Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-09-26
IN ABRAHAM'S BOSOM !

TO the ways OF the Lord, and made him
say his prayers in public. Brigham
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would earn bis bread honestly by the
sweat OF other peoples brows. He bc
came minister. Hc cultivated CAB
gluttony, and gold. He moved TO Ohio
and Joined the Mormons. There is q
popular belief that he was the founder
and father Of Mormonism. Not at all
His relation to the Mormons was that
of ID. ID. Spencer TO the State Savings
Institution.
"He joined the Mormons-which il
to say, he became a Turk and, untur.
bancd, read with assiduity the lifa Of
Mohammed. When they were driven
out of Ohio hc had acquired the essen.
tial trick OF holiness--canting dema-
goguory--and when, in 1874, the
Prophet Smith was murdered by mob
at Nauvoo, Brigham was already to
roll up his eyes, and run the groceries
and dry-goods of Zion. Sid Rigdon,
who presumed to be a rival, was, in
accordance with ecclesiastical prece.
dents, communicated. Had Young
been as courageous then as he was in
Mountain Meadow days, cxcommunica.
ton would not have been the limit of
Rigdon's fate.
"With prayers and tears, both of
which may be manufactured on short
notice, Young persuaded the saints to
60 to Salt Lake Valley. He wanted
land enough to raise family on, and
as no pent-up Utica could contract his
powers, they went. ltnever occurred
to them-or If it did, they did not dare
say so-that when Brigham said the
Lord he meant business But he
did. IL is just thirty years since he
founded Salt Lake City. Its founda-
tion consisted in coaxing little noun.
tain brooks TO trickle over the desert
sands. Men, women and time were
allthat were necessary and on Wednes-
day august 29) the Prophet died of
Inflammation of the bowels, caused by
the very richness OF the soil but he
died worth $4,000, 900, and not dollar
of il in Spencer's bank.
"This great fraud was combna.
tion OF Pope, Mussulman, and d. b.
Spencer. Like the Pope, he assumed
infallibility. He had ecstasies, visions,
angels visits, revelations, inspirations.
He was more respectable than Henry
Ward Beecher in that he preached
what he prachced. A Mussulman, be
rejected the Koran, because the Old
Testament, stewed over, answered his
purpose better. Mohammed was hon.
est, simple and frugal. The Mosaic
Patriarchs were sharpers, spectators,
blasphemers, adulterers and thieves.
The Book OF Mormon is composed of
the worst features Of the Koran and
the Old Testament. He was a proto-
type of d. ID. Spencer in that he in
duced the poor to pinch themselves for
his accommodation, and make him and
his family rich at their expense. With.
out genius, having only craft without
holiness, q most arrant bypocrite !;
without personal courage, he hired
others to do his bloody deeds. He has
illustratedanew the gullability of man.
kind. In almost every age Of the
world, man woman have been able, on
small pretense, to induce numbers to
follow them whether TO rescue the
tomb Of the Saviour from the heather,
tofollowthc supposed miraculous leader
into the forest to live on roots until the
diet became disagreeable, or to burn
Converts and Churches, or to hang
negroes. The worlds quota Of fools
never gets down-never needs replen.
ishment. The crowd that has followed
the leadership of Brigham Young has
been composed of all Nations except
the Irish and the Yankee.
"The popular notion of Gcntilcs who
think they arc wiser in their day and
generation than the children of light
is, that Youngs death is the end of
Mormonism. When Colonel Steptoe
was sent to Utah in 1854 with a bat.
talon to make Brigham take back
seat, and govern Utah according to the
laws of the United States, Brigham
said little while Steptoe was there, but
after he had gone, Young arose in the
Tabernacle, and said, Il am and will
be Governor, and no power can hinder
It until the Lord says Brigham, you
need not be Governor any longer. In.
flammation of the bowels, hastened by
green corn, appears to be the medium
through which this message has been
delivered. Az no man rises head and
shoulders above tho rest of the Apos-
ties, il is guessed that Brigham will not
have a successor capable Of maintain.
ing Turkey in Utah. But great men
are often raised up when least expected.
Emergencies create men. The material
interests Of the saints in Utah are too
grent to be permitted to pass out Of
their hands into those Of the ungodly.
is gone; but the assets remain" /"
Bold TRurHs.--The Lancaster In.
telligeno1 says;
We are glad to SEQ the religious pa.
pers take up the religious tramp" for
when the secular papers castigate him
their motives are impugned. No one
can deny that "tbe number Of people
who run some machine OF pious or
moral sort for living, whose capital
is sclfconceit, and whose income is do
rived from mixinr fheir hraaa with tha