Show ON ORDER BY VISITOR AND ELDER FREEMAN elder freeman the reason of my opposition to sabbath schools among christians is soon and plainly told sir christian sabbath schools schoola meae majie sacred what god perfectly abhors and they profane and even outlaw what god holds to be perfectly sacred they teach for doctrines the commandments mand ments and merest precepts of upstart and hireling priests and commentators there is not lot an ancient apostolic ordinance or sacrament or immutable covenant but what wha in these schools 1 the children chil tren are taught that it t 14 is even right and i proper to violate pardon a little ittle warmth and we w will alboth both cool down presently but really sabbath schools wear the appearance of serving god while in very fact there is no such service there but directly the contrary of it whore whom houses bouses and other haunts of juvenile corrupt corruption ign never wear the hypocritical livery of being sacred to the service of god but sabbath schools do wear this livery among the gentiles but we will waive this subject on account of the disagreeable excitement cit ement it seems to produce in each of our minds visitor well to return from this digression you must admit that there are some unpleasant collisions and feuds in different diff ermit family circles else my eyes and ears deceive me eld F yes yea admit if you please that there is 13 some truth in your insinuation though tot not near as much as an outsider would suppose and I 1 will tell one cause of these feuds it is gentile tradition and gentile influence that like a miasmatic vapor that comes from a distant swamp spreads irresistibly through our horizon darkening even the pure light of the sun SUB this influence 0 1 tanus tarnishes hes mid and besmears beshears be smears the purest aai abid d love loveliest heit principles ever revealed to men man it ft poi scias in some families the pure order and makes lovely flowers look sickly for a season V will not these disturbances disturbance a increase and many virtuous females take to pernicious ways sooner than comply with youir domestic arrangements m ants and will not conflicts be rolled upon you even upon the men who enter into this order that ought to cause you to hesitate as to the wisdom and policy of such a system eld F 1 I shall not wholly deny that in some rare cases cam there may have been some virtuous females according acco iding to the common notions of virtue who under the strength of jealousy and self will have swung loose from the moorings of domestic purity parity and government and even some who had not sufficient firmness to abide the excitement cit ement and shock of revolutionary reform have lost the little light and moral purity bority which they seemed previously to possess but when you ask if these family disturbances will not probably increate increase in in years to come I 1 answer with the strongest assurance and most emphatically too NO no means after the of the storm is a little abated the ships shies head is all right and passively yields to the rudder but in gentile order there is no helmsman to guide either the family or the state and between mens rights and rights and whip whigs and democrats the condition of society is becoming more and more reckless every year and with the lie latter there is no hope of either domestic society or of civil government finding a standard or peaceful level fevel this side of the most rigorous despotism the most free and enlightened democracy that ever flourished flouri flouria shed hed only qualifies a greal greater ler number of combatants combatant to enter the list of conflict and to make the final awful onslaught more fatal and desperate such a crisis as this is ia now feared and boldly portrayed by the greatest american statesman sta teiman that have enraptured enrapt vW the audi tories of congress for the last ten years V I 1 consider sit sir that religion is ie and ever tall should be kept entirely distinct from all civil government and family organization also is a matter that should not enter into the legislation of governments particularly but should be adjusted by the parties concerned eld F 1 I dare say that you and I 1 would differ widely as to the principles involved in your last remarks with your view allow we ne to say without any designed of fence religion has I 1 think a very contracted and contemptible narrowness the family organization and order is the basis of all civil government if this organization is ig not based on correct and immutable principles it ht is ig vain and useless to rear up any civil with the hope of making a permanent or useful government when families are organized and regulated upon wise principles the victory in regard to civil government it is more than half ae achieved and we ve can well afford to endure some disturbances and family feuds in order to endure a system of domestic and civil organization that shall be enduring as the everlasting hills although jesus christ was most emphatically the prince of peace and did more to inculcate peace principles than all the peace societies on earth still his doctrines of peace were wholly adverse to the present organizations of society whether we speak of families or of governments hence before he could establish peace he revolutionized existing institutions and disseminated principles that divided vida households and overthrew governments his principles caused domestic discord and why simply because the dopie domestic cords by which families were held together in all their various relations were and unsound anil and it was irett in tiar to have ua aly compact then than to hava bar that which existed among the jews at the time of I 1 his coming coining and that which exists even now among the christian nations of the earth the existing orders ordera of family compacts eta which be assailed were decidedly adulterous and add that is the character of family compi compacts acts in this present generation V Is it really the design of the cormons mormons ta rf overthrow the present existing order of families famili eg throughout christendom and are you that bold to avow your intention to undertake such a great and perilous enterprise eld elaf F we i extend to obey him whose right it is to rule and reign among the families and na tion the earth even to as he does among diw th saints od and angels in heaven we even entertain the great and perilous hope that fhe families add ad kingdoms of this world will aria and of necess necessity iq must become the family and W kingdom of christ or suffer what their contumacious conduct ai deserves I 1 V I 1 should sooner think that jesus basit OW would subdue all the families and king kingdoms domi tf this world than that your mr smith and bria young will ever do it I 1 I 1 eld F af jf jesus christ should employ joseph I 1 smith and brigham young in this perilous and ad delightful service as he be did moses band and other pro peets they could bring about whatever he quit lined them to undertake 1 I 1 V do you really think and is it the teaching of mr young that when the struggle of orga ni gand regulating families is over on the heavenly principle as yon call it that civil govern ment will be beneficially effected by it so as to secure permanent peace order tod lind hangody han noDy among the citizens of the earth you must not g think mr freeman for a moment that I 1 have I 1 any prejudice against your people for I 1 will assure you sir that my most ra in and out of cong congress irem as s well as my clerical correspondents most openly taunted me with being contaminated with yon ton 04 ar aware that after my return from a yearns tesa res deuce dence at constantinople where m I 1 was honored 1 with several interviews with the sultan va and bad ample opportunities to test the operation of aw plurality order I 1 informed general kearney in I A lengthy letter which by some means dovw 04 way into some of the leading papers at wa washington and london that the character af the toa at constantinople stood many hundred per coot 1 higher than that of similar christian cities of t europe not only for domestic aid ad order but bat also for strict integrity integ rhy and fair deft and for strict fidelity and virtue between to hat bands and wives wiver both the turkish men ad women bwy outstripped the character of ang 4 lish Chris christias tIms the hospitality of the turks 9 0 almost proverbial now itow this letter I 1 su which contained nothing but bat the costwell most well attea truths brought a shower of 0 f od odious io us ep M e ts sp alis me ill III assure yow you mt freeman freman that led ae to sympathize with yo boar peo people pile toe the D Vs Ss why one would hardly think as says that such wrath could dwell in beas he minds they said that I 1 was doing move more up mormonism than even one of Brigham 9 VW tb aks became I 1 had bad more influence than the MW among the tb higher class classes cla saes bet I 1 tie fo browbeaten brow beaten by them ft for hewl ess 1 I 1 at every W tt I 1 I 1 I 1 partial f artial traveller to turkey knows to be true dpn n fact their priestly anathemas ana aria themas have inspired lane j e with a stronger desire to visit salt lake and I 1 Myn ili quire for myself into your peculiar institutions |