Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-01

refer have usually, Think, been understood
to indicate Jerusalem Tor Judea) as ths
place of such gathering.
B. Y.-Yes, for the Jews--not fo
| others.
H. G.-What is the position of you
Church vito respect to Slaveryi
B. we consider it of Divine institu
ton, and not to be abolished until The
curse pronounced on Ham shall have beer
removed from bis descendants.
H. Care any slaves now held in this
Territory
B. Y.-There are.
H. G-Do your Territorial laws uphold
SIaveryi
B. Y.-Those laws are printed-you
can read for yourself. If slaves are brought
here by those who owned them in the
States, we do not favor their escape from
the service of those owners.
II. Gam 10 infer that Utah, if ad
mitted as member of the Federal Union
| will be Slave State9
B. Y.-No; she will be Free State.-
Slavery here would prove useless and un.
profitable. ! regard it generally as curse
to the masters. l myself hire many Ia.
borers and pay them fair wages; 1 could
not afford 10 own them. I can do better
than subject myself to an obligation to
feed and clothe their families, to provide
and care for them in sickness and health
Utah is not adapted to Slave Labor.
H. G.-Let me now be enlightened
With regard more especially to your church
polity; Innderstaud that you reqsire each
member to pay over one tenth of ali he
produces or earns to the Church.
B. Y.-Tbat is a requirement of oul
faith. There is no compulsion as to the
payment. Each member acts in the
premises according to his pleasure, under
the dictates of his own conscience.
H. G.-What is done with the proceeds
Of this tithiug?
B. Y.-Part of it is devoted to building
temples and other places Of worship; part
10 helping the poor and needy converts on
their way 10 this country; and the largest
portion to the support of the poor among
the Saints.
H. G.-Is none of it paid to Bishops
and other dignitaries of the Churchs
B. Y.-Not one penny. No Bishop. no
Elder, no Deacon, or other church officer,
receives any compensation for his official
services. A Bishop is often required to
put his hand in his own pocket and provide
therefrom for the poor Of bis charge; but
never receives ANYTHING for his services.
H. G.-How, then, do your ministers
liveg
B. Y.-By the labor of their own hands,
like the first Apostles Every Bishop,
every Elder may be seen at work in the
field or the shop, like his nsighbors; every
minister of the Church has his proper call
ing by which he earns the bread of 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, Furguson 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 a
regular calling apart from the Church's $
service, and | never received one farthing
from her treasury; if obtain anything
from the tithinghouse, / am charged with
and pay for =, just as any one else would
the clerks in the tithingstore are paid like
other clerk, but no one is ever paid for any
service pertaining 10 the ministry. We
think man who cannot make his living
aside from the Ministry of Christ unsuited
to that office. am called rich, and cen
slider myself worth s25O,OOo; but no dol.
lar of il was ever paid Inc by the Church
or for any service as minister of the Ev-
erlasting Gospel. lost nearly all had
when we were broken up in Missouri and
driven from that State; was nessrly strip
ped again when Joseph Smith was nur-
dered and we were driven from Illinois
but nothing was ever made up to me by
the Church, nor by and one.. | believe
know how to acquire property and how to
take care of it.
H. G.-Can you 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 af.
forded by the cruciixion of Christ and the
kindred treatment Of Gods ministers
prophets and saints in all ages.
H. G.-I know that a new sect is al.
ways decried end traduced = that it is
hardly ever deemed respectable to belong
one-that the Baptists, Quakers, Metho'
dists, Universalists, &C., have each in theil
turn been regarded in the infancy of theil
sect as the offscouring of the earth; yet
cannot remember that either of them were
ever generally represented and regarded by
the other sect of their early days as
thieves, robbers and murderers.
B. Ifyou will consult the cotempo
rary Jewish accounts of the life and acts o.
Jesus Christ, you will find that he and his
disciples were accused Of every abominable
deed and purpose-robbery and murder
included. Such work is still extaut
and may be found by those who seek it.
H. G.-What do you say Of the so call