Show I I ALLLIjlAML II nutV AND 10 till j i sun In an address before IheJ Joint J Epsilon of the Utah Legislature yoiterela 1 r Feb 4 ono ol the rpraUsta made a prediction regarding the future ID Utah which evoked Kptilnuat from the suenibled I Huong II teuclu 1 upon a vital question fleeting the re lotion ol reunion and politics chute and elate Mr rtiatcheri prediction was made lu tile following wordr Tbo day most conto In Utah ovivion he rgl III wl o holds a blaher allegiance than that wl tell belong to I tile t810 UlII1 not be n lawlDokr trE the hall or the fial I If ever tile rulefjrluna which lid I ilared III the tangoing us one that > must comb1 to our lair State doe I oJoraLo that It Iueaa that every I Christine whether Roman or Uree I Catholic or IVotetntit or Liltcrday t Saint Avery Jew very Mohnmrne dens and every person who believes In and worships QoJ as an omnipotent Mag will > hi I disfranchised In this j j Blair There Is no getting away from that pilot Christianity Judaism t Mohammedanism and all religion Inculcate allegiance to Qjd ns tile highest duly oi 1 mm and each per I 1 ion nho recocnlzcj Deity ni the t supreme ruler of the universe In that i if rotation Give to HIM the ulubei I I allegiance ot which lie Is capable Yet by Ibo terms of Ibo foregoing quotation be would bo barred from becoming Ila lawmaker In the balla or 1 tbeHtate That sacred place In tile civil librlo WOUld be reserved for I atheists who know no higher rule or Ouduct than the will of man tet tl In the light of history logic ant re t llglon the alluitloii Is easily demonstrated J demon-strated II Wit li the Creator nod lluler of the ublversf If Ho I to i omnipotent In Ibo jurisdiction lie I 11 j exercises over Ills orealbni II He It I QoJ then He li supreme and KB such the only allegiance that one bo given Him li that which attaches lo Him In His capacity of r being superior f to all There cannot be two I supreme powers The Influltu Cue 11 t Is 1 lupremp or Ho la not And I If UB la supreme to Him belongs the highest allegiance of which man Is l I capable The demand that that higher Ii I high-er allegiance which of r right la Ills II should go to any other power Is a I denial of the Supreme Being of the I omnlpotoncu God The genius of American govern I men is displayed In the expressions I I and conduct of Its greatest moo upI up-I holds the supremacy of r Deity U was f I In a recognition of r his hlener mile I glance to Ibo Almighty that I Andrew Jackson declared In his 1 Inaugural addreer that a firm I I reliance on the goodness of that Power whoso providence inercl fully protected our national Infancy i j and bat aloes upheld our liberties lu i various vicissitudes encourages me to DUO up my ardont supplications I I He will continue lo make our beloved 1 country the object of Hli divine care and gracious benediction Thomas I cllsrson taught when on a similar ocoailon In his career he pleaded that that Infinite Tower which rules the destinies of Ibo universe lend our councils to what la beat They recognized a Tower greater than ua Lionel aDd gave 10 II that higher allegiance which Caused them to crave tho favors that Power In behalf ol their beloved country And In his I Inaugural adarevee George VYsuhlngtou lot to him predecessors flit etaaplei they have followed In them Icprea Rive words It would bo peculiarly Improper to i1 I omit In this lint official YoIU my fTyant auppll < 8Uo 10 tha AlmlIIIY Ielllg in tile universe who pro I j 1 lit 0 lit 11over II of nation still i l whoso prooidentlad Sidi Iarl supply eveZictibuintIn derm that Illi bonidlcllou ruy eIImh 10 I Ih liberties and humiiioa 1 cil the vaults or tho United States n Roernniuil 101 lUied by tUcmaoIvoi for UINO eiuutln t purfo au1 may enable tort ry InIu l inonteuiplujHlin o H adiulnlairuliou to extenlo WI1 anoee he rllllelunnl k failed tu Ills OlIt umjtriiii this hoiiKito to The treat Antlior of ourj publlu l and volo ate good I 1 n uni I in wff I that li 1 expu eii yout ainiiimnii not losh than my own nor thomit uf my follow ciilzmn at large lea I than either No peoplo cnn bu bound to aeLtmiN ledge and So dD the InviAllol UAIII lhlib cnlllc Ibo affairs or meo worn than thoke or bo United Staloo It was tills same allegiance to the recognition ef the Higher Tower which itipiroJ the statement lu the DeclaratUn ol Independence that men were endowed by their Creator with certain Inalienable rlghtl Being conferred by the Creator those right were Inalienable by tbe government about to be luitllutcd II which tit Old derive Its just powers front the content of the governed and which mutt not Icvado three lights eonrrrd by the Iligher Ono George Washliijtlon In the Greg proclamation or a national IbaDkglvlnl1 deerlbd Mesa cblljiaflons which were superior 10M into rolroll nt It I < tile iluty of nil nations tu aoknoiv odgohlroviloitcoofItiilfityflod to g rl I cb v tits ovellil to ho I grateful for dhl ben efl and humbly to Implore Ills protection and lavor Yet the Kathor of JIll Country who LcclareJ In tpecifloterml Ills hlghe nlrglanco la tin grsat IjjrJ aDd Itukrof Nations an J all these Who folluwed In his footsteps would It by the terms of the quirt prediction 1 of what mult come III Wells barred from the privilege of 1 being among the Htatei lawmaker were they hero today auj entertained sentiment they expressed when they wluldej tile chief magistracy of r the lUpubllc This higher allegiance It purely D rellgloui matter Tile framers of cur national Constitution rcco tilzid this They recognized that the elate which gained Us lowers from the content of the governed must not claim from the people l the mile Iflauco which balonged to Clod as tile luprerae being they were content with having for the state that mile gUnco which wan under Divine blenlng They know that It was the Inherent right of the citizen to plv his highest allegiance to Got they know this and that If ever the state should Attempt lo reverie the cond lloua the llotjubllo would be till more they knew this and rovl dIn d-In the original Constitution that the Halo ebould ba foriver barred from that course Hall I the No rII1lolI t1 ball ever bo ro tjulreda u qualification 10 allY olllc or pnbljo trust under the Uuilod siatei It la I a relUlous tat to Inquire os a qualification lor any duty of clt rocBblp liito the allegiance auy man owes to his God It n man would rather bo a doorkeeper In the homo oho o-ho Lord than Trttldrnt of the United Butet as one legislator para ph rated the old raying Yesterday fie I baa the Inalienable right lo his choice and tile Constltutlou protects him heroin retaining for him all his privileges of cltlz cshlp And be It distinctly understood that all this d8 6l not Imply that there aba to any domination of Ibo state by tile church but It docs may llja I hero ere church mntttra religion rflalrr with which the state must not Interere and ooo 01 libels rnnnj allegiance lo Deity as Iho One who 13 above all ASCI used by Thomas Jefleraon In an Inaugural In-augural address In mattorn religion have considered tilde lu trot niercl IH placed bv theOon ttlulloil liulcpondont of the powera or the troooral government I bAVo there fore undorukon no occasion 10 pro cribs Urn religious exercises Suited to It nit have loft thorn ai the CutMiltuttou Hind them under the direction and discipline dis-cipline of tbo church or state authorities 00Dowldgod by the kctr l vollcloua aucletlow As 16 the religious view of allegiance I 3 Daily It Is a Cardinal principle of lornibnlsni the Idea being the central only of religion lu all the civil nj world that Odd la the great matca I tus governing and supreme power over nil things A denial of the right or Latterday Halnti to give their highest allegiance to that Tower is a denial ot a fundamental principle of Mormonism as well o a lubverslve ot the liberty given III the national Constitution The Divine law that has been hold preeminent pre-eminent lu all ages from Ibo trans rcaslou In the Garden to I the present dyl Is the same that was thundered i forth on Mount Hlnil Thou Shalt have no other gods before BliP aiu very nation that has sought to contravene con-travene that law has gone down before Immutability lu conclusion the News will venture ven-ture its oplnloi that the prediction quoted never will bo verified that there never will come a time when those of every religion In this State who give their hlehent eubllraMt most devoted al ejlanco to tile God of leaven will be barred tnortfor Irom the leglilallve halls ol the Blair A blllber allegiance lo I the Divine One makes all who give It better qualified 10 give lo Ills state tile full wuuru of allegiance which belongs thereto |