Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-10-21


Der of the Church who should TAIL TO
follow the counsel given In the mani.
fcsio would be subject TO discipline by
the Church authorltics2
A.-Must certainly he would.
Given where he believed, ms yuu
do, IN the revelation from Joseph Smith,
and that II was a true principle. In
such q ease would the Church discipline
one OF IT, honest bolicvefs2
Al do not understand.
Q.--Iou have stated that In your
opinion any member Of the Church
who violates this manifesto and refuses
10 obey Il he would be "disciplinod"
Nv tho Church - that possibly his
ofianse would hu followed by OK
communication. In the light OF yuur
answer ] now AJAX you " that would he
ao--where one u your members honest
~ believing. like younelf, In the
revelation Of Joseph Smith ia relation
TO the principle Of plural MARRIAGE
that u was mandatory In some IN
stances aud permissiye In Othen-enter-
ed into plural marriage; would the
Church feel authorized 10 discipline"
one Of IT, members under such circum.
stancus2
Al suppose Il would.
Ole that your best judgment?
A.-Ycs.
Citizen the creed " your Church
depends upon the revelations " mani.
fcetos made sometimes through it,
Presidents?
A.--rhu President stands In that re.
lntionship with the Lord that he sons.
times receives revelations IN regard 10
the general interests OF the Church.
Q.-Has the membership " the
Church anything To say about accept.
ing or rejecting rovela,ionsG
A.--lavery member Of tho Church
can do ~ lac plcascs-accept or reject n
revelation.
Oils heat liberty 10 reject It II he
plcascs2
A. Most a,surcdly; man eau 20
10 heaven or tie dovil, NJ hv pleasoe.
Q.--And still retain his membership
In tue Church II he rtJeots the ruvcla'
tlon2
Allie might.
q 90 Under those circumstances
would he he punished by tho Church
for oicyiug the law that the Church
hal taught all those year,, tut reject.
ing this later revelation?
A.-Ics, air, pcrhaps he would.
Q-Aud yet you say he has right
b use his own Judgment about u?
A.--Ycs, aud the Church has the
| right 10 uxcommunicato him.
Q.-rhvru never has been au in
aiaucc where the Conference rejected
any statement OF that. kind maue 10y
the President OF your church,
A.-Not Within my remembrance.
Mf. kcharis--t understood you ~
state that you believed the manifesto
TO he n revelation 10 President Wood.
ruiz?
AYES.
Q.-Sate whether or not President
Woodruff had the power through that
revelation 10 stop the practice, whether
put 10 the Conference or uutG Does
not the revelation on plural msrriagc
say that the keys shall be vested Ia but
One mnn GU the earth ~ timer
AYES.
Q-rhnt being 10, has the President
Of the Church authority or not by rev.
citation 10 discontinue that practice,
without amy action on the part OF the
| Church,
A.-Crrtliniy.
Q.-Snoaking u the publication OF
revelations. are all of th0su that have
been gwen 10 Tue ifcsidcnt OF the
church put IN uie BOOK OF revelations,
tht BOOK ~ Doctrine anu tovtnan'sf
Have There mol been revelations re-
ceived by the ho President John
Inylor ana others winch nave never
been Incorporated Ia the book Of rovc.
htlon' published ny the Chufch'
A.-soin" nave not
Ircsidont George q Cannon was fo'
I
called anu In answer u Air. Richards
~ 70 what WIS the Income OF the
Church on cash basis la.t year or IA,
year before lac rrpliu1i ''NUl, 40 not
Know vsaoily- probably s'p'uO1 OF
siDp,OOn." inc siniu0O appropriated
ius inc poor Tor inc Present ak month";
was actual cash valnc'
AposIiE ANTON n. LuNp,
r.sldiug nj lgpbraim. ssnpete. wa,
n,xt cailed and ou,stion.J imam IN
mnnifetto. which no .alu Ind his entit,
npnfoyni. lie lad never heard nm,
rdmarlts of dis,Duroyai thrrrtn. M,
unIerstood the object was 10 stot
plural marriage and bcileved prrs,,lrn N
WpoIufT WE luepifrd OF gpJ Nm
would be dlspluaaing In tho Lnrd'i