Show It GIVE US A REST Every right minded man will join the Yews in its condemnation of the outrage and pillage that were committed at Rock Springs when the Chinese were set upon but when the News goes on to prove that such proceedings are hut a fulfiling of tho prophecies one cannot but cry Give us a rest On the theoiy that everything every-thing that is has to be as it is because so foreordained of course everything which happens is fulfilling prophecies It recalls the case of the little darkie who had been into some mischief and when his kind Christian ladyteacher told him that he would bo cast into hellfire for such things and that ho would have to suffer for a thousand years or more he j replied that he could not stand the hellfire I hell-fire that it would kill him His teacher 1 told him that ho would have to stand it i Well then said he I dont caro if I I can stand it And so it is with tho terrible j ter-rible things that people have got to on duro on account of tho wickedness I of tho world Among the things which tho ISVtcs quotes to prove that tho prophecies are being fulfilled is this i from what Joseph Smith saw I saw men hunting the lives of their own sons and brother murdering brother women killing their own daughters and daughters daugh-ters seeking tho lives of their own mothers moth-ers I saw armies arrayed against armies I saw blood desolation fires After this the Xfwn makes this comment Not only will the blood of the Saints bo shed but tho blood of Gen tilqs and heathen as well Tho Mormon Mor-mon people cannot be trampled upon and deprived of their rights without those who oppress them or allow them to bo oppressed feeling the force of the redounding re-dounding thunderbolt of retribution Now granting all that why on earth should God allow a lot of Chinamen to be butchered and murdered and their homes pillaged by a lot of miners to prove to the Federal officers in Utah and at Washington that He was angry and would show His power to protect His people ftrhy did Tie not have the t < 11I1 r 0 officials who are oppressing the Mormon people butchered and murdered and not tho innocent Chinamen who have no quarrel with the Mormon people But thcTVbirs is like all religious newspapers and also like Lo the poorTn ianthey see God in every wind |