Show FOLLY frustrated telegraphic advices advises od the alt brought the news of the sudden demise tf dr leonard bacon the distinguished connecticut divine and protessor in yale college D it was then unknown to us that the reverend gentleman had been in infected with the prevailing anti mormon contagion which appears in a particularly virulent state among so called ministers of the gospel and self styled ex of the divine word it was to be expected that an experience peri ence of threescore three score years in the ministry of the teachings of the meek and lowly jesus would have driven out of his heart all sectarian prejudice ecclesiastical pride or denominational bitterness but such does not meni to have been the case Shak esperes line in much ado about I nothing Y when ullen age is is in in the wit is out has be been en verified in tho the aged connecticut theologian ian that the rev dr leonard bacon left an article on the mormons Mor mons unfinished on the night before he died intending to complete it tho the next day something S omet bing of the tenor of his usurped sentence of a people of whom he knew nothing Z than by the hearsay of their most malignant enemies enemies can be bo learned from the following paragraph in the N Y sun ho took the ground that the e extermination mi of polygamy had become imperative and the e last completed paragraph was a caustic arraignment of the late jim fisk as a social offender of the same sort but in far less decree degree than a lk mormon lormon 11 i this allusion is clear enough to show cither either utter ignorance or sheer shur animosity on the part of the aged author whose gray hairs ought to have admonished him how low near he be was approaching that judge who is a respecter of ro person but a dei ef of liars and slanderers slander ers |