Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-05-05
CHAPTER VIM.

For moment Elchard stood looking at
the Prophet, his eyes swapping, his face
white Evith anger, and the blue veins about
his temples distended with burning blood.
"Can I speak q moment to this people,
siri" he asked.
The rustic that followed the Prophets fin.
ishing clause fell at once into silence With
An astonished look the great man stood and
hesitated an instant, while a white film
seemed to come forward out Of the flesh OF
his large face and settle in little pallid
ring about his mouth. "Certainly, il 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 at them. The stiffness OF
looked in his anger so like q 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
baggy blowsy gentry Of the pulpit platform
might never hope to.
my friends" he began, ~ do not wish to
speak to you as q religionist, or as q minis
ter Of the Gospel, but as man and as
brother. am not q 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 I let
this hour pass by without warning you
against this man. Brigham Young was
born a poor man; hehvas q 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 vet 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
fortunei You are poor; perjury and isola-
ton and tithe-paying is your portion, while
yonder in the blooming basin Of the Great
Salt Lake he is fed like King and
housed palatially. To-day his worlmen are
finishing apalace for his favorite wife that
cost one hundred thousand dollars; but a
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 q
treasury of which he is custodian and the
condition Of which he has not shown you
for twenty yearsI Mem how long will you
rest supinely In the arms Of his perhdious
assumptions and be plunderedi When shall
your hearts be open to the admission OF the
q burning inference Of this most glazing factt'
"That will dol" broke in the Prophet
with rage, as he stood behind the pulpit
with many colors flying about his face But
Elchard gave him no heed, and went or
| with rushing, clarion-like delivery:
Sand he has told you here to-day that
murder is virtue, and has hidden you t.
take each others hvesl God in Heaven
| what monsterl Oh, unspeakable, terri
BILE advicel And he has adjured you, too, by
a. much as you long for life hereafter, il
as much as you hope to look upon thu
glories Of q better world than this, to sla,
| your love, the hearts sweetest and pures
emanation and sink it in appetite and the i'm
partial division Of the brutes. o, fendisl
admonitioni to bid woman upon penalty o
loss of soul to become one of the many wfve
to the man she loves to bid her as she hope
for Heaven to go out and solicit another
to share her husband with her under tn
same roof This can not be human in
vention, this is the ingenuity OF henl Oh
Father in Heavenl if were one Of tn.
daughters here, I would repudiate Tn,
Divine government. would 60 up to tn,
bar on the last great day and I would say
4 20 to perdition because Thou madest m
q seonani I can not accept Of Heaven q
the price Of earthly HE'LL I was true 10 tn
purest principle Thou didst ever plant L
the human breast, and It made me
paradise down on yon little star Gale
Earth; now II my reward is fire, give it me
The heaven had was won by purity, and
scorn TO enter into this larger Paradise {
Thine through wrong and unspealkable d
basement
.sWM you stopf' brayed the Prophe
coming round before the pulpit with hl
; To be continue.
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