The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-31
|ANNON CONCLUDES EXPOSE

At fourteen he becomes a deacon OF
the church. Between that age and twenty
, after he becomes "a seventy and per
haps n high priest. He takes upon HIM
self covenants IN holy places" He be-
God''-frequen,ly before his eighteenth
year. Usually before he Is twenty he
Is sent on mission TO proclaim his Cos
his life-to "an unenliEhtened nation
and "a wicked world For. in addition
The best, the most virtuous: most tenn
Iperate. most industrious and most God
leiaring Of all peoples thing that, Is
every Sunday In tho year--hc has been
convinced by equal iteration that the rest
OF the world is a fostering mass OF cor
ruption.
Becomes Missionary.
Often he goes abroad. to some country
whose language and customs he must
earn and upon the charity Of whose
ance. He goes with an implicit reliance
upon God, strong in the small vrtues
tn that hay have been s taught him from the time
probably for the first time. the afflic-
tions and the sins among mankind: and
ne Keeps himself unspotted from them
nessas are unknown to his sheltered
home-life and TO tho religion which he
claims his belief that God has spoken
from tho heavens, through the Mormon
prophet, In this last day. to restore the
OF the earth have wandered. He bears
testimony" to the whole world. and ne
When he returns home. after years Of
service. he is called to the stand In the
tabernacle to give a report of his work.
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xancement, or as the power of his fam
lily or the favor OF ecclesiastIcal author
ity may obtain It for him. He marrios
Identical with his own. She too. has
t,oane borne her testimony before she reached
he was dedicating himself a priest, She
sTnry rTIny even Th have performed a foreign mis-:
IN the eternal world They ara bound by
ther covenants to obey their superior
church affiliations without recantinr rec ting
their vows. The only way they can ad |
here to their covenants with their AL
demonstrate their acceptance Of the |
feels by yielding such obedience to
Father and the Son II They were on earth |
IN Their proper persons. To deviato
from this faithfulness is to be marked as
Saints.
Close Espionage.
AS soon as the Mormon becomes the
mead fae, OF a famiiy-in addition to all the
1eS,s, testimonies I and performances which he
must give as proof OF his continued ad- |
herenee-he must submit himself and his
nousehold to the examination and espion-
nome at least once a month. They enter
absolutely as the proprietors OF the
h hegss o., E If the husband is there, they
in the church; whether he holds family
PRAYER morning and evening; whether he
sRes Keeps IS the word OF wisdom"--that IS,
tobacco. tea and coffee; whether he pays
n full tithe and all the prescribed dona-
rions osrs 70 the church; whether he has any
and sisters; and finally whether he de-
Ioutly sustains the prophet as the ruler
o, ot. Goas Kingdom upon earth, These
TO each member of the family above the I
age OF eight years. Should the husband
b away, all the inquiries concerning him
are absent the questions concerning
them are put to their children!
rhis one 6Tanch OF the ecclesiastical
Mormon church as the most perfectly
disciplined institution among mankind
Must Obey.
The great doctrine OF the Mormon faith
is obedience; the one proof OF grace is
conformity. So long as man pays a full II
tithe. contributes all the required dona-
tions, and yields unquestionably TO the
orders OF the priests. he may even depart
In moral sense from any other OF the ]
ehurch's laws and find himself excused.
the prophets-the rightfuness OF their
authority or the justice of its exercise ,,
Is apostasy, is a denial OF the faith is a
sin against the Holy Ghost
The man who obeys in all things is =,
promised that he shall come forth In the !
morning of the first resurrection; the man !
apostatizes, is condemned to work out. +
through an eternity OF suffering, his Of =
tense against the Holy Spirit AT the :
first sign OF defccton-amost inevitably
discovered In It's incipicncy-the rebel is f,
either disciplined into submission or at =
once pushed over 1.-The bat,lements OF +
BY such perfect means, the leaders. t
from from God maintain an unassaIlabIe h
are themselves priests, These people i'm {
plicity believe that the voice of the lead =
er Is the voice OF God. They follow WIN T.
a fanatical priestly faith and OF sym n
pathy that sees their prophets ''perse- !,
oGtsd .,, by an ungenerous. impure, and a
we suffer. and II mas become the inheri- y
tance of the Mormons TO love the priest q
nood Tor whose protection their parents "
md grandparents suffered and under 7
whose expressions they now suffer them
selves.
Cannon's Duty, c
or the men who could have written 4
ms narrative. some dead: some are I
prudent: some are superStitious; . and &
some are personally forsworn. II APP D
pearcd 10 me that the welfare OF Utah II
ma the common good OF the whole n
nltcd states required the publication b
II the facts that | have tried TO demon p
'tratc. Since there was apparently no h
me else who felt tho duty and also had a
he information or the wish TO ly,i,s I Il
seemed my place 10 undertake IT, And V
have done II gladly; for when | was a
the word OF the Mormon p
'hiefs FOR the fuln)mcnt OF our statehood ii
pledges. | engaged my own honor too 81
md gave bond myself against the very II
rcachories that have here recorded 6,
We promised that the church had for b
Ncr renounced the dictrine OF polygamy b