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Show uu PRESIDENT SMITH 1 HITS AT MINISTER Salt Lake. June 8 "When I hear of a man pretending to be a minister, giving vent to the most damnable lies known to mortal people. I cannot rise above that human feeling that would prompt me to Bay, O, God. shut him up '" After a long discourse on the authority and righeousness of the Mormon people and the organization of the church and the duties of its members, Joseph F Smith, president 1 of the Mormon church, with clenched hands and flashing eyes and every j muscle of rs body apparently tense, in this way referred to someone whom he did not name. The Paden Incl dent, however, was Instantly rcealled to the minds of the hearers "It doesn't hurt us." President Smith added, "but It sounds bad and I 'It adds condemnation to his soul Wo are sorry for him and hope that he will repent before it is too late and. if possible, make amends for his crime." President Smith was the principal speaker in the Tabernacle yesterday I afternoon, the meeting being part of the eighteenth general annual confer 1 ence of the Young Men s and Youtiy Ladles' Mutual Improvement assoela I tion, which opened Friday and were I concluded last night He spoke with I pleasure of the vast congregation of young workers in the hureh. declaring declar-ing that they were called by God and set apart for the work by divine au thorlty. ) God could not do otherwise than fulfil what is spoken in the name of God and In truth." asserted President Smith. "He cannot ignore you, for I w hat you say are His words and equal I to His commands. This applies not I only to me, but every man or woman who has been born again through baptism and recehed the holy ghost by the laying on of hands is a prophet or prophetess, and, If they speak un-i un-i der the influence of the spirit, their prophecies will come to pass, and no j power can hinder them |