Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-11
HAS 1T NO SHAME?

4 ne NOiIn W tAlfln lUtlNIlHn A0kO-
cate still keeps M liz hammerlng at
shadows under the impression that II
is giving hard knocks to the Mormon"
Church and 10 the Degeret News. which
has noticed some of its plerile attacks
on both. This time II quotes from orr
columns the abatement that "trnuues-
tioning obedience 10 men is not n doc
trlne of the Church nor Is Il exacted of
nny OF It's members.r The Advocate
then goes on TO quote from n published
statement made by member Of the
Reorganized church, in which he is pur
ported 20 have shown that our remark
Is erroneous.
But there is not anything dited i'm the
excerpts picked out here and there from
Ola sermons delivered under peculiar
circumstances that are not related.
away back in 1857. that shows the Des-
eret News IA he I'm error. The very
fact that the concocters of the publlca-
tlon referred 10 were compelled TO 20
20 that ancient literature I'm order to
hoIster nm their shallow pretenses.
shonld no enouph 10 establish In a logi-
On, mind the fallncy OF their position
We use the mural IN reference TO the
nroductlon NJ the nle,e NJ sophistry
which The Advocate copies with so
much clse because the alleged writer
Of the screed was only ,he echo and
too, NJ n still more pitiable scribe. who
t,roo,s ont yano,n aud libel IN nm AL
most p,ceaslne volume OF untruth and
,rvac,,ve IN pratifv desire 10 iniure
no, n,h,ch he cannot aestrov.
what those dead and gone orators
proclaimed under conditions that no
dorb, ,ustlaed their remarks were
the,r own views. governing their own
oc,s ana are not binding upon this
church. nor ara they cited as written
authority in tho twentieth century. We
reaf,rm our preylous statement. and IL
the North Western Christian Advocate
can show that we are wrong from the
accented written standards of the
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'hurpn' VI lio"' ''N'''
member of the Chufch Is compened To
comply with, we will readily acknowl-
edge that we are In error
We are under the IMPRESSION atter
an experience OF hfty-ilve years IN inc
church. that we know nearly as mueh
about It's doctrine ana discipline as the
editor Of the North western Chrlauan
Advocate does, who draws his entire In
formation CD from the writings OF anti
mormon prevarlcators, ana from per-
sons Interested In burlesduing ana ue-
flaming the latter-day saints ana as
torting the principles when they hold
TO bo divine.
In an attempt 10 bring down TO the
present time the alleged requirement
OF unquestionlns obedience of the
Mormons' to their leaders, the Advo-
cate quotes this solitary excerpt from
sermon by President Joseph f. Smith
at Provo April ~ 1876
.grhe fact Of the matter II, when
man savs Won can direct me spiritual
~ hut not temporally. he lies in the
nrasence of Gud-that is. II he has got
inieIligence enough to know what he
Is taking about"
Now, even WITHOUT the explanatory
context of that sentence. what has 1t
10 do with Inc so-called doctrine of
-, 1870, - ~, ~,
'uhquestloilhs ooeu'enoe VI "'
action of Church members? Does that
nroye that such a requirement. is
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"Ve'' A'' VI wy
is one more Dit OF evidence OF the Ut
ter lack OF logic and consistency ~
.bo ,ndivlduals vho selected II and of
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the thrlstiah Nu'oV"'r '"'' VoP'eu H.
Now let us quote little IRON the
same discourse from which that bit of
,,orayr,nh ,,ss ev,r,ctod IN orde, 20
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confuse the hlihus OF 'he reauers Oh the
Advocate and convey to them a false
Immersion. Hero are the remarks made
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py fresiueh' oi'''n "S 'iey ac'u"''S "p-
pear IN the discourse alluded to-
.~rhe fact Of tho matter ia when a
man saws Won may direct me spirltu.
ally but not temporarily, he los IN
lne pntsu 5,p vi NoH,,LnN' u, - nc ~
6e il taking about n he has NOT IN.
telngence enough to know, then ne
only makes mistake but IL he mas
.atrt,%oI a,I to,,,roro1 arn ono ,dt.
Visible and insspnrable and that you