Salt Lake Herald | 1891-03-04 | Page 4 | Local News

PRor111bx MULLED in a paper on Freedom Free-dom of Religious Discussion in the March Forum states a truth which should cause a blush to come to the faces of many of our modern religionists when hesays I am sorry to have to confess it but among the many lessons which a comparative study of religions teaches us there is one that seems very humiliating namely that religious intolerance intol-erance is much more common in modern than in ancient times I know the excuse which is made for this It is said that as our convictions become deeper and stronger our intolerance of falsehood also must assume a more intense character and that it would show an utter want of earnestness if it were otherwise There maybe may-be some truth in this but it is a dangerous truth It is the same truth which led the inquisition in-quisition to order the burning of heretics because be-cause it was better for their souls and which inflicted in our own times a less violent though perhaps a not less painful martyrdom on such reverent men true thinkers sincere lovers and earnest inquirers after truth Jean STANLEY Bishop COLE SO and CHARLES KINGSLEY