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Show CHURCH AND STATE Editor Register: Desiring a place in your hoped for successful paper, and having k'isure, I pen the following: There is, and wisely to, a decided shock to the sensitiveness of the freemeu of this country when any effort is made openly or covertly to amalgamate Church and State. The key stone of the arch that spans our political liberities is freedom free-dom from dictum of prlert and ki'ii; and this is wisely so, when the country was t" be tae home of t' e oppressed, no matter what form of European oppression the pilgrim mig t dc-sire to flee from. The Jew with his Sabbath ideas by Divine Command eua. lished, a- to be of as much sanctity and importance im-portance as the first day of the wejk established by followers of a Ci.rist their fathers had put to doath. as th : equal of the malefactors crucified ! there and then. Uy what right, human or divine, does the gentleman of " The Cloth and Cravat" presume in Convention assembled, a petitioi. to Congress or or the P. M. Genenl to stop U. S. Mail on Sunday, the Christian's Sabbath, and the Sabbath of Anti- Sabbath, and the Sabbath of Antiquity Anti-quity the Jew's day, Saturday to be trodden underfoot. By what parity ot reasoning shall the mail or the Sunday paper be stopped by the edict of the combined Christains; and acquiesced in by the Sunday School Supt. P. v. General. Is there not a taint of mixing Church and State in this? Does it not say, had we the power we would make all matters religions bow to i our dictum, our confession of Faith. And carrying out this dictum we would : close every Art gallerv. Museum,. Pik , or R n re. it ion gr mud M lire' arliz in, and open only the d or ot our Churches on the first day of ihi week, wh'le we wou d, because of our Chi ist an numbeis in thi HJiv state rduoii couatiy vi date and desecrate the only Sahhaih estab bshed by the Almighty. The 7th d iv was never supetseded by Ihe Son en in impliedly or dneci Experience, health taxation, all have coni'niied lo appr ve the Divine Wisd nil in oidainmg a dav in seven, his been dein msitated 111 France, uav tht mid. it is good I r man to have a day of rest. But how he: sha'l spend tint dav. say, can . t lie State say to Hie noti-Chiistian, non-lew, I will slop the daily mail to you, because une of v ur lellow Citizens say they wa.it ihe lirst or seventh day observed in psalms and praise. You are a tax paver with them you provide some of the sinews nl this g iv einment, that was established f r "the pe ipe"as a whole and your taste, and desires, within proper bounds, should be obs..ived or c insulted as the Clinstam Usurper's as the Jew alleges them to be. Throw nRtlie tuin dtsui-e mid under neaih it all appear, give us the power whether Methu lists, freshyteTian ir I-utherian and we would make the hum of these IJ; S. be in harmuuy wilh our Many men f hi;h pnlitical sranfling orcupv Chairs of Suite, and places ol eccltsisisiical lame. The howl about Church and Slate in Utah is he h nvl of hase wh') pant for the power to enfoice their dictum. Genii men of the Cloth" want the, political vtfstrum fr speech or song t ; stay at the ballo' box as did the Lutheran Luther-an Ministers in Wisconsin dming a rc cent election. If there is to be a supremacy supre-macy f the Christ, let it he acnieved on us merits, and not by coniputsarv rdiot of the paid priests of the nuili.fanoui sect ol the dav. The pi-grims ol the Mavflower fled from Church and State admixture, and when in power octtacised their d ffeiii brethern, the pilgrims of 1890 wouid do the same had ihev pwer In nothing is it nvre apparent to urge tht fiionirip- of ihe Mail inlh( fir;t rlav the sniping ut Ihe Mail oiithe first day if the uetk. To ihe toiling Citizen win) wishes his way to enjoy his day ol res ,iu the bosom 1 his f rn ly . ne dav n seven, you would make Inm attend the curfew that rings thiee times for re igiotis on your Lord dav whether he would or not, and li he will not he shall have no Sunday paper, i i teller to lead because ihe Christian savs it is tun religions To the six dav grimy Artisan the Sunday Sun-day paper is rest, etnphacised. The viewing of the beautiful, in Art, park, or Museum, draws the heart nearer God, then the dull prosaic serniyns though sweetened by 10.000 dollars per year. We are vet a long way from a consis tent inteipretaiion of the "Mole and the Beam' or a proper conception of tie pries' and the S imari n. There is not a scintilla, that theGreat Maker abrogated the primitive Sibbaih. but there is ahui.daiit proof that he sought to destroy all walls of position, and to make the entire world a happy homogeiiious whole, The "I am holier, or better than thou" met his merited scorn and contempt. and the illimitability of the stars prefigured pre-figured the Universality of the divine programme as to rewards and merits. Whatever may nvi be sa d of ihe Mormon faiih.it is the broadest seed in its scope and geiiotosity to all classes of God varrying children. Supplant Hie M inn, 111. and maker of these Valleys as primitive as ihey were, a thousand miles from anywhere, would the Methodists and Pesbyterian as the imtal settlers been any less dogmatic ihsn the Mormon, and to whom should the pioneer have turned for advice but to him or them who successfuly pion-ered pion-ered the ways to these Valleys. If a Presbyterian gentleman can find a (oft cushion in the presidential chair, or the P. M. General a similiar one, why not the (Mormon, No, no heart ever panted for the cooling stream than these religious aspirants pant lor the loaves and lishes of this thrice blessed country. The race lor the religious snpiemncv is between the Catholic, the P reshvterian and Methodist The history c.f the two former should make us shudder, the little cloud foreshadowed in ihe prohibition prohi-bition sought for, is but the precuser of the fall th t would overshadow our free horizon. By all ni.-ans let our citize is choose their own methods of observing the sabbaih day Know this tht evtry tout ut free To ciionsc his life (day) or wlial he "b That lod w,n fgrcc a0 raaii to heaven. No Name |