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Show . ie: A STATE CHURCH. )K The letter oi' our Council Blurt 'j1' correspondent striked a key nolo that will yet sound throughout tho United States from Maine to Florida ami from J ihe Atlantic to ilie I'aritic, if the plot dl now boiriR Jevelopi'rl in the little T.-rri- " lory ol' l-'iah nhall prove hU. oesM'ul. 1; )ntf great cry aaiiiit the Mormon reunion re-union lia.H Iweu that it unites Church u;k! State; but it is nt the first time in tlio world' history that liberty hna L kvn aaileJ uml.-r the .-ry of liberty, ll( ami religion 1 t'nvjum rudaiwrod umhra "ui-o Mtiiilur to that which covers the atlaek on ihe Mormons We have, oti several occasions, pointed 10 J( the logical result of the crusade now watfdl in thin Territory. It is really ' the fiit htep 10 the recognition of a State Church; for when the const itu- ' ticn can be set at naught in inlerfcrii.g with the frco exerci-ic of reliuion, it 0 can be similarly disregarded lor the recognition of a Klato Church. '" There is not a single charge urged ; jj against iMormonisui to-day that haa , not been urged agaiuit first ono re- : ligion and then another, as a dominant 1 fuith sought to stamp out a weaker one. Nvon the practice of polygamy was charged upon sonic of the- earlier 1 adherents of the Lutheran reformation j ri as a roaHon why it should bo promptly cc crushed, and tho marriage of Luther ra himself witli a nun was viewed 1 j with holy horror by the ontire j jc Catholic church. The alleged treason p of the Fifth Monarchy men against the jt Knglish crown, for believing that the ; y fifth great power spoken of by Dnniol ja was to come in their day, led finally to ' the niiitration of the Puritan fathers to p tho "new world." And so, wore this ; Q a magazine article, not a short news- tj paper one, every charge made against , ni the Mormons as a reason wliy they 0, should' be persecuted and thoir faith I j( proscribed, could be shown to have : w been ured against other religions for (j: tho Baiue purpose. 0 Is Mormouism absurd ? Ask n Mor- fl mou. Ask a Catholic if Methodism be absurd! Ask a Spiritualist if Protestant Protes-tant Epiaeojialiauism be absurd ! And p ask nn infidel, of whom there arc thou- i ai sands in the Cnited Stales, whether ! U Christianity be absurd ! Ask any ct person whether the faith of any oilier person opposed to his own be correct, in and what answer will bo given ? To tl the Chinaman his "Joss" is as sacred ai as are angels and saints to the Hotuan n1 Catholic. No man, no body of men, t '( can be the judge of the faith of another 1 w man. Wo have a very high respect m for the intelligence and judgment of la sumo of our acquaintance and friends : T in this city, while we view their scv- oral religious beliels as unworthy their rc intelligence. Itut that is their busi- ai 1103, with which we have nothing to , at do. To them their religious boliefs : aro sacred, and as. such we respect: them. Hut the very moment a gov- j l eminent, or the representatives of a ' government, or the legislative power : U1 of a government says that a man or a ai people must not hold this or that arti- ; SJ elc of faith so long as it does not in- , terferc with tho rights of any other ! ' citizen that moment the first step is ! taken towards the establishment of a j measures are adopted lo prevent tho ! free excrciso of such faith, there is j directly at work a bigotted religious ; j influence which aims to mako ono sect dominant over all others, and sooner or later havo it recognized as "tho , Church by law established." j ( |