ranks ami call up cam would liil The Tribune. Then, as to square lying and double-to- r, gtied form of speech , eminmm among Mormons, wherein the meaning conveyed to Mormons is intruded to lie exactly contrary to that conveyed to Geunies, there is no end of them. The explanation of the whole was made by the Mormon woman last winter, who. when eproached by a friend for T only hed to the Genher perjury, answered: tile Gist; I did not he t, the Mormon. , . Mor-niu- Instance- - of Biooil-atonin- Eider West with cool audacity denies in the North American Leview that Mormons ever The Tribune cites a few instances to refresh his memory, Tho Morrisites were shot down tike dogs. The sons of a Mormon elder, who were trjing to escape from Utah, were killed up in the cation above this city, and brought back here for bunat. Pr. Robinson was called from his home and killed at night; alt the Mormon ctiiefs knew who his umrdeters wore. Some of them are walking the streets of this riiy stilt. Two brothers were kilted in a town a few miles from this city and were hauled around m a cart and exhibited, to give the people an tit a of wlirt fate awaited apostates. Bill Rickman toid Mr. Baskin of a man that he had killed by order of Ihighaiii Yoiiug, and where he was buried. Mr. Baskm went to the place and dag up the bones of the poor wretch. When the murder of women, children and wounded men was going oa t Mountain M aoows, John D. Lm- cautioned a nervous brother not to get excited, exptaiulug that fids is Gods wotk. The foregoing are but a few cases. Similar cases in Utah, ih.it are known, number more than two hundred. Am' Elder Joseph A. blood-atone- d. - YVest knows of thorn ail. Speaking of pioof, when McMurrin uod his three tried to kiii Co) tin, thera were t'uurch thugs and eiders oa all tho street corners for two or three blocks around the scene of the exp-cttragedy. Supjiose tl e plan had not miscarried, Suppose Iolhn had he d felled by McMurrjas club and strangled there in the druk without uttering a cry, and the body had been eooceaied, YAhat proof of the crime would ever hove been supplied? It would have been charged that he had either run away, or had iieeD put ejt of the way by (ieutiies in order to force falsehoods agaiuct the Mormon. More than that, George y. Cannon gave Marshal Philips an order to take Coilia from the officers, which under the was simply an order to murder him, Mr. Stodlml stated i,i public that his ed father, a polygamist, m i a fai.alleal Morin n, tohl him of an inAince in Iron County, wtiere a grave was Jug, the victim brought to it, butchered and rolled Ls. If the ghosts of ail in ordered men were to mutter and would cease ile.-- groan - guilty. ii. - ., 1 4 Utah. m riir.iis iiniisTMis Hw-m- cards. a IS8F1887. SFASOx- Ridiculous! Brigham Young was the church as he was Brother Kimball's go d. In Utah. the church is the State. And now and men aii the power or the churcn concentrates in the First Presidency. Buthe says; My reader, Brigham Young is dead. Why so anxious to fasten the responsibility of this deed upon him? Bocause be was responsible. Because th truth of history demands it. Because thus the Mountain Meadow Massacre is an iiluAialioa of what the teaching of Mormonism, as illustrated by the sermons of Young, Grant, Kimball, Hyde, Pratt and many others, leads to; and because w hope that we may have shown to Mormons even what blind olv f'ncc tethe eounsel.cf men of like passions with themselves, can lead to disobedience to law, enmity, murder, and that to consent to such obedience, to uw obedience, is to make beall who make such vows cause all suth deeds in obedience to counsel are the acts of the church. "Not one of the mm engaged in the kill- f I no ' Ln voiiit war doro as i tu I uj OC fci , wu UAigt tsju against the deed; they thought it was Unur duty to obey counsel, Mn had injund r nos ohryluij." These are expression41 tli.it fell from the lips of Mormons on t!s trial of Lee. La our readAs reileet upon them; while to walk down the the) v, ail fa rVde-uia- u years between 1851 and the year when Brig-h.Youngs adopted son John D, Lh paid the penalty of death as a scapegoat, for Lis e. m ike everything artist a TiiPf''nd. rify of the tim-.- f'i is ,m ooirowth of the rapid velopmentlu our peop e of the un ierstanding of true art. Knwlwrp fs th!s WII Tri''ra thm in llno.s cards of this year, and eepec Oinstm h an i hull s,i hi t leir Noveifi an1 - itln Art Prl.us, if whHi ,i ver. i.irijf- and h af'lstlc assortment ii of 1 ISew-Ye- - fcrcil th eird dcstgus vve have tlrt Ain in,; til .inject-o- f to mention llowcr, which areas; sin hi njely represented. ih'. o K. Whit. ten ever popular flowers are shown In Nos li H w u eh also conies vs ,i hookinask with ribbon Hl Isi, Hid. ri7 Hi?. Hid. 14.11 and 1 131. LmK K II ir'ow to idshr. i eh.irmliig mi-rln- c vie vs In No. 14i7. An.m its arc leprosente oj three verv clever series at humoro is dc igns bv K is WiTlans. No. IPd, liedr-- , No HIT Owls and ihi-- c an! Vi. 1 i,!j. H - ids of Cats, .sloii. will! ii!aio; hum in ; ,, ist. hut le l least, come t ic e in wnf It renre-e- nt d as rei;auls i.oth tho due Is u i niin'iv i !' i-cd UinmtUy mill ;ii'Utv inrnlspes in Ito'i a s, r i - cl sjx bicie-- r H sia.etv cur, Is, retires unt, itii wen know u'l.i i. 'ers a.th wears a Mth-j- j !u m;q. ,1 i! air. the so-- I . te'l, ill". tA lu-e- T i r ilitr' f i a.i 'K tf rt'r t!"1 If .J uv UKA fi.Ai v 'A i. v iJ i f' It ai - ! a'ie U o lu tii ' J u u li ' k I u r u M RstiC D.'iUif. 'i - h) d y, t.u hvL. all Bi 1) l!.1 p tj ri- irt L i, 'r H in W Blft-r'i-j h g ,iii AB ti'iia a Oijit V t)V Vkltl ,nd nM'f A'i! m - lt vu tiny of ia t it i.y workers, and alt fn nrrnnge f i ho ttienall iti'g'G nrofif'tde, i,.tia lesoc e,uei Clpuxvj mcamitiurty, March, May and October numbers of tiie present if possiide. Let UA meet each nthcr Chri-tid- n ! tali Advocate. If you have in Tinole DePc'iC'er ;A, and pray, couus.-l- , and rojol?.' togeAior, them send tboni to l Mi-m- sj-- i il d wiitH-iinifttia- t |