Show More Tribune Theological Rot Editor of the Utah Dear The organ of slander and sent out to the readers Sunday morning December its usual installment of theological is the subject of the profound It is well The chief of all the is the He waxes earnest in defense and praise of a Baptist minister who a debate with a mormon elder in Illinois was driven to such desperate evidently because of his limited supply of truth and that he brought a snake into the hall where the discussion took place and in good old Tribune fashion defied the elder to tako it We are told that the ludicrous performance of the snake trainer who posed as a preacher of the gospel which is based on the greatest of all miracles the resurrection of some consternation the Mormon as well as induced him to precipitate Now I have grave doubts about the elder's and his first because it is the editor of the Tribune who tells the and second because Mormon elders the beginning of the church havo had to meet the arguments of snakes s- and and I have yet to learn of one elder who has been put to by such formidable weapons of The readers of the morning prevaricator are told that by failing to pick up the serpent at the request of the snake alias preacher of the the elder a splendid opportunity to add a hundred or more converts to his Either the common rumor that the editor of the Tribune cannot remember anything that happened before or after the execution of John D. is or else the daily of theological buncomb never read the New Testament Two thousand years ago Christ healed the made the blind to unstopped the ears of the if and made the dead to live and hundred of who witnessed those miracles never joined the church understand that the editor of the Are we to Tribune i so bereft of intelligence that he believes that a jJ performed by a Mormon elder in the year 1910 2 produce greater effects than the marvelous things Christ did two thousand years Or must we conclude that the editor is not at just sneering and All I can get from the story quoted by the Tribune from the Illinois paper is that the Baptist Was acting the role of a circus instead of debate he tried to do a stunt that required two performers and requested the elder to assist him and the not wanting to make a clown of But even if as the Tribune says the elder did take this might be explained on the theory that he recalled the hard names Christ called those seek after a and decided that he was not in the best of says the a gay bit of deception that was practiced upon the but it proved his lack of and his true adherence to the Mormon leadership of preaching that which they never The failure of the elder to pick up the snake does not his lack of it only that he did not want to take part in a sideshow But the story does that the Baptist had no If he had faith he surely would not deny the promises of As to whether the Mormon elders what they on this subject it need only be said that they neither nor claim to be able to get divine to assist them to take up a snake at the request of a circus or a ribald scoffer like the editor of the who has not hope or Nephi |