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Show CAN'T ALL GO THAT WAY. ' "Of -course, there will always be somo who will not accept our doc-trine." doc-trine." Bishop Charles W. Niblcy is said to have explained to an interviewer inter-viewer for the Chicago Record-Herald. , And, indeed, there must be, as every decent fellow on earth must admit. When a young man and a young woman engage in all solemnity to cleave to one another, and each to the other only, throughout all of life, they arc actuated by the" warm impulses of pure love. At. that moment, whatever may thereafter happen, the world holds but one thing to be lived for absolute devotion and singled tribute to the one blessed being be-ing who has been enthroned in the high-est high-est estimate of the human heart. What, think you, are the thoughts of the young mnn and the j-oung woman who arc confronted with a doctrine that will rob the one -of the other's affection? What unholy disturbance of thought must enter the mind of tho youug woman when she contemplates the prospect pros-pect of being eventually forced to shnre her husband's affection with another of her sex? The thing is altogether repulsive; re-pulsive; and w'c are compelled to accept ac-cept tho truth of Bishop Xibley's explanation ex-planation that "there will -always be some" who will not. accept ' our doctrines. doc-trines. ' ' And thai, seems to be the source of all tho. troubles which Bishop iN'iblcy and his likes experience in this world. Humanity is usually pleased with innovation; in-novation; but it has never, so fnr. welcomed wel-comed or adopted a change thai has been tried and abandoned because of its undesirability. Human slavery and polygamy (which is the same thing as applied lo one-half of the human race) have been thrown aside as being unjust' un-just' and nnadoptable conditions in the economics of mankind. Yet the chief priests of the Mormon church believe in both, as may be proved by their utterances. And it must bo apparent that where there is firm belief, that be lief will ordinarily find expression in practice. And for this reason wo must pay tribute to Bishop Xiblcy's truth in announcing that "there will always be some who will not accept our doctrines. doc-trines. ' ' |