Deseret Evening News | 1901-08-10 | Page 4 | Caricature is Not Truth

IS NOT OT We W Ve e notice In the tho Preston Standard that lint that Hint enterprising village lIla o has hUll re recently reo been favored 1 with tho the visit of Christian missionaries who have havo un undertaken undertaken to enlighten tho the people them about the doctrines ot of by b means menns of literature There Is not much to be said against that thai This Is III n a free country and with within in certain well understood limitations cadi Individual Is at nt liberty to 10 employ his time as ho he sees fit Considerable means wo we believe have havo been collected back east eat for orthis this sheep wagon mission rind and the generous donors naturally ex cx expect expect lect some ome kind of ot report concerning the Iho use of their money Some effort has lias to be bo made to prove that the so solicitations were mado In good gooI faith Hut Iut does It not nut strike st all nil concerned that If It the Intention Is to enlighten I anyone on It Is I bus lous ous and absurd in the tho extreme extremo to dis distribute distribute tribute tracts compiled complied by narrow minded bigots who by reason renson of their Mormon the theology theology about as much ns as a n bat compre comprehend bonds hend a painting by It Is generally conceded that tho the most self evident truths of Christianity can find no flO lodging In the tha heart of ot an Infidel until that heart Is completely changed Just na as little as all the tho rays of ot the sun sunan un can an penetrate Into a room nn nil long as all nil openings are arc closed and tho the blinds LUnda I down lown It is so with and amI agnostics relative to that faith The latter alter cannot comprehend the system much nuch less give a true statement of ot its doctrines We would recommend these lent dent truths to the sheep mis mill missionaries s and others who are arc engaged in exposing this faith I Ihas has Us lis standards of ot faith fulth U It has tho the Dool Bool of Mormon Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Oreal Price With these thes u Mormonism m stands or falls Grotesque caricatures of Mor Mon Mormonism monism are not Such pictures may bo ho ridiculed and other otherwise otherwise wise wIpe assailed II but the ho truth Itself re no remains remains mains for or ever over