Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-09-08
: II. G.-Do your Territoria. laws uphola

l II. - HOse tdNS dfc pIiutcu-NOu 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.
H. Gam TO infer that Utah, If ad-
mitted as a member of the Federal Urion,
will be Slave State!
b Y-No; she will be a Free State.-
Siaverehere would prove useless and IN
profitable. ! regard ii generally as curse
to the masters. myself hire many labor.
ers and pay them fair wages; l could not
afford to own them. can do better than
subject myself to an obligation to feed and
l.clothe their families, to provide and are
for them in sickness and health. Utah is
not adapted to Slave Lahor.
b. G Let me now be enlightened with
regard more especially TO your Church
polity: understand that yon require each
member to pay over one tenth Of all he pro-
duces or earns to the Church.
B. Y.-That is a requirement of our faith
There is no compulsion as to the payment.
Each member acts in the premises accord
ing to his pleasure, under the dictates of
his own conscience.
H. G.-What is done with the proceeds
Of this tithingl
B. Y-Part of it is devoted to building
temples ard other places of worship; part to
helping the poor and needy converts on
their way to this country; and the largest
portion to the support of the poor among The
Saints.
H. G.-ls none of it paid to Bishops and
other dignitaries of The church!
B. Y-Not one penny. No Bishop, no
Elder no Deacon, o. other officer, receives
any compensation for his official services.
A Bishop is often required to put his hand
in his own pocket and provide 'herelrom for
the poor in his charge, bus he never re-
ceives ANYTHING ior his services.
H. Glow, then, do your ministers
live!
B. Y-By The labor OF their own hands,
like the first Apostles. Every Bishop
every Elder, may be daily seen at work in
the field or the shop, like his neighbors:
every minister of the Church has his proper
Ca ling by which he earns the bread OF his
family; he who cannot OF 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 a regular
calling apart from the Church's service, and
/ never receive one far;hing from her trea-
sury, if obtain anything from the tithing
house, am charged with and pay for it,
lust as any one else would; the clerks in the
,ithing- store are paid like other clerks, but
no ole is ever paid for any service pertain
ing to the ministry. We think man who
cannot make his living aside from the Min
istry of Christ unsuited to that Office.
am called rich, and consider myself worth
$3.50 900; but no dollar of it was ever paid
me by the Church or for any service as a
min lister of the Everlasting Gospel. l lost
nearly Ill had when we were broken up in
Missouri aud driven from shat State; was
nearly stripped again when Joseph Smith
was murdered and we were driven from Ill
nols, but nothing was ever made up to me
by the Church, nor by any one. believe
l know how to acquire property and how to
take care Of it.
H.G.-Can you give me any rational ex-
PLANTATION of the aversion and hatred with
| which your people are generally regarded
by those among whom they have lived and
with whom they have been brought direct
ly IN contact!
B. Y.-No other explanation than is af-
forded by the crucifxion of Christ and the
kindred treatment of G od's ministers, pro-
phets aud saints in all ages.
H. G.-I know that a ne " sec. is always
decried aad tTaduced-,hat it is hardly ever
deemed respectable to belong to one--that
the Ba2tists. Qaakers, Methodist, Univer-
salis's. &c, have eaclrin their turn been
regarded II the infancy ofrheir sect as the
offscuurng ofihe earth; yet l cannot re-
member that either Of them were ever gen.
orally represented and regarded by the older
sects of their early days as thieves, robbers,
murderers. ~
B. Y-If you will consult the cotempo-
rary Jewish account 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 in
cluded. Such work is still extant, and
may be found by those who seek it.
H. G--What do you say of the SO called
Danites, or Destroying Angels. belonging
to your Church,
B. Y.-What do you say! | know Of no
such band, no srch persons or organization
hear of them only in the ISLANDERS of our
enemies.
H. G-Wi,b regard, then. to the grave
question on which your doctrines and prac-
tices are avowedly at war with those of the
Christian world--that of 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 revealed
10 us as the Divine will. think they
generally accept it, as do, as the will o
God.
II. G.--How general is polygamy among
you'
b. VI could not say. Some of those
present heads Of the Church. have eact
but one wife; others have more. each de
termines what is his individual duty.
III. G-Wbat is the largest number o
wives belonging to any one man!
b. VI have fifteen; l know no ont
who has more; but some of those sealed II