Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-11-28
Speaks Out In a Manner that Will
Shock His Fellow ReIigiOnists,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
He IL Unable 10 Sec Why Robert.
should Not be seated m. Com.
piiments TO Dr. ma

fellow rcilglouluis ON the Roberts ease
as woll as upon other matters OF vital
Interest:
I have Just read tho resolutions
passed By tho Utah conference ~ tho
Methodist church at their lat" seasiun,
oa published In the Northwestern
'hristinn Advocate. asking Congress 10
prohibit Mt. Roberts from taking his
scat IN that body. 10 which h. has no
doubt been Justly and hunorahly elect.
ed. must confess that I am very
rntry 60 see that one brother tllu. who
used Ia preach for ~ here In lio1emnn,
seems 90 b. at the head Of the move
msni. | also COPY from the columns
OF the came pap.r the following items.
In the reports " the Upper Iowa con-
ference II " said. "Rev. Dr.. llin, ~
Utah. made n strong speech nh Nor.
monlem. lie greatly stirred the cun-
ference. Every reference to the de-
moliuon u Congryssmnn-elcct Roberts
plausc'
In the report of ,hc Central Illinois
conference. II H. said THE conference
wna delighted with the visit " Df. r
g. nm, and passed resolutions demand
inF the expulsion Of Brigham ~, Rob.
ortH from Congress-" In the report Of
the Northern Minnesota conference.
read. ''fho cyclunic Or. llln 81 Utah
mnde his voice heard arulnrt the
threatening denominations Of polygamy
IN our national Congress" also read
In tho st. Louis Republic few days
ago that the Illinois conference. hudy
of over three hundred ministers, ut
the instigatlnn NJ this Same cyclonir
Dr. lin of utah. had passed q rvFulu-
ton usklng Congress tn prohibit Brig
ham H. Roberts from taking his scat
In that august BODY.
We always thought great deal u
Hrothvr nm. hero In nugcmln. and
never dreamed Cor moment that he
would ever 90 far lose his head, ns 90
gu On on such raid AZ that n II
were posalhlc. when he gets back
would like a. Introduce him 10 Ahra-
ham. the friend ~ God. So Jacob, that
mighty wrestler In prayer; and TO
David. the man after ODDS own
heart" l am u the opinion that they
would give him a terrible ginning up.
I am certain that the sam. time spent
In careful and prnycrful searching "
the Sculptures would hav" convinced
him that there " not only nothing
against Roberts conduct In m" Bible,
but much w favor ~ II.
saw that plainly twenty years ago,
and came right uut on VI. II has caused
me to have 60 undergo some pcts,cu-
tlon, but we may expect that n We do
our duty faithfully. After twenty
NfhNN NfANfWs 'lANf lNAlfI W lNll ~
the Scriptures. when. God ever found
any fnuit with any one Tor having
morc than one wife. Not very long aga
I heard Methodist preacher preach ON
the subject OF fnnctlncatlOn or entire
conservation. He said that In order
to ,ccoivc that blessing, ono had TO
give IN every sinful thing and entirely
ionouncc the world. The flesh and the
dcvil. lie conicndod that Jacob, un-
doubleday received that blessing. when
he wr,=tlcd with the angel. When ia
cob met Esau, hls brother. Esau snid
unto him; "Who are these With thvcf
and hc said. the children which God
hath Eraciuusly Giyen thy servant"
The children of the hnndmulds. ~ we'll
NJ tho children Of Leah ana Rachel,
WHOM isah'a slNth fun was born. she
said; "Now God hath given me my
hire. because ! gave my maid unto my
husband" That n, God had rewarded
her for that very act | am very sure
that II would be- very hard 90 prove that
Jacob ever gave IN his wives IN order
60 receive the blessing NJ entire sane
tlncatlun whether u was sinful or not
1.-THE writer here enters into an ella
borntc argument. showing by numerous
quotations from the Bible that poly
gamous marriages were regulated at
least by divine laws. and their on
spring admitted into holy orders and
the sanctuary. while "a bastard" was
not permitted to do 90, We cNpungc
that part OF the letter lest the gentle
mans reasoning and quotations might
be- attributed to thls paper Conilnu-
ing, the correspondent says:l
I firmly believe that the down has
more To fear from a plural system Of
al a.HH
that could possibly be introduced
amongst ~ at the present time. You
"Mormous" perhaps, have very
faint idea of the condition N things
us they exist amongst W today Some
~ our churches and sunday schools
are almost destitute u children. 1
know one Methodist church that was
composed almost wholly OF married
people with membership NJ between
forty and flfty persons TINT dld not
have one child dedicated at Its altar Ia
ten years. Ana ~ the children that We
gather into the sunday schools az least
ii per cont of them never hear the
name Of God mentioned In their homes.
except IN the why N profanity. Wo
hay" them In the sunday school one
hour ont ~ the week, while they are
under tho dcvirs influence nj home six
days. and tNrnty-threc hours. II scvma
To me that his Snntnlc majesty couldn't
ask a better thing than that.
So you can zee. the devil ana Tom
Walker are rnislnE the children from
which we have to recruit the church
from. Aud the devil ~, no doubt, hny-
ing his own fun over H. After look
Ing over the last United States ccn-
sus report. one cannot help hut won
der how long II Will take the Womnn'a
Christian Temperance Union 10 put
down the drink traffic while their own
nurseries are locked M and the keys
thrown IN the well
ON the ist OF June, 1880 there wora
l,bGG73l children In the United States
under ono year old or that number
the foreign and negro population arc
credited with pretty nearly onc-half or
G?d,011.
There were ae5 counties In the ar
feront States that reported less popu-
lntlun IN 1880 than IN 1850. and I have
no doubt the next census Will disclose
worse state OF things than ala the
last.
have been Methodist all my llfe
and ID IL my firm belief that " the great
Methodist church. with her six millions
of members, was half ~ pure az she
ought To be. she would have furnished
pretty nearly onc-half of all the nat
ural Increase that was reported for tho
whole country In 1880. In some eections
~ our country one half Of our best men
nrc dieing childlefs and the other half
are coming Just az near to II us the
little boy came to being a twin, Brother
lin, amongst the rest, unless the cli-
mate OF Utah has done more for him