The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-08

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rejoice in the opportunities that are
sent that they may lead from the path
OF recttude any young or thoughtless
glrl that may be brought into their
companionship, The same is true of the
other sex, where they are abandoned,
reckless and impure women whose con
duct and companionshlp is a danger to
the imprudent boy
An Impossible Task.
The apostle said he knew it was i'm
possible 10 put wise heads on young
shoulders; and some had no objections
to being found in the restaurants, and at
skating rinks or in the picnic parties
or in the great resorts. Some of their
children might say that other parents
permitted their children to 90, but he
WAS sure they would regret ii if they
dld not take steps to prevent 1T, at
least let them visit these pleasure re
sorts that shall restrain them from the
opportunities of being brought into the
the vile men, he concluded.
Como, Come, Ie Saints was then
gwen beautiful rendering by Mrs
Emma Ramsey Morris.
Apostle Whitney, assuming a defen-
slve attitude, fguratively not literally,
took his stand upon the paraprakh in
the ukase which maintained that there
could be no differentiation between the
Mormon people and the priesthood; that
priesthood and people stand together,
Nlndlcated or condemned.
Talk OF a Gulf.
Why should It be thought that there
is great gulf OF difference between
the priesthood and the people of the
church," he asked. who are these
men who have been chosen to be the
general authorities Of the church, Who
are the men and the women who stand
prominent before the people in our
auxiliary associations3 Have they
come from outside the church? Are
they angels from heaven, who have
been sent down here as immortal and
of the churc and It's large interests2
Why, no. They have come up out from
the ranks of the people. The men and
women who have been chosen to pre-
side over the church in all its branches
are merely portion of the people, that
have the same thoughts and weaknesses
you have, and they are no better than
the average of the people from whom
they. come. Neither do they pretend to
be; but because they have been lifted
up and placed on high, their faults and
their weaknesses are more manifest
than they would be if they remained in
the ranks of the people, They are not
one whit more perfect for having been
llfted up on high, although they are
expected TO set an example to the peo-
pie. Because they have been lifted up
they become targets for criticism for
their faults and their weaknesses.
'Who is Joseph F. Smith. the presi-
dent of this church, He was a Nor
mon boy" Apostle Whitney then told
of the birth of Joseph F., eleven days
after the death of his father, and of
the surroundings at the time of his
birth, and continuing, he said: "He is
lifted up finally to be the president of
the people, chosen of God as their
prophet, sustained by the people as
their president. And who are the
twelve apostles' And who are the first
council of seventiesf And presidents of
stakesl They are sons and daughters
of Latter-day Saints, Those who have
grown up among you, that have been
chosen from the ranks Of the people,
and they have all the virtues, and all
the failings, and all the weaknesses of
the ancestry from which they have
come
"Why look for differences of this
kind? Why expect the priesthood to
be better than the people or the people
to be better than the priesthood? They
belong to the same class; they are in
separable, as the declaration says, and
vindlcated or condemned they stand
together.
Aha, Difference,
But there is after all difference
between the people and the leaders. But
1t is not a physical difference; il is
not moral difference; it is not a spir-
itual difference; but the difference is
simply this, that these men who hold
these authoritative positions in the
midst of the people of God have been
chosen for these positions, not only by
the power Of heaven. but have been
sustained in these positions by the peo-
pie of God. That is the difference. Jo-
sepli f. Smith is God s prophet because
God wants him to be and he is our
president because we want him to be.
and he could not be one nor the other
one moment part the time that he
would not be acceptable to God or his
people,
After alluding to the doctrine of gov
ernment by the consent of the governed,
Apostle Whitney continued: HThere is
no room for the exercise of unrighteous
domination, under that kind Of gov
ernment. He contended that even
suppose the church at its inception in
1880 had not sustained the original
PiopucC 'tuu CIlNeT tOWQeny, the dlt-
ference would have been that the little
church would lave been without the
gifts and the powers of God that was
upon these men. 1t would not have
separated the priesthood from the peo-
pie and 1T would not have taken away
the priesthood from these two men.
In conclusion he told the Saints that
when they sustained the authorities
they had made a covenant with God
to sustain them and defend them in
very deed and he trusted they would
always do so. -
"There is no danger to the church
from the. outside" he said, WThe
perils that threaten our destruction. if
they do threaten, they arc always
from within. But if there ever is a
time that this work is really in danger,
it is because there is something wrong
within it, and not because the powers
of the earth are arrayed against it;
these were only driving them to.
gether."
He counseled them to give no
thought. to. the insidious voices that