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Show I CHURCH ON TOP. Tn th early flays of I'tah Brlffhsm Young was (ietrmlned that there hould be complete union of State anri church, with the church In the ascendant ascend-ant In the years to conic his followers can point to him ith profit onl just a lll-tl lll-tl twisting; there will be no union ot church and State and the State will be triumphant Wc remember hearing clever preacher ol the church prove that Jo-seph Jo-seph Smith, the original, although dead, had leen President of th- I tilted States; that he had been lleutenant-Kn lleutenant-Kn 'al if Hi' N.uiviHi I.pgiui' hikI this wn9 alleged i" be th- highest military tank In the country and Ihn highest military rank was supposed to be the one held by the Prcpldnt of the 1'nited Sttitcs, etc . etc., and by these simple proteoses of in llnclnallon the old prophet y was supposed to - fulfilled. Sitnilar methods (;n be Invoked to show the ascendancy of Brlgham Youns: and his successors ss rulers of a kingdom within .i republic |