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Show ecclesiastical power which assume this right to run every thing, spiritually and temporally, of course "conditions" would be "changed." Tin: Times does not for one moment assume that the gentile ministers hero will ever abate In the least their zeal ami their influence against vice ami erinie, nor refrain in the least from upholding up-holding the dignity of their high Bailing, Bail-ing, It would not. if it could, hae theui eountenaee or even Wink at any evil under the sun, bat it 'Iocs most respectfully re-spectfully suggest that some of them ought to consider the fact that they are dealing with, if not a 'peculiar people," at least a "peculiar" enemy lhat is in the front here always. When American supremacy is assured here, it will be time enough for ministers to create dissension dis-sension in genlile ranks if they want to do so. In the meantime, if they desire to assist the common enemy, a common one to all true Americans, that is their unquestioned privilege. Some people will, however, persist in grasping for substance, oblivious of the fact that there is naught but shadow withih their reach. SUBSTANCE AND SlIAIIUW. it is most appiopriato ami most praiseworthy for ministers of the gos- I i pel to inveigh in the pulpit agains! crimes anil excesses common to human- ity, more especially when they crop out I so prominently, as they always do. in metropolitan centers, and both publicly and privately it is their duty and their ; especial prerogative to do all in their 1 power to suppress tho same and to mitigate mit-igate resultant evils iu a proper and j legitimate way. Their calling is a j noble one nobody will question it ! and, properly exercised, it can be made ; most potential for the welfare of the j human family, aud it is so exercised by ' thousands of them, not only in the j United States but all over, the world, j But ministers of the gospel, in ooninu n j with all other men, are fallible, lis only here in Utah, among all enlight- j ened localities, that the claim of revelation reve-lation is adhered to the claim that a1 mortal being may communicate at anv time with the Deity and may reveal to j his fellow men tho will of tho Infinite One through a revelation any day. Vice and crime, inherent in the hit- j man race, are of course prevalent here, 1 but, however, scarcely as much so as in many other cities of 00,000 people in toe United States. So why should non- I mormon ministers help the common ' enemy, as many of them do through ignoraneo or iuadvei tenee'; Their in iautions are good enough no ono will ! question that but what about their discretion or judgment? If they were back in the states, where they would Lot have to contend with a so-called |