The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-09
CONFERENCE NOTE A WHINE.

NE Key nolc DI Inc present cOH'
| ference of the Mormon church seems
to he IA ,listrcssful whine. 1t appears
that the brethren throughout Mormon
dom are critcisirg their leaders.
| Those leaders hate TO be criticised.
and especially by thcir OWE people.
They have the hardihood. when criti-
| ciscd by those not of their own Faith,
to charge the criticism up TO lying,
and 50, falsely. they have been carry
ing among their people an appearance
of invulncrability which by no means
belongs TO them. They arc the most
vulnerable set of scampS ON earth
And vet they do not want 10 be
criticised
These same leaders who are 50
touchy about being criticised by their
followers. exercise the utmost freedom
in criticisiug other people Their
"cnemies - are the subjects Of their
denunciatiops, loud. long, and constant.
The CHRISTIAN ministry is the object
of their bitter attack and scornfuI
sncering innuendos at all times.
Everybody is mistaken bui themselves.
They have the only true light. Every
body else is in darkness. and every
body else is a proper subject of de-
nunciation, viiuperation. and calumny.
IT is humiiatinC spectacle TO see
2 set OF boorish. illiterate frauds like
these posing as the light of tho world.
They are utterly coptcmptiblc in their
requirements, their outgivings. in their
conduct. and their personality. And
yet TO hear them say it, they arc above
criticisms; they are pure; they arc holy;
they arc the favored Of God. But
their leader holds God in the utmost
contempt, saying that he obeys or dis
obeys God at his own pleasure. and
that that is the kind of God he be
heves in, They arc cruel. they are
Destial. lccherous. avaricious, law de
fYing and of traItoTous mind; but they
must not be criticised, and especially
must their followers revere them as
scers, revelators. infallible
iu their claims and irresistible in
their authority This authority. as
they claim. extends to every walk of
life. AS Joseph r. Smith says. "The
man who admits my right to rule him
spiritually and denies my righ, to rule
him temporarily. lies in the face Of
G cd: that is. if be has sense enough
to know what he is talking about.
This is the length and breadth of the
4 nnl I'll Inf 10 l.,tts
made by these pretentious impostors,
robbers Of IA gentle and submissive
people.
1nasmuch as the spirit Of criticism
and denunciation is so rife among the
leaders, and since they impel their fol
to assail and denounce everybody but
themselves, IL should not be matter
Of surprise to them if this spirit of
and deuunciation should turn
against themselves. Why should not
those who are robbed complain of the
robbers! Why should not those who
are misIed complain of the impostors
who mislead them? Why should those
who are eternally assailing others OBJ
ject to being assailed themselves?
The key note of this conference is
pitched on an exceedingly low tone; it
is personal, vindictive, and mcanly de-
fensive, 1t is a JOY to us TO see that
these pretcntious. avarlcious grafters
and impostors are being criticised by |
their own people for their misdceds.
These misdeeds, the wrong attitude of
mind taken by these priestly impostors,
arc the most subject to criticism of
any form of religious cult that is in
evidence anywhere. II is the most in
lefensiblc of any; The weakest in de-
fense and position. There is no rea
son on earth why those assailants
should not be assailed There is no
reason whatever why the weakness and
rottcnness and the scandalous i'm
postures Of their pretentious claims |
should not be utterly ovcrthrown both
from within and without.
NATIONAL, DAIRY SHOW