Show c J ' 40 $ i M0EM0N AND GENTILE MORMON AND GENTILE” ness which to their minds confirms what they haver heard of our dislike and cruel intentions to outsiiders There are not any nations between whom a particuelsewhere Those thus treated go away and add lar enmity or coldness exists but a considerable porllieir testimony to the false ideas of our true sentition of that feeling can be traced to the use of harsh ments with which society abroad is already impressed distinctive appellations bestowed by each on the othand suspicions about our intentions and er Such distinctive names have in many cases startpurposes and propositions to at least watch ed such feelings and maintained them in lively exer‘‘put down” these supposed enemies of mankind cise afterwards thus hereditary hatreds have had This way of treating others is not natural however their birth which have given rise to endless quarrels to our religion Abroad in our native lands wc acted and the effusion of blood very differently we opened our arms to outsiders wc invited them one and all to our homes and to our meetAccording to our view the term “ Mormon and Gentile ” originated very simply and justifiably and while How many should we ever have made Morings mons if we had treated them as distantly as suspithey arc used as harmless methods of distinguishing bur creed from that of others we are not prepared to y ciously as wc often do some here? many of find fault with them - we only regret that any necesthese rallies would he desolate as they were before the pioneers arrived had wc pursued this course sity for their use exists but when they are used as wholesale divisional lines and made to signify ih one Thousands of good meaning people would come here n ease the corrupt’ and the and make their homes with us but they cannot unless and in the other the good and the only chosen of God they bethey will allow themselves by some at any rate to come insulting and irritating in the extreme and when he treated as the Jew of old treated the leper in Israel wc'ifse them in that spirit we are parents of any perWe do not say that this people should open their secution that may come on our beads in consequence hearts "and homes to an indiscriminate mass of emiHow much does this agree with our experience as grants or strangers passing hurriedly through caution should always he observed But there arc and will representatives of Mormoirsm in other lands ? In how he thousands of quite another class wlio will conic many more eases were we persecuted where we pulled the religious views of other sects to pieces than we Give them along — men of character and capacity were when we met other people's views alone and at least as much chance to prove themselves as we would like given to ourselves if branded as “ Morsimply preached our own? In our community as in all others we have wise mons” we stopped at some “gentle city” 'for rest as well as unwise persons To a great many of our and assistance Wc can he cautious and discrimibody including many of our leading men the precenating we need not blindly invite in thieves or ding views express no new doctrines vagabonds to our homos hut there can he mixed They have used the term Gentile always in the spirit of kindwith our caution that spirit that says to all “we don't ness whilst others in opposition to the feelings of the' think mankind are any the more wicked but simply a little more unfortunate in not knowing and believmajority never could crowd enough of insults or reproach into its expression We have ourselves heard ing what we do ourselves” that term thus used by this exceptional class till it And while wc plead for the passing stranger or the We excuse a great settler in our midst ‘wc plead for juster views of the perfectly stinks in oiu nostrils world far away There is in large cities particularly many of such men as wc alvv'ays should excuse the foolish but well meaning Doubtless they of vice there are liid up in the same a ignoare large aggregate v O rant of itp but It is such as they that turn the sword large cities daily exhibitions of an immense amount into our bosom continually This whole people have of private and public virtues and as great a horror from the beginning trod with bleeding feet a road of corruption as wc possess ourselves The desire to strewn With thorns of their picking The man that slaughter and destroy the “Morinons” does not obtain hut with' few — very very few and in many originated the term a “ damned Gentile” is brother to him who invented the equally indiscriminate one of a cases where it does it is the result of an incorrect 4( damned 'Mormon” ' Doth ar enemies to society representation of our character All men wish to see and they deserve equal execration the seducer the murderer or the thief destroyed : and Thus much for where the desire to see us destroyed exists it in most the injurious influence of these terms thus used on ourselves but more injury grow out of their use in cases results from the false belief that we are such Let them come nearer to us then and know us better this spirit still it leads to the generation of an exclusive spirit in our midst “ The stranger within our and they will want to see every one of 113 live as old too feels in as Metlmsalah cases himself out and that they may do so let the “midshut far many gates” dle wall " of partition existing in our feelings be tom from society as soon as he enters our midst I lie is down as far as our common humanity is concerned a “ Gentile” and it is too often assumed $t the onset Let the term “ Gentile” except as a simple distinction that lie is a designedly wicked man in consequence If he curses our reserved ways lie is clearly cor- of creed he forgotton and let the whole world of If lie behaves virtuous and upright men know that they can find in rupt and no less than a us friendship love kindness and association if not politely and seeks to treat with respect our institutions he is a cunning serpent seeking by cautious windings community of faith As sure as the sun will vise above our hills to enfold his victim — with some lie is a had man anysome extremists — men that have hut one idea in their way or lie would not be a Gentile A few rich men heads and that one twisted — on reading these words will coining with some wonderful recommendation from some big personages have been taken to our hearts cry out “ you wish to reconcile Christ and Beliel — and homes feted and fooled told everything and you wish us to open our arms to corruption” No wc reply it' is Gentiles and not Gentile corvuptious shown everything They have as might easily enough that we wish treated with gentleness or consideration liaye been foreseen sometimes proved ungrateful and A3 to the reconcilement of “ Christ ond BelieL’’ be icven wicked and all’ this goes to proves that all Gen- tiles arc corrupt But the great mass the thousands kfre’ you liavft your hands oil “Beliel” and not on of poor unrecommended Gentiles are by many viewed Christ before you proceed to action in the case Wc have in our time seen goodnoes and virtue which to and treated with a suspicion a distanco and a cold 1 thus-come- To-da- |