Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1859-08-31
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lQ&tSVs ~ Mormon Cnurcn, ana 0ctalllnS MatteIS
.nAsAinp g they appeared "a him in SAT- LAKE axe
paesssd with his visit He says no Mormon women
were introduced OF spoke to him, and although he
wss asked to risk Mormons in their houses. no one
ever spoke Of his wife or wives desiring 10 see hun
or make hisAcqnaintance. We need not state that
Horace did mot prolong his visit there. brigham
Young d answer to questions, said:
sR WE hold that there can DC no true CHRIS
s16ned by, and in immediate communication with,
'tSe Son Of God and Saviour at mankind Such 4
church i that of the Latter Day Saints called ny
their enemies Mormons; We know no other that
even preteds to have present and direct revelations
Of Gods will.
n. Citizen am to understand that you regard
all other churches protesting to be Christian as the
nSrion with itselfas schismatic, heretical and out
ot tie way of salvation?
.sR<Y.-Hes. substantially.
H.G-Apart from this, in what respect do your
Doctrines differ essentially from those Of our Ortho
dox Protestant Church1s-the Baptist or Methodist,
for example? . g
WE hold the doctrines of Christianity, .s
revealed in the Old and New Testaments-also in
the Book of Mormon, which teaches the same carti-
nal truths, and those only.
H G.-Do you believe in the doctrine Of the
Trinity?
RY-Wc 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 [bcingl We believe IN all the
II. G.-Do you believe in a personal devils dis.
tnct conscience. spiritual being. whose nature and
acts are essentially malignant and evil:
B. Y.-We do.
H, 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.
HG-I understand that you regard Baptism by
Immersion as essential:
R WE do.
H. G.-Do you practice Infant Baptism:
Y.-No
H. G-Do you make removal to these valleys Oh
igatory to Your cnnvertSs
B. Y.-Thcv would consider themselves greatly
assrievcd if they were not invited hi,hc- We hold
to such gathering together Of Gods People IS the
Bible for.c! and that this is the place: and now is
the time appointed for its oanSummstion.
H. G.-Thc predictions to which YOU rcssr have
usually. think been understood to Indicate Icru-
salem Tor yudca) as the place Of such gatherings
r. Yes, for the JewS-not for others.
H. G.-Waat is the position Of your Church With
respect to slavery
we consider it Of divine institution. and
not to be abolished until the curse pronounced upon
Ham shall have been removed from his descendants
H: Care there many slaves now held in this
Territory.
B. Y.-Therc are.
HG-Do your Territorial laws uphold Slavery.
B. Y.-Those laws prin:ed-vou can read for
yourself If slaves arc brought here by those who
owned them in the States we DO not favor their es-
care from the service Of those owners.
II. Gam to infer that Utah. If admitted as
member of the Federal Union. will he slave State:
8. Y.-No; she will be Free State. Slavery
here would prove useless and improbable. ] re-
gard it as curse to their masters. I myself hire
many laborers and pay them fair wages could not
afford to own them. Utah is not adapted to Slave
Labor.
H.G-I understand that YOU require each men,
Der to pay onetcnth of all he produces or earns
to the Church.
BY.-That is requirement Of our faith. There
is no compulsion as to the payment.
H. G.-What is done with the proceeds Of this
tithing:
BY.-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
II. It's none of it PAID to Bishops and other
dignitarics 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
IL Glow, then. do your ministers live?
g. Y.-By the labor of their own hands, like the
first APOSTLE. Every Bishop every Elder. may be
dsiy seen, at work in the field in the shop Ike
his neighbours; every Minister a the Church has his
proper calling by which he car.s the bread Of his
family; he who cannot or will not do the Churci's
work for nothing is rot 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 I never re-
ceived ono farthing from her treasury; if obtain
anything from the tithing- house. am charged with
and pay Tor it, Just as any one else would; the
clerks in the tithing-state are paid like other clerks
but no one is paid for any service pertaining to
the ministry am called rich and consider myself
worth $250,0O0; but no dollar of it was ever paid
me by the Church or for any service as a minister
nthe Everlasting Gospel. I lost nearly all had
when We we're broken up in Missouri and dli en-
rom that State was nearly stripped again when
from Illinois; but nothing was ever made up to me
by the Church, nor by any one. l 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
ase generally regarded by those among whom they
have lived and with whom they have been brought
directly in contact?
Or organization. hear of them only in the slande,
Of our enemies
T. G-With regard, then, to the grave question
on which your doctrines and practices arc avowedl,
aswar with those Of the Christian world-that d
aplurality of wives-is the system of your Church
acceptable to the majority of its women?
b. Y.-They could not be more averse u it thar
was when it was first revealed to us as the DIVINE
will ! think they generally accept it, as do, a
the win of God
H. Glow general is polygamy among youe
y! could not say. Some Of those presen
hs.ds Of the Church, have each hut one wife: 9th
ers nave more: each determines what is his individ
uAl duty. > . q - II ' ~
H: G.-What is the largest number of wives be
longing to any one man?
XVI have fifteen; know no one vim h.
e; but some Of those sealed to me ara old I,d;e
waanf regard rather as mothers thar wives, hi
whom have taken home to cherish and sum,ost
IN. G;-Does not the Apostle Paul saw hat
o',noA should be 1.-THE husband of one wifsr'
$50 VIC hold We do not regard anv Int
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