Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-08-31
The Standard.
HORACE GREEDY AMONG THE MORMONs.


ever spoke Of his wife wives desiring to see him
or make his acquaintance. We need not state that
Horace did not prolong his visit there. Brigham
Young in answer to questions, said:
B. WE hold that there can be no true Chris
trian Church without priesthood directly commits
stoned BY, and in immediate communication with,
the Son Of God and Saviour Of mankind. Such
church is that of the Latter Day Saints, called by
their enemies Mermonsj We know no other that
preterdS to have present ana dlrect re'eiatos
of Gods Will
H. Citizen am to understand that you regard
all other churches protesting to be Christian as the
Church of Rome regards all churches not in COM
munion with itself-as schismac, heretical and out
of the way of salvation
B. Yes, substantially.
H. G-Apart from this, in what respect 10 your
doctrines differ essentially from those of our Ortho
dox Protestant Churchcs-the Baptist or Methodist,
for example?
B. we hold the doctrines of Christianity, as
revealed in the Old and New Testaments-also IN
the Book of Mormon, which teaches the same cardl-
nal truths, and those only.
II. G.-Do you believe in the doctrine OF the
Trinity?
B. we do; but not exactly as it is held by
other churches We believe in the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Ghost, as equal, but not Identical
not as one person being We believe in all the
Bible teaches on this subject
H. G.-Do you believe in personal devil-a dis
tinct conscience, spiritual being whose nature and
acts are essentially malignant and evil
B. we do.
II G.-Do YOU hold the doctrine of eternal pun
ishment?
we do; though perhaps not exactly as
other churches do. We believe it as the Bible
teaches it.
G-[ understand that you regard Baptism by
Immersion essential?
Il. WE do
il. G-Do you practice Infant Baptism?
D. Y.-No.
II. G-Do you make removal to these valleys Oh
ligatory to your converts?
B. Y-They would consider themselves greatly
aggrieved if they not invited hither. We hold
to such gathering together of Gods People as the
Bible ortells, and that this is the place. and now is
the time appointed for its consummation.
H. G-The predictions to which you refer have
usually, think, been understood to indicate Jeru-
salem Tor Judea) the place of such gatherings
B. Yes for the Jews-not for Others
II. G.-What is the position of your Church with
respect to slavery?
B. Y.-We consider it of divine institution, and
not to be abolished until the pronounced upon
Ham shall have been removed from his descendants
H. Care there many slaves now held in this
Territory?
b. Y.-There arc.
II. G-Do your Territorial laws uphold Slavery?
B. Y.-ThoSe laws are prnted-you can read for
yourself If slaves are brought here by those who
owned them in the States we do not favor their es-
cane from the service of those owners.
II. Gam I to infer that Utah. if admitted
member of the Federal Union will be slave State?
B. I.-No; she will be Free State. Slavery
here would prove useless and Improbable. | re-
gard it as curse to their masters l myself hire
many laborers and pay them fair wages could not
afford to own them Utah is not adapted to Slave
Labor.
II. G.-l understand that you require each men,
Der to pay one-tenth of all he produces earns
to the Church.
B. Y-That is requirement of our faith There
is compulSion as to the payment.
H. G.-What is done with the proceeds Of this
tithng?
B. Y-Part of it is devoted to building temples
and other places of worship; part to helping the
poor and needy converts on their way to this coun-
try; 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 Church?
b. Y.-Not one penny. No Bishop no Elder no
Deacon, or other Church officer, receives any COM
pensation for his official services.
H. Glow, then, do your ministers lives
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 in the shop like
his neghbors; every Minister of the Church has his
proper calling 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 (pontng 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, and | never re-
ceived one farthing from her treasury; if obtain
anything from the tthng-house, I am charged with
and pay for it, just as any one else would the
clerks in the tthngstate paid like other clerks
but no one is ever paid for any service pertaining to
the ministry. am called rich and consider myself
worth S250,00O; but no dollar of it was ever paid
me by the Church or for any service minister
in the Everlasting Gospel I lost nearly all I had
when we were broken up 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 ever made up to me
by the Church, nor by any one I believe know
how to acquire property and how to take care of it.
II. G-Can you give me any rational explanation
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
directly in contact?
j.. VI know of no such band no such persons
or organization. hear Of them only in the sande,
of our enemies.
II. G:-With regard, then, to the grave question
on which your doctrines and practices are avowedly
az wal Will lilOSe VI Lne OnrlSLlan WOfd-that
apluraity 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 thar
was when it was first revealed to us as the Divine
will / think they generally accept it, as do, as
the will of God.
H. G-How general is polygamy among you?
b. VI could not say. Some of those present
lheads OF the Church have each but one wife; 9th
ers have more: each determines what is his ;ndv;d
ual duty
II: G.-What is the largest number of wives be
longing to any one man?
b. VI have fifteen I know no one who ha
more but some of those sealed to me are old ladie
whom regard rather as mothers thar wives. bu
whom have taken home to cherish and support
II. G.-Does not the Apostle Paul say that
bishop should be :" the husband of one wife ~
B. $50 we hold. We do not regard any but
married man as fitted for the office of bishop Blu
the Apostle does not forbid a bishop having NOR