The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-08

and more the hearts OF the peonle TO
this work and it will increase raster
and faster from that day forward
Elder Nibley concluded with a Ter
vent appeal for the brethren TO sustain
the authorities
Apostle Richards Speaks,
APOSTLE George F. Richards, the next
speaker, held that the Saints were not
living according to the light that they
had. or great change end rsIorm
would be wrought amongst them. There
would be a regeneration or their nves
if they were living according TO the
had done If they were leading up TO
the full standard there would be nc
need for grog shops and saloons There
would be no sale Tor tobacco. The sum-
mer resorts which are crowded on the
Sabbath day would have TO close, for
the Latter-day Saints would be found
in their place of worship. The meet.
ing.houses would be too small and they
would have 10 enlarge them.
''When the enemies of this work
bring forth the charges they make
against as that there is hypocrisy and
deceit and wrongdoing and that we are
not true TO what we profess, there is
altogether too much truth In the
charges. - said the apostle. Our lives
should be such that they will give the
lie 10 all such charges But they are
too true, too true, and Teproach rests
upon the church because Of our lnhrnll.
lies, because of our Inconsistency be.
cause of our lack of faith and Integ
rity to the truth,
owe stoop to little. dirty things that
are unclean, that render us impure be-
fore the Lord. We 60 about subject TO
the influence Of those that would lead
as astray, and we are bringing up our
children IN the same way. We are alto
gether too susceptible to the influences
that come amongst us, the influence OF
Babylon. There are those people who
are against us and fight us, yet we af-
hliate with them IN our lives, we &C"
eept OF their theories, we adopt thelr
fashions, to our disgrace and dlshonor,
and we eagerly look forward to see
what Babylon, the mother of harIots,
Is going next to introduce among US
and we are going to adopt. Everyone
is eager 70 know what is going to be
tae fashion next spring, because they
wish TO adopt it, forgetting that, we
are the salt of the earth and by which
the whole lump is TO be leavened. We
are TO set the fashion for the earth TO
follow and not follow the fashions that
come amongst us from Babylon.
"Going around, we find among those
WHO dIS uUI p1 uS llOOIlS Jugs, pussy
cats, canary birds and those things |
that can be tethercd by string to give
the mothers liberty to attend their
clubs, their society meetings and other
places OF pleasure, and I fear that these |
1hines are being introduced among US |
today. We should unite IN honorable !
wsdlock FOR time and eternity, and we |
should multiply and replenish the earth,
according to the command, the disre'
- or. he hn1n
plan and purpose Of Jehovah, and yet
7 fear we are falling into the fashion
that is set us by those OF Babylon who
arc against us.
An anthem, Grouse, Oh Ye Mortals,' -
was then rendered by the choir.
Says Smith Won't Be King.
Apostle O. F. Whitney was the next
a refuLatioa of the statements made
that Joseph Smith, the prophet, and |
Joseph T. Smith, the president, had de- |
tarmined TO set themselves up as kings, |
''The grossest of Misunderstanding |
and mIsapprehensions can and do exist |
with relation TO them. 1t was said |
that Joseph Smith desired to make him
self a king; that he desired TO possess
himself OF the properties, with Mormons
and Gentiles as his subjects, to ride
roughshod over their liberties 1t has
still being declared that Mormonlsm
seeks TO overthrow free institutions and
10 substitute therefor In this land of the
free an Asiatic despotism. detest
such charges as these. 1t is difficult for
me, anxious as ! am to credit all men
with honesty and sincerity whenever l
can, 20 believe that men can make
these charges sincerely.
Proceeding with his arguments Apos-
tie Whitney said Mormonism claims TO
be the gospel of Jesus Christ, and what
Paul said of the gospel of Christ was
true OF Mormonism, for they were one
and the same thing under different
names; hence Mormonism is itself the
perfect law Of liberty, it is itself
free institution: Why, then, should 1t
be charged with seeking its own over.
throwi God had decreed that laws
should be instituted, disseminated and |
enjoyed by those whereby they could !
advance and become like him, Joseph |
Smith had declared Mormonism was in
stituted and ordained az means of
saving this world. Did that look like
tyranny2 Did that bear any samples
Of despotism? Had that any purpose
to overthrow the freedom OF menl
Apostle Whitney denied that il had
Jesus Christ was the author OF liberty.
It was Lucifer on the other hand !
who sought to overthrow all free in
stitutions, free churches, free govern
ment, who saps wherever he can the
foundation OF the rights OF men. and
ne and all his followers were cast out
of heaven because they sought TO de-
stroy the free agency of man.
Apostle Whitney then traced the |
origin OF faith from Adam down to the |
Prophet Joseph, this last dispensation |
OF freedom and enlightment
i'I say that these prophets, apos- |
ties. patriarchs, that have stood at the |
head or 6gure in the dispense tions of !
the past, that they are the friends of |
freedom and the champions of liberty,
and the reflected measure of their |
power and their light, the reelected |
light of Jesus Christ has rested upon |
other men, upon poets and philosophers !
aud warriors and inventors and dis. |
coverers and reformers and thew have !
played their parts up 10 the measure |
of the light that they received and |
they have helped to prepare the way |
for the great consummation Of the
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