Show PROTEST MADE BY PASTORS CRITICISED SHARPLY Salt Lake Preacher Says Min Ministerial Ministerial Mm Association Went i Beyond the Limits of Good Taste in Taft Sunday Matter HE SEES NO WRONG IN TAFT SUNDAY PROGRAM Pastor Huntington Sees Wrong on Part of Those Who He Says Went Beyond Principle pie of Religious Liberty A CAUSTIC CRITICISM MADE w It fc T ET every man be persuaded in L his own mind was the text chosen yesterday by the Rev Silas G a Huntington of the Seventh Day Ad Adventist Adventist Adventist church in criticising the pro protest protest protest test made by the Salt Lake Minis Ministerial Ministerial Ministerial association in protesting against President Tafts Sunday pro program program program gram in Salt Lake From my understanding and as a Ii minister of the gospel who has the morals of the people at heart though others have protested against this Sunday program yet I see nothing wrong about it Rather Bather I see wrong upon the part of those whose indignation seems to have been raised because of this Sun Sunday Sunday Sunday day program and in their zeal went beyond the limits of good taste and the principles of religious liberty The visit of President Taft to 10 Salt Lake City is one of ot if not the greatest greate t honor that could fall to any city said Pastor Huntington to his congregation yesterday esterday Th This Is 1 so o not merely be because because because cause it is Mr Taft raft who though JUni hUn hO self Is a great t man n nt a h bt but t by b virtue virtu Of at ti flit tit teat rat t position he occupies that of this grev r As u City Cab die areat state of cM r I m sure wo were an a ft I and tee feel bi highly honored d to ba have ve had the President with us and I 1 am aDi a also b ute ante we all aU extended to him a mo moot t hearty wel welcome welcome come But as it ft so o happens President Tafts Taft itinerary brought him here on Sunday and to give the tha people the nest best opportunity opportunity to see him and hear him and like Uke likewise wise to give Mr Taft the op to enjoy his hili visit to the ad advantage a vantage tage of both himself and people those ose in charge of Ma Us t entertainment and program arranged for an address by the President on Sunday and also a review of the living flag fla From my understanding and as a minister ter of ot the gospel who has hu the morals of the people at heart though others have protested d against this Sun Sunday Sunday Sunday day program yet I 1 see aee nothing wrong about it Rather I see wrong upon the part of those whose indignation seems to have been raised because of this thill Sun Sunday Sunday Sunday day program and aDd In hi h their zeal teal z al went be beyond beyond yond jond the limits of good taste and the principle of ot religious libert liberty Right to Express Opinion That every citizen has a perfect right to express his opinion publicly especially in public matters mattera and aDd persuade all other citizens as far tar as a his influence goes to think as he thinks think Is not to be ques quell questioned questioned But it Is la possible sometimes for formen formen formen men and good men at that to go b ond I the bounds of propriety and overestimate U rights and thus thua seriously interfere I with the rights right of others This Is car eer certainly not only bad taste but embraces I all aU the elements though even to so unintentionally unintentionally manifest manIet of oC selfishness and domination Therefore what hat I see In the protest more than anything else is the disregard of ot the principles principia of religious liberty The protest was wall made not for foran an any possible po irregularity irr or abruptness of the program itself but because it was wasas wasas as the objectors call it the Sabbath day upon which the program was to be b car carried carried ried ned Into In to effect J the he question undeniably und upon a religious basis and thus places place It beyond the purview for any man or class cla of men to dictate and thus say sa to other men what they shall or shall not do upon this day da m and abrupt cor com command mand mands is the stock In trade for tor kings and priests but in no sense belongs to a Re Republican Republican Republican publican form torm of oC government or a Protes people Act Acts of these kinds beset beget et the spirit of oC intolerance which when carried to their logical conclusion means anathema and persecution per Taft Sunday Program Crime and sin are two to very distinct terms Crimp Crim embraces transgression of civil law the offender being accountable Countable a to the state whereas sin is the trans Continued on Page 2 PROTEST MADE BY PASTORS IS CRITICISED SHARPLY Continued from Page Pane 1 of moral law and the offender accountable only to God G Therefore the question of the Taft Tatt celebration on en Sun San Sunday Sunday day resolves itself I into the question of whether ether what the program rails calls cl for fo on o this day is a crime cime or a sin sn If I it Is I a acim crim wherein is it i a crime and why would not similar programs such as at are ar carried carrid out on other days d of the week in honor of the President also a so be b criminal crIminal for surely that which is i a en crime me on one day is likewise a crime on any other day Of course cour if the th objectors to a Sunday Sundy program feel fel that it I is la wrong to have such a program oi o 0 Sunday Sud they have a aright aright aright right to say sy so protest within the hounds bounds of propriety and use us their in individual an and an combined influence against It I and likewise refuse to participate In any of the exercises of the day da But when it conies comes to enforcing their objections tons to the of stubbornness ard and public denunciation such sU h objectors vb go far ar beyond their ther rights and ard show the spirit of o Intolerance The Thc Ministerial association in objecting to toa program also introduced by so s doing the question of the tho tb day of the Sabbath They Th boldly assert a rt that Sunday is the Sabbath But la is Ii Sun Sunday Sunday Sunday day the Sabbath We Ve earnestly petition the association for the th sake of truth to produce a single text from the Bible that commands the th first day of the th week commonly called caled Sunday to be 0 observed obre as the Sabbath The Bible says ys the soy sev seventh s day Is the Sabbath This Thi is Satur Saturday Saturday Saturday day and lot ot Sunday Thousands and hundreds of thousands thou of Jews Seventh Day Dy Baptists and Seventh Day Advent lets regard Saturday as the th Sabbath Sunday or Saturday Now if I those thoe who observe Sunday as the Sabbath have a right to stop excursions excursions excursions on Sunday would not those who ob observe observe serve sere the seventh day have a right to t stop similar exercises on Saturday If I not not why not But would either be b right Absolutely No Church and state must be kept forever separate and the day of the th Sabbath Sa is a religious question queston hence henc the state cannot by right dictate its ob observance servance or the day of its It observance But our friends frends may II say 8 that mo it people keep kep that day da and there therefore the therefore fore for for that reason rason it I should be b enforced upon all al people as a day of rest ret But is this thi religious liberty Does Dos might make right And Is principle to be sacrificed and the question submitted to numbers number Christ was in the minority when he was here Might put him to death but was might Justified justie In this fiendish deed ded The true spirit of Protestantism la is lato ll isto to let every evry man be b persuaded in his own mind not that every ever other man be b forced according to my mind Those Thos who want to see B the President on Sunday have a aright aright aright right to see se him If i the th President has no scruples In being seen on this day If IC I the President has no scruples In review reviewing reviewing ing the Living Flag on Sunday and the th Living Flag FlaB has no scruples in exhibiting Itself on Sunday Sunda both are at liberty to todo todo todo do so But If I the ministers of the town and other Sunday Sundy observers had bad scruples about attending such exercises on this day they were not compelled to do so no s They The I could remain at home attend church or ordo ordo ordo do anything else they desired of a civil civi or character These good pee poo p pie had the privilege of seeing the Pres President Pr ident and doing him honor on both Friday and Saturday and so why this tle vociferous I IOU ous OU howl about tho the mistake of the Pros Pres President I ident The Th mistake If i any has been made has been ben by b those who have per permitted pr permitted I themselves to enter the realm of criticism mUte and In this matter mater i Thousands of working people had the I privilege of seeing President Taft today tol that could not have ha seen sD him on o any other oth day These The people ppl feel fel perfectly free in what they did and had hd just as a much right to see se the tM President today toay as those th who wh saw him on Friday and Saturday and ob objected object objected to teeing seeing Ing him an on Sunday Sunda Let It Lt ev every ever every ery er good goo citizen remember that as long longes longas log loges of the es as Old Glory Glor floats fot on nat O the mast national capitol capital It stands for liberty civil civi and religious liberty and that the constitution of 01 our government guaran guarantees garn guarantees tees to every man the th Inalienable right to worship God according to the th dictates of his own conscience The President Is not to be singled out outs as s an exception to thie thi ruleS rule b ne with all al others Is to be b left lef alone to t determine his hi worship of God Go Therefore with charity for all al and malice malce toward towa none non let us ever eer remember that the rights and privileges privileges privileges leges of others though they be b high or orlow orlow orlow low are ar Just as a sacred to them as the I same rights and privileges are ar to us |