Show SENATE FORGIVES ENEMIES Permanent Chaplain in Upper House of Utah Legislature One of the Senatorial L These six things doth the Lord seven are an abomination unto A proud a lying and hands that shed innocent A heart that wicked feet that be swift in running to A false witness that and he that discord among Proverbs How different is the spirit of the average Utah man from that of the members of the ministerial the latter organization is constantly attacking and defaming the especially those who are elected to membership in the state The members of the legislature pay little attention to these ravings of the Ministerial As a rule they do not even condescend to refute They imitate the example of When this philosopher was told that some accused him of being a very bad man he merely shall take care so to live that nobody will believe We rather admire the magnanimity of the Utah But our duty is The Lord hath put it into our heart to hate lying heart that wicked false witness that and that discord among Our duty is simply to make known the We advise all to do as the Utah senate has done to your and instead of exacting an eye for an a tooth for a to resist not whosoever shall thee on the right- turn to him the other Not therefore to stir up strife but simply to show how different m spirit are the of Utah from their we make the following Another In one issue of the Independent we had something to say about Paden's praying in the Utah We now propose to make a few remarks about the J. E. the chaplain of the It was he who invited Paden to pray for The Carver belongs to a gang of Utah the most bitter in This is an association that has distributed and is now distributing the most false and slanderous statements against Utah and her lawmakers that the depraved minds of their authors were capable of Here arc the titles of some of their anti-Utah also the magazines in which similar articles The October number of the Home Mission and the Assembly Titles of some of the Startling Disclosures of an Awful Community by the Salt Lake Utah Devil Fish a Despotism Within a Life of a Mormon Reasons Why Gentiles Cannot Fellowship with the Mormon Articles of Faith Within One Day Schools Among the The last named was in the Independent of December 17 copy will be sent free upon The spirit of all these tracts may be judged from one Christian has any right to try to raise a family in George B. The who is now praying in the is a member and one of an association that sent the following appeal to the It was published in the Presbyterian Assembly Herald of We give it in Read Notice how the Carver and his associated insult the Utah senate for ejecting Senator they insinuate that the people of Utah are un-American that each the practice of ha jeer at the The article follows They Bewail n p S 1907 twelve ministers b the Presbytery pray over the general They spent and agreed to W following statement and I the Home Mission board is the general opi Christian men and and also of all iJ true that the the senate in seating Smoot will be very harmful in and will greatly g Christian Th-y be harmful because it to be a most unrighteous based on party coW rather than upon the denee in the j will be very to the liberal-minded in the Mormon ranks anxious to be rid of the polygamy and priesthood t. I The decision of the senate pras ally says to them that the t way to secure civil this state is to keep in bam with the men who if tice and exercise ly domination in civil ij evidence shows that Seii Smoot has not only in harmony with polygamous breakers for many 1 since his election to the 1 voted again and again to pat polygamists in tie church in the 6 of all this upholding of i j breaking the senate i honor upon thereby fa aging young men in the Ufa ranks who wish to cut loot polygamy and the tyranny i 11 of America decision of the sef greatly increase the Americanizing and Christy the people of this J 1 minority who here through all the years V American principles civil domination of those who hare i and W upheld the authority the nation against those broken the most so J ever given to ment-are now fact that the senate oi States has turned and given its 5 P at Christian s v it of this decision 01 Christian 4 rf jeers of those who priesthood government U eroding evil result of decision is the Lenient it gives to the to continue their anti- They Lt senate's action as an in-d should they not continue to Ue tie slate subordinate to the f and persist in the practice of polygamy the senate seats one of their ik apostles a man who has al-u given his support to these iti lawful lie decision of the senate newspaper organ of the m system has denied the right M ef to discuss the great mis which grow out of this E and says do Dot stop this discussion These some of the evil results of the senate's decision which we have Money the Now the motive for these wails Reed Smoot is The proceeds to for fai to the poor Presbyterians in Those first church only cost the Christian people in of are a and the ministers and here are the rep-of the church at they not a right to J 1 at tb- church at large by them all the thrown its them and on the of the situa- to iT mission denom- home J ranks thoroughly is where a false religion unfurls its deceiving and holds tens of thousands in and religious Is' not this the field on which to concentrate the Christian forces against these enemies of and and native Surely the patriotic Presbyterian church will be all the more ready to help us hold our ground on this hard now that the for has gone against Christian Christians and we cannot acord to leave this with its many natural and its great and varied under the blighting curse of a false religion built on polygamy and priesthood domination as two of its corner Do we not owe it to the people many of them native to help them get rid of these evils which oppress There are many communities in the southern part of the containing from three to six hundred where there are no Christian services from year to Commercial travelers are libeled in these The statement is that in the rural towns of Utah travelers tell us that the moral conditions are feel the need of the backing and support of the church at large through the Home Mission because in respects Utah is the most difficult mission field in the Worse Than foreign who had spent eleven years in after one year of service in a Mormon said he was glad to get back to the heathen country because the difficulties are far less than they are So great is the opposition to our Christian that those who become Christians in a Mormon community are compelled to move elsewhere to gain a notwithstanding the faithfulness of our some of our churches are no larger in numbers and resources than they were ten years because their converts have been obliged to move out of the It requires unusual faith and courage under such to carry on work Other Similar Here is another tid bit from the same magazine here is like the fumes from the great in the Salt Lake valley it blights or destroys every living thing it power of this church is something awful as you come in contact with it every Our gentile business men are terrorized by all classes are in constant fear of may deliverance come Pray for is getting to be nothing but a concocted political money scheme at ten per cent on the many of their followers being poverty If the Presbyterian church could transact her business in that way for the Lord's sake it would be a tremendous power in our |