Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-15

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above Here It Isl
Another quotation from Boudlnot Is
found on the following page. The first
half Of it. consisting OF q words, Is
exactly right Then follows There Is
tradition related by an aged Indian
of me St0ckhrIdge tribe that their
fathers were once IN possession of
Sacred Book, WHICH WAS HANDED
down FROM GENERATION TO
GENERATION AND AT LAST HID
IN THE EARTH, since which time
thew have been under the feet OF their
enemies. But those oracles were 70 be
restored 20 them again and then they
Would triumph over their enemies and
rorain their ancient country, together
with their rights ard privileges This
aereeg with the Atst excerpt from
Boudlnol as amended by Pratt II we
teke the massage az It occurs IN a star
in he West this aatly e0ntradicts Il
How can we explain ne Easily. search
Douduut from cover TO cover and the
sacred Book section cannot be found.
pratt was helping the Lord out COT
c5,irse II is Joseph's Lord by manu-
featuring some testimony 10 sustain his
hook Il Il n Misrepresentation what
else can It be2 II r. untrue and i IS
impossible for Il 10 be o mistake TOO
many things are quoted accurately 70
allow even for moment that this ~
lapse Of memory 1t is rather lapse
Of morals
We must again refer to the Voice OF
warning and show how Mr., iirldwell
has deliberately mlsrepresented It's au-
thor. in order to jeer at the Lord and
sheer at the Prophet We End that the
reference to the tradition related by
an aged Indian Of the stookbrldge tribe
that their fathers were once In posses
sion OF a Sacred Book " Is not given
by Mr.. Pratt as quotation from
Boudinot, but as his own statement of
that tradition. He says Mr. Bcudnot
records many traditions similar to the
above" but does not attempt to give the
aged Indians story as having been re-
lated by BoudInot. Thus all Mr.. Bird
wells rlbaldry and searching OF Boudl-
not's book from cover to cover are
not only in vain, but are founded on
fallaoy, or rather shameful falsehood
Of his own manufacture,
But he Is not content with thus ma
lgnlng the author Of the Voice OF
Warning" he proceeds to yilify the
Prophet Joseph Smith and his success
ors, He says
This happened as early as 1899 yet
Joseph Smith never reproyed H. me
Lord should certainly have told him
of the sin OF his Apostle, but he never
ala so. Joseph died without anything
SO oreditabe 10 his prophetic otiiee oe-
CURING; and his successors In oihce,
whether they sit az Lamont or salt
Lake City, have to this time failed to
make any correction And they are
inspired" so WAS BROTHER
PRATT. Again we may ask, was the
early Mormon Church ever guilty of
duplIcity? Who can deny III II they
would deceive the people about the
Book of Mormon, they would do the
same thing about the blessings.
The purpose Of Mr. Bridwells article
Is to charge deception, not only against
Farley p, Pratt but against the Nor
mon Church in relation TO the practice
of plural marriage. He takes the ayow-
ais of prominent "Mormons." male and
female, that the spiritual WIFE and
''polygamy" denominations Of John c.
Bennett and others secretly introduced
in Nauvoo were not authorized by the
Church, and construes them into denials
OF the doctrine OF celestial marriage as
expounded in the revelation dated July
u, 1S43. the two theories and practices
being dissimiar and antagonistie. This
may arise from ignorance on his part,
but viewed in the Hight OF his wilful
perversion OF Farley P. Pratts writings,
and his substitution of his own words
for those OF that eminent writer, the
entire Bridwel production smaeks Of
that dupllcity which he falsely charges
against the Latter-day Saints
in our former reference to that article
we expressed surprise that the Arena
permitted II to appear In the columns
Of that able magazine. Closer investi-
cation Of It increases our establishment,
and emphasizes our contempt for the
subterfuges and mean fabrications It
contains, which, however, form but ad.
ditlonal Illustrations Of the fact that the |
viruent opposers Of "Mormonlsm" are
compelled In order to make
point, to resort TO vile and shameful
As the writer Of the Arena article is
"of the National Anti
Mormon Missionary Association" the
aninus Of HE contribution is easily ac-
counted for, And the same may be
said Of the strained efforts Il contains,
10 place Mormon" writers and Nor
mons" generally in an untruthful light
before the American public, Other ef-
usions from the same source may be
al their true value, by Weigh
ng them In the scales furnished by Mr.
IN the May Arena.
THE PANAMA CANAL