Show IS MINING A CHIME A rw rew leric ler lc Ad dirrem d to lo a to ifo bishow amix right laight reverend sir la in your sermon yesterday at st marks church Cli you placed mining on the sumo some moral plane with gambling gim gam bling lAing etc etc in tho the most lost emphatic manner what are wo ire to 0 o understand liy by this Is the industry thit that ims ILIS mailo mado ho pacific coast the iho pride of or the iho nation and lias has caused a churchly burckly hurch bly ly necessity that re rc bultel in placing a mitro mitre on oil your youir herd ciccil lic cil to lia be bron bra kled by you as crimi criminal and must the of honest souls that dulco for the aitha caitha c treasures lie haag 1 1 9 their heads its as criminals while t the b e merchant the iha banker the geology geologist anil and tho the metallurgist who aid an and a abet th them ore iu in their di le employment deserve to bo be ani and AV ai accomplice i in this sto pond out cog Til lany did tile alio alouse of bishops Bin hops ii alien lien they mado made choice eryou of you to bear the alio gospel to tho mining camps of idaho mantana and fiah that you might permanently plant tho the church in uio the mining regious regions expect you to do nominate the avocation that prepared the field for or you a crime and to atiLe the self denying prospector us as it tho he tool fool that lie ho is all aubi blo meu men know now they did not nol lor for the church in all ages las has signally six nally honored an and d dignified bon honest ost toil of ct 0 every T cry character ond nd none more than mining why was moses moved to mention the mining inin CA camp p of 1 haddah Havi lali thus early ar M lz g U of ce in in the th bt history of our race go gen I 1 II 11 1 11 and ad I 1 ai 1 aad ad why did the abo lawt giver av cir uce the ho gold of that land id good it if to seek seck tho the guld gold the bdellium end dd tho the onyx stories of that sai re mcginn 11 n was waa to follow an ignis athus ono no would think that moses would han imo a warned the men of his bia da day and all U subsequent time tg aint tho criminal folly of tho the hopely s pursuit it if tho the clearly original portion of your di cousa yesterday mas as the ferut exhibition or of too much sanctity on tile glib aub jcck eject I 1 should not deem it 01 thy of notice but you lai biao a been in the habit of do defaming taming ilia occupation of tho the minor miner rod nod of placing it ona on a levoll rith tho the hateful vice of labling gui gu and of almaye speaking of ilcia industry as degrading and those follow it as m a do degraded graded cla claa 3 while some of 3 our official acts cannot bo oth erviti con arn than aa mala abil distinction if you coply that your or plumb po siti ili onon this subject is five mining sales and fraudulent globing Llo jobbins bing ol reio then by P harily iri Y of reasoning eliy do 3 cu not uit man and ily bo 0 god ghon i of ir eminent clit bior luay banks banka have bavo failed and g cicat cat ir krauja in thoe institutions bare been ildo largo numbers of those in our ON OM a country who occupy the position of statesmen are kaun to bo be for ealo to the tha highest bidder nud end bribes and gifts arc aroi nith mith many P at all times iuni in order in reply to your attempt ing industry with infamy and by way of hurling back your shoddy im pu lation that men of culture anil and high social antecedents are ara onte outcasts wits from society I 1 have the honor bainor to inform yon bovi taftt dinio men now dow engaged in mining shun alike the of 0 gab lors drunkards drun karda anil and aw malord and aro are tar far loss less intimately connected i i th ith t h e w i incubi D c u b i a and ltd f n anci u gi 0 of f s society 0 e i c ty t than h p n m many a n y 0 of f t those 1 1 0 0 wh who 0 1 lc ft m 0 t bliem 1 t e m th emoral and social phases ahas of thil and viewing it in a merely busine im ligh t I 1 should liko like you to inform antonn me ino abat particular C ech ot of industry furor thed the means mcana to build st marks school and dd to austain st marks could N mr r warren H isey is ey and nd macy others lure live t tl the the 0 oui us calls that have beon been made upon them for or those ami other similar pur bogra arthey had entertainer entertain el fat be sti sn premo d and degast di gust gast for i in mining I 1 n that hit you yoa are re to in and express so no avas ft im pot not their noble liberality ibera lity the immediate immediate result of fidoe 7 lo in one word who are arc the men that make sacrifices for the church in those mono taing are they not miners and such as 99 aro are dependent upon tho be product of tho the I 1 dern in laio ardent fri to til 1 l lor 1 incomes in comei then verily if shingi lo bo 10 na as they appear to me file I 1 rant mut ran t bs be pardoned for fa NUZ that your cond omps lion ot of ur mining milling indu try ii 11 not dot only grouf g io in an no lie point or of view bi lint it 14 is a 0 erosa ros injustice to the iho most useful and aing portion of our community A SALT crry march 1871 |