Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-12-06
ANGUS At 1T AGAIN.
He Lays Down the Law TO the
Fifteenth Warders.

The fact that Anguish Cannon didn't
get chance to rant at the big Tab. yes
terday afternoon was ample guarantee
that he would take it out on the inno-
cents at one OF the ward meeting houses
in the evening.
By special invitation, the DEMOCRATS
Sunday school editor armed himself with
gatling gun and proceeded to the
Fifteenth Ward Assembly Hall to hear
what the convict-elect had to say about
his coming martyrdom.
True to his word, Angus took the stand
at the opening of the meeting. His SER
mon was one OF those rambles in which
he takes so much delight; rambler in
which he talks about the Saints OF for
mer days, and those OF the latter days in
such u promiscuous manner that he gets
the whole thing so mixed that he credits
himself with all the miracles that have
been performed from the beginning OF
the world down to the present time.
True to his nature, Angus repeated the
assertion that he gloried in having been
caught, and in this connection he gave
the feeble-minded congregation the
laugh by saying that he had to be
arrested in order to gain his lib
erty. But Angus is also mixed on
this point. At one time it is the coming
imprisonment that he glories in, and in
the next breath he is praising God for
the bonded liberty which precedes the
"martyrdom." Taking all he has said,
it would be hard to tell what Angus does
glory in; but there's no denying it, he is
glad about something and he wants it
distinctly understood.
But Notwithstanding the fact that
Angus is repeater, he always manages
to make at least one rather startling as
sertion in the course of his sermon, and
this he did last night. After referring in
that sweet sympathetic way to those who
had broken their covenants i'll order to
obey the law, he said: "The Federal of
ticers think we will all prom
Use to obey, but we'll fool them
one. l would lie and rot in Jail rather
than go back on my religion" Don't
tell us that you're going to lie in Jail,
Angus, it's hard enough to hear your
prevarications in the pulpit, without think
ing that you will keep them up during
your martyrdom. As to the rotting, ii
you feel that you are philosophical
enough to decompose yourself and leave
this sphere, you may feel assured that
you will have the faith and prayers OF
your brethren and sisters, together with
those Of the Loyal League and the entire
American element in Utah. II you will
rot, go and do it, but promise that you
will not lie any more.
But why waste lead lin its harmless
graphite form) on such an object, when
the sermon can be summed up in few
brief words. He took for his subject the
great latter-day tin god whom he calls
a." but whom the people call "Angus,"
and from this subject he did not deviate
for moment. His praises OF this god
showed a simple, childlike devotion, ex-
cessive in the extreme, yet filled with
pure love.
At the close OF the sermon the bishop
OF the ward arose and bore his testimony
to the goodness OF the man who had Just
spoken, but realizing that his tafy would
sound tame at the side OF what Angus
had given himself, he soon sat down and
the meeting was adjourned