The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-10-06

mitted as member of the Federal Union
will be Slave STATED
B. Y.-No; she will be Free State
Slavery here would prove useless and un-
profitable. | regard it generally as a
curse to the masters. l myself hire ma
ny laborers and pay them fair wages; |
could not afford to own them. | can do
better than subject myself to an obliga-
ton to feed and clothe their families, to
provide and care for them in sickness and
health. Utah is not adapted to Slave
Labor.
Ii. G-Let me now te enlightened
with regard more especially to your
Church polity: understand that you re-
( quire each member to pay over one tenth
of all he produces or earns to the Church.
B. Y.-Tbat is requirement of our
faith There is no compulsion as to the
payment. Each member acts in the
premises according to bis pleasure, under
the dictates of his own conscience
II. G.-Whst is done with the proceeds
of this tithingl
B. Y.-Part of it is devoted to build
! ing temples and other places of Worship;
part to helping the poor and needy con-
verts on their way to this country; and
the largest portion to the support of the
poor awong the Saints.
4 II. G.-Is none of it paid to Bishops
aud other dignitaries of the Cburchl
3. Y.-Not ore penny. No Bishop,
no Elder, no Deacon, or other church Of
fer, receives any compensation for his
official services. A Bishop is often re-
qpired to put his hand in bis own pocket
aud provide tberefTom for the poor of his
charge; but he never receives anything
for his services.
H. G.-How, then, do your ministers
live!
B. Y.-By the labor Of their own hands,
like the first Apostles. Every Bishop,
every Elder, nay be daily seen at work
in the field or the shop. like bis Deighbors; /;
every minister of the Church has bis pro-
per calling by which be earns the bread
of his family; be who cannot or will not
DO the Chur1h's work for nothing is not
wanted ia her services; even our lawyers
/ (poiniing 10 Gen. Ferguson and another
present, who are the regular lawyers of
the Church), are paid nothing for their
SERVERS; am the only person in the
Church who has not a regular calling
apart from the Church's service, and |
never received one fartbing frem her
treasury; if obtain any ytbing from the
tithing house, | am charged With and pay
for it, just as any one else would; the
clerks in the tithiug-store are paid like
other clerks, but no one is ever paid for
any service pertaining to the ministry
We think man who cannot make his
living aside from the Ministry Of Christ
un-uited to that Office. am called rich,
anl consider myself worth $3.50, 600; but
no dollar of it was ever paid me By the
Church or for any service as a minister
OF the Everlasting Gospel. | lost nearly
all | had when we were broken up in
Missouri aud driven from that State;
was nearly stripped again when Joseph
Smith was murdered and We were driven
from Illinois; but nothing was ever
made up to me by the Church, nor by
any one. | believe | know how to ac-
quire property and how to take care OF
it.
II. G.-Can you give me any rational
explsution OF the aversion and hatred
With which your people are generally re.
garded by those among whom they have
lived and with whom they have been
brought directly in contact
B. Y-No other explanation than il
afforded By the Cruciixiou Of Christ and
the kindred treatment of Cd s ministers
prophets aud saints in all ages.
Ii. CT know that new sect is al
ways deeried and traduced-that it is
hardly ever deemed respectable to belong
to one-tbst the Baptists. Quakers, Meth
odists, Uni.ersalists, &c., have each il
their turn been regarded in tho infancy
of their sect as the ofscouriug of tht
earth; yet cannot remember that either
of them were ever generally represented
and regarded By the older sects of thei
carly days as thieves, robbers, murder
ers.
b. Y.-If you will consult the cotempo
rary Jewish accounts of the life and act
, of Jesus Christ, you will find that be NJ
his disciples we're accused of every abom
niable deed and purpose-robbery an'
! lourder included. Such work is still ex
tant, and may be found BY those whc
seek it.
H. G-Wbat do you say of the so call
ed Dauites, or Destroying Angels, belong
ing to your Church!
b. Y.-Wbat do you sayl know Q
10 such band, no such persons or organ
iEstiou. bear of them only in the Sian
ders Of our enemies.
r Ii. G.-With regard, then, to the grsv
question on which your doctrines an
r practices are avowedly at war with thcs
of the Christian world--tbat Of pluralit
of wives-is the system of Jour ChuTc
acceptable to the majority of its women
, B. Y.-They could not be more AYERS
to it than | was when it was first reveal
ed to us as the Divine will | think the
generally accept it, as do, as the will Q