The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-16
MAGNIFTED OF GOD.

The church organ quotes a prom
inent Mormon president as having
preached sermon in the big Jaber-
nacle In which occur the following sen-
tences:
Our brethren who constitute the
quorum OF apostles have known, have
travelled with them, slept with them.
eaten with them, been with them in
times when both mental and physical
T courage were necessary, and I have yet
the first incident TO recall where one of
them has ever failed under these cir
cumstances. They are men OF God, act
ing in the capacity 10 which they have
been properly called, and He will mag
nifty and uphold them"
1t Is a. delightful thing TO find one
good man bearing tribute of praise to
another good man or set OF good men,
But in this particular instance the
value OF the supposed compliment is
somewhat lessened by the fact that this
is the stock testimony of the Mormon
church. no matter who may be the
apostles nor how soon some OF the meI,
from their places. Indeed. 1t Is the tes-
timony delivered OF apostles in the very
hour that they are known TO have ST.
transgressed against the laws of
God and man or against the
VIII OF their superiors in the
church that their accommodation
from their quorum has been decreed
This same distinguished speaker would
have been willing TO bear the same tes,
timony concerning the same quorum OF
apostles and the Deseret News would
have been willing TO quote the sans
testimony from the same and various
other quarters when that same quorum,
of apostles included John w. Taylor
and Matthias Il, Cowley, the men who
We're deprived OF their Office for having
taken various additional! wives after
the manifesto inhibitIng polygamy. IT
these were men of God, acting In the
capacity TO which they had been proper
ly called, why did the church un-call
them and make II appear by their ex-
clusion from the quorum that they were
not men OF God; and II the Almighty
were magnifying and upholding them,
what right had any poor, little atoms
OF humanity like the mere prophets,
seers, and revelators OF the Mormon
church TO pull them down and belittle
them7 The absurdities OF the case
| might be passed over as the unintellec-
| tual, unreasoning illogics Of ignorance
II it were not for the fact that-beng
uttered In the holy places OF the
! Mormon church and by apparent su-
| thority OF the priesthood and being
| approved by subsequent publication IN
| the official church organ-these things
| become momentous In the lives of the
people OF this commonwealth. Can /,
be expected that men and women will
reason logically, that they will have a
proper sense OF their responsibility to.
| ward the rest OF the world, when the
daily teaching from the pulpits OF thell
church is so utterly wanting in the ra.
| tional quality At one moment they
are taught. and the belief Is enforced
upon them Cor the affectations OF the
BELIEF at the peril OF their religious
social, political and financial standing
in the community. that all OF the twelv,
apostles OF their church are the elect
OF God. that the Great Creator Is mag
nifying and upholding these men In
their calling as disciples of the Sn.
| Sior: while the echo OF those words still
| Ringers on their ears some OF their apos.
ties are dispossessed OF Office and sta.
tIon for notorious high crimes and mis-