The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-02-23
CHAPTER VIII.

For moment Elchard stood looking at
the Prophet, his eyes swapping, his face
white with anger, and the blue veins about
his temples distendcd with burning blood.
Con speak moment to this people,
sirl" he asked.
The rustic that followed the Prophets fin
ishing clause fell ut once into silence With
an astonished look the great man stood and
hesitated ar instant, while white film
seemed to come forward out Of the flesh Of
his large face and settle in q little pallid
ring about his mouth. "Certainly, If you
have any thing instructive to Offer" he
said.
"Thank you; that is precisely the nature
Of what have to say" replied Elchard, and
turning toward the people he drew himself
up and looked ut them. The stiffness Of
death fell upon the house, this stranger
looked In his anger so like white human
flame. The fine strong modelling Of his form,
the straight nose and dilated nostrils, the
iron set Of the lower face and the intel
lectual and delicate turn Of the upper, and
above all the flashing blue-gray eyes, swept
such thrill through the audience as the
bsggy blowsy gentry Of the pulpit platform
might never hope to.
'sMy friends" he began, II do not wish to
speak to you as religionist, or as q minis
Tor Of the Gospel, but as man and as
brother. am not public speaker, but I
could never look my fellows in the face
again, and would never cease to execrate
the cowardice Of my own heart, did let
this hour pass by without warning you
against this mar. Brigham Young was
born poor man; he was a painter by trade
and Injured to hard work. When he joined
this people he was still poor; when he came
to these mountain valleys with you his cir
cumstances were not yet improved; he had
not yet risen to power. Twenty years Of
unexampled privilege with your purses and
your liberties have made him, not only one
Of the richest men in our federation, but has
set him among the worlds great princes Of
fortunel You are poor; penury and isola-
tion and tithe-paying is your portion, while
yonder in the blooming basin of the Great
Salt Lake he is fed like King and
housed palatinlly. To-day his workmen are
finishing palace for his favorite wife that
cost one hundred thousand dollars; but q
month since one Of his wives brought suit
for divorce from him, alleging that his in
come was forty thousand dollars each
month. Yet he has told you here to-day
that the salvation Of your souls depend
upon the payment Of one-tenth Of all your
productions and earnings each year into
treasury Of which he is custodian and the
cOnOlLlOn OF WHICH no nus uOt SHOWN you
for twenty years! Meni how long will you
rest supinely in the arms Of his perfidious
assumptions and be plunderedi When shall
your hearts be open to the admission Of the
burning inference Of this most glaring facti"
"That will dol" broke in the Prophet,
with rage, rs he stood behind the pulpie
with many colors flying about his face. Bat
Elchard gave him no heed, and went on
with rushing, clarion-like delivery:
Sand he has told you here to-day that
murder is virtue, and has bidden you to
take each others ivesi God in Heaven,
what monsterl Oh, unspcakable, terri
BILE advice! And he has adjured you, Too, by
Is much Is you long for life hereafter, in
- much as you hope to look upon the
glories of better world than this, to slay
your love, the hearts sweetest and purest
emanation and sink it in appetite and the i'm
partial division of the brutes. o, fendish
admonitionl to bid woman upon penalty of
loss of soul to become ono fthe many wives
to the man she loves to bid her as she hopes
for Heaven to 60 out and solicit another
to share her husband with her under the
same roof! This can not be human in
vention, this IL the ingenuity Of helll Oh,
Father In Heaven il were one Of Thy