The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-19
THE BINDING LAW.

- ne DcseTer news, IN trying 10 reply
to the Christian Advocate, published
in Salt Lake City, digs a trap for it.
self and deliberately falls in.
First, the News says that the Chris
tinn Advocate is little wasp "scarce-
" worthy Of notice. on the part Of
the organ of the Lord; but to its un-
worth the Deseret News devotes its
leading editorial article Of nearly a col
umn. However, that Inconsistency is so
characteristic Of the News as to bo
"scarcely worthy Of notice
The Christian Advocate having crit
lcized the Deseret News and the Nor
mon church for disregard of tho Sab
bath, the Doseret News triumphantly
quotes from the Doctrine and Cove
nants of the Mormon church to show
"THE LAW OF THE MORMON
CHURCH, on this subject cas- given
through tho Prophet Joseph Smith and
published and enforced" today through
the standard church works, as follows:
And that thou mayest moro fully keep thy
bof unspotted from the world, thou shalt
go to the house OF prayer and odcr up thy
Is day appointed unto you to rest from
your labors, and to pay thy devotion unto
the Most High; nevertheless thy vows shnll
bo offered up In righteousness ON oil days
and at all times; but remember that on this,
tho Lords day, thou shalt offer thiuo obla-
tions and thy secrsments unto the Most
and before the Lord. And on this day thou
shalt do none other thing. only let thy food
be prepared with singleness Of heart, that
thy fasting may DO perfect, or, in other
words, that thy JOY may be full
The mere publication of the revela-
tion concerning tho Sabbath day in the
Doctrine and Covenants, according to
the organ OF tho church, makes that
revelation the supreme law Of the
church. The News demands that all
tho world shall recognize this law as
being the rulo Of conduct for the mem
ber Of the church.
In that same Doctrine and Covenants
appears pretended revelation from
uod on plural marriage. 1t says in
part:
Therefore, prepare thy heart to receive
and obey the instructions which am about
TO give unto you for oil those who have this
law revealed unto them muEt obey tho
same;
For behold I revenl unto you q new and
an everlasting covenant; and II ye abide not
that covenant, then are yo damned; for no
can reject this covenant. and be per.
mitted to enter into my glory;
Then shall they bo Gods, because they
Abraham received concubines and they
boar him children. and 1t was accounted unto
him for righteousness. because they were
given unto him, and he abode in my law.
Isaac also, and Jacob did mono other things
than that which they were commanded: and
because thcy did none other things than that
which they wero commanded, they have en-.
tered into their exaltaton, according 10 tho
promises, and sit upon thrones, and arc not
angels. but are Gods.
David also received many wives and CON
cubines, as also Solomon and Moses my ser.
wants; as also many other of my servants,
from tho beginning OF creation until this
time and in nothing did they sin, save in
those things which they received not Of me.
Priesthood; II any man espouse virgin,
and desire to espouse another, md tho first
give her consent; and IL he ecsPouse the SEQ
no other man; then he 10 justified; he cannot
commit adultery, for they given unto
him; for he cannot commit adultery with
that that belongcth unto him and to no one
else;
And II he have ten virgins given unto him
by this law, he cannot commit adultery. for
they belong unto him, and they arc given
unto him, therefore he is justified.
The mere publication Of that revela-
ton on plural marriage in the Doctrine
and Covenants, according to the argu-
ment Of the Deseret News, makes that
revelation the supreme law of the
church According to that same argu-
ment of the News the revelation ia
unalterable and binding; therefore the
Mormon church is polygamous.
If the presence Of the pretended rev.
elation on Sabbath observance in the
Doctrine and Covenants makes that
revelation the binding law, then the
presence in that same Doctrine and Cow
enants, OF the pretended revelation
commanding plural marriage also makes
that the law; and the News cannot es-
cape from its own argument
In addition to digging its own trap
and falling therein, the Deseret News
has also impaled itself on its own bod
kin.
THE JOURNAL REBELS.