| Show A STATEMENT SNO SNOW continued from last week not one of them would have cutai sustained ned hini him for that position if it had been known that lie he aben entertained views entirely out of harmony with those thoe of that body the letter addressed at that time fline to his associates was a deliberate deliberately y coni composed posed communication s showing owing that lie was able to VI understand der stand the d document which lie he refused to sign sin 7 anahis and his prompt publication of that tant letter in a secular newspaper shows that lie had a deliberate intention to oppose the declaration and defy his bri bi thren who it but if he be did not net have sufficient tinie time to consider the declaration cl at the april conference what about th the e six months which elapsed before the october conference was not that long 1 1 enough during itic that interval lie was visited 0 by many of his brethren sonie some ot them no change was effected but lie failed even to attend the october conference or to manifest it a disposition to con conform forni to the principle of if the declaration it is true that lie was in ili poor pool bodil bodily y health during that period but lie he was not too ill to upbraid bret brethren bren who tried to ini impress press him with the danger b of his pa position itono nor in to accuse some soine of them of having blanketed their conscience in signing ino the declaration he states in ill his letters that lie he would have attended the october conference if it had not been for the assurance and reassurance lie had received that nothing would be done concerning his standing until his lie altti should be restored he then coni complains plains bitterly of the exIla explanations nations given to the conference as to his position and seeks to convey the impression pr eslon that they were a brefach of good in faith tile CL assurances to which lie he refers were faithfully fulfilled ile he was is left in statu quo every tinie time it was shown that the condition ot of his health would not admit of his meeting in 5 with liis his quorum the question ti on of his stand standing ill n was postponed but meanwhile he and liis his friends were not slow to talk about his associates and to convey unwarranted unwar rented impressions concern concerning inq their course in ill his case so so much iii misunderstanding isun der standing was therel thereby y created that i it bt bilime cainie absolutes absolu absolutely tel y necessary to make inake some sollie explanations pla nations that the latter day saints Ili might glit not be deat deceived 4 veil president woodruff was so strongly tro lill 13 w i all this that lie addressed the conference on the subject and ills his statements were endorsed by 13 several of the twelve who followed him in there was no trial of moses thatcher it was simply a necessary explanation of liis his status it involved tile the question Iti estion of liis his lack of harmony far with the church author antie his claim that lie he WIS wa I 1 publicly accused and therefore should 11 have ave a public trial is astonishingly 0 absurd ile he was not ilot accused in the sense of s a trial or investigation th the fact of his hia lack of harri harmony lony with the authorities way was ex ant and shown to lie of hindi earlier date than his re fasal to to sign the the de declaration cla atholl and his en engaging 0 in in active politics to 1 place himself in in harmony with the twelve or of refuse to do so required no trial eit either liell public or private he did neither yet the assurances given hini him which lie he inis misconstrues were observed and his ilease case ww was not called up until lie he was able to appear it was hut but a few days after tc conference inference even if it had entirely closed before lie he appeal appeared and spoke at public meetings ings as though 0 lie he still held ali the e authority in chieh he be had not been sustained at conference this necessitated the announcement from the first presidency through the deseret news that he be had bad no right to officiate in the priesthood while in his suspended condi tiou |
