Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-10-18
RIBALDRY BIZ TGLEGR&PH.

4 GREAT many Allsiii-tA -"'.- 7
mails are discouTsing on the alleged I
..blasphemous statement Of "resi- 4
dent George q. Cannon at the Cen I
eral Conference, that
"Presiden. Woodruff had been hold [
ing an executive session with God"
They appear To he very Iauch I
shocked at this, and base their ugiu-
ions Of the Declaration GA plural
marriage upon this purqoraed eT-
preston.
For the benefit Of our raiued
cotemporaries, we state, most em-
pnatically, that neither President
Cannon nor amy other speaker n
the Conference made use OF that eX-
preston o. anything like it.
The truth Is, It was a LIE made
out Of whole cloth By 81 reForte. OF
the salt Lake Tribune, published in
that receptacle of dlLh and bias
phemy, and snapped up hy the
Associated Press agent, q member
Of the staff, who never misses Z
chance to disseminate q fllseho0d
about the "AIormons. aud So rir-
culated by Telegraph througLou. the
country.
What President Cannon said
about thIs matter was, that
"On the 2s-n Of September Prlsi-
dent Woodruff maize up his miud
that he wOuiI write something, AMI
he had the spirit Uf ir. He had
urayed about it and had bes1ught
God repeatedly 10 shO" him what
10 do. Al that time the Spirit came
upon him. and the document that
has been read in year herring was
the RESULT
VIII tine good s.Chris5iaus'' al
the United States object 10 this? In
a matter Of - grave Importance was
there anything wrong ia ferveu-
prayer for divine direction? Is
President Woodruff To be blamed
for waiting until he was satisfied
that he was guided 10y the Holy
Spirit? When convinced that he
was doing righ. is he t. DE a-slilei
for going ahead? And Is President
Cannon 10 be lampoonej and berat
ed for making this plain statement.
de also told the Conference that
the document, when written, va.
submitted to the Twelve Apostles
and, said he,
sswe sustained It. for we Ia,
made it q sGhi-ct of prayer also, tina
God would direct U.s."
Was this improper, or is prayer il
these United states simply n ''foru
of Codliuess without the u3vc
thereof a species Of IiD-worshi
without force, a hollow ami impiou
mockery?
1t seems Jhat nothing Of inQ0l
lance a Ieaiing Mormon can q
or say can pass without deI.h1rs,
Misrepresentation. TIE false au
blasphem9us stIT PI-p5rtius % o
Mormon remarks jhlt Is mauul5.
tured for the columns oCthe SaltLaI
Tribune, and devOurei with av.iit
by protesting Christians in ia
city and other places, would not |
tolerated in the Taukes- iuti4el pap.
in any decent community outside
Utah. Yet no Christian mini-t,
here raises his voice against wh,
he knows 10 be rs falls rs Il Is J
bald and G-hasiuc- All Eua
uttersuces rs the pres u T.
country have caught up and I
r.eated can be commented upon
facts and no christian" preach
has the grace or courage TO at,em
to correct the wrong and stand q
for the simple truth.
VIII any Of the pauccs ULat Ina
commented upon this exV-e-si'
that was never made in the Tabs
nacIe be fair enough 10 contra-
the untruthful rum'5: or viii IA
continue to ring the changes up
it because 1t suits their purpose a
catches the popular ear ami the "
gar spirit Of The times?