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Show LETTER FROM THE OLD DOMINION. Editor Leader:-The attempted assassination of the President of the United States is one of those things which the people of this land, where I at present sojourn, deeply deplore. His condition is earnestly and feelingly enquired about continually. The South can be likened unto our people, in so far as slander and misrepresentation are concerned. They have their share, we have ours. The true sentiments of the people are brought before the whole country upon this occasion. The ultimate result, if it should be death, will cast a deep gloom over the south. With Garfield as President, they hope to see justice and equal rights to all. His administration evidently has given them satisfaction thus far. Contumely and slander are weapons frequently used by politicians against each other. But I notice in reading resolutions passed at Ogden, that these tools and others of like nature are used by professed teachers of Christianity. If profession makes the religion I presume it is all right. Some things I am not willing, though young, to concede. I am led to believe, as the "New Light Moralist," that religion is gone, (in the world,) excitement, pleasure and money being substituted. The first in evinced in meetings where laughing, shouting, praying, crying and sinning are carried on, and where the feelings are wrought upon by descriptions of death bed scenes, etc. Greater light having come into the world, and the fact that "men love darkness rather than light," etc., will no doubt explain this condition of things. It seems that mankind are prone to overlook the evils that immediately concern themselves, and give their attention to supposed evils far away. Hence the Savior's rebuke-"Thou hypocrite, first cast out the ?? out of thine own eye: and then shalt thou see clearly to cast the mote out of thy Brother's eye." The same is good to-day. Slander and falsehood cannot conquer truth in the end. It is often the experience of the elders to find that, when they get individuals interested in the truth, the "blind leaders of the blind" will stuff them full of all sorts of slanderous outcries until they turn a deaf ear to the truth. I have been laboring without a companion for some time. Elder Jos. L. Townesend of Payson is with me now. We are endeavoring to spread the truth and hope by the aid of the Holy Spirit to reap a harvest by-and-bye. J. E. Carlisle, Jeffersonville, Tazewell Co., Va., Aug. 5th, 1881. |