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Show A Study. Thoreare three BuppOHnhio causep, either of which mav hav- hrouehl (imtiles to thn M "-'ii.m i.-rrimry. First, eume overruling prov:iU'iilial necessity; accoud, the expectation ol H'liu from the opening of mines; third, a charitable missionary spirit. The thirl i;.nn must probably have brought the Tiibun.' organization to Utah, bucuiSH it would bo derogatory to nuppose that the very shrewd outfit acted cither from compulsion in any form or from the sordid spirit which delves in the earth; hence it was a spirit of missionary charity that ed tablidhed a:ul conducts the Tribune. The occiuioual harsh methods and uniformly absolute tone of the Tri buno in iu labors of love are, owing , in part to the thick crassitude of the natures one whom it is generously laboring, and in part to the high authority with which it is alothed The text and doctrine which the I'rihuno enforces charitably, iM the exclusive truth of monogamy, a doctrine over which the Vicar ol Wakefield fought, a:id for which he sacrificed his temporal welfare so freely. L--t it be assumed thai monogamy honors woman as tej or ! five to one, as the ca?e may happen m comparison. Hence the Tribune's missionary charity is so tinctured and glonli'-d with chivalry tuward woman. And tins chivalry, liku all high funm ot chivalry, is divine, because the consuming spirit, rentier's in bright, loving activity, springs from one of three causes necassanly either, first, a written revelation of the exclusive divine charactei of monogamy or, second, from an indwelling inspira tion to that effect or else it is an instinct that impels to this high devo tion, which, however, from the nature of the case, would make the consuming consum-ing chanty of the Tribune divine. It is what of old was called knight-errantry, knight-errantry, therefore, that brought the Tribune and its entire outfit to Utah, ou an enterprise ennobled by a divine commission; a spirit of lofty inspiration. inspira-tion. It could have been nothing else, br I have proved. Examine tue work of the Tribune in its misniou of charity to Utah its stern spirit of chivalry to glorify the sex by enforcing the exclusive divinity of monogamy wilt be abundantly abund-antly evident. ft ia inspiration throughout. Nothing les thiin a divine conviction, convic-tion, founded ou revelation or personal per-sonal inspiration, can account for the absoluteness ol this journal's tone. But this is a prerogative always assumed as-sumed and exercised by inspired men. Dictation is perfectly natural in any inspired teacher belongs to him ol right. And therefore if the Tribune association for the defense and extension of monogamy should at any time disclaim inspiration it must be ascribed to msdesty. There is also the modern liberal philosophical view ol inspiration which makes it .equivalent to inborn genius; which maf possibly allow to tuia misaienary aasociation an honest play upon the wurd inspiration, so that when they deny the flattering accusation it is only genius that is denied: the old high idea of either revealed doctrine or of indwelling personal inspiration not being at all denied to be in pos session and every-day use for the propagation of monogamy. The 'Tribune maintains what Herbert Her-bert Spencer calls "thinkable propositions," propo-sitions," and therefore is zealous for the view that polygamy is adultery ; aod that the bible claims to be inspired is ' an absurdity because ol its toleration of polygamy and polygana-ists. polygana-ists. At least no part of the bible can be held in honor that mentions polygamy in terms of forbearance. But there is one "undesigned coincidence" coin-cidence" to which attention may be drawn. The old testament cruellies were perpetrated in the name of the Lord that ia, under cover of inspiration. inspira-tion. Now when Tribune precepts inculcate the robbing of Mormons ol the ballot and of the right to Bit as jurors, it is tho same as wholesale robbery, because it would bo commit ting them wholly defenceless men, women and children, cottages, temples tem-ples and vineyards, into the hands of violent, not to say unscrupulous, foes; foes who at all events make a boast j of throitijk and tiu owjk hostility to j Mormons. Well, could anything leas than inspiration old testament inspiration in-spiration have suggested this? Is it not a perfect copy of Moses' methods with the Canaauites? These and the liko "undesigned" proofs of inspiration have always been dwelt on by theological writers s conclusive con-clusive iu support of other direct proofs. This theory then, and this alone, accounle for the active Tribune enterprise, en-terprise, and solves all doubts. It is a charitable missionary project in behalf be-half of monogamy chivalric according accord-ing to knightly rules of bearing toward woman and conducted by special inspiration. Gentile. August 20. |