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Show The Tribune is endowed with some most marvelous powers, the display of which pnts it ia a contradictory position. posi-tion. It belongs to the class who do not believe that the mormon church ever received n revelation from on high; but while it ridicules the claim that the church was ever given any knowledge f the thoughts of Deity, it lays claim itself to a thorough knowledge of the thoughts of the men who aro at the head of the church. It has gutton so that if any of those men have any doubt as to what their reflections may have been they oa!y have to rofor to tho columns of the paper in question. Whatever individual may think of mormon revelations, reve-lations, it must be admitted that the ollicisls of tha church have never claimed to know what were the workings work-ings of other meu's minds. People judge of men's thoughts by what they eee of their preseut actions. The actions of tho mormon people cleany indicate that they earnestly desire to take their church out of polities aud establish it iu quiet harmony with the laws nnd the sentiment of the country; but the Tribune knows men's thoughts ami it tolls us in detail how these people ai'B laving out a course that would lead to practical destruction of their church. |