Show A STATEMENT PRESIDENT LO REszo SNOW continued from lat last neek thereupon the council of the apostles gave him one week more and notified noti fled him that his case would be called up for action at a meeting to be he held in the historians office at 10 a t in ili on oil thursday the anat is as appear 11 Pe in lly iry letter published by him with the other enri correspondence when that day arrived we received his last letter in which lie said As there is to be no trial of my case and as I 1 am not requested quo sted to be present I 1 take it to be tho purpose of considering my case etc why should there have been any further tam tampering p ering with the case moses thatcher was entirely en tirel out of harmony with his bis brethren brethren the apostles lie ile was simply required to put bini himself elf in accord with them is as is required by the gospel and the order of the coun councils bils of the priesthood that lie he declined to do after askia asking 1 1 for a time and placa to be appointed when he be could meet with them and in response to that request a 1 time and place avei were e set and the apostles came from distant points for the purpose of meeting in with him instead of appearing peari ncr c he be cooly notified them by letter that lie he would not trouble them to convene then when they gave him another week in which to appear and notified him that his case would ile be called up lip ft fir I 1 consideration and action be still treated the council with contempt and asserted 1 I ana am not requested to be present that the Cou council icil of the apostles took the only consistent action that was left open must be evident to every lat ter day saint who has efesto eyes to see ee and a heart beart to understand why moses thatcher did not meet with his brethren after they the had bad assembled at his own request is best known to him pelf lf notwithstanding his past course they were ready to receive him w with i th open arms if lie he had bad conic come in the proper spirit and put himself in accord with them ashe As he would not they expelled x him from the priesthood as they were in duty bound to do 10 it should be known that the disaffection of moses thatcher dates back to a time long iong before political difficulties could enter into the matter president woodruff has stated publicly that moses thatcher had not been in full harmony with his quorum since the death of president john taylor raylor trouble was had bad with him before that time in 1886 1896 he be proclaimed in public discourses ideas and predictions not endorsed endo raed by his brethren at lewiston cache cach e cont conkity ity notes were taken of these utterances utterance and published on a fly flyleaf leif he was subsequently written to by president taylor and his answer is on tile file while lie he claimed that lie he had bad not been accurately reported lie he grave gave his own language 0 0 under his own hand to the effect fl beet of predictions of events to occur within five yeats which have failed of fulfillment fulfilment and which were founded on erroneous interpretations of scripture he wrote for publication a i sort of retraction which really took nothing ZD back but merely n partial errors enore en ore in the report of his extravagant 0 tn t remarks he was out of harmony with h his is brethren in relation to a standing 1 appellate high council which he claimed should be 7 appointed and which lie he has never acknowledged ed was incorrect he disputed president taylor as to the appointment of president of the logan b temple and contended for a man of ili his own selection even after the president announced the appointment by rc revelation his bearing I 1 with his brethren of the T welve twelve was such that lip he could not brook dissent and resented their non ac cep tance of his personal views when wilford woodruffs accession to the presidency was under consideration as 18 the proper successor lie he expressed opinions which showed that lie regarded human smartness and business ability as above that simplicity of cf character and sus to divine impressions which are notable in that faithful servant of god and objected that such a man could not Z rasp grasp the situation of affairs or cope with the difficulties difficult ie 8 ari arising sinz he was overruled but persi persisted sied in his views when president george geore 0 cannon after the dece decease I 1 se of president taylor was ir id prison for infraction of the anti poly gamy laws moses claimed that brother cannon had bad defrauded him and he be in in the presence of president woodruff and others of the twelve to SUM sue him bira at law and tb thus US brini bring 0 many diany private affairs before the public through the courts only on baili being 1 emphatically warned by president woodruff and others that such a course particularly in bro cannons condition would result disastrously to him in his church position did he desist on president cannons release from confinement the matter was fully investigated and it aa was demonstrated that instead of brother Can cannons nuns owing him he be was in brother cannons debt to an amount which lie he subsequently paid to be continued |