The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-23
SMURTHWAlTE
STRIKES BACK
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plant L am charged with apostasy
and un-Christianlike conduct, and in
which summons / am cited to appear
before you and show cause.
L hereby request that complainant
be required to specify in his complaint
the language which it is complained 1
bave used against the authorities OF
the Church OF Jesus Christ of Latter
day Saints. by which the conclusion of
the complainant has been arrived at
that 1 am guilty OF the charges he
makes of apostasy and un-Christian-
like conduct. Also that 1 be granted n
continuance of the said hearing until
such time as he shall make amendment
to his complaint of the alleged facts
upon which his conclusions are based.
to the end that 1 may be afforded an
opportunity to know what l am eX-
pected to meet, well as 10 have time
to prepare for such hearing.
1.-The statement of purported facts
made by the complainant is clearly a
statement only of his conclusion. and it
is but fair and reasonable that the
language used by me, or the substance
thereof, should be given, as we'll as the
time and place where spoken; since,
otherwise l should be without knowl-
edge OF the accusations to be made
against me until at the hearing thereof.
Your brother in the gospel.
(Signed.)
CHARLES r. SMURTHWAITE..''
No specifications having been received.
Denies He Is Apostate.
I. deny that l am guilty of apostacy.
ApoStaey means, by the dictionary. "A
total departure from ones faith or re-
/ cation or religious obligations I affirm
10 you, and, in the most solemn and
earnest manner. bear testimony that /
rave not departed from the faith and re-
llSlon OF Jesus Christ. On the other hand.
that my adherence to il is. as | believe
greater than il has ever been and my
determnation to abide in il is strong
and enduInEi Furthermore L affirm
unto you that from childhood my hope
mas Deen aud still is to grow in the grace
+Il9 nowtedge of our Lord. Jesus Christ.
ana that were it not for that it would
not be worth while for me today to lift
~ M voice in protest against those
things which have brought the humiIia,-
non into which the church at this sad
| hgdr is plunged.
=. I deny that | have beCD g1liItv IF nm
, Nhrlstlanhke conduct. God forbid that
should ever be guilty OF so foul thing,
Renews Charge Against Smith.
/ reaffirm the truJhfuIness of what I
nave said in regard to joseph F. Smith
ana which is contained in the letter which
1 directed TO YOU, dated March 13 1905.
dIlG winch is hereby made a part of this
3. / repeat that l cannot sustain Joseph
+. smith as president and as prophet.
seer and revelatOr, and / deny your rig Int
70 say mat this is apOstacy and un-
ChrlstiRnlike conduct.
l. L admit that 1 believe. and hereby
| state the opinion. that Joseph +. Smith
was not chosen in accordance with the
VIII OF God as expressed in the Book of
Doctrlne and Covenants. section 1922
of the MeIchsedec priesthood three
presiding high priests, chosen BIZ the
body, appointed and ordained to that Of
nee form a quorum of the presidency
;. 1 deny that any expressions that
nave made are "upbecoming a Latter-day
Saint
While 1 have expressed myself on these
SUBJECTS. perhaps strongly and certainly
earnestly, il has always been IN iang1Ia &c
a gentleman In so expressing my views.
L nave not felt that | was going beyond
my inherent right AS the Magma Charta
OF this right, / refer YOU to the Book OF
"a revelation given TO the elders of the
church, tO-wit:
Wherefore it shall come to pass that #
You behold a spirit manifested that You
cannot understand. and you receive not
that spirit. yc shall ask Of the Father in
the name of Jesus; and il he give not unto
YOU that spirit. then YOU may know that
IL is not of God.
And it shall be given YOU power over
that spirit, and you shall proclaim against
that spirit with loud voice that it is not
Of Cod"
solen1nly aver unto you that I put Che
spirit shown by Joseph +. Smith, on the
occasion described to you in my letter
that after much inward struggle at last
found power over that spirit in the way
and manner in the above quoted words of
God declared. Respectfully,
CHARLES A. sMURTHwAITE.