| Show A METHODIST university ast nights proceedings in the court house have called up some very sarious and we are led to ask what havo mormon dignitaries and other in 1 members to do with promoting the establishment of an institution meth not the methodist ministers raised their hands against the mormon church here in provo and shown an an tago niam from the very beginning go back to the time of mr lyford and trace the line of succession to the present incumbent and what arc the facts those who were residents of provo in Ly forda time will call to mind some of the most wilful and pernicious falsehoods ever uttered against a people then thes was mr lincoln who for soma sicre aar his arrival here cave promise of being entirely freo from prejudice but before he left falsehoods of the vilest character were written and against the cormons mormons Mor mons by him of the present incumbent we have nothing to say and do not desire to place a straw hi his way in our feelings ho shall so far as we are concerned bo as free to promote his cause in his legitimate calling as ao 70 desire to be ia our calling but it 13 the height of absurdity in our estimation for latter day saints to neglect their own church and contribute of their substance to aid an opponent in establishing sectarian educational institutions in their midst the question may arise ia the minds of some what possible objection can be in establishment lish ment of a methodist university in provo notwithstanding the difference in religious sentiment between the cormons mormons Mor mons and methodist we do not wish to be understood as raising an objection to the erection of the university in provo or any other place in alie territory but we do deprecate the idea of latter day saints aidin in tho establishment of any such an institution the latter day saints have a higher and a holier cause t promote one that circumscribes cum scribes a range of importance to the world and to their posterity especially ally the intimation that the university will be socially and religiously of incalculable benefit to provo lias no foundation in fact the great ultimatum ultima tun of all the arguments ia that a few hundred thousand bollara will be induced into the territory of utah particularly in provo if the university is erected here what profit will accrue to the latter day saint who gives his as an inducement to get it here his leward will be his loss in the end for he will become as an unprofitable perva at the laborer in zion shall labor lor zion for if he labor for money lie shall perish |
