Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-10
Stirring Answer to and Criticism
OF Seotarian Pastors Re-
view. Recently Issued.
MANY TRUTHS PRESENTED.
A Complete Refutation OF the
Charges Generally Hurled
Against the Church.
tabernacle Packed With VI. I. \. Del.
egntcs aud a Number of Nom Nor
mons Who Listen To Arrangement.

Not often is the tabernacle flied To
its capacity an an occasion other
than a general conference OF the
Church, but Yesterday afternoon every
scat In the great auditorium was &c
cupied and hundreds OF persons stood
during the entire services, Seldom. n
ever, is applause thought Of. ana murh
less expressed, by congregation as.
sembled there On the Sabbath day. bat
yesterday witnessed ALSO an exception
70 this rule, ana tho speaker. Elder j..
II. ROBBERS, vas frequently apphuded
to the echo during tho course Of an ad-
aress that lasted nearly two and a half
hours.
Announcement was made on Friday
that the able champion OF truth and
defender Of the faith would occupy The
pulpit at the tabernaclc on Sunday. and
that the criticisms OF the Salt Lake
Ministerial association of the recent
address issued to the world bv tho
Church would receive the attention Of
Elder Roberts. II was expected that
the subject would be considered to the
very bottom ana he handled In IN,
speakers best style. Those who lis
tened tn tho discourse were in no Wise
disappointed. for ii was undoubtedly
the best effort of Elder Roberts NE
and though he ran nearly one hour over
the time that usually marks the close
Of tabernacle services, the vast CON
greEattOn remained seated to the end
and, indeed the majority present
seemed willing to have stayed longer
TO listen 70 the speakers words.
II was Indeed an instance of review
. a. m ,.F
the Ministerial association was taken
up piece by piece and torn to shreds,
Al times, Keen and fine as a sharp
edged knife, were the irony and satire
directed against the critics, and aEuin
sledgchammcr blows descended upon
their arguments 80 hard and fast as
To hatten out into less than transpsr-
ency ali semblance of logic and reas-
oning contained in the ministerial re-
view.
At the outset Elder Roberts ex-
plained why il had been deemed nsces-
sary for the turning OF the tabernacle
pulpit into q forum. The Church and
its faith and practiscs had been as
sailed, and "A defense would he under
taken. The list of local churches was
given whose ministers bad participates
IN the preparation of the review and
who had voted TO sustain the SAME.
The reverend gentlemen were consld-
ont and within the sound of his toice.
and the greater part of his remarks
was directed at such an imaginary
group OF listeners
NO DOUBLE DEALING.
FIRST was taken UP the charge OF the
reviewers that the Church does not pro-
claim so fully abroad as at home the
principles OF their religion He asked
~ A
to prove such statement, and the fact
was pointed out that the great majoTi-
" of their quotations had been made
from The Seer" The Millenial Star"
and the Journal Of Discourses." 1t was
shown that the first had been published
IN Washington. u. G., the last two IN
England. and they had been scattered
broadcast upon both continents, Hence
the charge of doubIe-dealing was shall
low and untrue. Ten quotations had
been made by the ministers from "'rhe
Seer" publication repudiated By the
Church. an action sanctioned by Its
editor Orson Pratt while but one quo
tatiou had been made from the Doctrine
and Covenants. one Of the four stan
dard books of the Church. III tho re-
viewers had aimed TO be fair and truth
ful. why had they lesorted to such sub
terfuee
MERE DISTINCTION
Elder Roberts said thar q reasonable
discrimination was made by members
of the Church between the words ~
men. when perchance. they spake IN
and the utteranCes Of au-
thoritX which bore upon their face The
stamp OF divinity. In making this dis
they were not unlike Chris
tan believers In general who. out OF
all the hooks written i'm the days of the
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