Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-13
AT HIS OLD TRICKS.

A Salt Lake preacher VINO mas fg-
ured for several years IN the capacity
OF what il known as a Mormon cater
and who has not hesitated at uttering
and publishing the most fragrant false.
hoods about the Latter-day Saints, their
tenets and their leaders has found
place for the repetition Of his stale
receptions In the columns Of the North
western Christian Advocate, That Is
very appropriate place for them, Bur
lesques and distortions Of Mormon
ism" and vlllfcation Of the "Mormons"
have formed a speciality for some time
In that religious magazine. The rev.
erend CD calumnator endeavors to
show that.
when the Mormon prophets and
apostles use the phrase the kingdom
of Cod they do not refer to the splr-
itual reign OF Christ but to the ma
terial and political supremacy of the
Mormon Priesthood. as the only legal
government that can exist in any part
of the universe
In pretended support Of this travesty
on the Mormon faith, he has oulled
from works by different writer's. some
sentences and parts Of sentences,
which, taken away from the explana-
tory context. are made capable OF Civ
ing color to his assertions. He also
cites remarks said to have been made
by Mormon" authorities, which they
never gave voice to or entertained In
sentiment They wer copied by him
from garbled hostile newspaper reports
and express the very reverse OF the
speakers declarations. That Is an old
trick on the part of the sophistical ID.
d. and one that is common among 9TH
er antl-"Mormons' Of his ilk.
The purpose of all his exertions IN
this direction is disclosed by himself
at the beginning and the finish OF his
cunning contribution. II Is TO bring
an influence to bear upon the Senate
of the United States to exclude Reed
Smoot from his seat In that political
body. The Presbyterian divine who
makes use Of his clerical authority In
the sphere of politics, Is one Of the most
inveterate opponents OF the Mormon"
Church on the ground that 1t exercises
political influence. OF course, 1t is u
terrible thing for a Mormon" disnl-
AIRY TO enjoy the rights Of an Ameri-
can citizen, but proper and Christian
thing for a Presbyterian priest to en-
dcavor to direct the Congress Of the
United States In It's political duties,
In the quotations which the casust
pretends to make from the writ
ings alluded TO, he is compelled, in
order to accomplish bis purpose,
to insert In parentheses the words. "the
Mormon hierarchy" when the intention
Of the authors OF the works which he
mutllates. Is altogether different from
that which the calumnator thus Ell
deavors to convey. The term "The
Priesthood" used by those authors, In
most instances refers to the principle
Of divine authority and not 70 indivld-
uais upon whom it Is conferred We
believe that the writer OF the article in
the Advocate understands that very
well, and that he wllfuly ana Intention
ally peryerts the meaning OF the sem
fences he quotes and to that end inter-
jects his own language. using the words
the Mormon hierarchy which are not
to be found IN any OF the works that he
distorts and mlsrepresents.
It will be found on examination OF his
effusIon and those % a slmilar charac-
ter from a similar source, that the gar
bled and isolated extracts used for a
shameful purpose, are never taken from
Saints as their written standards OF
doctrine and discipline, Picked out and
misused as they are, they are taken
from the personal views OF the individ-
ual writer's Whenever they are not IN
accord with the recognized standards OF
the Church, they are not 70 be consi.
dered as authoritative Those standards
are the Bible, the Book Of Mormon the
Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl
OF Great Price. This has been announced
publicly times without number. II Is
well known, too, by the peryerters of the
truth who try TO take advantage of eN.
pressions carefully selected from non.
standards apart from associated eN-
plantations, and thus are made 70 10
It,t,s tn tba uHbrfgttops u.lrlr ~ f,,igrau-
resentlng the Mormon faith.
on the subject OF the Kingdom Of
God" and what IS meant by the phrase.
the First Presidency Of the Church II
Jesus Christ OF Latter. day Saints have
promulgated an authoritative explana-
zion, which has been widely published
repeatedly, showing that the Church BE-
the spiritual kingdom OF our Lord. and
that the temporal government which
the prophets OF old furesaw and pre-
dicted would be set up I'm the latter
days is to be ushered IN when He whose
right II is e. reign az King Of kings
and Lori Of lords, shall appear in glory.
The word Of the Lord boy revelation TO
the Latter-day Saints On this subject Is
this
Wherefore, be subject To the powers
that be, Until lie reigns whose right il
Ia to reign and subdues all enemies un-
der fits feet Behold, the laws (which
ye have received from my hand are The
laws Of the Church, and In this light