The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-29

II only this 3 per cent were excluded
from, damnation because they obeyed The
.celesctlal law" and il. as Mrs. Whit.
ney declares Joseph said, II per cent Of
this 3 per cent would be damned by thu
order" itself. then the reader can figure
out how many Mormons stand chancd
for salvation. This brings TO my mind
an old rhyme that read about Hfry
years ago:
IF you can. " YOU can't,
n you Will. n you won't.
You'll be damned if you do
And be damned II you don't"
What shall poor fellow do under tin
circumstan -cs? have never known
any ono To be damned for having faiti,
In God, Men are not lost who repent 81
revelation we arc told that II a man
and woman arc married. and IL TX sealed
unto them by the Holy. Spirit Of promise,
by him who Is anointed," he shall be I'M,
muno from all sin except the shedding
OF innocent blood He may break all
the commandments In the decalogue ex-
tho celestial law may lie and steal
he may dcbauch his ucighbor's wife; la
may destroy the virtue OF the innocent
maid; in fact. there Is no crime known
In tho catalogue but may be INDUCED IN
with impunity. And after all that. he
shall have his name written In the
Lambs Book Of Life" and shall "conne
| forth In, The morning OF the first resur.
rection."
! Let US see what these promIoee have
resulted In bringing men 10 do. There
| was William ". Dame, bishop OF Paros
wan. whom John D. Lee SAYS gave the
order for the slaughter Of tho innocent
eniigrants at Mountain Meadows. ano
T who was ,d,,I poIyssmist having ,s had fou1
| OF nineteen women, Isaac Haight an
other Of the Mountain Meadows mur.
derers, was the husband OF several wives
! The notorious Bill Hickman. The self con
| fesscd murderer and DANTE, informs tho
readers OF his book that he had the
| honor OF having ten wives. OF course.
under the polygamous doctrine. all these
wrctches will be saved. because the
blood which they shed was not 9nno-
| cent In that Ii was not the blood Of
men and women who had received sImi'
lar endowments with themselves. Poor
devils like the writer Of this arc To be
damned for not believing and practtc-
Ing such ret.
There is great part of this ''reyela :
ton that is mere tumble. having no
! connection whatever with plural mar
riase. and evidently thrown In to hids
its hideousness as far as possible, The
substance OF commandments proclaimed
from Mount Sinai thousands OF ycars ago
Is given, as II something new.
The whole revelation Is n mass oi
| absurdties and Inconsistencies. II fos-
ters lust; it makes slaves cf women and
beasts of men; il Is 10 the Mormon
sacred literature what Don Juan IS
TO The poems OF Byron, only 1t lacks The
| gave to the obscene but wonderful III
crary production. In my humble opinion
il was no more trouble for 1.-The boy
prophet Ia manufacture revelation
when he needed ono than il is Tor the
| average Uuack doctor 10 bring out n
"testimoniar' in favor OF some worth
less nostrum which he wishes to dis
pose of-and, in fact, ono is about az
| worthless as the ether
will say that ] have been driven out
of the Mormon church. not for any SIN
that I have committed. but because my
mind was not capable of receiving surr
abon1inablc rot os. that Of which ire
| revelation. on polyEamy Is composed
The gospel Of the Master is as true and
as beautiful, to my mind, as II over was
and polygamy is not now and never was
a part OF IL.
I win close NY say:pS that orson I'rs
who preached the first sermon puhhcl,
proclaming polygamy as doctrine o'
the Mormon church august - -
said that tho doctrine was revealed I,
Joseph Smith, July L., 1siS Also tna'
william Clayton hns made the sam
statement under oath. and believe theii
testimony to be truo and faithful
GEORGE \. HICKS.
Spanish Fork. Oct 2s. 1910