Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-02-18
pEET,s REPLY TO "iSHARD.

-. NV remarks in Truth or December
~ is received. and | am surprised to
It'll that the great head and chief
y"iasionarv of the Presbyterian church
- Idaho and Utah should make such
CaIse and uncalled for statements.
prother Wishard, you stated in your
,ottar in Truth December "a, by infer
orce that | belonged to the Mormon
onorum and that the lands | am sell
mo are swamp lands, and in your let
tnr to the Tribune, Jan. 81, you also
stata that | am in the editorial chair
of the News, and that l am new
editor there. All of the above state
ments you know to be absolutely false.
7 have never directly written an arti.
ole for the News or associated myself
with its editor, although l consider
the Deseret News one of the best ed
tied and the most independent news
naners in the west, and | also consider
Mr.. Penrose, whom you try to slur, a
very able. upright and honorable man.
You also distorted my letter in Truth
If December 81. For the sake of ar
eument you said: Il shall be under
the painful necessity of correcting
nv real estate friend in reference to
his church history. The narrowing
business of burning witches he lays
on the Westminster catechism and
the Presbyterians of New England,
beginning in Massachusetts in 1887. He
quotes as the instigator of this awful
business Rev. Increase Mather. a Pres
byterian minister. Unfortunately for
this novice in church history now TAX
ing his first lessons, Increase Mather
was not a Presbyterian nor were any
of the Mathers. Nor were there any
Presbyterians doing any work in New
England"
AS an answer to the above, | will
quote to you from Beginnings of New
England" by j. Fiske, chapter 4, Pres.
byterian Cabal and the Cambridge
said: "In England it was just the crit
cal moment of the struggle between
Presbyterians and Independents which
had come into complete issue of the
great civil war, Vassal, Child and
Maverick seem to have been the lead
ing spirits in a cabal for the estab
lishment of Presbyterianism in New
England. + Il In 164S the work of the
Synod was embodied in the famous
Cambridge platform which adopted the
Westminster confession as to It's creed
carefully defined the powers of the
clergy and declared it to be the duty
of magistrates to suppress heresy In
l649 the general court laid this plat
form before the congregations. In
1861 it was adopted and this event
may be regarded as completing the
tneocratic organization of the Puritan
commonwealth in Massachusetts.
Brother Wishard you can also fine
the above in substance in "The Eman
clpation of Massachusetts, chapter
by B. Adams" also in G. Mather's
"Magnalia Christi Americana" bool
., part 2. And if you will look OF
page l24 in the history of American
Presbyterians, by Charles A. Briggs
u. d., you will find that both in
crease and Cotton Mather were il
Presbyterian work; also on page 16:
IN the same history you will find Cot
Ton Mather reported as doing
Presbyterian mission work YOU
sneeringly call me novice
IN church history and from
Your standpoint l may be, but you
Will md that my statements an(
Cglopylngs from history are correct
lou tried to sidetrack my statement!
ana make them appear in a false ligh
Wy giving a history of the Presbyter