The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-25
THE DAILY PACIFIC
SUB SCRIP FIONS
A FOLLOWER OF JOE SMITH.
An Anti-POlygamy MOrmon-The Creed
-"Healing by Faith"
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[Cor. Philadelphia TimesI
Later in the day we talked with an in
telhgent young man, who was, as he said,
a born and baptized Mormon. He was
bitter against polygamy and spoke freely
Of the greed and tyranny of the elders
during and since the time of Brigham
Young. He was a follower of Joseph
Smith. In speaking of polygamy he
said:
"St. Paul said to ST. Timothy in the
Bible, "a bishop shall be the husband of
one wife but St Joseph, in our revela-
ton, said: "a man shall be the husband
of one woman. When Brigham Young
taught plurality he had to go against
"Will you kindly tell what is the faith
of the Latter-Day Saints7"
ASK me what you want to know and
will try to answer. Yes, we believe God
is the creator of everything and the
Heavenly Father of us all, and that Jesus
Christ, His son, died that He might redeem
all who would believe in Him. We believe
In baptism and regeneration and that
this is the reign of the Holy Spirit on the
earth, among the elect. We know the
Bible is Gods word and we believe that He
sent another revelation to St Joseph to
prepare place and q people, who are
called the Latter-Day Saints, and who are
set apart from the worlds people to re-
ceive Christ at His coming. We have an
other belief, which l know the Gentiles
do not receive. 1t is healing by faith.
When any one is sick among us who are
true Mormons we send for the elders, who
pray and anoint with oil, as st. James
and St Joseph taught u.s.
How does it work, practically"
"I have heard of the blind receiving
sight and the deaf made to hear, but l
haven't seen it myself. l have seen many
raised from fevers and other sick beds,
but what know happened in my own
house t6s Words He RT H0w great intensity Psby into 4be
only one we had, was taken very i'll We
sent for the elders. but after praying and
amounting, they told my wife it was
borne in upon them by the Spirit that
the child would die My wife was well
nigh crazy and wanted to send for Gen
tile doctor. The baby was lying all cold,
its eyes turned up into its head and only
just breathing family. l determined to
90 and .restle with the Lord myself l
could not bear to give up my faith in the
Lord and l loved Hannah and the baby
better than anything on earth. Said l:
Hannah, give me one hour to prevail
with God, and then if l fail / will give
over the child to you l remem-
bered David and cast myself along
the floor and cried to my Heavenly Father
for the life of our child rose and went
into the room, and there it lay as cold as
ever and its mother reproaching me out of
her eyes. Again went before the Lord
and prayed to Him with strong crying
His own prayer in Gethsemane: ooh,
Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass
from me- Again 1 went to the child,
but there was no change, only it
breathed and Hannah hid her face in the
bed clothes and waited. The third time
lay befor. my God; the burden of my
sorrow suddenly lifted. and it seemed
almost as If a voice had said to me, Thy
prayer is heard just sprang to my feet
and went into Hannah's room and there
she was looking with all her eyes and
pointing with her finger to the baby. The
pink had come back to its little hands and
feet, its eyes had grown natural like, il
was looking right up in its mammals face
and trying to laugh. tell you before
God, lady, an hour after it was sitting uI
playing with its toys, just as well as ever.