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Show A PULPITEER. !mal paper friendly to the Honorable Hon-orable William H King, reports that distinguished gentleman -sometime critic and occasional courtier of the hi. ran hy as saying in the Tabernacle, last Sunday: "The Mormon religion would do away with all social so-cial Incongruli les." Once down In Arkansas there was a lecturer who took for his text and oft repeated in his address, the expression. expres-sion. "There is a good time coming." Along about the thirdly of his dls-COUrse dls-COUrse a lank, cadaverous old fellow In the hack of the hall got up and, hitching his single gallus over his should-r, remarked "Say. Mister, you couldni Just say when, could your" Say. Mr King, you couldn't Just tell when, could you, the Mormon religion Is going to do away with all social Incongruities? In-congruities? Ostensibly established to secure and maintain the equality of men; to organize a sweet brotherhood fl, voted to the elimination of injustice, the abolition of poverty and the eradication eradi-cation of class distinction it Is today the nearest approach to a monarchy of any institution within this Republic. At Its present rate of progress it will have to double backward on Itself In order to reach e en t he beginning of its purpose, to say nothing of the end. It Is receding further and further from the ideals and hopes of the men and women who originally promulgated its doctrines and who gave their years In Its behalf. The Mormon religion doing away with Incongruities! Faugh, Mi. King, what a silly re-mark for a man of your experience to make You know and have often uttered the statement that tyranny is practiced in the Mormon church. It is true that you could only see the tyranny when it happen- d to be exercised against your Interests, but you could see it Just the same. You know that in no other hun h In the Nation is there as much of dif ference between the ruling class and the governed mass as In the Mormon ( hur h If your contention is that the religion has nothing to do with the Church we are ready to admit the fact; but at the same time ready to renew Ihe controversy with you upon the palpable pal-pable ground that ;ou and all other speakers of the church t i-e the words "religion and "church" interchangeably. interchange-ably. There Is not another Institution In the United States where a trustee holds himself so vastly superior to the parties Interested In the trust that he will make to them no accounting of millions held In his care. There Is no other institution which would dare to gather money for a storehouse of the Lord to be opened every day to the needs of the poor while at the same time sending tlu poor to infirmaries and utilising the funds for aggrandizement aggran-dizement of the frauds who graft the donators. As a lawyer, Mr King knows that the Mormon church is exacting Its tithes under false pretenses As a man who has observed the world he knows that the Incongruities are greater here than elsewhere and are today far beyond be-yond anything which the past history of the Mormon people can Bhow But to demonstrate the state of mind in which the distinguished jurisconsult juris-consult found himself when speaking from the Mormon taberiuule pulpit, we commend our readers to the follow ing utterance quoted from his remarks by the same friendly newspaper: Politically some mistakes hac been made hi re in the past year, as they have . ewhej 1 'he coming vear in my opinion opin-ion however, will witness the obliteration of some of the lines which now apparently apparent-ly rtlvhh our people and we will have h ic in i lah a united people working foi the upbuilding ind development of the State Unless Mr. King meant that the Mormon Mor-mon hierarchy would be ready to make unconditional surrender this year he must haw meant that the American forces would lay down their arms, w can scarcely expect the former, and as to the latter. It is Impossible. There can be no unity, such as he desi ribes, until men shall cease to make crime in the name of God and break pledge In the name of religion. There can be no unity, such as he describes, until the Institutions of this country .shall prevail pre-vail here as they prevail everywhere else tinder the flag. There can be- nothing noth-ing but uncotidit iinnl suriender. |
