The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-20
THE BLAsPHEMoUs COMPARISON

Apostle Anthony W. WINS. at the tab.
crnacle on Sunday, turned the old
hierarchical and blasphemous trick of
likening the prophet, Joseph Smith,
10 Jesus Christ of Nazareth We have
no verbatim report Of the apostle S ser.
mon, but We here reproduce the notes
of four reporters for three local morn
ing and one evening newspaper, who
were present TO write up the services,
with the suggestion that notice be taken
of the fact that they all agree as to
he import of Mr.. WINS s remarks upon
his subject:
The coming and life OF the prophet 1o-
seph Smith and that OF Jesus Christ were
hkcned IN no uncertain terms by Apos tie
Anthony w. WINS in lengthy address al
INC quarterly conference OF Liberty stake,
held a the Mormon tabernacle sunday
afternoon The Tribune.
We believe the Book OF Norman to be
the word OF God; that Joseph Smith was
n prophet. and that his coming was as
clearly outlined by the prophets OF old
as that OF Christ-From the Herald,
Anthony w. WINS compared Joseph
Smith with Jesus Christ.-From Apostle
Smoot's Mouth
il Christ had come as an ordinary re-
FORMER; had He been learned in the learn
ing OF the Jews. He doubtless would not
have been so unpopular He de
clared the doctrines OF the gospel the
great truths OF the gospel. He was re-
sent TO His death.
The same circumstances and conditions
md comparison TS in this dispensatlon.
church are good and uplifting. Thev
harmoaiZe with the word OF God and OF
good men. The objection 10 IL all Is
,,a,,. raat IoSeph sp smith came not as an ordi-
nary retormer. not philosopher. but as
one divinely called. He bore witness OF
the personality OF God he testified of the
DIVINITY Of the Book OF Mormon and for
tnese Things he was not accepted. Though
MS mission was outlined in the Bible as
was the advent OF the Savior. he was re
leeted and cast out.-From the Dcseret
News
1t Will be seen that no mistake will
be made in assuming that the intention
OF Mr.. lvlns was clearly to impress his
audience with the idea that as much
reverence was due 10 Joseph Smith. the
fondcr of Mormonism. as Christianity
has paid TO the Nazsrene.
1t is an accepted proposition that no
man on earth ever has been. is or will
be perfect. The one exception TO this
rule has been the acceptance by Chris
tlanity, Of which Mormonism claims TO
be the most advanced part that Christ
was perfect man, in that he was he
Son of God. There is no Mormon with
intelligence or with knowledge of the
facts who will claim that joseph Smith
was perfect man-in truth. they know.
and VIII admit, that he had many fail.
ings, some of them amounting to griev-
Gus faults. Therefore. if oniv viewed
from these premises, Apostle Ivins s DO
sition as he set il forth on Sunday was
blasphemous in the cxtreme-provided
he rs what he pretends TO be, a Chris
tian man.
But lei us 90 to those who knew .Jo-
seph Smith personally. and we will dis
cover that Mr.. WINS deliberately in.
suited every Christian man, woman and
child on the face of the earth. In
a sermon which he preached in the Salt
Lake tabernacle on November 9. 1855,
President Brigham Young described a
conversation that he had once had with
priest who was an old friend of
ours. Brigham said that during their
talk this priest had expressed wonder
ment that people could believe in the
divinity of Joseph Smith while yet he
was so well known to be abnormalIy af-
hicted with personal imperfections "At
last said Brigham, she came out
and began to rail against Joe Smith,
saying, that he was a mean man, a
liar, money digger, gambler, and n
master But Brigham declared
that he "clipped every argument he
the priest advanced" presenting his
own position in the following words:
II he acts like devil he has brought
forth a doctrine that Will save u.s. II we
VIII abide IT,. He may get drunk every
day OF his life, sleep with his neighbor's
wlte every night, run horses and gamble
l do not care anything about that for | !
never embrace any man In my faith
journal OF Discourses, volume a. page 49,
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