Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-25

chaunr', and be humble instrument
through titisc p1si No. of saving
you and your family from utter Nv g.
throw in tle great day Of reckoning
shall use plaiuucss that will not admit oil
% double Gaming. because the occasion
demands o.
10 say that ! am as,onished at the
course YOU have taken .n relation TO the
principles oil the Gospel which you for
mcr'y said iou luLw we're true, does
not half cypr- o. Wha. have you rG.
Gently learned tnlt sou did not find out
during r..IdtnC. Ui utarIy three years
among the Moru.us. or Tor unmIcr Of
years alter comm. back to- Missouri
And even alter you began 60 ny 10
preach under the Baptist standard you
said. 500 ] learn, that luy Wust Of your
preaching was Mormon doctrine. But
whether you said so OF not lsl me tell
you that 30 the truths you ever uil or
ever wil preach are parts aud parcels Ut
Mormon doctrine, so called.
IL seems that you have recently found,
ly reading false history that Motmou.
Am b. terrible buga.bJo. You know,
or ought TO know. JHat OIL 1.-THE %. these
false histories were true. the government
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d out long since out OF this yI..
trash you I've created % hug.a boo aud
gre spreading yourself 60 pu. % down.
You hnuN, a. ought lu know, thlt tie
false statements and the clloun1 gus n
tu what bias the scublJuCc Ul uuiu in
these false Histories, arc as iar asuudtr
from the facts iu the case, as light 5
from dII .ug.s.
You also Co.,, with a'l the ingenuity
you poss io pick NJus 900 the Doc.
tunc aud Covenant. Ut me Gel. yOu,
aud you Uu Doc Co j. aw 90 Hiihuu. leiu.
told, tGer. d. no, O. Paragraph 300 the
look but tfat there ace passages 900 the
Bible equally strange aud unagguuuIUie
90 human wisdom. You con swallow
without 1000 effort SImsou's catching
three hundred foxes, iyInE % ebBuds To-
their tails, etc; ifC waai. swallowing
Jonah; the witch OF End0r raising sam.
ucl; and hundreds of other thinEs
equally strange aud entirely out 81. q
aud beyond human wisdom ana p1wcr
but 20 find anything purp1uIug to be
modem rgva alton you spufu from YOU.
Let me tell yop-aud YOU once knew
10 youscll--.hut the doctrines OF the
Latter day Saints are the very SAME ls
the iormcr-day Saints, aud the New
Testament i8 q faithful history OF tic
same. You can find nothing there but
what Is in strict accord with the teach.
ings OF the .at,cr.day work. Nodtm
rrlgionis's spluull'zs scripture and
strip It Of iis common sense meaning, so
much SO, that almost any kind OF creed
can have a pretty fair showing New
sccts spring up under such tcuGeungs-
which have been so notorious That the
world Of ChUstgndum is foil of cfeyds.
This you once knew, bat b seems now
that you have entirely lost that knuwl-
edge aud you are at sea.
IL would De well Tor YOU 10 heed the
declaration ui St. Peter; "N1 prophecy
of the lcri ilrg rs OF any private inter
probation III. Pc CT b; l0. The ever.
lasting truths OF God will live aud roll
forth until they accomplish that where
unto they are sent, ga spite OF men or
devils.
Il would be wise IN you to heed the
1dmOniuou OF G1mIllc', gs found in
Acts V5Igy, MIy constant desire and
prayer b. that YOU may see where You
are itiIting and call "a halt lciofo Dc is
too late. You may and pr1blblyWil be-
able 10 excite the hlscr passions OF
those who have q mubosratic spirit TO
acts OF violence ON some of a.. You
know very wei that there are thousands
OF the more ignorant who think % 90
right 10 rob a Mormon. Stop, think aud
consider well over this matter AK
God to direct you before you 20 too iar
Your course will doubtless gain for YOU
some noiouc,y and popularity. but, &c.
member uch popularity will not weigh
a icaghcriu yous favor DO the great day
OF reckoning, huJ wall 5c as a great
weight 10 drag you TO pefdiiIon.
Zoo sou0w ! subscribe mselL
III. T.. DorsoS.