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Show "GOOD BYE, HYRUM." ' Apostle Hyrum M. Smith, the voicy son of a spectacular sire, seems to have an ambition to fill the place made vacant by the departure to Can- ada of the fugitive apostolic law-breaker, John W. Taylor. Every once in a while the church pro- duces one of these wild and mouthy prophets, whose trumpetings show a lavish endowment of IH bigotry, coupled with an absolute vacuity of coitir mon sense or refinement. Apostle Cowley for a time made a strong bid for this distinction, and J. Golden Kimball is something of an adept himself at shrilling a lot of this ignorant bombast. But it now begins to look as if even those great stellar lights were to be eclipsed by the shouting young priest, whom his father, the present head of the church, dragged from the hand trucks of the Co- op store to elevate to the apostleship. The latest assortment of gospel delicatessen emanating from this miniature and beardless prophet was distributed at last Sunday's assembly jH in the Tabernacle, where he gave a fine sample of jH priestly epilepsy and raged about the alleged in- iquity of all ministers not belonging to the sacred church of Moroni. It must have reminded some of the old timtiTs present of the frenzy of vitu- peration with which Brigham and the brethren deluged the Saints in old pioneer days. Some of the apostle's statements were unique. For instance, "The mixture of error with truth in the churches is responsible for the condition of the world today," the implication being that Mor-monism Mor-monism is the only sacred solvent which could eradicate evil. And then, "The modern doctrine (the doctrine of the churches) is a doctrine of devils, and is much responsible for sin in the world," an expression which he might have ex-tractcd ex-tractcd from one of the ancient sermons of the late Heber C. Kimball. The young apostle then blamed local ministers for gambling and all other fl corrupt practices in the municipality, and finished his vocal inebriation with an apostrophe on the unsullied beauties of the Mormon faith. Surely a second Daniel has come to us, even though he come in a guise which would be laugh-able laugh-able were it not that so many thousands believe that his feverish prattle is inspired. For, indeed, the fact that so great a host could take seriously mwm the ribald chatter of this poor, weak fragment of antedeluvian fanaticism, is pitiable beyond words. HI |