The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and TravelsPratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker)
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The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and Travels
Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Apostles -- Biography; Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker), 1807-1857
Next morning we published a printed handbill with a statement of
his lying, a copy of the line I had really sent to him, and a
statement of our doctrine as Latter-day Saints. This we circulated
freely in his next meeting, challenging him to refute the charge,
or to meet us in debate.
We could draw no answer from him. We circulated the handbills in
the streets by hundreds, and then sent plenty of them by mail to
our friends in Toronto. The bill was headed: "_Doth our law
judge a man before it hear him?_" Our friends in Toronto were
astonished above measure at the confirmation of the dream, in which
God by his servant had revealed a man's spirit, and clearly exposed
the heart of a wicked man whom his best acquaintances were unable
to discern. Mr. Caird, on being exposed at Kingston, fled to
Toronto, and there commenced preaching to crowds in the Court
House; but there the news boys met him in the face, and circulated
the handbills which we had sent, showing him to be a liar, and he
utterly unable to refute or gainsay it. He threatened persecution;
but the boys, nothing daunted, continued to offer the bills gratis
in his face to those who went in to hear.
We returned to Toronto, and his old friends urged him to meet
me; but he could not be prevailed on to do so, although his
discourses were full of opposition, and misrepresentation of the
principles of the Saints. I now applied to Wm. Lyon McKenzie, a
printer and editor, in King street, for some large public halls or
rooms of his, which would hold hundreds of people. He gave us the
use of them, and we put out a bill, advertising two meetings, and
pledging to the public that we would prove to a demonstration that
Mr. Caird, who was now preaching in this city, was a false teacher,
whom God had never sent, and that no believer in the Bible, who
listened with attention, should go away unconvinced of that fact,
or the truth of the doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. In the handbill Mr. Caird was again invited to
attend.
Long before the hour of the first appointment had arrived the
house as thronged to that degree that ten dollars was in vain urged
upon any one who would vacate their seat, even on the stairs which
led to the hall. I took for a text the saying of the Apostle John:
"Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of
Christ, the same hath not God." I then reviewed the doctrine of
Christ and of His Apostles, in detail, showing what were the
ordinances, gifts, powers, precepts, promises, and commandments of
Jesus Christ, as contrasted with the public teachings and doings of
this man, Caird.
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