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Show TIIK"llKATIK.N,,OFSL,ri,AKK. We seldom trouble ouiM-lves about the gushing outpourings of those burning sectaries whose souls are aflame with a desire to crush out Mor-monisiu. Mor-monisiu. Wo have had some experience experi-ence with them in tho past, kuow what they are and what they desire to accomplish, ac-complish, and care little about thorn. But we must make an exception in favor of Rev. Josiah Welch, of this city, who, filled with the ardor of the great founder of his church, John Calvin, Cal-vin, when Servetus was sent to the stake, tells the Presbyterian world what an Kgyptian darkness mentally and religiously, ho has found in Utah. The Kcv. Josiah is able to speak for ' himself, however, and we prefer to lot him do so as we tind his account in the Ihshiteri'.in IS.viiitr. After the proportionate pro-portionate amount of introductory com-' ments, he says, with reference to Mor-j monism: The doiugs of the past year or two are telling on this heathen system and its devotees. ("Heathen system" is good, deuced good. Josiah should copyright it. ) The scales are hilling from scores of eyes. The seeds of skepticism, concerning the honesty of Briham oung and his coadjutors, as well as the truthfulness of Mormonism. have found a fruitful soil in hundreds of hearts, and arc f ringing into a luxuriant growth. A tew years, unless there is a great re-action, will see the spiritual power of this hierarchy broken and humbled, just as its civil and political politi-cal power is to-day. It is not human nature to wear shackles, alougsidc of freemen, when the slave once learns that he has the power to sot himself free. This U the field the I're.-byterian board of home missions decided this fail to occupy. Thousands of church- le.ss Grangers and godless sinners are lure to be locked ul':er; thousands of Mormon.-cannot help but feel the in-llaerecs in-llaerecs which will emanate from a nood sdroug ehri.-tian church planted m their very niidt, alongside of their: temple. Can our ehuivh ak for a mote iuviiiug ti.-ld than lh: ? The i w-rk i- already begun the CalviuUtic ! vine has been planted, the 'Trcsbvie-S rian Banner" u::!arled. and we all feel greatly encouraged. From our little v.- .mp-u'y liJ gouo out au appeal. wl;ui "bo churih ha- reeuved and roaU. ler tweiity-iive ibou.-aul dollars ie-r the erection of a !um to be dedicated dedi-cated to the tiue Voi-hip of Almighty ;.!. We aie fwio'.vtii3' that appeal witli our pri.wr.s for we all feci in our :;,ai t that xevpt the lArd build the bcurc. they lab-r in vain that build u." We beg of the church, then, for lUcir prayers aud mile,-. "Mites" are wauled, aud wanted to; the tunc of twenty-live thoLtsiaJ dollars; j i'ji as .Mr. Welch hi courteously asd! Je;Iiug'y declared that the Ioruiouiare: heathen it out-ht to b promptly forth-j coiuing. Couldn't he send another ap- pcaUbrrvJ-thunel jacket for the miserably miser-ably naked aidents of this heathendom, heathen-dom, and supplement it with a value-able value-able and reliable account of our war dances and cannibalistic propensities? He should continue to "draw it strong;'' j aea-ations are in order, aud Josiah j ahou'd pile on the agODy without stint. ; We did at ti rut intend, in noticing this extract, to be rather severe on it! and its author, but tlie only feeling it ' excites, on a re perusal, it a mixture of strong contempt and infinite disu-t. This K-'v. .ihows, to such a degree, his j utter want of gentlemanly or courteous j f.-eling, hii extreme and senseless -bigotry, tliat we do not wonder the 'church of which ho Is a representative , is rapidly loping its hold among intelligent intelli-gent men and women. Mr. Welch ha been kindly and eourieou.-ly treated in this city by tho "devotees'" of this "heathen r-y.-,tem," and he ic-: turns their cotirte.-y by calumniating calum-niating and maligning them. This Ls how he ahows the superiority ol his "ehri-lian vittue." We will tell him, too, that while he has been .o received re-ceived here, tho kind of courtesy usually usu-ally extended by his co-religionists to Mormon missionaries has been broken brick-bats, small-sized paving stones and rotten eggs, administered with a dexterity that indicated extensive practice. prac-tice. Wo might further point him to the fact, that here, as in other "heathen" "heath-en" regions, where missionary efforts are extended, the usual adjuncta of "christian civilization" are increasing, of which he can find ample evidence on East Temple, Second South and Commercial streets. Josiah should write another appeal, and keep on writing them; there's money mo-ney in it. |