Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-25


art Peter and upon this rock dhe rock
| OF divine revelation { Will build my
| church and the gates of hell shall not
| prevail against it,
"Aul Jesus answered and said unto
| him. blessed art thou, Simon Bar-JOua,
/ for flesh ard blood has not revealed
/ it unto thee but my Father which Is In
/ heaven Matthew l6, lc-l1-iS verses.
SKETCH OF PROPHETS LIFE
/ Joseph smith. Jr proclaimed TO the
/ world in which he lived That be- had
I received q glorious revelation from God
[ and this when De was but "a years OF
/ age This revelation was In the broad
b daylight and ln the morning Of
FOR wisdom 90 know which Of the
] churches Of the day he should join and
l while he was still upon his knees IN
I prayer In "a grove of trees on his
I fathers farm. the Father and tine Son
appeared to him. two glorious beings
/ In the form Of men. one said pointing
| to the other, This IL my beloved Son.
I Hear him" 4 recital OF these facts 20
| his most intimate friends among the
ministers Of the vicinity brought on
Joseph smith bitter denunciatiou and
rsproof and this man told him not 10
tell about his vision 10 anyone for God
no more revealed himself 90 men. But
I the youth told others and brought on
| himself severe treatment. SCOTS, abuse,
ana bitter persecution which followed
him though all his life and finally
caused him to be murdered with his
brother Hyrum In the JAN at Carthage,
no. Forty times he was arrested on
trumped-up charges and every time on
| trial ne was declared innocent of all
wrong, by turtles picked from among
men not his friends He was murdered
Ia cold blood upon the eth day Of June,
=
led by a Baptist minister His last
words were 90 Lord. My God" He
had predicted his death saying, II
shall dc innocent and Il shall be said
Of me. He was murdered In cold
blood. After his death the Mormons
were driven from the city Of Nauvoo, a
place which they had built numbering
20 900 people and after many bitter
trials In travelling over the Wild plains
of the far west settled I'm salt Lake
valley. now Utah. I'm July ls47. This
people have suffered terrible trials,
many times driven from their homes.
In Missouri and Illinois, their men and
children murdered, their women out
ragged by hends In human shape, their
houses burned, their crops destroyed,
while hundreds Of innocent women and
little children persisted In their brutal
expulsion from their comfortable
homes. In the dead Of winter. crossing
y
They crossed the bleak priiries ~ the
then wild territory of Iowa I'm wagons
with only a canvas cover for shelter
I'm them children We're born and moth
crs died from exposure, and their sur
ferlugs and trials equaled those Of the
christian martyrs Of Europe who suf-
fercd for conscience sake. They
crossed immense plains climbed over
lofty mountain ranges. often surround
ed 10y hundreds Of savage red men who
though heathcus yet were kinder to
them than men calling themselves civil
lied Christians
PREACHERS IN THE MOB.
Among the mob who drove the Nor
mons from Nauvoo was their COM
mandcr Thomas S. Brockmau, a
Campbollite preacher, ana also one OF
the mob was another preacher who as
conded to the topmost tower OF the
temple erected 10y the Mormons for the
worship ot God and proclaimed Peace
to the inhabitants of the earth now
that the Mormons are driven out" and
assisted the mob in Decorating its holy
precincts with yilest icsts, blasphemous
language and horrd oaths This
temple was e beautiful building, cost
ing over % million dollars. The mob
was led hy preachers of different de
nominations and they plundered the
wagons of the fleeing Mormons. They
cruelty treated the sick and inhrm and
disturbed brut1Ily some Of the people
who were burling their dead. This all
happened iu these United states In the
nineteenth century.
Why the great hatred OF the preach
crs for this stCt2 Has the fact that
they preached for hire. for a salary. for
money, anything 90 DO with their
hatred for tho Mormons? Well
Mormons preach the gospel Of
Christ 10 the people both
rich and poor without money
been paid minister among them. Is
preaching any less trade now,
means ~ gain. than making silver
limoges to bee worshiped AZ godsH In
Acts xix-For a certain man named
Demctrius. a silversmith which made
silver shrlucs for Diana brought no
small gain with the craftsmen. whom
he called together with tho workmen of
like occupation and said "Sirs, We know
that by this craft We have our wealth,
moreover Sc see that not at Ephesus
alone. hut almost throughout all Asia,
this Paul hath persuaded and turned
away much people, saying that they be
no gods which are made with hands.
ao That not only this our craft Ia In
danger to b. set at naught and her
mami1ccnce should be destroyed whom
an Asia and the world worshipeth'
Ana NNtn lNfN uttIb AIA'N' ~hN llA1
they were fun ~ wrath and cried out.
saying. Great Is Diana OF the Ephes-
Jams" So they filled the whole city
with confusion and raised Up mob,
but tho authorities ~ those heathens
had % fear Of the law ~ Rome and re
strained the mob and quoted them and
Paul was not hurt. IL not human ma
ture much the same through the ages?
CHURCH REVENUES
You will never sec contribution
plate or box passed ia a Mormon
westinghouse They never invite
strangers into their churches and then
ask them to pay 10 get out or TO be
looked upon with sour face. Mo- by
their tithes and offerings. they pay the
EXPENSES OF their own houses OF wor-
shin a good Mormon pays a tenth
part of am his income into the treasury
of bis church. In addition to this, on
the first sunday OF every month, he
paws in q fast offering as much as his
food would cost FOR one day at least,
for the help ~ the poor The Church
keeps out In the world from year TO
Year about 1000 missionaries. These go
to nearly every part OF the world. upon
cVery continent they are found. and
upon the lone isles IN FAR distant seas
from Greculaud's icy mountains TO
midas coral strand" They pay their
own expenses. either they or their par
cnts, for they are mostly young men.
and Chcorfully 60 and preach and teach
The gospel They come from farm.
ranch and mill. doctors. lawyers. uer-
crs, OF every trade and profession OK
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