Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-17
"REORGANITE" pUPLICITY.

"Mormons' are the active apologists
OF the so-called Reorganization" Its
missionaries an many Of It's chief
preachers devote most Of their timo
and public discourses, 10 mlsrepresent-
ing and stirring up strife against the
Utah Elders IN the different States of
The Union, ana seem to take extreme
delight In holding them up To public
reprobaton There are number OF
them who haze an itching desire TO
zee their names IN print, and they in
yariably seek this notorloty by attack
ing the only body which stands 'oday
as the Church Of Jesus Christ of Lat
ter-day Saints with an unbroken line
Of authority ana organization. from
the date Of ne establishment BY the
Prophet Joseph Smith. April g. 1880.
The Reorganites pretend 10 be that
Church but their society had no eX-
isience prior 10 tho year 1850, sixteen
years subsequent to the Prophets
martrydom.
one Of the most blatant Of the
prominent agltatorS among the chief
Reorganites Is Mr.. Ileman c. Smith,
the sophisms that he composes In his
petty warfare upon the church. Re-
Gently we noticed articles on Nor
mon" matters In the Kansas city Jour
nal, but we paid no attention to let
ter therein from that writer. Some
OF our friends IN Missouri, however,
were annoyed by his attempts 10 dis
tort and place IN a false light the doc
trines and doings of the Church. and in
their behalf we now touch upon por-
tions of the article referred to. think
ing. however. that his sayings are of
too little importance to occupy space
IN these columns, but he says:
Men who were formerly members
of the Church established by Joseph
Smith and who afterwards became
members Of the Church Of which Som
ntor Smoot rs an Apostle. renowned nil
allegiance 10 and association with the
when they accepted the so-called reve-
lation on p1lygamy The following
quoted from this document enumqrates
what Is renounced by It's acceptance;
IAN covenants. contracts, bonds. obli-
cations oaths, VOWS, performances, as
sociations or expectations"
IN proof OF this alleged "renuncia-
ton he cites The rebaptism of Latter
day Saints on their arrival upon the
soil Of Utah, as II was afterwards call
ed, and occupies much space in quot
ing rom number of the Apostles
who wrote upon the subject and
explained the reason why the
Saints renewed their covenants
after the troubles, difficulties and
vicissitudes through which they had
passed subsequent TO the cruel murder
Of their leaders, the prosecutions when
they had suffered and their toilsome
Journey over deserts and mountains
peopled only by bands of savages. This
rebaptlsm IL part OF the history of
those people, has been published in
both hemispheres, and has no more
bearing upon the point sought to be
made prominent by Heman G. Smith,
than 1t has upon the nebulous theory
Of planetary formation, or the dis
covery of the north pole
His pretended quotation from the
revelation on celestial marriage puts
one in mind OF the argument IN favor
of total abstinence from food, based
upon an alleged quotation from Scrip
ture Paul said: 1T is good neither
90 eat flesh, nor drink wine nor any
thing whereby thy brother stumbleth,
or is offended. or IL made weak" (Rom.
xiv, 2iJ The abstalner, however.
stopped at the word anything" leav-
Ing out the following words and thus
made Paul an authority for his folly.
The imitator Of that bit Of duplicity
quotes e few words from the revela-
ton and omits the connecting phrases
which, II he had given them. would
have put a uuletus upon his entire
deliberate piece OF dupllcity and fraud.
Here Is the paragraph In It's entirety,
from which Hemau c. Smith has ex-
tracted small portion and given 1t
rs an entire sentence ana placed upon
It a meaning utterly foreign to It's pur-
port:
And verify l say unto you, that the
conditions OF this law are these. All
covenants, contracts, bonds, obligations,
oaths VOWS, performances connections,
associations. or expectations. that are
not made, and entered into, and sealed
BY tho Holy spirit OF promise, Of him
who IS anointed. both as well for time
and for al eternity. and that too most
holy, by revelation and commandment
through the medium OF mine anolnted,
whom | have appointed on the earth
20 hold this power land | have APP
pointed unto my servant Joseph to hold
this power I'M the last days, and there
Is never but one on the earth AZ a time,
on whom this power and the keys Of
this Priesthood are confeTed,) are OF
no efficacy, virtue or force, IN and after
the resurrection from the dead, for
all contracts that are not made unto
this end have an end when men are
dead"
Is there anything IN that In the ma
ture of 'renunciation?" Can there be
produced from any document or an
nouncement Of the Church that the
Latter-day Saints, on reaching the
wales OF the mountains, renowned the
principles OF their faith7 Was not their
rebap,ism In renewal Of their former
covenants virtual declaration Of their
adherence to them? They had chung
20 those principles through all the trials