Show presbyterian PERFIDY THE presbyterian pt pi bachers and teachers of utah have bee beao 13 holding a sort of convocation at nep nephi the following ministers were present nt FL F L arnold evanston wyoming J JF F fiero evanston wyoming HA newell salt lake city F M blown blohm salt SaIt lake city SL y L gillespie box elder josiah mcclain ogden B R G salt jake biake city peter van houten salt lake city J A L smith payson david hone payson A B bort cort st george G W martin mantl T F day american fork E N murphy mt pleasant S SJ J neilson mt pleasant EW greene Gre eneRich richfield philip bobjack Bob back hyrum 11 D stoops parowan carowan Pa rowan the following teachers were in III attendance miss M Bee kinan mt pleasant miss M S byers box elder miss K J L bingham salt luke lake ca city miss E y S dickey salt lake city mra rs at M green gunnison mi ms s L H hindman spring city miss M E knox fillmore miss E al knox fillmore miss L L lockwood nepal miss K Nephi prof J JF F millspaugh salt lake city miss L P moore salt lake city miss L G morton Pa iowan towan miss al II 11 mccallough Cullo payson miss J A olmstead ri C hield miss M avans evans scipio besides these there were present W E renshaw ranshaw and E M knox from the presbytery of wood river elver judge J osborn mrs mra H A newell and miss aimle mcdowel of salt lake city rs J JAL A L smith of payson mrs L A lockwood of nephi little interest attaches to their pro except the construction of tile the following resolutions which after a full discussion of their contents were unanimously adopted in regard to the statement recently telegraphed over the country from washington that no further congles Con gres legislation is needed for utah uta h because of the work which the churches and schools are accomplishing it is recommended first that this statement be declared unwarranted by the facts and calculated to do great mischief second that while the christian churches and schools are doing a most salutary work which is increasing in power ever every year there is still grea great t need of rascal radical legislation egi by congress third that if our Govera government mint had done its duty as faitha faithfully ully as the great christian denominations have done their sUtah would have been americanized years ago as is shown by the fact that since the government has begun to assert its authority by putting the transgressors of its laws in any community in the penitentiary penitentiary the freedom of the deop e to attend the churches and schools has been greatly augmented 11 these renunciations enunciations are much bentler in tone than many anany that have emanated from a similar source and considering that such reckless and unscrupulous def retainers detainers deta iners amers as ce and gillespie participated in the proceedings they are rather remarkable for their mildness with the and barefaced alse hoods of each of those hypocrites who are a disgrace to the name ot of christian and a burlesque on the tit tithe le of minister the utah public are pretty well familiar they have bolh appeared in print as the concoct ors of infamous libels against tile the mormons cormons Mor mons and have struggled sled in vain to appear to the country as martyrs to the cause of presbyterianism their attempts to show that they had been perse persecuted persecute cut e d were proven to be absolute lies with without out the shadow of excuse and their shameful mendacity will stand against them on earth and in heaven in time and in eternity but beneath the quietness of the language of the resolutions there lurk both ithe i the falsehood and the vindictiveness which anich are arc the chief characteristics of the snappy salt lake declaim declaimer ep and the nabby flabby exhorter from box elder at the close clone of the resolutions solutions Ee is an untruth that implies more than it speaks the impression conveyed and intended is that the people here have been prevented in times past from attending g presbyterian meetings that the f freedom r ec which is admitted to exist at present has been denied in times past and that the liberty enjoyed is in consequence of the imprisonment of a few laiter lacter day Saints for practicing a principle of their religion ign the inference is that if more mormons cormons Mor mons are put into the penitentiary the presby teriann will be able to flourish with i creater freedom therefore the aid of Gove government is requested that force may accomplish what presbyterian persuasion and presbyterian doctrine leave have failed to effect that is atter after the straight style and method tile the falsehood implied in tile the resolution is patent to every resident of this territory but it is not intended for home use it is manufactured for exportation por tation it is for manipulation at a distance it will help nil fill up tile the utah presbyterian moneybags money bags the grand desideratum of all these libels upon tile the mormon community there is no more liberty to attend sectarian churches and chapels today to day than there was before the passage 6 of the edmunds law the latter day saints ure are advised now as much muchas as then not to send their children to schools sc taught by their enemies not to entrust the care of the little ones to those w whose hose main object is to turn them from the faith of their fathers the wisdom of this advice must be clear to every v ry t thinking h I 1 n ing mind the folly of re rejecting e tig ti g it is apparent to all ail who are possessed of common sense advice ad vice has been fie only influence used in that direction and no man or woman has been coerced in relation to this matter those who insinuate to the contrary either by preaching or resolution know that they are guilty of gross across falsehood A aud nd what a confession of abject impotence is conveyed in the ale pled that the influence of presbyterianism is so small that it cannot hope bopre vail without the employment of force what a weak and watery religion that must be which cannot make headway in a free land without the government puts its opponents into prison I 1 meet ing g houses and schools built for them by others money poured out like water in their aid with scarcely anything to do but draw their hirelings bazes these sleek and snuffling men of gab unable to convert because they cannot convince the Mor try to goad the government into measures for their destruction we can understand why the poll political adventurers who want ito to control the territory are anxious for radical legislation for that means the disfranchisement of the mormon majority J for the benefit of the antl anti imor mormon in minority but on what christian principle can professed disciples of jesus strive to accomplish the same end and that too under the plea of a palpable lie they see men who wound be an honor to any community thrust into jail because they will not promise to renounce what they know to be right virtuous wives dragged from their homes and forced is in violation of law and religion to give testimony against their husbands children compelled to answer prurient questions in relation to co the bedroom privacy of their parents homes disrupted families scattered hearths made desolate all this they they endor seand ruthlessly cry for more radical measures it is not enough for their pious purpose that people who do not agree with wit h their views are thus hunted and despoiled but in their religious wrath they demand further oppression and more extreme legislation and what is the reason for this holy hol y outcry why these mormons cormons Mor mons will not yield vi eld to the principles of presbyterian doctrine mormonism cannot be controvert ed by scripture nor by argument and the only way to accomplish our presbyterian purpose is to put their leaders in prison break up no the their r homes confiscate their church property and disfranchise c every man and woman who is a member of the church that we cannot put down by ordinary measures our fail our renderings and wre stings of holy writ our nasal prayers and our sanctified demeier demeanor count couba for nothing with these obstinate believers in old fashioned bible christianity and therefore the government must step in to our aid with pains and penalties and the most radical legislation 11 oh ye plotting and mendacious priests who preach for hire and teach for money who distort the truth who wrest the scriptures who plot against the innocent who join with the political hark the carping infidel the sneaking place hunter the roy roistering ruffian ruf lian the conspirator the spot spotter er and the spy who formulate falsehoods that ye may gather in ia dollars and foster prejudices that ye may gat get gain how shall ye appear in n the great day of judgment and of justice who shall hide you from tile the gaze of and cover you from the scorn of the just when you yon reap your f ull full reward what can save you from the doom of the liar and the hypocrite tile the deep damnation of the lowest hell |