The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-31
JOSEPH F. SMITH
DEF|ES "ENEM|ES"
Hierarch Defends the Probity
and Character of His
Own Life.
DELIVERS A PASSIONATE
ADDRESS IN TABERNACLE
Defends the Doctrine Of Modern
Revelation, Declaring There
Was Only One Kind.

President Joseph F. Smith Of the Nor
mon church. in a passionate address de-
llvered at the Tabernacle Sunday after
noon; hurled defiance at those whom he
Characterized as his enemies" defended
the probity and character OF his own life
ana declared that he had never knowing
ly done A wrong TO any man
AT the close of q lengthy sermon de-
Tending the doctrine OF modern revelation.
president Smith said: ''Mormonism means
Scripture or from the history of this
church where It has not meant good 10
all the children of men. II Is ennohling
and saving. Ny desire is for good 10 ali
mankind. ! would not harm any man in
the world.
have been trying 10 do good since
was child. II any man feels aggrieved
against me. or feels that | have done him
an injury. let him come 10 me and show
me wherein ] have wronged him and I
viii go more than half way to make
Pities Those Who Oppose Him.
n cherish the love and esteem OF my
iellow men. cherish their faith in me
and their confidence in my mission To
those who have lost faith in me and con-
hdenee in my mission ] have only pity.
I know my own human nature
have known the day when, if man
struck me, my first impulse would be 70
strike him back. That Is only human
President Smith declared that the prin-
ciples OF the gospel were such as 10 re-
move move these natural human feelings from
ihe heart OF man, and insimated that he
views the vaccinations of his enemies
In much the same spirit that actuated
Christ: who. on the cross. cried ''Fa-
ther. forgive them, they know not what
President Smith declared that true
Lastet-d day saint was without sin. ''You
ana and ! car can Judge for ourselves, me said.
or not" He closed his address by ex-,
Porting his adherents to live their re-
nsson; tSa nord to keep yourselves unsposted from
and weaknesses OF the flesh
Defends Mormon Religion.
President Smith was the second speak
er or the day. He said that he was de-.
lighted 70 report that the various mis-
shape and that nHfS the wof. Of n t6s spGnad did
was prospering throughout the earth.
There is everything 70 encourage us and
@ nstie 10 discourage us over the future
President Smith declared that the
world II not growing better. was al least
progressing along some lines He said
and dogmas were advocated which were
practically eliminated from religious
thought today The abandoning OF these
doctrines. ne declared had been due Ia
the fact that the prophet Joseph Smith
had had revelations showing thelr falsity,
and instead that religious thinkers. ia
scious tribute TO the Mormon PROPHET.
This fact, he said showed that Mormon
Ism was invincible. and that II was leav-
Ing an indelihe Imprint upon the world.
Among the false doctrines which had
been dfsslpated by the prophet Joseph
President Smith cited election and repro
baton, infant damnation and the doc
trine that the marriage state shall not
exist in heaven. All OF these doctrines.
he declared. are now discarded by the
religious world. After declaring that
- OT Sn1tt 6oc h.a
come pretty generally recognized that
revelations from the heavens may be and
still are made. President Smith said.
The world Is full of revelations today.
Much OF IL is bogus and spurious There
is only one kind OF real. genuine revela-
ton and that Is that revelation which
comes through the channel which God
has appointed
President Smith modestly refrained
from saying what this channel is.
Doctrine of Devils.
In specifying the false doctrines which
were disspated by the Prophet Joseph,
that a murderer, by acknowledging his
sins and believing in Jesus Christ could.
Immediately upon his execution. go to the
keresy ever promulgated. II is q doctrin
of devils" President Smith asserted that
until man had purged himself OF crime
OF God
Reverting TO the question OF marriage,
President Smith declared that II is gener-
ally recognized that men their wives and
their children. wlll meet in heaven in ex-
nCtly the same status that they occupy
on this earth, save that 1t will be an er-
allied status. He said TINT the old idea,
which had existed until Joseph revealed
the real truth, was that there would be
an abolition of sexes In heaven-that ell
being there would belong 10 the "neuter
gender'-and that they would be angels
who would spend all their time casting
down their crowns and singing before the
throne OF Jesus. He emphasized strongly
that the family relation. with It's respon-
sibllities. will exist beyond the veil.
II was nj this point that President
Smith referred 10 his own life and SER
vices in the church and hurled anathemas
at his "enemies"
George A. Makes Talk,
The services in the afternoon were or
tails. Awakew William McLachlan. pres
Ident OF Liberty stake. offered PRAYER,
after which the hymn. Come. Let Us
Apostle George Albert Smith, who. with
p. II Roberts, has Just returned from
visit 10 the Eastern and Southern states
missions of the church. was the frat
speaker. He told of his trip, and de-
ciared that the work was prospering in all
The vineyards OF the church He said the
people generally had received him and Mr..
Roberts kindly: that the world grad
laIly accepting the principles OF Mormon
sm and that the time was never more
propitious for the spreading OF the Cos
pei
The choir sang the anthem, I'm Our
Name. The exercises closed
vim the singing Of the ant, anthem, . From
the henedction.
Those OF the general authorities OF tho
,hurch present at the meeting were
Tohn r. Winder. Apostles o. F. Whitney:
Tohn Henry and George A. Smith and
Presiding Patriarch John Smith,