Show A STATEMENT I 1 ROM LORENZO an SNOW continued from frim last reek leeka the apostles did not view tile the publication of the letters that passed to and froni f roin bro moses L thatcher ai ind id them as calling 0 for any controversy on oil their part nor did they think it a proper thin tiling to za give those ecclesiastical communications Z general or I 1 e nera I 1 publicity 1 through secular newspapers the li letters aters bearin bearing my sign signature awre were not prepare prepared with a design for publication li wha whatever teveL tile the others might have been and were regarded craded as church matters for the consideration solely of tile respective parties it is only because those thoe letters have been given arivell t to the public and because call lle it se seems ellis from what you say that in an ini improper proper impression b lias is been made upon tile minds of sonie some people thereby eb y that I 1 comply with the request to meet some of till the statements they contain pile evident purpose in publishing those communication i was tu to excite public sympathy and the unnecessary and superfluous appeals they contain convey tile the illi impression that they were vere concocted for that pur voice poe they were vere not relevant to tile the issue involved moses Tha teber was not on trial for his fellowship specific charges were not preferred either in public or in private the question was solely y is to his S standing 0 as one ot the apostles apostle in cone consequence quence of his lack of harmony with the quorum of the twelve of which lie he was a 1 member that quest on he be could have settled at any time if lie had K 0 o desired and that 1 without a formal tr trial I 1 a 1 B by v placing pla eino hini himself self in harmony with ills his quorum in the of humility and in conformity its rules of which lie he was not I 1 in ill ignorance he could have saved himself all the trouble and deprivation of which lie he coin plains in ili liis his review of what lie calls his case lie lays great 6 reat stress on oil mhd matter of the declaration of principle which lie refused to sign after it had reC received ived tile endorsement of the first presidency the apostles excepting hin himself iseli the seven presidents of the seventies tile patriarch and the presiding ino 0 bishopric comprising n the general eri eral authorities of the charch his excuse is that li he had only about an hour and thirty minutes Mil lUteS in which to consider sider it usually men inen do not require much time to consider a matter which they have always held to lie be right T there h ere was n nothing new liew in that document as it relates to church discipline it contains that which has always been an established doe doctrine trine of the church when tile the committee which prepared it submitted it to the other church authorities they signed it after reading without hesitation and without requiring tinie time to de deliberate liberte it embodies eming ies so manifestly a conceded nid end necessary rule rille that every one in harmony with the church authorities auchoi aties accepted it at once 7 and the church as a body b has as reee received ived and adopted it as an essential rule rifle why should moses thatcher alone of all the fil church lurch authorities y feel that lie he could not sign it as lie he al alleges leges 71 without stultification 11 was not that in itself evidence that flint lie was and had bad been out of barni harmony ony with his brethren and are they the not men inen as little disposed is as any one living 0 to stultify thein themselves selves or to assent to anything m wrong wrong 1 that is of vital ini importance to d them bent and to tile the church he charges ZD that his letter refusing to sign lr the beelar declaration aaion was suppressed there was vas no suppression in the matter at all till the letter was not addressed to the conference nor to the public out of mercy bierey and corn compassion passion to min him no reference was made to his contin contumacy nacy at the april conference but I 1 liis is name naine was simply dropped from froin the list of authorities presented I low ilow could lie he have been sustained under the circumstances there are six of till lie twelve now living who voted fr his appointment to the apostle apostleship hip to be continued |