The Life of John Taylor: Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day SaintsRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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The Life of John Taylor: Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saint churches; Taylor, John, 1808-1887
"What about their calling? Are we to have no answer to this subject?
I have positively proved and demonstrated that they have no authority
to preach, and they never attempted to disprove it, but have given us
another rehearsal of the old ditty [the character of Joseph Smith].
Gentlemen, you sit down very quietly under the appellation of false
teachers; of course we must believe that you are such unless you can
prove to the contrary. Mr. Robertson, indeed, honestly says that he has
no authority. Then God has nothing to do with him or his calling. He,
of course, acknowledges that he is administering in the name of one who
never sent him. We shall take him at his word, and set him down as a
teacher whom God has not sent. In France or England they would punish
persons as imposters for committing an act of forgery. But the judgment
of those who administer falsely in the name of Jesus has not yet come;
but the time will come when some will come and say, we have preached
in thy name; and He will answer, depart from me, I never knew you
(confusion). We shall set Mr. Cater on the stool with Mr. Robertson.
Mr. Cleeve will not degrade himself by investigating the matter! Will
he tell me why he, as a gentleman, undertook to discuss a subject, and
published that engagement, which he is now disgusted with? And why he
did not express his feelings of disgust before he heard the argument?
I presume a criminal would express his disgust at an executioner for
being so impolite as to put a noose round a gentleman's neck. But it
is there, and there it will remain, Mr. Cleeve, until it is removed
by you. It needs more formidable weapons than disgust or contempt to
remove it; and we shall still say you have no authority, that you are a
false teacher, and that God has not sent you, unless you can show some
reason to the contrary." (Confusion.)
Elder Taylor, amid considerable confusion, hastily sketched the
outlines of the doctrines of Christ as contained in the New Testament,
the organization of the Church and the gifts and powers that attended
the primitive Saints, all of which was to be perpetuated in the Church.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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