Show OUK CHICAGO scholarly dissertation ablio benilo social ethical joseph aid not produce it produced efflin sir thomas moores inspiration and martyrdom the chicago ao divine blaja and saloon keeper the Con of the day caytoo fao many leaders aders special jileba 20 1887 dillee abady and honest criticism should go so ha C j hand by diligent study is ayva th the capacity tosa to say yo an aud do and teach the best that can be said baia and dolind taught in relation to tb the pro progress ass advancement and happiness drivie ofine human laBar lv in d a woy woi diligent study produces the hig highest liest cul culture turO honest criticism is the leq en deay deavor I 1 ire to fo ascer ascertain apere this 3 it eti i e is td be found 1 its mission missia n is to point out bea show edw hoe de facts can be amended in botn these great departments dr df intellectual life modern leaders at thought in social and po political science are not dischar discharging their deity to the present genera lion they are phases has of 01 our dur social system that wey deserve erve dili diligent gerit study and hanest ariti criticism cisin how few of t the e agit great men of our time have bet stow thought on that hew diew 1 development L keown as mormonism AU and yet athis P is A a mave movement 1 1 1 MOX IMPORTANT I 1 to the hudsin race than any of bf those pavements movements in which tomes of contro versy dud and c cisin nave heen written up to the present it its a critis sail opponents have beep 6 person so the ace lowest es mental I 1 calibre calbre per persona sonk to totally 21 illy void of 0 critical tir or judicial elev in the proper sense bena persons character without rith 0 o ut intellect aw wibb out the tae commod bo honesty nesty tha abts is the rean why the general pu public lie entertains such jagde IN ilfe de e tineo and meaning meaningless liess ideas I 1 mormonism and this Is the resso reason n why by men of of 8 sense abad of undemanding demanding un debould i and nd it in ift tm til light before 6 deo publia I 1 in order eo co show efow now mormonism hatmon harmonizes izes with th thi best the Aea world 1 I t will stake take an extract from a disc auise delivered py by a and of published Bubli shed inobe NEN pi a ate and I 1 will compare it with lap jap ettje extract t gip from a work written oy by a of newnham ligin Colit college ge cambridge hoke here is what SAYS ekys I 1 this was vas a work of preparation 61 an 14 k teci 40 of the saints 19 the grandest a bolest mission on ever given iven to a atash 4 becele 0 nate ewe nj te eq dp creation many p 0 be been en given qu this of a preparatory T e a ra ry oba character rieter and men and natan nations s out tte way for other men and nut nations ions and ir if an anin intelligent tell igent student oaf history biad prosecuted his and had bad weighed the evidence gicand au 0 and yaw u au history were known i ow as it t is known in the ii heavens beav where ft exists as a prophecy it e seen that all witt h have av benall een all the great events thai have transpired and all the that have alave come forth have fitted acted into each others lives as the see tiona of a piece apiece of in machinery whinery parts of a magnificent whole the student woula fled find that the past was as all preparatory 0 o 21 to hie tune time of the of all thin things s the last not act or oi the of tinie time was cown known to the saints an 4 the e tion of the all things in christ woul goulabe cEbe united and sow how luto into ose oae as aa the rivers auto rwjr oen ocean the tha sun sm had bad never dawned upon arror 60 e a future w so D pub sublime asmat IM 4 Q the saints and tor hg they te were bre paring or should be with it a jj t ei ir might mind and strength and the wise us use of aa L that god has given them T I 1 XA of the existing religious religions eions can touch buch a splendid sueh A a taaga mag idebel ae te this th iaK I 1 ex t I 1 1 H f i f ni tract is embodied a do doctrine cirice blending the Kran gk audest dest philosophy with the purest christianity jn in co nesti ol of conception illel ini elevation eva ti of in ji liberality boriL lity ol of spit it surpasses anything to b be 0 found in primativa prima tive or renascent rexta scent ty it flur pAss to be found in ia egyptian grecian or ro bo mau mari philosophy and it is a 90 40 far beyond the quackery of the sects and the most shallow f and prejudiced observer must admix aa ant Us its grandeur I 1 I 1 I 1 here is what arft Cr ft the cambridge Ac lecturer says of th the renaissance of this great movement there can be no adequate comprehension unless we accept that hat view which regards it as a necess necessary phatie phase and one of the most important necesser Wr t phases in the of the social wo we jaust look upon it asa M something external to mhd th great geat men who mark it by their names asim ras as not adduced by babut abut as productive of men such inch hs as 1 lluther Petri petrica Petr arch cb and erasmus ilyas it was not no the result raqul but the cause ot of the discovery of the new world jr ir l tte 6 ai the cape of hope jn 1407 of the outburst of science euce lo 10 of the discoveries a of the s bojar ar in 1507 alkes theory of a fedrid arld spirit sait con connes k SV of the historic growth of it ithe he c civilized world through ordered successive stages Spen spencers ibers of the tae lution TO 16 the social organism ate are all out I 1 ut various expressions of the great truth that the bistor history of society is the histon history of a natural natura j ordered growth that t ere is a conti continuity nutty in all the our 1 politics of our literature 4 of our social life that each eacia phase is vitally dependent den dent upon the other that what weare apt to consider cansio er as causes as de are but ine incidents dents in a movement larger than themselves reada Read both these extracts carefully and you will see at a glance the harmony harmany of the philosophy in both but yott boil can also not tail to discern dilcer a the superiority of reli religion elon in whitneys Whit while ahll that of Creff cs breathes breather an I 1 I 1 SPIRIT it is a commonly accepted belief aman among t the p peoples pies of df europe and america mer ca that at joseph smith and brigham young oun and a few others produced mormonism Mor monis this in hi a fallacy of the grossest klad bather they were ere produced by mormonism as the renaissance produced pico cicino and savonarola in italy lather and calvin in central europe and colet erasmus and sir thomas moore in Engla england tid the history of mormonism has many things in common with the history of the renaissance with the history of med mediaeval media eval leeval filid and primitive christianity and also with the history of judaism in tact fact fill all these great movements fit into each other like sections of a arand gra d whole with the latter day dev ev elopement lQ crowning crowni fig all i the founder found tir of the new learning in Engl england aad used to say greep keep firm firmly ly to the bre bible and creed and let divine diviness a Sj if the they y alke dispute about the rest yn in the iME DUEVAL y there were some six or seven hundred among the them in fort forty 3 T three concerning the nature of GID god and andorthy alve the nature ot of man it bisno wonder the deus dean of st t john golet fled froin this an anarchistic rah istle theology to the sanctuary of the in like we ewd ti 1 sep hSmith dyl hg from the anarchy of r some two hundred sects and isms iams gild and seeking the guidance of god when distracted with the jarring colors of the sectarian zebra I 1 i 1 erasmus u 8 says say h preachers liali aim time their h ei alio and irritability are such that the they will come down upon me with their six hun dried conclusions and compel me to recant or declare me a fOr forthwith thith 11 in similar terms joseph smith jal might have sad odthe of the sects unless I 1 igno ignore e the commands 0 of t my god 64 and unless I 1 suppress the instinctive asin p am tings of my better bett I 1 nature and oin join C 1 in n I a wi wiep one or all of the two rn hundred zed i sects I 1 I 1 ewt must be declared an impostor r stor j 11 chatis ast incomprehensible to the bilt outside side world is the fidelity to principle and firm adhe adhesion alonto to druth which mark all great roen men aid especially ally the martyrs to religion 1 when sir thomas more was in prison because he would noi obey the law as henry the eighth and his hirelings construed it haf hea kore was visited b by tats afe wife she ato him marvel that you that have always hitherto bean considered so ao wise a man inan will now dow so play pl the fool as to be in this close filthy althy bole ol 01 e v belyou might be abroad at liberty if you yon would only do as all the bishops and learned men nave hav e done why not ret ta to johir your night ht fayre fahye house at chelsea Cb elsea gir jr clioma brays bays in reply 1 I pray thee good mother adother alice tell irie 0 one 0 e aci t azis ls not this house as nigh heaven is mine own and this bla good man because beca se he would not be aike ke the rest bins f fig was recited ee cited on a july uly 6 1685 A sa s1 i JUST THE SA r today to day as it was when more headed headed when christeas christ Chris was crucified when S socrates drank the tee hemlock when aristotle was expatriated there seems to be no improvement in the spirit of evil unless it be an improve went ment of a more diabolic nature we ire are saying the sai same e things today to day that were said on all these occasions why way not do as ali the learned bishops and great people do why not hot be like the rest of us why not bow ther the knee tp king and takeoff take off the hatto hat to lord this chis is what people say of john taylor of george Q cannon and the other great hahto lightA ot this latter day development the man whose ideal is P T barnum or dr newman cannot understand the mental organism of the man whose ideal is the prophets the man whose only ambition is an office and the plaudits pl audits of the rabble cannot understand the man whose mission is the perfection ot of like human race the man with the spirit of evil in his bosom and andrino iwho is ready for any change cannot understand the man inspired ol oi god and ready to sacrifice FOR FOK the religious developments ol of the week in chicago atee alm well calculated to 10 bring a smile to the face ozithe scoffer but a corrugated surface brow brocof of a thoughtful person that mr stoddard of whom mention was made in a 4 former communication has become a full fledged rev and is making a tour of the country entertaining assemblies of preachers with the most alood i curdling romances on monday last he entertained the presbyterians nana rians with his gory gony reminiscences of utah nothing like it has been seen ainoo sanc calamity jane addressed an audience ot of cowboys cow boys and bullwhackers bull whackers in a deadwood saloon in 1876 while the rev mr stoddard was speaking a reporter appeared and the moment he be began to ply his faber a scene was enacted alk chic which would outrival pandemonium or deadwood A preace preacher her spied the report teporter erand and called tb the eat attention of the assembly instead of being an 11 I 1 ASSEMBLY 01 01 DIVINES it became one of dew deino aps ops ps and ahe un fortunate i reporter was waa bustled out lest the very edifying and edu educating esting discourse of mr sto doddard dard should be chronicled do presbyterians rians art dread ad the light of day especially when disa ier affairs are they aloy hutc batching some new conspiracy that they no longer wish the news new gatherer among I 1 them even the azarchi anarchists ato do no deny admittance to press representatives at their gatherings and ancl why an assembly of presbyterian Tan preachers should exclude the press is a mystery especially when dik discussing q a question now engaging the attention of the national legislature I 1 the stan standard darck of education foria d mission to the ministry of our sects must be very low or the condition education in utah must bevery be very ad kanceo when a RENG ID ide Z M orman has the requisite qualifications for the aible itle of Rev without any special training this is to the average citizen here mr stoddard a 9 few weeks ago left utah a mere apostate mormon me he lectured here on his way east ue was then plain mr sto dard now he turns up a re it if lormon laiQ is is represented tok to jis show abow copes comes it 16 that one of its people requires no nR further training wt lor admission to thip the caw church r 4 of C christ t as a presbyterians rians administer it than in mere er p apostasy apo stacy of course any W knows utah knows that the mean meanest pene renegade gade mormon in the country better than the best preacher in chicago chicago preachers asa as a whole are the scum at offu hu inanity why it wig was ony a few days ago since alne the name of ope one of 61 them was published as having iving 1 1 I 1 to the amount of wa personal pir property in order to cheat the tax collector the rascals name is 13 Ala alabaster bister strange Sta ange name I 1 sn atit I 1 it but the names of the preach preachers ra are no BO stranger than their theolo theology alabaster pentecost easter art frt py platinum etc these are preachers names and very suggestive of df the facetious janitor ol of some foundling hospital with spen a penchant chaft forsigh tor high sour sounding diug words when A a plan gang g of these preachers get together then theu the tAe newspaper den have funt fun that t Is they had bad before they wet were excluded A chicago preacher ands and a chica go saloonkeeper saloon keeper kepper a are r the two conundrums of at american christianity that dispatch pend fiend has again turned up this time in omaha lie he sends us a dreadfully sensational narrative arra tive of a mormon out outrage aad in AX arizona Izona cape something andt about abou a mrs stone and a snot j gun e alif meadows massacre and so forth W itata at a STRANGE t I 1 to set get arizona news new s from va to get it from omaha lowi now it would laok much better to manufacture news 10 of that kind right here in chicago cago how mal many ay iy headers Je ea dara aders were there ere in that diat mountain meadows massacre mas acre anyway y there must have been more leaders there than there arg are colonels in ia washington themay the way those dispa dispatch tc fiends handle mormon matter rel re minds one of lincoln and the preachers every old crank of a preacher from maine to io california claims tte the credit of having inspired lincoln idith what to do to suppress the tha rebellion now when the dispatch fiend wants to be very c c and to sum up the career of a mormon au e wood that lj mormon is putdown put down to be a leader areader I 1 in the mountain Alea meadows doWs Mas massacre sacro 1 P for I 1 the e last tv tap twp years A 1 have noted these I 1 leaders 94 and is A have now of them and a good prospect for as ag many more ampre armar irvain twain was traveling in eusope he found so 96 many pieces of the true cross that hoi he concluded the original cross must at have been bean one of the california bli big trees tr es so with this MOUNTAIN MEADOW BUSINESS 1 dewill n e in to tid think there were as wally many headers Te aders er I 1 there as there were chaplains fahd a d butlers anglers in grants army 1 what hat are we to to have next from omaha do mr omaha give us something terrible heartrending or give us a rest I 1 J i As I 1 saida said a chicago pr preacher pacher is one of 01 t the mysteries ot f the time he is not happy appy agless digging at some other pT preacher eacher or at some sect M mormon ormon Is ism m has afforded him considerable epa en but pow now that congress has t taken aken the tee maier master off his bis hands fladds something else is needed dr 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