The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-17
An Opposite View.
Editors Herald:


SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 18th, 1884.
Alexander H. Smith, is reported in a
daily paper here, as saying he was will
ing to follow his father so far as his
father did follow Christ, and he thought
his father did TO low Christ. This people
had not obeyed the commandments OF
God as revealed through the Prophet
Joseph Smith, for it had been written
that as long us they obeyed Gods COM
mandments they would be allowed to
live in peace and flourish. Instead OF
this they have been driven from post to
post. and from synagogue to syn
agogue." What profound lOgicl From
the rise of the church till the deathof
the Prophet-all along while he was
following Christ, the Saints were
driven from post to post and from
synagogue to synagogue" but since the
PROPHETS death, and while this people
had not obeyed the commandments of
God" forsooth they have been living in
peaceful possession of their homes and
have "fourished" and are exceedingly
prosperous-yea, beyond the prosperity
OF any other people similarly circum-
Stanced. For fourteen years while the
Prophet Joseph Smith was following
Christ" the Saints who constituted his
followers were peeled and prosecuted
unto the death of many souls.
Their homes and cities were
pillaged, their temples desecrated,
and they were driven from
post to post and from synagogue to syn
agogue,' while, during the succeeding
fourty-four years under the leadership
of Presidents Brigham Young and John
TAYLOR - while this people were not
obeying the commandments Of God, as
the sapient Alexander, the last, has
spoken-to defend themselves and their
homes and families against mob vio-
lence, it has not cost the Saints one half
of one per cent. of their net earnings.
Now, Alexander must not say that
while Joseph, the great and good, was
following Christ" his followers were
not Excepting the commandments OF
God, for if the $4,000, as he stupidity
estimates their number, would not
keep Gods commandments under q
man who daily communed with God, F"
what could be expected of them with
out any legitimate leader at all
for sixteen years, as the EN-
MATES claim the church was without
divine head from the martyrdom OF
Joseph and Hyrum until Marks, Emma
and few other recalCitrants and dis
senters induced young Joseph to don
the captaincy, and afterwards under
the guardianship of one who impiously
assumes to stand in his illustrious
fathers shoes.
Further on he says, There we're from
200 900 to 250,0e9 members of the church
when his father was killed-ande of
these only between 5000 to 25,0 600 came
to Utah." BAIL What do these boys
know about the church, its strength
and history, except what theapostates
told them? ~
There are thousands of venerable men
and women living in Utah who know
more in week about Joseph and the
church and Emma and Marks, ct al,
than all the boys have learned about
them during lifetime.
How many times did the Savior and
his apostles assert that those who
would live godly in Christ Jesus should
suffer persecution?n Is it because the
Emmaites are not suffering persecu-
tons" that they are Giving godly in
Christ Jesus?" or have the passages re-
ferred to any significance or modern ap-
plication? NAuvoo.