The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-28

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persons belonging to other rellG.
Ions have been treated with kind.
ness here; have been allowed ia
build their churches, and to teach
their tenetS; and they have gone
abroad and to my certain knowledge
nave perpetrated the deepest lies
that ever fell from human lips, and
have thus been able to ply their vo-
cation OF passing around the hat
ana collecting more money to save
The doWn-tr0dden women of Utah"
and solve the Mormon problem. I
cannot say I am like the Savior, who
says love your enemies, for | do not
love such characters. [ told you
the measures Of this church are
adopted by common consent, and
any person who sees this building
filled on a general conference, will
nOtlce that our missionaries are
called from all classes of people by
the authorities of this church, and
the voice of the people is given to
sustain or not those who are called.
There is a statement in the Scrip
lures which says to the pure all
things are pure. There are many
who attribute our marriage system
to desire to crafty the lower pas
siOns. l do not say the church is
free from this crime, for crime it is
when it is done for unholy passions,
The church demands that its
members shall be pure. The
principle is designed to be pure.
This kingdom must have people,and
if the people of the world will not
come here, then we must build the
kingdom up from the internal
strength in the church. There is a
great cry to stop the influx of the
immigration of Latter-day Saints to
Utah. l have no fears that any
measures of that kind can obtain in
this country, because it would be
direct overthrow of the provisions
of the Constitution. Many state
that the youth Of this territory are
becoming demoraliZed. Some of the
youth are becoming demoralized,
and are leaving the faith which
their parents suffered for; but the
great bulk of them will rise up and
carry off the church; and l will say,
having recently returned from the
mission field, that those most fear
less in the enunciatiOn Of the doc
trines Of the church, the most indie
fatigable laborers, are found in the
boys reared in this territory and this
very city. This brings me again to
the idea that men embrace
the principle Of plural marriage to
crafty low desires. [ have preached
in the ministry for five years;
I have labored and travelled with
other elders; and | know as a rule,
that they are as pure as the angels
in regard to the matter to which
have referred. There is a singular
thing connected with this work
which 1 wish to note. There have
been a few who have de
parted from the principles of
purity, and [ will say that the
spirit Of purity has departed from
them and they have wilted. Has
a violation of these principles of
purity been sustained? if it has l
know not of it; and | say that any
person who has sustained it is guilty
of violation Of the principles of
the gospel and should be cut off.
Now, what is there about this people
that is so enormously wrong? There
is peace, responsibility and large
amount of honesty among this peO-
pie; and [ wish to know what it is
that shocks the sensibilities Of these
holy people. The people say the
United States is coming down upon
us to crush us out or crush out our
Institutions; but we have been
crushed out so Often-in theory
that we are getting used to it. We
have great faith in God. Now that
is a good quality in any people, is it
not; and we have so often seen the
clouds gather around and grow dark,
and then seen them dispelled by the
sun, that we believe all our
clouds will be dispelled. That is,
we put our trust in God and believe
that God helps them most who help
The choir sang the anthem make
a noise unto the Lord" Benedic
ton by Elder Elias Morris.
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