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Show BOUT B. H, ROBERTS, piBp We nre much pleased to onto tho f ol- a . lowing s'rUclu In tho last isuu of tho. IHe; Provo Chrimlan Advouato nod rnpro- dnco it With pleasure. Ttio Advocuto E'' A bill was passed In tho Lower ITouso of tho Uuttcd Stjttes Congress a,qmo WUeX; dayt Ago that will debar tbo linn. BH(:i I). l Roberts of Utah. If he Is guilty BP . pf irosQ violation pf the law rolatlng to polygamy this h right. Polygamy la rcgitrdod RS a crlino by tho peoplo of IB; the United States. If ho is guilty of the charges mntlo wo concur u tlio i(c- KB' tlotu And the pvldonco ngalpst him B peems conchislyo, Tint wq nro emphat- HR :c Really opposed to blaming tho constl- HBpV , tlP-'Pcy of H)) Mormon ohurch. People B' k pliould remember that thoro are tltotir B' ptids of law abiding pltlzcns In TJtuh BP who nro as sincere In their religious belief us I nm li mine, as a rjrenuher of In thu Methodist cliiircl. Ihurohud HB huslneifs l'oltttions with thorn nnd par- HK. tcuhirly with ono tlrm in the city, ami HB have fqund thepi us honorable anil trpo KL Hs any 0IU1. 1 naVQ 9Vcr known. I meet BBpa , (horn dully In my duties and regard BBprv them )n the hlffhi-st psteum, Wo havq 'no objectjou to the coiideninr.ton of ., tho bud, bill- wo do object tp tho con- BBpp pondetiHi)iilon p! tho good. And there EEJ jiro iiiauy',i)ormotis and noii-Mormoiir, BflP.. : who hold Uioso opinions, EjjBp'j) " Whllo Nye do not concur h) nil of thp BK jtbpvf, wo bellsyo It to ho the fallout BsKl and most ternpDi'ato atntuiueut inaclp BkBIk ' W any of tho ministers of the so-culled BBb prthmlo Christian churches. Tint BB t h Hon, B, 11. Hoherts ban opntrneied any phirl m .rrl'igo hIiiuo thu mtuilfustu or BtpKL luc S-atelingd, wo. deny, mill there Is ejtli-'r concljjilyo or otherwise. W" tieartlly ponotir In the statement uf Wio Advocuto thut the conittlttioncy of the Mormon chinch should not bu blamed for tliu d. relictions of ntiy menibur of that church and thut JJiah Ims us great a proportion of f.hu htw-nhldlng clti zona as any Stato Ip the Union. Wo congrntiiluto JJrolljer Klrliyo of the Advocuto on his peeing the light of reii'on and Justice, hut ho must ndmlt Unit thp present light nguinst Hobeits has by tils own brulftern been developed devel-oped Into a tight ugtlpst that pud the dominant church. |