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Show "I Hav. Said In My Wrafh- Etc." H Tho News with immemorial stubbornness and H tireless tenacity declares that: "Tho senator has ' -hM not taken any oath of allegiance to tho Mormon church, nor have any of its members taken such an oath. There is nothing in any obligation or principle of faith in that church which Is incon-sistent incon-sistent with full fidelity in allegiance to tho United States." S If that is true, then tho whole system is but a sorry fraud, a stupid invention to catch suckers. If it is true, then Joseph F. Smith sinks at once '1 to the common level of an ordinary carrot-eater. : If it is true, then he is no longer tho only accred-ited accred-ited agent on earth of Almighty God; then ho has no right to assume that ho is tho ruler of men, 'M both spiritually as well as morally; then tho jH claim to continuous revelation is but an incanta-tion incanta-tion put out by a falso oraclo. Then his "Thus -M I it,' saith the Lord" Is mingled sacrilege and men- ' 4 dacity. Ujjj Stand up, Mr. News Editor, please, and an t's , swer a few questions: (T Do you not believe that this last dispensation f ji j was delivered from God or his angels to Joseph ' ! Do you not believe that by that consecration ' Joseph Smith, as God's agent, was given the V ! right to rule, the right both spiritually and tem- ; porally? ; Do you not believe that same power and sov- ' ereignty have been transmitted to all who have . ' held the office since? If that is true, then where does the only real ! , fealty of any true Mormon belong? ' Has not every president of the church as- i sumed that ho inherited this right to stand in the shoes and hold the lteys of the kingdom, the same as did the prophet? BS Has not every true Latter-day Saint accepted IrB that claim and the servitude involved in it? HSRi Have not you? Hq And when any Latter-day Saint has grown out Hffl of the superstition enough to claim the right to BOj think and act for himself in temporal affairs, tflf ) what has been his fate? li ' not been fired Hgfg ' I out for apostasy? Bm Then, if all those things ; c true, where does the fealty of any true Mormon belong? nji ' The Messiah, when on earth, said: "My Hol kingdom is not of this world." But has any I president of the Mormon church, from the first one down, ever said anything like that? Can you recall any occasion when any president presi-dent of the Mormon faith has ever relaxed for one moment his claim of a right to rule this people? "Without reference to any oath of vengeance (which, by the way, you have taken a dozen f ' ' times), what obligations does a Latter-day Saint take when he becomes one of the priesthood? , , Wo do not. refer to any secret obligation, but the one that under the creed is necessarily public; pub-lic; what is involved in that ceremony? Is it not that the president of the creed is God's appointed agent? Next, is not unquestioned obedience to the holy priesthood made an absolute obligation? Is there one word of allegiance to the republic i of the United States anywhere hinted at? That Is, does not the obligation all go to the creed, and is not obedience to the priesthood the one duty which more than any other is exacted? - And has not that inslstance been perpetual on the part of the priesthood, and has not the obedi-r obedi-r once been absolute since the beginning? , ! We once heard an old Campbellite say that after a person was baptized in his church and i had subscribed to the belief, he might thereafter lie and cheat as many outsiders as he pleased; ; that still his soul was saved. Is that your belief, |