Origin of the 'Reorganized' Church and the Question of SuccessionSmith, Joseph Fielding
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Origin of the 'Reorganized' Church and the Question of Succession
Smith, Joseph Fielding
Latter Day Saint churches -- Government; Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints -- Government
These remarks were taken up, twisted, and falsified by a Salt Lake
newspaper, which is so characterless and vile that it is without an
equal, and sent out into the world as a press dispatch, declaring
that President Joseph F. Smith had in the Tabernacle confessed that
he had lied before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections,
in relation to the subject of revelation when he was a witness before
said committee. They made it appear in their dispatch that he had
stated in Washington that he had not received any revelation, and in
the Tabernacle he declared that that was false for he had received many
of them. He testified in Washington as he testified in the Tabernacle,
that he had received revelation, as this will show:
Mr. Tayler: Did Joseph Smith contend that always there was a
visible appearance of the Almighty or of an angel?
Mr. Smith. No, sir: he did not.
Mr. Tayler. How otherwise did he claim to receive revelations?
Mr. Smith. By the Spirit of the Lord.
Mr. Tayler. And in that way, such revelations _as you have
received_, you have had them?
Mr. Smith. Yes, sir. (Investigation, Vol. 1: 100).
Without waiting to verify this falsehood circulated from an unspeakable
source in Salt Lake City, the President of the "Reorganization," as
editor of the _Saints' Herald_ took up the hue and cry with evident
great pleasure and wrote an editorial consigning President Joseph F.
Smith to perdition as a perjurer in the following words:
"_Who Make and Love a Lie_."
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