| Show RELIGION AND POLITICS permit us to cite an all example e ca suppose S ose ono one of uis tile first presidency shou should t d deliver deliver a discourse at a sunday meeting i in n chich NN I 1 ich lie would lie led by tho spirit to speak of political matters arid and gnp suppose t alio llio I 1 J 0 0 ther oilier two NO the filst los presidency ee i dency were present and afterwards fully endorsed his liia remarks reni arks would mr thatcher still say that theological discourses ought to deal in theological alu matters solely a anil d ought to leave political matters alone anil and it if so eo is tile the spirit i of joa to lave have nu nii voice in the subject 1 li t find choice of its utterances nijon dijon Ni jon may 31 1892 when tho bation on gave utterance to the foregoing it disputed tile the cep separation of church and state and inasmuch as the first presidency have lave declared their sincerity in in this political division the above paragraph from the local republican organ is is a 1 ba bao bac c insinuation q ngai ainest ast the integrity of the church authorities and against the truth of their most public declarations the JOURNAL JOURN AL has before Jec declared lared that presidents woodruff fand and carlnon cannon did not sanction the iho political harangue 0 to which their associate councilor gave gare utterance one sun day dav during the last november conference and as president joseph F has not repeated the ortence we ire feel safe in repeating our declaration the hypothetical question embodied in the preceding 0 quotation from a nation editorial is in substance this suppose e republican speeches are made in the course of religious services with the endorsement dor of the authorities w would it be proper then to say that theological discourses should leave political matters alone yes a thousand times yes both political parties will answer that question yes under any arid and all circumstances political speeches spec clies should not be made during ca religious services nor will any other republican besides those connected with the nation so far forget the conditions upon which this political division took place as to insist that men may voice their political sentiments s fr from the pulpit if as the nation aaion intimates in the last cen sentence tence of the paragraph above quoted the spirit of god impelled mr smith to talk politics in cofer cice what ahat spirit was it that prompted the church presidency 4 to declare at the beginning athis movement that the church ind and N state should lie he entirely 1 and distinct the A action must bo be delirious when zane in issue it denounces the masses if f the people as being CV of feeble in intelligence and in tl the ie next it accuses 1 1 resident woodruff of double dealing it must lust n bo be amad mad indeed to lo do 10 such indis c criminate snap snapping pill |
