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Jo§ Smith, the Mormon-—The New York Journo! of Commerce tells the following capital anecdote of Joe Smith, the Mormon:•'Some pern one visited him during hie troubles in Illinois, end the conversation turned upon self defense. He was asked whs he thought of tho words of the Scrip* faro, which required him who bed been smitten on one cheek to turn the other also. ‘A very remarkable passage,* he\aaswemd, 'spoken by Jesus himself/ andilluflstrikingly illustrative of his thorough ae j ouai ounce with human nature. A man may strika you at first under a mistake, or without intending any harm^ and you ought not to strike heck immediately, but turn tho other cheek sod giro him an op* portuoity to explain; orf if he be in oar* nest, to repeat tbo ofieoae. However, you need not turn a third time; hut if a man etrlkea yon twice, then into kim liko thousand of brick/.1 T 1
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Bedford White River Standard
Bedford, Indiana, US
Thu, Apr 20, 1854
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