The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-06

visited the hill of Cumorah and the
old homestead OF the patriarch Joseph
Smith. The deserted village, - as the
president called Kirkland, Ohio, was
their next stopping, the temple erected
hy the saints still standing, but desc
Grated. To-day we have no use for
it, said President Smith, "as the
Lord has shown us even a better and
greater way and so they who abuse it
are perfectly welcome to il, ALTHOUGH
the manner IN which they came in pos.
session OF It, 10 my mind, is exceedingly
questionable. -
The President then went TO Carthage.
Ill, the scene of the martyrdom. and
then to Nauvoo, which is now in al,
most desolation and ruins. ''We visit
tho spot said the President, ''where
the first revelation was given Of the
cndowments and the spot where the
revelation on plural marriage given
through the prophet Joseph Smith was
first read 70 the high council of the
stake OF Zion at Nauvoo. We visited
that place and we did not forget the
historical! facts that occurred within
those walls,
''After our visit there we returned
home and l want TO say that l have
returned horne physically very much
improved. This is a very trivial affair
Gnu " Nb5N llNtlS lULtTISI W Npuf L
realize. At the same time 1T has been
trip that has been frauaht with very
great interest to myself and has been
profitable to me not only physically but
spiritually. and | return to my home
and my labors determined as ever | was
TO be true 10 the people OF Cod. to my
covenants and 10 all men and to honor
the holy priesthood that has been con.
ferred upon me. -
Rose to the Occasion.
President Smith was now "rising to
the occasion when he cried out -
don't care and ! don 7 want to lay
any heed to the ridiculous nonsense
and foolish twaadlc and the impious
slurs that are being east at me and my
people by impious hearts and wicked
minds. Let God deal with them as
seemeth him good. Don't you allow
yourselves 10 be troubled over these
tn.pgs IN the least.
"There may be some who do not 90
down into the facts-who look at the
surface, who may be swayed for little
while by the popular clamor, who may
give way TO some extent TO the thlpos
that seem to pervade certain quarters.
But when they wake up to their con-
ditiou, TO the real truth, many OF those
will be willing 20 repent n sackc!oth
and asGes,'
Ae he proceeded the prophet, seer and
revelator seemed 10 warm up to the
subject, and some Of those on the stand
TO be becoming uneasy.
No Apology to Make.
1T is not my purpose TO stand here
aud try to make an apology he con
tinued, ''or to offer any dcfeucc Of
my own course, Of my own life and
labors. / am willing to leave myself
and my labors and my life in the hands
of my God and in the judgment of my
friends aud the people of God. If I
have wronged any man, spiritually or
in any sense, or in any
form, | pray him TO come to me and let
me know wherein / have wronged him
or done him any harm and / will go
more than half way-r will 60 the
whole distance to make it right with
lim. If I have denied the faith let it
oe shown, but ] need not pursue that
further"
President Smith did not think there
was any serious breach or any serious
difficulty existing among the Saints
anywhere. He counseled them to
stand together with your presiding Of