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
Elder Taylor.--"Monsieur Krolokoski, you sent Monsieur Cabet to Nauvoo,
some time ago. He was considered your leader--the most talented man
you had. He went to Nauvoo shortly after we had deserted it. Houses
and lands could be obtained at a mere nominal sum. Rich farms were
deserted, and thousands of us had left our houses and furniture in
them, and almost everything calculated to promote the happiness of
man was there. Never could a person go to a place under more happy
circumstances. Besides all the advantages of having everything made
ready to his hand, M. Cabet had a select company of colonists. He
and his company went to Nauvoo--what is the result? I read in all
your reports from there--published in your own paper here, in Paris,
a continued cry for help. The cry is money, money! We want money to
help us carry out our designs. [1] While your colony in Nauvoo with
all the advantages of our deserted fields and homes--that they had
only to move into--have been dragging out a miserable existence, the
Latter-day Saints, though stripped of their all and banished from
civilized society into the valleys of the Rocky Mountains, to seek
that protection among savages--among the _peau rouges_ as you call our
Indians--which Christian civilization denied us--there our people have
built houses, enclosed lands, cultivated gardens, built school-houses,
and have organized a government and are prospering in all the blessings
of civilized life. Not only this, but they have sent thousands and
thousands of dollars over to Europe to assist the suffering poor to go
to America, where they might find an asylum.
"The society I represent, M. Krolokoski," he continued, "comes with
the fear of God--the worship of the Great Eloheim; we offer the simple
plan ordained of God, viz: repentance, baptism for the remission of
sins, and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost. Our
people have not been seeking the influence of the world, nor the power
of government, but they have obtained both. Whilst you, with your
philosophy, independent of God, have been seeking to build up a system
of communism and a government which is, according to your own accounts,
the way to introduce the Millennial reign. Now, which is the best, our
religion, or your philosophy?"
M. Krolokoski.--"Well, Mr. Taylor, I can say nothing."
"Philosophy" has always been a passion with the French; but Elder
Taylor seems not to have had a very high regard for what he saw of it
among them. He held it in the same esteem that Paul did the "science"
of the Greeks--he considered it a misnomer--philosophy, falsely so
called.
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