The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-20

ed out where the revelations had made
certain predictions which have been
put into material form, and showed by
passages of scripture that even after
the ancients had been told that GER
tain things would come to pass ana
did pass, they refused to believe in the
correctness of them. So it is to-day.
IT have talked to men, said he.
"who, all their lives, had believed
that the residents and settlers of Salt
Lake City were a set of barbarians
who lived on an island. And when they
were told that the people of Salt Lake
were good, honest, industrious citizens
of a magnificent state they actually
got mad and refused to believe. They
had set their mind upon it ana Woulu
not listen to reason.
TT is only by the spirit of revelation
that God is known at all. Gods peo-
pie are the simple, the meek, the poor,
the plain, the upright; these are the
men who can be filled with the inspira-
ton of the divinity of God. Every per-
son born of God will be humble, meek
and poor, and not naughty or proud.
Ii is this class of people who listen to
the pleadings of their consciences and
not to the entcing words of wisdom
which emanate from the fertile brain
of the wise, worldly man. We are not
anxious to swell the membership of
DuI CHURCH ulllSSS lIOSe lllelilpelS pC
imbued with the spirit of the AL
mighty God. I will also say, so that
some who may not know may be en-
lightened, that the settlers of the great
Salt Lake valley We're the descend
ants of the best people of the New
England states; that their forefathers
assisted in the framing of the consti-
tuition of the United States. We teach
American principles-that all men are
free and equal and have the right to
worship according to the dictates of the
conscience. We have fought our legal
battles, we have been maligned we
have seen the proscriptive law enact
ed before our very eyes, we have with
stood the embittered assaults of our
enemies, but we have during all this
persecution stood our ground as Amer
ieans-not once did we resort to vio-
lence. 1 doubt if there exists to-day
another sect which would have ac-
copied it all so gracefully and with the
display of so much Christian forth
tude.
Il want to say that Brigham Young
was the greatest statesman that Amer
lea has ever known. He was good
man and he taught religion as Christ
taught it. He was for honesty first,
last and all the time. That is the
principle of our church. We do not
go to church on Sunday and then
spend the other six days in swindling
and cheating our neighbors. We be-
lieve in religion all the time. Our mis-
sionaries are required to be honest men.
I want you to watch them, look close
ly at their actions, and if you see one
smoking a cigarette we will send him
home in disgrace; if you see one of
them take a drink of whiskey we will
send him home in disgrace; if you see
one of them in any act unbecoming
an honest man, insulting ladies', gam
bling or anything not countenanced by
the good and holy man, report him
and he will be sent out of our field in
disgrace. When an honest man meets
a Mormon and gets acquainted with
him as he is, and is taught to be, he
likes the Mormon people better and bet
,.''