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Show i!,Vrlyl)' The. Ministerial association lock Apostle Wood- s vv"J,c - ruff to task, at iheir meeting last Mondav, for ro- poratior . . , . . . that it m marks made by Jam in the Tabernacle recently. Tn .nrHHr-r nf'ir ',,vam,,l tne.v eharg'? the- Apostle with slan- i Apart f dering the, denominations, which. they represent. ate ,nt v, r V , , . . .. - vvrjj The first slander was "the ministers did not own. l buiidi n fot of real estate." Refuted. "Throught the Chris- l'.cly 1 inn ministers of Utah over $2,000,000 has been d subs. brought into this state and expended for odupa- ,nd"" ;' tional purposes alone. Prior to the only Amer- I will t; .can .crade'd schools in the city were established ns. ! , . . . . . . . . , sunaiiy. f d earned on under the supervision of the min- " '.'vr ? isters connocted with four of the preat Christian nm:ltf-. ..... : new denominations. ' This, of course, does not include .po.-o"o Catholic schools, which-were graded, and first cs- niiig ye ' tablished in 37.1. Those holy, pious men who take w-h'to v.nibrae at Apostle AVoodruff's remarks .should be n ' truthful themselves when refuting "vile slanders." II Will . ; - ! mr opt ; " "kf ' The second blander was ;the ministers kept good, take. peaceable capitalists from coining here and invest- )"'.' vo ' i"g their money' This is denied and the con- 1 h- lV ; trary asserted, namely, that capital would not and livrna did not come till the four great Christian churches hirf ih 'rst r,avC( l1R wa.v or them to come. Who could thai. imagine Ilaggin, Tavis and Ceorge Hearst com- .'l'1;,.',.; ing here, or investing their money, if they .were Tteinef ; . neit first assured that they would find here Chris- - 'is adi tian churches, schools and homes The immense product of the great Ontario mine would be yet This elo - hidden in the bowels of Mother Earth if those men njr, were not forewarned that four great Christian ' . '- -'I'l hf churches had their lamps trimmed and filled with nr.Miie '' ail'l were radiating their light in the streets ' ' ":iiit nf Zion. The Aiostle must be mentally blind if ,, '. he fails to see this. I- MM IV ; ,,J ;l , ' The third slander consists in calling the Chris- Bisliot tian ministers "hirelings.' This slander is Si ,n'' refuted as boys settle their ouarrels, bv ui, ed '"and you, too,"' or, after the style of logicians, "I ' " !" M '" ntort.' "These ministers are supported bv the ti e i ion ; 11 -m-iiilisi voluntary contributions of their respective church- ' ' h-et u' 1 os whilst Apostle AVoodruff draws a large salary iv sum and is supported by ihc compulsory tithing of the The Va people. Apostle Woodruff boasts of sending out, !atz ba without purse or scrip, some two thousand mis- ay (,VV, sionaries to difi'erent parts of our country, who 'o'a'' arc exPec'-e 1o sl,OJ-'iP iheir living from the Chris- f a gen . tian homes in the various communities which they io!'- '? 1 : tee fit to enter to carry on their unwelcome work he i ihi of proselyting.1' Here the ''vile s-lander" of the t'tsrge't term "hireling" is refuted with a vengeance. It 'f 1'hrrt would take all the logical acumen of Aristotle to .st f. wet ,) 111 1nr" "hove jumble matter for major and :i'h pr: minor propositions from which he could draw i'ov. 'in. 1ne lr'i'!1l conclusion: "Therefore we are not hire- - .-.-I'laneh lings.' ;irw-cia I'leattl c s j lo '.hnv' ""r'h charge, which refers to the slay- Uzation; ing of the unborn, is serious. The accused was ted" free warm in denouncing this charge. They say "lan- -eSnlisii.. guage is inadecpuate lo characterize such an out- nained vageous slander." They plead guilty to not owning in l any realty, "because the president of the Mormon -..me it i ' church and the twelve apostles have appropriated ')' 'sn-'r themselves about everything there is, in the way 'Socia - of real estate, bank stocks, railroad stocks, Saltair "l.bihtv Boacli Flock, Light Sr Power stock," and so in in- ltiiity hi definitely. As the president and twelve apostles --one' n: have appropriated all the real estate in Salt Lake eemmor fin,I monopolized all the stocks, how could honest sjiririR. men invest their earnings: N o one ean do what essentia impossible. Therefore that '"vile slander" is re- leauty ' t'h-asir.ie futcd. Lut this is not enough. The people in the murals . ' Koran i iK-ighbo the un: k . . , east must be informed what these shepherds (not hirelings) have to endure: "Resolved, By this association that a copy of the paper containing the above extract from Apostle Apos-tle Woodruff's speech be sent to each United States senator and to the different cicnominational pa-pears."' pa-pears."' Possess your souls in peace, brethren. The medicine that you have been lavishing with great profusion has been dealt out. very sparingly. If we all could see our selves as others sec us, we would be more charitable and true Christianity, according to St. Paul, is charity. , . . A |
