| Show who the of the mormon mon church when madam madain roland was wis placed on the for execution during the darkest and fiercest fierce it period of the fierch lution she elie gare gaie utterance to that remarkable expression which his has since pissed passed into a political maxim 0 liberty lf liberty berty vi hat bat wrongs are done I 1 in n thy name this saying of madam roland is is as applicable t to religion as it ever was to liberty the be excesses tyrannies tyrannizes tyr annies ana wrongs milich under inder tile the specious pretext and guise of liberty has haie e been heaped r pon the world have haie been neither greater nor more 0 oppressive than those ith bich artful pretenders and hypocrites lave have during almost every eier age ageo of the world contrived to load their followers with history chislo y indeed furnishes no example 04 0 any hero bero wari canior for usurper usurp r or dictator attlio bo under the pretense of giving greater liberty to the masses lies las assumed ab lute power howerin po in himself him but it at the same tinie time aford affords 3 a parallel instance of I 1 some religious impostor or bigot who practising practicing on the credulity of such as I 1 faith walthin in their pretensions have hai e 1 subject eil them to equal if riot not greater oppressions oppress ions human nature is is the be samis same in in all ages and in in every eiery part of the horld and r notwithstanding the experience of the past the noile can be humbugged humbugger hum bugged in our day as easily I 1 ily as in informer former ages ea and not even require the invention intention 0 of what is alto altogether gettier new to do this but take some old ard and exploded system add a little to it one place and subtract a little from is is in another call it by bj some new name herald it with zeal to world and ana pros elites and followers follow ere art are sure to be the result like the be worn ivorn out puppets abich I 1 ar used arid and deceived us alien hen boys N ith i a new lew dress and a skillful hand at the arra rie they hey continue to amuse a and n d deceive cl ve boys bos I 1 nour daye of all the racky and impositions that have haie been practiced practised I 1 on the world none have been so successful as those of a religious kind arid and lot for the that mankind are more mor easily misled wi on this subject than on any other the rise rise and progress of the mormon church affords an excellent illustration of ofee t e truth of the he latter remark it is is a system which s aich combines the grossness and an d sensuality of with the rites and orgies of the hindmo worship ors and subjects its follow era to the hardships and exactions which belong to boti both these systems the story told of its is origin is so BO flier flimsy isy and improbable as a to excite in in a thinking mind only the idea of ridicule or at most or of contempt its founder was mas a lowbred low bred and ignorant man remarkable only for a certain degree of low cunnin cunning gand and deceit and he is said by those who knew him to have been both a libertine and a debauchee deba achee it might seem remarkable that such at religion with such an origin should find adherents ise did not consider how often mankind have haie before been deceived by systems s stems and impostors scarcely arcely Bc less glaring and absurd it must likewise be borne in in mind that certain persons persona have an immediate and selfish object in keeping up the delusion abich has been im implanted and that hat no means are 8 pa r d of perpetuating error ubbie it has once taken root in tile the mormon church the motives for this course are obvious 0 to o the most moat casual be beholder holier for here a few devour the substance of many and th the 0 toll toil of the poor adds to the coffers of those that are already rich no io people in the world are as a body bod more industrious than the dwellers in this alley alle with a toil soil naturally sterile and with mith an artificial system of irrigation which has to be kept up in in order to supply the rains which descend in other countries it requires constant and untiring labor in a poor man to supply himself and family willi will even the necessaries of life that the hard bard earrings eari ings rung from a reluctant soil and from hands that are over t tasked k d I 1 be taken from him dt chllow under the shallow low pretense pre of giving givin 1 to the lord or building up lip the church is ia an outrage that no language can adequately y denounce yet this is is precisely abat is is do done ile here the mormon leaders practising practicing on the credulity of their followers have trumped up a pretends pretend pret ende pd d revelation in in order to cloak their selfish j acts under the name and sanction fro j ligion aich enjoins upon all pro essers of 01 the mormon religion reL gion to oe oae tenth or of a all bleir earnings to tie 00 I 1 mormon church an this we ire have beir been told by cormons mormons Mori norg themselves ies is not only I 1 taught as a religious duty but in mary cases its payment has been actually compelled this they term tit bin 2 and many a man and woman took too no doubt in abi valley have been coin pell e ld ej t to obey this re relation taco ev thice they were ivere dep tired of the saries of df life liaci we behave lave seen poor men cerep her who labored lart hard from day to day dining off of cold bread and a few vege mcge tables m willio tit a morsel moisel of meat abo have told US usi t that hat weeks and a nd months sometimes passed away their getting any an but who their own privations were required to come up u regularly with the tithing ilow men under any pretext pre or plea can be brought to submit to such imposition and injustice is is incomprehensible to us we are well a aware are that ally ai advice or opinion coming from us will vill have n weight with them or we should certainly be tempted to offer it but grything ary ai thing that we ve may siy say will be looked as the words of an enemy seeking to injure them and the church to anh they belong this hoi ho homeier weier ever is 13 not the case we entertain no feeling of dislike or opposition tow lots ards any honest but misguided man personally we are uie friend of such and would if jf we vre had the power relieve him from the shackles that bind liis his mind as it uell ell as from the the vultures yul tures that prey upon pon his hi substance gul stance we con aire all such to stop and reflect before they submit to further fi robbery and ex fortion tor tion compare your course of life gentlemen v mith lib those atho bo handle and consume consumer your our earnings who hta h ta labored most and toiled hardest yet aho rev I 1 els ela in luxury and ease and who submits to privation pr nation and want if it be a merit or a duty thus to deny to contri contribute kute to the building up of the kingdom of the be lord let those v who ho profess to 0 o hare haie received a revelation to that end set the example of 0 self denial and privation fur for this gf wore before they call upon you to do so Ollier Otherwise wise 1 you may well doubt the sincerity and honesty of the revelations velch thay teach but do not themselves eg practice j |
