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Show TURNING PROM LIGHT. And now the Deseret News Is out with a certification that tho Mormon church Is ready to receive enlightenment enlighten-ment from any quarter. Thus, one by one, the farces are played. Every time somo fact derogatory to the Mormon church is developed the Deseret News solemnly announces that tho particular thing charged is one of the great shining shin-ing virtues, one of the signal characteristics, charac-teristics, of this all-perfect scheme for the redemption of mankind. Ready to receive light! The light of the Infernal fires is the chief light that shines from within the cavernous souls of the wretches who lead; they will receive re-ceive no other; In fact, they deny the existence -of any other; and this Is tho one which they-declare Is that Incffablo Illumination from tho throne of tho All- wise. . Tho Mormon people were In the darkness dark-ness and enslavement of a Territorial condition, where ecclesiastical auto-cracv auto-cracv and 'political vassalage hampered the Individual struggle and enshrouded the Individual hope. Gentiles who had known in other Slates the happy dignity of free citizenship, citizen-ship, encouraged the Mormon people to march away from their own wrongs, to turn their faces from their own night and toward tho glowing day of the oast. A patient Government stretched out its encircling arms. For ono brief hour of history the clouds were parted and the radiance of a new morn shone uflon every home in Utah. This was a Stato. And Instead of superstition as a blind guido in blinded life, tho peoplo had opportunity for the highest Inspiration Inspir-ation that God and country can give. Did tho present leaders welcome the light? They deny Its very existence. Today they stand lashing this long suffering suf-fering peoplo with the thongs of tyranny, ty-ranny, turning them away from the sunshine, driving them to the catacombs cata-combs of silent and horrid blackness. And all the while tho Deseret News, that hypocrite of all tho world, is engaged en-gaged in telling the monstrous falsehood false-hood that the Mormon church looks for light and would be glad to recelvo it. |