The New York herald., 1877-09-14
.HEAyEN-ORDAINED pOLYGAMY,
Why Joe, the Old Original Prophet, Had
That Revelation.
SKETCH OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES
Career of John Tay'or. the Acting Presi-
dent of the Dozen.

them with "a revelaton'' the 4ih inst directing
them to preside the Church without electIng a
new President and by this apostolic comp dffat the
Mormon Kingdom is wrenched from the family of the
Youngs and virtually passes over to the family Of the
Taylors Whether the poor unfortunates Of the Nor
mon faith in Utah shall be better situated under
the regime of the latter, than they would have been
| under q scion OF the deceased Brigham is matter
which properly only concerns themselves and with
that do not propose meddle at tho present time
but there is this announcement Of "a new revea.
| ton" and q change OF government the Mormon
| Church the foreshadowng of that schism that has
long been looked for and desired by all loyal citizens
! OF the Republic who have elt that their national
honor in the world was besmrched by the
| fact that u wholesale system Of prostitu-
tion, rapine and murder existed in the heart
OF the nation, under the OF Church, which bade
defiance to the Congress of tho United States and
every administration OF the government that has at
tempted to deal with bring it to subsection to
wholesome statutes and moral law.
REVELATIONS CAME.
The printed revelations In the history OF the Nor
mon Church afford the student who has the physical
stamina to endure through the reading of such
miserable twaddle the unmistakable evidence
that Smith, the founder OF the Latter Day
faith was Of those persons Of
peculiar temperament who when they deliberate
intensely upon subject Of interest, become so i'm
pressed with their own thoughts and lose themselves
inthe labyrinth OF their cogitaons that their In
drviouali,y for the moment is gone held in abey-
ance, ana what they then speak write is to them
revelation, because they realize that at that moment
they not in their abnormal condition, and therc
fore, they conclude that they were under 'the con-
troi" of another ana higher influence and authority
All through the Mormon revelations, where Joseph
Smith wasever ready with "Thus saith the Lord"
the most ordinary mind freed from any partisan
influence cnncleary see tht the man was but readng
the buildings OF his heart and uterng the cogita
tons Of his own brain. From the beginning OF his
troubles in Missouri in 1884, up to his violent DEATH
Ten years later in Illinois, the whole jumble of his
revelations extended In gravity beyond his
passions wants, caprice ard ambition and with the
inherited superstition OF his parents that in his family
prophet and great would arise he followed that
wil.o the-wisp and pushed onward from the obscure
terate ploughboy Ne York State scarcely able to
write his name, TIL his head got inflated with
ambition to bethe President of the United States
thecounseliorof kings and potentates.
CONVENIENT AND VERY PRACTICAL
The revelations the beginning to the end were
permcated with the acme OF this ambition, while they
the time soidwith practical suggestions
sIrom the Lord" about Joseph's ever present wants
and cravings He had revelation for everything that
he required OF the disciples He was a strong, well
built man, OF feet in height, a famous
wrestler and delighted in throwing to the ground the
biggest men who came near him IN friendly tusse,
yet Lord very CONSIDERABLY provided for his
poral by instructng him that he had with
held from him the strength necessary 20 labor,
and with the same sollctous for his
comfort the Saints were commanded to build a
"mansion" in Nauvoo to which the kings, queens,
mobiles and honorable OF the earth could and
ha fbout ind tn f1,o
lips of the prophet the wisdom of the gods thought,
full provision in that revelation arranged that the
prophet and his family should dwell therein throug
out their generatons, and, sure enough, tho widow
and her children are living there to-day rent free
while Mrs. Smith that was "the lady elect" serves
SOUP beans and the passing traveller
joys the domestic fecities of the mansion with Mr..
Bidaman, social, jolly Virginia Dutchman, who
neither believes In revelation yet has
the fear OF the spectre of the martyred
Joseph in his mind. There is evidence bnyond all
controversy that Smith and Young both had young
women sealed to them and cohabted with them, and
the former to his eternal disgrace IL Is said lived
years with married women oil his Church whio these
women still being supported by their hus-
bands living with them and bearing children to their
Names and all this long before 'the revelation on
poiyesmy was written 10 justify their disgracef con-
duct. With Smith the wish father to the thought,
the revelation followed matter OF justification
| to bewildcr those who trusted In him.
BRIGHAM's ONLY REVELATION.
| At Smiths death Brigham was more cautious. and
degree, he claimed that bis predecessor had lad out
work enough for him and the saints to occupy them
for orty years. and he kept out OF the
of revelations until he got to the Missouri River
1s46 and there he received the only written revelations
credited to his prophetic caEg-a very common
place document, Yet sensible piece of advice about
organizing the emigrants into companies oil hundreds,
Wab anu sr"hsm or anv man of na
| sense In his camp could have dictated to an
amanuensIs after having had the travelling
the banks OF the Mississippi TO the banks OF the Mis-
souri,, where they halted, distance OF three hundred
miles. Brigham Is lonely ''wrtten revelation owed
It's birth to the prudent thought and preparation OF
man entering upon long journey over an almost un-
| known country occupied py Indians who might be
their foes likely they might be their frends and
that he had such an impression OF divinity about hts
thoughts, after the manner of Smith, cares to
dispute for fanatics in all In all ages
have claimed the same thing, and spiritualisla are
to-day threading such revelations out by yard
peddiing them to whoever Is silly enough BUY them
| THE REVELATION or THE APOSTLES.
| In the light OF the past manufacture or Mormon
revelations Il s easy enough to understand now tho
Mormon Apostles received "a revelation" a week ago
| directing them TO take charge OF the Church lhey
are Al, moor ana heavily Surdened with very numerous
wives and sgons OF children, ard as Brigham KEEP up
a large and expensive family and left behind him
about ten mions-ior IL ID more likely 10 be that
sum than under 1t, to be divided among his ownit is
very that the Twelve Apostles should hunger
thirst after the tnngs but In Their anxiety and
zeal for a grab at the Church treasury they have
overreached themselves and have exposed the fraud
which has dominated tho poor, downtrodden Nor
mon people from the bcginning-their belief In revela
ton. The Mormon papers OF last week have come TO
us frcghted with verOaum Reports OF uic aouIesses
delivered the body OF the dead prophet and they
bear but reading, aud that our correspondent ee
graphed at the time, "tne utter absence OF any
| aluson to the successorship." Their silence was
ominous They had not word to say, but their
master had not been Dramatically sealed
in his sepulchre forty eight hours before
they met TO "wait upon The Lord" and II
ten men with hungry, furnishing appettcs could
be brought together into Delmonico's dining room,
| with table spread with all the necessarics and
Iuxuries of life before them coua kneel and pray and
ask the Lord what they should do to ve and dd not
rise and march 70 the vands, then human nature and
It's craving arc not the things havo understood
them 10 be. OF course the Twelve Apostles or the ten
OF them who were present, got "a revelation" Thcy
would have been terrible bockhcads II they had not
sot just as they got and how they got II, for on the
money question there ofthem deficient in tho
science Of 'addon, division and silence.v Tncy have
done just what ought TO have been expected oil them,
aud In the nnseemy haste with which they have
elected themselves to direct the people and handle
their moneys without giving dollar OF bond, and
tho slightest accountability themselves.