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Show ALL, QUIKT ON THE JOKOAV. How quiet it is on the Jordan! And yet, in a certain sense, two armies, hostile hos-tile in principle, are camping together with no tangible gulf, not even the Jordan, Jor-dan, rolling between them. Tho lion and the lamb lie down together, and the lamb, strange to say, ia outside, in fact, Upside and on top of the lion. What becomes thon of the "irrepressible "irrepres-sible conftict" we talked of? As well ask the question what has become of the drums and bugles, of tho banners and torches which a few weeks ago were being beaten and blown, carried and waived n mutual defiance, on the streets of Salt Lake? Because tho game-cocks of the Salt Lake press are quietly reost-ing, reost-ing, does it follow that the dog-daya of August which warm tho rattlesnakes into venomous activity, will not, also Btart every Qentile and Mormon chicken crowing and fighting? The coming Feast of Tabernacles in this city will, it is expected, bring together to-gether a larger gathering of the saints than usual. Their leaders will stir them to greater zeal with a new editicn of a thrice told tale of dire judgments about to fall upon this wicked nation. They will point a moral and adorn their tales by exclamation and interrogation in-terrogation points enough to fill the Tabernacle with the shrieks of seers and of infants. The fouds of Gentile officials and specul '!rT. nrd ;!ie col I npso of the Industrial i.-i 1 in me, will furnish variety to tuo uual stale repast. Brothers Cannon and Penrose will, in tboir efforts to paint this Gentile town red, become more rosy in countenance than usual. A politico-ecclesiastical campaign will be commenced, which will rage in August Au-gust and come to a head at the election in November next. Yes, the "irrepressible conflict" is an established fact and will be foueht out until the last ditch is reached. The republic re-public on one hand and Asiatic barbarism barbar-ism ou the other; Christian homes against polygamous haromp; individual freedom against priestly dictation. Moons may wax and wane, tides ebb and flow, but the political church in these "volleys of the mountains" may and will die, but it never surrenders. |