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Show - EXTENDING COMMEflCIALISM. The ch!f hlerarch, pursuing his commercial avai iclousness, to the neglect ne-glect of the things called spiritual," has announced the complete organization organiza-tion of his new life Insurance company. com-pany. It Is the "Beneficial." No doubt he will find it so to himself. The brethren who are to be coerced Into insuring In it may have another opinion. opin-ion. But their opinions don't count, while his opinion 'goes." And thus Is commercialism further grafted upon what wa once at least a purported religious stock. Rut it la now so thoroughly covered with grafts and extraneous growths, its suckers are so thickly bunched, ami its sprouts so lively and vlRorous. that the alleged religious stock Is no longer In the least to be seen. For a number of years there has been no vitality In that religious slock; no sap runs in Its withered stump; no offshoots off-shoots Indicate that it lives as a religious re-ligious growth; it Is not sustained by revelation, though continued revelation has always been proclaimed as the condition con-dition of Its life, the only power through which it could exist. He chief protector, protect-or, caretaker and defender has stated i.r..!.,.- roth t-nt rnvf-lii t Ion lias died In his bones, and that his lips no longer utter the admonitions or the encouragements encour-agements of the Lord. Rut at the same time that this confession con-fession of barrenness in revelation was made, there was from him a Joyous list of commercial pursuits which ho not only followed, but In which he was the chief. Here It la, as sworn to by him: President Zlon's Co-operative Mercantile Mer-cantile Institution President State Bank of Utah President Zion's Savings Bank and Trust company President Utah Sugar company. President Consolidated Wagon and Mai hlne- company. President and director of the Utah Lijrht and Power company-President company-President and director Salt Lake & Los Angeles Railroad company President Saltair Reach company. President and director Idaho Sugar company. President and director Inland Crystal Salt company. President and director Salt Lake Dramatic Dra-matic association. President and director Salt Lake Knitting company. Director Union Pacific Railway company. com-pany. Vice-president Bullion, Beck and Champion Mining company. Editor Young Men's Mutual Improvement Improve-ment Association, a periodical; the Improvement Im-provement Era, the Juvenile Instructor. Sln.e that time, "when ho confessed his religious impotence while boasting of his animal and business fecundity, the chief hlerarch has consolidated under un-der his rule two sugar factories In Idaho, and now adds this life Insurance company to his "string." And yet all the while, he derives his real financial Importance, ohtalns his business advantage, from the fact of his church leadership, in which he confesses con-fesses his complete failure as a prophet, seer and revelalor, and in ihe tremendous tremen-dous tithing graft which he S8 such leader Is able to gather to linos. If And yet, there are those who are so irreverent as to deny that all things are the Lord's and the Inheritance of his Saints, which is Us! And that we are entitled to enter upon our Inheritance Inheri-tance whenever it suits Us to do so. |