The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-09-08

his family he who cannot or will not do
the Church's work for nothing is not
wanted in her service; even our lawyers
pointing to Gen. Ferguson and another
present, who are the regular lawyers OF
the Church,) are paid nothing for their
services; | am the only person in the
Church who has not regular calling
apart from the Church's service, aud
never received Que farthing from her
treasury; if obtain anything from the
tithing-house, am charged with and pay
for it, just as any one else would the
clerks in the tithing-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
is unsuited to that Office | am called
rich, and consider myself worth $780,
600; but not dollar Of it was ever paid
NE by the Church or for any service as a
minister of the Everlasting Gospel. l
lost nearly all | had when we were brok,
en- mp in Missouri and driven from that
State was nearly stripped again when
Joseph Smith was murdered and we were
driven from Illinois; but nothing was ev-
er 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 yoa give me any rational
explanation 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 is
afforded by the crucfxion of Christ and
the kindred treatment of God S ministers,
prophets, and saiuts in ali ages.
H. CT know that new sect is al
ways decried and tradueed--that it is
hardly ever deemed respectable to belong
to one-that the Baptlsts, Quakers, Meth
odists, Unlversalists, &C., have each in
their turn been regarded in the infancy
of their sect as Offscouring Of the earth !;
| yet J. cannot remember that either of
them were ever generally represented and
regarded by the older sects of their early
days as thieves, robbers and muI derers
b. 1.-If you will consult the con-
temporary Jewish accounts of the life and
acts of Jesus Christ, you will find that
he and his disciples were accused of every
abominable deed and purpose-robbery
and murder included. Such a work is
still extinct, and may be found by those
who seek it.
II. G.-What do you say of the so
called Danites, or Destroying Angels be-
longing to your Church ?
B. Y.---What do you say? I know
of no such band, no such persons or or
ganization. | hear of them only in the
ISLANDERS of our enemies.
II. G.-With regard, then, to the
grave question on which your doctrine
and practices are avowedly at war with
those of the Christian world-that of a
plurality of wives-is the system of your
Church acceptable to the majority of its
women
B. Y.-They could not be more averse
to it than | was when it was first reveal
ed to us as the Divine will. | think
they generally accept it, as do, as the
will of God.
H! Chow general is polygamy
among you?
b. VI could not say. Some of
those present (heads of the Church, have
each but one wife, others have more !;
each determines what is bis individual
duty.
H. G.-What is the largest number
of wives belonging to any one man?
b. VI have fifteen; l know of no
one man who has more; but some of those
sealed to me are old ladies whom | regard
rather as mothers than wives, but whom
have taken home to cherish and sup,
port.
II. G.-Does not the Apostle Paul
say that bishop should be "the husbang,
of one wife 2" =.
B. Y.--So we hold. We do note : :
gard any but married mau as fit p p,
the Office of bishop. But the ,;sIea sosa "
does not forbid bishop hav W
wives than one . :, Con III
H. G.-Does not Christounded on er /"
who puts away his wife, 80 of the al X
whom another has put n sa SAID Town low St
adultery? 20 = ga "a OIL OH lIa
ID. 1.-1 es, ana ly in possession of 10
should ever put awasnown as the North ".
adultery-not alwavrry Lord, South of n.
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put away in our chae barn and other
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