Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-12

gun nnclontly Is TO be consummated,
and an things IN Christ gathered into
one AS compared with the Redeemer
whose pre-emnence we All acknoWl-
edge Joseph the Prophet was but as a
star 10 the blazing SUM- / wish To
make perfectly clear, 40 the beginning
Of my discourse that We do not place
them side by side, DO not C0nlound one
With the other, or draw any parallel
between them. AT the same time, when
their careers ARE closely scanned some
points of resemblance may be found in
them
Having said This much / quoted the
opening verses OF the Gospel Of 81
John and tho words OF Abiuadi In the
Book Of Mormon as expressing precise
ly the belief OF the Latter-day Saints
relative 20 Jesus Chlst, and after em-
phaszng what / had previously said
about The distinction 10 DE drawn bee
tween Jesus and Joseph / dropped the
subject of the Savior and continued
that Of the Prophet 10 the end, J did
not say that both were born in Decent
her II believing, as doubtless you DO,
that the Savior was born I'm ApHD, but
merely mentioned as coincidence, that
Jogeph's birth was JUST two days be-
fore The one celebrated throughout
ChristondCn az the anniversary of tho
natal day OF the ltedeemer
The Deseret News report Of my re-
marks, which you have, though not
perfect Is very good. II contains q
few inaccuracies, such as the subsiitu-
tion Of Palmyra Tor Manchester as the
place where the Smith family resided
at the time OF the religious revival;
the statement that Joseph came as 'au
IA
world and the words Granting that
such might be the case" used q few
lines before the testimony OF Josiah
quincy Those are mistakes Of the
reporter made inadvertently. through
haste, a the close Of my discourse |
quoted n few lines from TulIldge's
Life Of Joseph the Prophet In which
the writer who WAS a non" Mormon
compares the tragic dcaths Of Jesus on
calvary and Joseph at Carthage, That
was all there was to g.
Mr. Wlshard, in his letter to the In
dian0pOlis News, quotes from the Salt
Lake Trbunes report OF my remarks
and adds an assertion Of hls own.
did not use the language attributed 10
me by the anu-"Morn0n" paper, and
] did not draw any parallel between Jo-
scph Smith and Jesus Christ, as the
reverend gentleman declares. Mr.
Wshard equarely reyerses what | ac-
tually gaid on that occasion
with best wishes TO you and the
brethren and sisters In your vicinity
/ remain,
Your brother and fellow laborer
ORSON Il. WHITNEY
II must appear strange to ordinary
heholders that persons Of the stripe ana
standing OF Dr. Wishard and his ik.
cannot fnd enough to do In expound-
Ing their own faith and trying to con-
vert other people to It's tenets but must
perforce spend so much time and energy
IN FORMULATING through the land to
stir up animoslty against the Nor
MONS In doing 80 Wshard has TO
misquoto Mormon speakers, bur-
lesque Mormon" doctrine, and black
guard the Mormon people, IN order to
arouse sufficient interest to make hls
peregrnations anu pulpit efforts pc.
cuniarily profitable, It Is frequently
asserted that the American public likes
to be humbugged ANA certainly the
saying appears plausible, when we con
slider the manner In which plous folks
are being humbugged by anu-"Mor-
mon" orators like our Presbyterian
preyaricator.