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Show The Church Case. The arguments in the church case before M aster in Chancery Lofbourow are now in progress, and for the 'purpose of getting through before another day a night session w ill be held. Judge lickson spoke on behalf of'the mormon church in the afternoon. After telliDg why the government had dissolved the corporation of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had taken the property from it he said that there has not been any case in England w here it has beep done since the monasteries were taken from the religious religi-ous sects; and then it whs not the court of equity which disposed of it, but it was turned over to the crown to dispose of. ..The amc thing is what he claimed, and that is, that a court of equity has no jurisdiction in this matter. He said that they did not ask that the money be set aside unconditionally for the church, but that it be put in the hadds of trustees, to be used for the ' purposes pur-poses originally designed, under the. direction direc-tion of the court. He did not think that any court ever took money which was set aside for charitable and religious purposes and devoted it to the education of both rich and The. government took this property from the church because of the unlawful practice of polygamy, but now the practice of polyg-; polyg-; amy lias been done away with. Jle made references to a large number of cases, in all of which it was decided that a court of equity could not change the objects of a fund. Against public schools he bad nothing to say, hut this fund was intended for charity. Should any court or any authority take assistance as-sistance from those who need it and devote it to the assistance of the more prosperous? I say that it would be an outrage upon the people, and the court or the authority doing so would be looked upon by posterity as doing a disgraceful act. . . |