Show A SINGULAR SORT OF REVERENCE mit MB caleb W west formerly governor of utah has not been heard from much of late but on saturday evening appeared reappeared he before the public as chairman of a liberal rally in front of the clift house he then made use of some A singular expressions we shall not allude to those of h his Is remarks which are common to all liberal stump orations for they have been exploded so completely that their shattered fragments alone remain as evidences of the falsehood that prompted their utterance but the ex governor is reported as saying 1 I am a reverent man but in america the flag bag waves over a gov established by freemen and not by god 1 q I do not see how any people can be governed by god when there is net neither er telephonic nor telegraphic connection with the throne of the almighty for a cr reverent everent man these expressions pres are to say the least feast peculiar what are mr bests ideas of irreverence and how does he know that the government of the united states was not established by god he will reply because it was established by freemen but is that any answer to the question does god never work by means of freemen are all his operations among mankind confined to the medium of slaves the powers that be are ordained of god says the christian 1 apostle if this be true no reverent man will deny that this government was among the powers that have been ordained of god the very rights to establish and maintain which this government was set up are declared in the declaration of independence to be held by men because they were so endowed by the creator anait and it was because its framers had firm reliance OB the protection of DIVINE 1 that they had the 7 courage to pledge their lives their fortunes and their sacred honors in support of those gud god given rights and they sought the divine guidance in all that they attempted divine wisdom is manifest in the constitution which is at the foundation of our government divine aid was implored and given in the struggle against tyranny and the achievement of liberty this has been recognized by all reverent men and some irreverent men to the present day and official recognition is given to it in the prayers of the chaplains appointed to act in the two houses of congress and in all the states of the union we do not think mr west is able to prove his negative on the other hand we have positive evidence that god did establish this government through the free men who in his providence were called to the front for he has so revealed and it is placed on record mr west may not believe this if so that is his misfortune but his disbelief does not alter the fact nor an authorize thorl ze him to declare something that he cannot possibly know and his idea of divine communication appears to be that it to is limited to telephonic or telegraphic communication muni cation that is to say unless there is a telephone or telegraph wire reaching from the earth to the throne of the almighty the great god of nature has no means by which he can communicate his will to man or govern any people on earth any child of ordinary intelligence telli gence ought to have broader ideas than that of the powers of omnipotence it is but a few years since the time when neither of these modern conveniences ces were known on this planet were there no means then of carrying on human government cosay to say nothing of divine government do earthly governments or mortal men never communicate their will and wishes by other means than an electric wire was mr west in his senses when ho he talked the rubbish contained in the two sentences we have quoted or was his not ponderous brain disturbed by liberal fire dr turned upside down by liberal Liber firewater fire water by claiming to be a reverent man mr west tacitly confesses belief in the supreme being and with that belief is necessarily associated the idea of supreme power this includes the means of communication muni cation with all his creatures in all his creations and methods far beyond anything that man has discovered even in the nineteenth century how does mr west know that god cannat aud and does not utilize ss aMaS the subtle force chieh men can call electricity in its very essence as a means of communication without the imperfect appliances of human art and the crude regulations of a science yet in its infancy has mr west never heard of a spirit promised by the redeemer to his disciples in place of his eli presence among them which was to manifest the mind of the fa father thear and the son and show them things to come nor of the fad fact that this spirit is a reali reality ty materializing sometimes as a dove at others in cloven tongues of fire nor of the gr great ea t truth that thai this is the spirit of revelation by which the word and will 0 of f al A 1 mighty god has been and may baay in be made known the ex governor with his wire win and batteries as aa a means of reaching the throne of god is a spectacle of puerility and folly and ous but weak irreverence that to js quite uncommon among sober and intelligent men we feel profound pity for the soul gout Z that is unsusceptible of the influx ances that flow direct from thi the fountain of light inight and life to tin the awakened and active inner consciousness ness to be spiritually blind to is at least as great a misfortune as aa to ik be without natural eyesight and as well may the blind from birth dogmatically deblare that no one can understand colors because he cannot hear or feel th them e in as fo for r arz mr west to pompously and ignorantly ignorant ty affirm that no one can receive any communication from god because he does not know of any te telephone eph or telegraph wire to the eternal throne there is a day coming when everz 4 scoffer and mocker of reverence ce W alu be compelled to admit that there to fa a divine ruler buler who is supreme that all beings owe him all allegiance that he is the god of nato nations aa well as of individuals that the ki king 1 4 doms doma of this world are his that aal peoples must serve and obey H and becoming truly reverent reveren e eveia knee will bow and every tongue confess his sovereign sway away mr west evidently thought hail h would be irreverently funny at expense of the cormons mormons Mor IMor mons W might be listening to his ha haran but he only showed his bis lack of mon men good sense and ordinary taste and invited attention th tb equally unsuccessful atte attempt ampt become himself the one meal power of ef utah by pen visits to the seat of govern T he be sought to become sovereign rk of this territory so that there would be no freemen here no the people to elect their local officers but instead he as the great liberal mogul should appoint them I 1 me he failed he dropped into deserved served obscurity and in his latest effort to come out of it and figure as a funny funnyman man by he has failed again for his sneers are too silly to rank as blasphemy and his anti mormon ribaldry too much like mere drivel to provoke 7 anything but pity |