Josiah F. Gibbs mentions oath against the U.S. Government in the St. George Temple.

Date
1913
Type
Book
Source
Josiah F. Gibbs
Disaffected
Critic
Hearsay
Direct
Unsourced
Reference

Josiah F. Gibbs, Kawich's Goldmine: An Historical Narrative of Mining in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and of Love and Adventure Among the Polygamous Mormons of Southern Utah (Salt Lake City, UT: Century Printing Company, 1913), 19

Scribe/Publisher
Century Printing Company
People
Hyrum Smith, Josiah F. Gibbs, Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Almost daily in the St. George temple, as in every Mormon temple in Utah, are heard the mumblings of lecherous, fanatical priests as they monotonously repeat the thread bare oath of obedience to the Mormon priesthood, and the oath of vengeance which obligates every devotee to "pray, and never cease to pray Almighty God to avenge the death of the prophets (Joseph and Hyrum Smith) on this nation," and of which the Mountain Meadows massacre was a logical sequence. It is within the secret chambers of the temples that treason to the government of the United States is taught, and enjoined on every one who enters those accursed edifices,—the awe-inspiring Meccas of driveling fanatics, the sanctuaries of priest-ridden serfs; and all the treacherous lying of the prophets and their missionary dupes cannot affect the truth of the above statements which the writer of this knows to be true.

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