Excommunication of Albert Carrington
AND now comes the wonder of all wonders. A card in the Deseret News, the Mormon paper at Salt Lake City, signed by ten of the twelve Mormon apostles, announces that Albert Carrington, one of the twelve, has been excommunicated. And the charge against him was nothing more or less than adultery! To think that after the grand jury has been indicting the leaders, and Judge Zane has been sentencing them for adultery, which they have practiced by the command of the church, and which they will not abandon, the highest authority in the church should excommunicate one of their number for the same thing! Are they now going to assist the courts in their work? "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Does this action betoken the downfall of Mormondom?