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Show SCHOOL TEACHERS AND INSTRUCTORS IN-STRUCTORS INSULTED. Editor Truth: In December, 1905, Brother S. E. WIshard, superintendent of the Pres-- Pres-- byterlan missions of Utah and Idaho, was down east on a begging expedition expedi-tion for the Westminster collego of this city. Ho wanted 1100,000 and with a vlow of getting It and to cast reproach upon Utah and lnjuro her people, ho Insulted and Hod about all tho teachers and schools of this state. Here Is what ho said In the Herald and Presbyter on December 12, 1905, speaking about tho Westminster collego col-lego of Salt Lake: "This Institution is the only loyal American college In the state of Utah, or within 500 miles of Salt Lake City. The State university at Salt Lake Is dependent upon a Mormon legislature for Its financial life. About half of . tho professors aro reported to be ll -Mormons. The other teachers aro de- 'V pendent upon Mormon favor for their u positions and maintenance, hence tho V university lifts neither voice nor pen against Mormon violation of law or In defense of American Institutions. The great civil and moral Issues pressing unon tho state of Utah and the ad jacent states and territories aro repressed re-pressed and Ignored." To think that a preacher who has been In Utah as long as Brother WIshard WIsh-ard and has been treated so kindly by the teachers of this state for so many years, would with malico aforethought Insult them and tell tho whole world they are disloyal to the trust' tho people of Utah have placed In thom! When Brother Wishard goes so far as to say that the professors profes-sors (both Gcntilo and Mormon) In the University of Utah are so disloyal and unprincipled that they will cover up crime for tho sake of the positions they hold, the parents and students who have been so greatly blessed by these teachers should Inform Brother Wishard at once that ho must retract his scurrilous statement and apologize apolo-gize to these professors whom he has so directly Insulted. If he will not ho should bo requested to pack his trunk and hike to Llarsvlllo and Ingratitude whero he will feel perfectly at home. Brother Wishard, why did you leavo out Gordon academy, Roland hall and the Proctor academy? Was It because they do not stand on tho Westminster catechism and believe in tho things I shall quoto a little farther on in this article? Don't you know wo have one of the best agricultural colleges In tho land, and that tho Salt Lake High schools aro tno very best? Brother Wishard, If you will write to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, John Hopkins, Ann Adbor, or tho University of Chicago, you will learn that tho students from the Salt Lake High school, who enter these great Institutions of learning - stand higher in credits than tho stu- "k dents from any other school In tho United States, tho Latin schools of Boston not excepted. There is another an-other quotation from Brother Wishard which immediately follows the. one quoted above: "Wo who havo long toiled In Utah, and havo profoundly studied tho perilous peri-lous problems confronting both church and state; wo who are standing stand-ing by tho flag and tho purity of tho home, aro convinced that Christian education and Gospel evangelization aro the instrumentalities that aro to save Utah. Hence wo must push this educational and missionary work." Brother Wishard, you havo had so much to say about tho Impurity of tho Utah home, don't you know that Utah has fewer impure homes and less crime and poverty than any other state? Yet to get money to build a sectarian school you will carry tho Idea to other people that Utah Is a debased, Ignorant and disloyal state. You also say that a few missionaries, yourself Included, and tho students of this ono school you aro begging for, ' aro tho only people In Utah "who are , standing by tho flag and tho purity of tho homo." What a falsefler and an lnsultor of tho manhood and womanhood woman-hood of Utah that sontenco makes you out to bo! Tho Ministerial association associa-tion havo resolved, etc., that they wero tho only people In Utah who wero loyal to tho flag and that tho Mormons wero disloyal to It. To lovo a country Is to bo loyal to it. "Greater "Great-er lovo hath no man than this, that a man lay down his lifo for his friends" or his country, or his flag. In our late war with Spain wero tho Mormons disloyal? dis-loyal? Brother Wishard, you aro heaping Infamy upon Utah's honored dead. Look at tho lives of Lieutenant Harry A. Young and Corporal John Granger Young, who after fulfilling missions for the Mormon church, wero among tho first to respond to tho call for volunteers to flght for tho stars and stripes. These young men laid down their lives in battle In tho Philippine Phil-ippine war. There wero many other good Mormons who aro now sleeping in the silent chambers of tho death as a result of their loyalty to tho United States flag In that deadly conflict. con-flict. While their fathers and mothers, relatives and friends aro weeping and placing garlands on their graves, you, Brother Wishard, aro proclaiming to the world that they wore traitors to tho flag. How Is It you, Brother Wishard, can go up and down this beautiful state and look Into tho faces of Its honest, industrious and loyal citizens cit-izens after you havo so slandered, them and their honored dead? Wo will havo to go back two and one-half centuries to Salem, Mass., to tho people peo-ple who stood on tho Westminster catechism and hanged Quakers and burned witches for an answer. This school or collego you aro begging for was named Westminster after tho Westminster catechism and as you call this school a collego you will teach the larger catechism. Here is Question 29 and the answer that you will teach your only loyal students: Question What aro tho punishments punish-ments of sin In tho world to como? Answer Tho punishments for sin in tho world to como aro everlasting separation from the comfortable presenco of God and most grlovous torments in soul and body without Intermission, In-termission, In hell fire forever. You will also havo a largo portrait of John Calvin and his institutes or sermons in this tho only loyal school In or within 500 miles of Salt Lake City, and as you lovo to quoto what Joseph Smith, Orson Pratt and Brig-ham Brig-ham Young said in tho beginnings of Mormonism, I will quoto a little from John Calvin, tho father of Presby-terlanlsm Presby-terlanlsm and In fact tho greatest Presbyterian of all times. Ho stood on tho same catechism that you and your school are now standing on. Hero is his favorite text: "Every plant which my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall bo rooted up." Matth. 15-13. In his sermon from that text ho says: "There wo are plainly told tint all whom the Heavenly Father hath not been nleased to plant as sacred tress In his garden aro doomed and devoted to destruction. But If all whom tho Lord predestines to death aro natural ly liable to sentence of death cf what Injustice, pray, do they complain? Should all tho sons of Adam como to dispute and contend with their Creator, because by his eternal providence prov-idence they wero before their birth doomed to perpetual destruction? Again, I ask how is It that tho fall of Adam Involves so many nations with their Infant children In eternal death without remedy, unless that it so seemffi meet to God. Tho decree I admit ad-mit is dreadful and yet if is impossl-, bio to deny what God foreknow, what ( tho end of man was to bo before ho made him, and foreknew becauso he had so ordained by his decree. Now ought It to seem absurd when I say i that God not only foresaw tho fall of tho first man, and In him tho ruin of his posterity, but also In his own pleasure ho arranged for it?" If the reader will procuro an 1897 revised copyright edition of tho Westminster West-minster or Presbyterian catechism ho will And tho authority for John Calvin's hideous sermon quoted above. I will call your attention to Chapter III, page 20, treating of God's eternal decree, which Includes predestination and foreordlnatlon and where it pleased God to withhold his mercy. (Pago 28, Chapter V.) God's providence provi-dence whore God governs all action, creatures and things. This God of tho Westminster catechism must havo governed Brother Wishard when ho said all Mormon womon wero subjugated subju-gated and mado to accept polygamy. Chapter X, pago 57, on Infant Damnation; Damna-tion; Chapter XVL pago 78, Tho gooa works of a sinner aro displeasing to Gcd, etc., etc. Brother Wishard, I would suggest that you havo a fow thousand copies of tho Westminster catechism printed print-ed and distributed in Utah and lot tho people know about tho horrible damnable dam-nable dogma that your school Is named after and tho religious foundation founda-tion upon which It will stand. Brother Wishard, I do not boliovo in attacking any religious denomination, except in defense of our homes or schools and our state. When you will go east and beg in a civilized way and tell tho people peo-ple that you want money to build a school to mako better children, better citizens and a bettor stato and city, to create harmony, lovo and good will towards all denominations you will receive tho support of all. But Just as long as you throw mud at tho Congregational, Con-gregational, tho Episcopal, tho Catholic, Cath-olic, tho Mormon and tho public schools of this stato by stating thpy are disloyal you will bo condemned by all liberty loving people. I will try and give you a story, founded on facts, about how religious revivalists terrorized children a few years ago In this country. Yours truly, V. S. PEET. Omaha, Neb., Fob. 12th, 190G. r |