The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-01

is what Jesus Christ meant he never told
man or woman to love their enemies IN their
He never intended any such thing.
| could refer you to plenty Of nstshct
where men have been rlghteously Sialn n
order to atone for their SINS have seen scores
and hundreds OF Peep G for WHOM VGere Would
have been chance in the last resurrection IL
their lives had been taken and thefr blood
spilled upon the ground as smoking incense to
the Almighty, but who are now angels 10 Inc
devil, until our elder brother Jesus Thirst raises
I hem up, couQuers te str he'll and the grave l
have known u great many men who have IT the
Gin roh Tor whom there - NJ chance whatever
for. xaltaton, but il theI blood had b sp lied
i .siuIl have been betL. r IJr them Ia %icK-
edness and ignorance OF the nations forbios this
being Iii full force but the time viii
come when the law OF God will De IN full force.
This IS loving our neighboiS as ourselves. II he
needs help help him: and II he needs salvation,
ana necessary 10 spill his bloUd upon tho
ground Ill order that he may be saved, spill 1t.
Any OF you who understand the 1nclples OF
eternity if you have snned SIN requ ling the
shedding Of blood. except the sin Unto death,
would not be satisfied nor rest until your blood
should be spilled, that you might gain that sal
va ionyou desiie. This Is the way 10 love man
kind
President Jedediah NJ. Grant delivered a
discourse March u, 1854, on the subject OF
what he calls covenant breakers" that Is,
those who leave the Mormon church, i'll
Then what ought this meek people, who keep
the commandments of God. 10 DO unto them!
May says one, they ought to pray to The
Lord to kill them" / want 10 know il you wish
the Lord TO come down and do all your dry
work Many OF The Latter-day Saints Will pray
ana petition and supplicate the Lord TO Go
thousand things they themselves would DO
ashamed to do. hen man prayS for thing.
he ought TO be willing to perform 1t himself; but
If the Latter-day Saints should put TO death the
would
very meek just and piouS ones among them. IL
would cause great deal of whining In lsrs,'.
Then there was another old commandment. TEe
Lord God commanded them not 10 pity the PEI
son whom they killed, but 10 execute the law OF
God upon persons worthy of death. This should
be done by the entire congregation. showing no
pity. l have thought there would nave 10 DO
quite revolution among the MormonS before
such a commandment could be obey ed com
pIetely by hem. The Mormons haze great
deal of sympathy. For instance If they
is eriI G the law OF the lai d and
succeed in getting rope around his neck and
having him hung up like dead dog. 1t is All
right; but II the Church and Kingdom OF Cod
should step forth and eXcCUta the law OF God,
Oh, what a burst OF Mormon sympathy 1t wou d
cause. l wish we were in situation favorable
to our doing tnat which Is jusitable before God
without any COMMUNICATING influence OF gen lie
amalgamation,, laws and traditions, that the
people OF God night lay the ak TO the root OF Il g
tree, and every tree that brtngeth not forth good
fruit might be hewn down What! Do you be-
lleve that people would do right ana keep the
laws Of God by actu lily putting to death the
tranSgressors? Putting to death the covenant
breakers would exhibit the law OF God, no
matter by whom it was done. That is my
opinion. You talk Of the doings OF different
governments, the [ n ted States il you please.
What do they do with traitors! What mode 10
they adopt to punish traitors? Do traitors 40
that government forfeit their livesf Exam LIE
also the doings OF other earthly governments on
this point. and you Will lind the same practice
j am not aware that there are any
exceptions, but people will look in the books OF
theology and argue that the people OF God have
I right 10 try people for fellowship, but they
have no right to try them on property or life.
That makes the devil laugh. saying, Il have got
them ON "a hook now. They can cut them of.
and / will put eight or ten spirits worse than
they are into their taberpacles, and send them
back to mob them.-DeSeret Nelrs, July r. 1854
Referring to the right of the church to
shed the blood of those who apOstatized,
Brigham Young, in an address delivered in
the tabernacle, March 81, 1888, and found
in vol. |, journal 0f DiScORrses, page 81, used
the following language.
/ will tell you dream that had last night
dreamed that was in the midst Of people who
were dressed IN rags and tatters. They bad tur-
bans upon their heads, and they were also hang
and when the people moved they were all in mo.
ton. Their object appeared to be TO attract at
tention- Said they 10 me. I'VE are Mo- mons
Brother Brigham " No. you are not re
piled. But we have BEEN" they said and they
began to jump and cdper about and darce. and
their rags OF many colOrS were all N motion, to
attract the attention of the people. said, You
are no saints, you are Disgrace TO them"
Said they, wv have been Mormons BY 81 d
by cane along some mobocrats, and they greeted
them with, How do you do. sirE l am
that way for an hour. 1 felt ashamed Of
them, for they were, in my eyes, a disgrace
to Mormonism. Then L saw two rufians
whom l knew TO be mobbers and murd' rers
and they crepl into bed where one of my
wives and children were. L said: You that call
yourselves brethren, tell me, is this the fashion
among your" They id, But they are good
men. They are gentlemen" With that took
my large bowie knife, that used 10 wear as a
bosom pin at Nauyoo. and cut one of their threats
from ear TO ear saying, Go to hell across lots"
The other one said, You dare not Serve me So"
/ instantly sprang at him, seized him by the
his throat and sent him after his comrade. THIN
told them both II they would behave themselves
they should yet live but if they did not. would
uujo nj their necks At this l awoke. / 81 Y
rather than that apostateS should flourish here,
l Will unsheath my bowie knife and conquer or
die. (Great commotion IN the congregation and
a Simultaneous burst Of feeling assen ing to the
Now, you nasty apoStateS clear
out, or judgment will be put 10 the line and right
to the plummet Voices generally,
go it, go it). If you say it is right, raise YOU
Lord 10 assist us in this and every good work.
An effort was made to show that the
blood atonement, as preached by Brigham
Young, and Jedediah Grant is not now the
doctrine of the church, and a phamphlet
an address on this
subject by Eller Chasles W. Pen
rose in October. 1884, was offered in evil
ience, but in this pamphlet Mr. Penrose
sUstains the doctrine of blood atonement
ls preached by Brigham Young and Presi-
dent Grant On page ID of the phamphlet,
the address of Mr.. Penrose,
referring to the blood atonement, he uses
the following language:
Now, according 20 the doctrine Of President
Brigham Young, the blood OF Jesus Christ as
lave shown you, attoned for the original sin, aud
or sins that men commit. and vet there are sins
which men cOGmlt for which they cannot
receive any benefit through the shedding of
ChriSts blood Is that true doctrine? 1t is
true, if the Bible is true. That is Bible doctrine.
Again on page 36 he says;
Now, Brothers Jedediah NJ. Grant and
Brigham Young, because OF the transgresslon
Of the people, spoke as 1 have quoted This
was the time of the reformation, and the fears
Of evil doors were worked upon to induce re-
form, and hence the strong language used at
That time. Do we need the same language now?
hope not but if there was any need for it, it
would be just as applicable now as then.
And again, on page 4S he uses the follow
ing language:
These are some of the ideas entertained By
he Latterday Saints on the subject OF blood
atonement. After baptized persons have made
sacred covenants with God and then commit
deadly SINS tine only atonement they can make
IS the shedding of their blood. At the same time
because of the laws Of the land and the preju-
lice OF the nation, and the ignorance of the
world this law cannot be carried OUT and when
Low
ull force upon the earth, then this penalty will
De inflicted for these crimes committed by per-
sons under covenant not TO commit them.
AS to the feeling of the members of the
Mormon church toward the government of
the United States, the evidence discloses a