Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-08
No CoslPARlsoN.

day, went out OF ITS WY fISuttl ~
h to manifest its vicious disposition
against the people who laid the founda.
tons OF The State of Utah, and, who,
through their self-sacrificinS toll and
sklfully directed efforts made it pos
sible for sturl.iiuus assailants OF Their
bettei,s to live theii worthless lives
here unmolcsted and in comfort.
The paper, referring to q fanatic IN
\ Kansas who calls himself Adam God;
says "the fantastic imagining came
from Brigham Young 1t gives an
alleged quotation from the Daily Demo
scrat OF Independence, in support Of
this view and then finishes up with a
silly TRADE against Adam, whom NIL
sensible men and women revere and
+ honor as the ancestor of the race.
There Is, Of course, not the slightest
truth in the allegation that the poor
8 luna tic in Kansas was in any way in-6
e fluenced by the teachings of#Brighani
+ Young This great religious leader
taught that our first progenitor is at
the head of the human family, and
therefore a god in the sense OF til.
4 word in which it is used in the Scrip
lures. where angels, rulers, Judges, on
account Of the superior excellence ana
$5S their mission as God $ representatives,
or messengers, are called gods" o.
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Moses is called a god" in Exod. ": Is
Il and Vii 1. And the Lord said unto
Moses, See. have made thee a sod
10 Pharaoll; and Aaron, thy brother,
shall be thy prophet" IT, then. the
Scriptures ascribe q divine title TO
Moses, and that under II covenant of.
which the unity OF the Godhead Is one
of the corner stones. there is no reason
M for alarm. because Il modern teacher
q gives the same title to tho progoni-S
tor or our race.
But the poor lunatic in Kansas has
no cIearelsconception Of this Scriptural
doctrine than the Tribune writers have
The origin of the name Adam Cod"
by which he has become known, has
4 absolutely no connection with any
thing laughtin the Bible, or by Plesi-
don't Young. The poor fellow, after
B his mind became cloudetl, said the Lord
came to him and told him that Adam
was the common4name Of all men, and
that. since God Is the father OF man
kind, the proper name OF every man
Is Sc Adam Cod The first is. in his
view, tho given name and the second,
the Surname. OF all men. As the Lead
en- however, he was to be the first to
d bear that universal name, and his wife
was to be named Eve God. "s II WAS.
also, he said. revealed to him that
4. mems laws are all wrong, and that the
Bible Is the only law which anyone
\ is under obligation to obey. As Will
= he seen, he Is as far from the doctrines
Y Believed In by President Young and the
I.atter-day Saints, as he is from rea-
son. In his estimate of the Bible he
comes nearer some OF the teachers OF
orthodox Professionalism.
The name of this poor fellow is James
Sharp. He was a farmer and lived IN:
Oklahoma, One evening q meteor came
laundering through the mir and With
d fearful crash buried itself in the
ground. a few rods from where he
happened to be at work. He fell to
the earth stunned. When he recovered
he began to pray.
On arriving at the house in the eve
ming he3found the wife In a similar con-
ditiun of fear. They prayed together.
Md they continued thisfor days. The
4 stock went unfed, This continued for
u week. Then Sharp thought he was
commanded by Cd to give up the farm
Z 4 IA. . ~ -.
and go out into the world to teach the
people the truth, So he studied the BIZ
BILE, as well az he could, gave away
his farm and animals and wandered alt
over Oklahoma. Kansas. Colorado, Ne
braska, the Dakotas, and came, finally,
to Canada. Everywhere he preached on
the streets.
On his return to Oklahoma, Sharp.
s was joined by a man named Adkins.
Then his brother came into the fold.
Adkins, It is said, convinced sharp that
q he, WAS Adam, and he proposed various
vagaries that brought the little band
in conflict with the police They We're
soon confined to an Insane asylum, hut
as the sharps were regarded as harm
less they were permitted to so their
way,
on second trip to Canada, sharp
and his followers We're attacked BY the
police and they concluded to defend
themselves. The police left and the
fanatics started for the States. At
Atlnat, 8. u. the horse and wagon were
traded for a flatboat in which the
journey Was made. At Omaha and st.
Joseph they We're driven out. Finally
they reached Kansas. They had bought
arms aud ammunition On the road Won.
en- aud children were taught how TO
shoot, and Sharp told them that they
could not be harmed by anyone,
One December afternoon an officer
happened to pass the band singing on II
street corner. He told Sharp that it
WAS against tie law TO have children OF
tender age singing on the streets. They
ought to be in school. sharp in mad
frenzy, struck the officer down. Then
the others attacked him, and a few mo-
lnents later the nnarmed truant officer
escaped to the police station. torn and
bleeding Who're he related his story.
not her r.i n a n ,rr