Show A Betrayal Cannot be Covered By a When a person gets caught in the in pushing one foot down to pull the other he sinks it deeper than the foot he tried to It takes two lies to cover up and four to cover up the When pretended friends a brother it takes more than a letter from their pastor to square Two weeks ago the Unitarian society of this betrayed John P. a brother the was so strong against that society for its ungracious act that the Thurston their tried to square them in an untruthful and letter in the In that letter the Brown 1 church meeting which acted on this request was but If the ground upon which the church refused this request had been a political the church would have laid itself open to just censure from the even though acting entirely within its But was not the It was urged by those who voted against ordination that Meakin is a Ordination was not sought by him for the purpose of acting as a Unitarian but for the purpose of qualifying for appointment to a political At all a position depending upon political Whether rightly or it was felt by many that this appointment as chaplain would be the reward of political or partisan If that was true in any any granting ordination would have stultified itself and cheapened its Any one who believed that to be the case was in duty bound to vote against ground upon which the church refused Meakin 's says a political the church would have laid itself open to just censure from the even though acting within its At the close of the meeting that turned Meakin the Thurston Brown telephoned Meakin and told him that the reason the thirteen voted again him was simply because of the Mormon declared in favor of Utah and the Many reliable people who attended that meeting all stated the same that Meakin had been east on a mission defending Smoot against misrepresentations of his personal Brown states it was urged by those who voted against Meakin 's ordination that he a When did they find that It was only a short lime ago that Meakin preached in the Unitarian not an evening but a morning Brown says it was a position depending upon political Of course it every chaplain in the United States army is a political Brown ought to have known that before he encouraged Meakin for the With all of their Unitarian boast of liberalism the Congregationalists are much more liberal than the Thurston Brown-Kearns American They ordained John F. Axton so he could accept a political job as a reward from Tom even after Axton broke his pledges to support An Educational Brown tries to excuse the matter as church claim to be They impose no Jeth on any not even on their But they I tradition more j that which demands J an edu f Its ministers Jf called religious teachers teachers or ministers ligion they must be familiar i I the history and principles eral religion and with the t results of modern f for membership church no more carries J it qualification for the 1 minister or teacher than cation for membership in tion necessarily involves 1 for high or judicial 1 A New Trap I they have no f more admirable than that 4 V demands an educated says 1 coming two weeks J f Meakin wag turned dui f was the first intimation to 1 V or any one else f Meakin was not f what a r If that was f of Meakin 's bunch of qualified judges most of the thirteen that f against j One of the if I mayi f them who passed stated after the man be a good or a Christian who has among the and be a good Christian one an enemy of the Mormon M I Meakin not Whew don't M know that Meakin is a m preacher and know that he has read and is versed in and car readily quote from Hod the Bible and the Utah mm If that don't make a J liberal for a Unitarian what Brown to be a friend of Mr- and he also delights to Salt Lake W Brown was why did he not T his letter to the Tribune tt J ment of that sheet heB 1 in on Page MA Betrayal Cannot be Cov-r ered by a B from page 8 was in Rending out invitation to the ordination before he was voted was not that was it was the and other Ten mays before Meakin was to ife ordained a authorized fEy and bearing Thurston Brown's was sent to Senator Smoot Rating that Meakin was for a Unitarian minister and j Sat he would be ordained in ten Brown was the and if he had been friend of Meakin 's he have taken the blame of letting it stand against And in I wish to state that the turn-g down f Meakin by his Kother members was one of the pieces of ingratitude and backbiting ever be-Sore perpetrated on a brother by any civilized or It was a lifelong for Meakin at a pir a situation in which p the brainy men of this state said Meakin was qualified to It would not have injured the Unitarians in the smallest but on the contrary it would have been an honor to have their represented in the United States But they were so steeped with Kearns American bigotry and blind hatred that to get just a little revenge on Senator Smoot they stabbed a brother member in the and then hee-hawed as they gave the dagger a V. S. |