The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-10

ELDER KIMBALL'S
IRE AROUSED
Indignant Because Some Have
Become ApOsiates.
SAYS THEY ARE EDWARDS
URGES RELIGIoNIsTs AND PAR
TIsANs TO sHUN THEM.
SAYS THEY ARE EDWARDS

AZ the overflow meeting of the Lat
ter-Day Saints conference held in as
sembly hall yesterday afternoon Elder
j. Golden Kimball of the council of
seventies gave his opinion of apostates
from the Mormon faith He said in parts
Now, l want to. serve notice on all
the Catholic. and the Methodist church
es. and the Presbyterian churches
- don't suppose they will take my adj
vice, they never have done so up to
date-but ] would like TO continue Civ
ing them some good advice. l would
advise them never to receive a man into
their church who had been a true Lat,
tei-day Saints and apoStatiZed from the
church, for they will never make good
Catholics, they will never make good
Methodsts. they viii never make good
Presbyterians. but they will make agi-
tators. and they will make a deal OF
mischief in those churches, because the
first thing they will do. they will be SO
restless and 50 unsettled that no one
who is near them viii have any peace
OF rest, and they will get to asking
lot OF questions. The first thing they
viii ask is. Where do you get your
authority from?' And that will worry
you little.
And, by the way, l would like 70
serve notice on the Republicans and
Democrats that they viii never be
good Democrats or Republicans either;
they will not stay with their party. SO
if you want those apostates for Gods
sake take them and get them out Of
the country.
Il want TO say to an apostate or to
amy other young man that wants to
speak against this people who has
been born and bred in the church. he
is a coward 10 lift up his voice against
this people. We are a little bit OF a
handful of people, numbering perhaps.
in total, 300, 000, with over 100000 chill
dren among the number: and hope We
will have another hundred thousand in
the next five years. And then the whole
United States is arrayed against us,
/ not all the people, for there are many
honorable people. But if they had their
way, the whole United States would
be against US, and then for any person
or more that has lived i'm this country,
who received all that they have got
from this people to lift their voices
against this people, they are branded as
towards.
Never Told How to Vote
81 have labored in the ministry for
thirteen years, and have been one of the
first council OF seventy, and have la
| aJred with the apostles, and have been
in close contact with them, and / have
the first time for them TO ever offer
me any suggestions or dictatiOn in amy
way pertaining to my franchise or my
political position as a member of this
church. So l speak from my knowledge.
l have a perfect, absolute knowledge,
and / have associated with them. as [
say, for thirteen years. l knew Brig
ham Young almost as well as | knew
my father ! knew Daniel III. Wells,
a counselor of Brigham Young. and as
sociated with my father. have known
all these brethren down to President
Smith. but ali the counsel and advice
l have received has been SAVIOR Of
life unto life.
Praise For Dowieites.
Assembly hall was crowded to the
doors in the afternoon, where the over
iiow meeting was held. Apostle Rudger
Clawson presided and James L. Steele,
president of the Bingham stake, made
the opening prayer. Nephi Frank, pres
ident of the Northwestern stakes mis-
sion. delivered the first address He
told about the work of saving souls in
his mission German Ellsworth, acting
president of the Northern stakes mis-
sion, reported the conditions in mis- sec
ton of the country. lie related in
stances Of divine healing in Chicago,
where meetings are held on street cor
neTs at night. He praised the DOweites,
who, he said, are doing a good work
and setting an excellent example for
others. He said the followers Of Dowie
believed almost the same as the Latter
day Saints, and hence ought not to be
prosecuted by the Mormons.
Elder Il. ;. Wells of the first cOun-
ell Of seventies delivered the third ad
dress. He said in making converts
nowadays a missionary had TO present
a scientific religion. People would no
longer accept the Bible as unquestion-
ably true. The elders are required now
TO present the Mormon faith in
plain. matter-of- fact, reasona bic form
il they expect to convert persons TO
Christianity.
Elder Seymour 3. Young Of the first
council Of seventies made the closing
address. after which the conference
was declared adjourned for six months.