| Show MENT EXPOUNDED whenever our alleged christian brethren meet in conference no matter whether presbyterian or methodist Ileth odist something g sensational may be looked for and their deep anxiety for the welfare of the tie heathen among whom their lot is cast becomes conspicuously apparent it usually takes the form of over anxiety by which the spiritual eyesight becomes so eo abnormal abnormally lv keen that shingi invisible to the nake I 1 eyo eye are seen and mattera undreamed of are disclosed so keen ha become this loving anxiety upon the part art of the methodists that it already amounts tu to hallucination and would doubtless havo have terminated in acute mania had their recent conference continued continue 1 for another day or t two it is truly sad to contemplate tin the wreck or of such gigantic intellects as those of dr wishard rev wildman an appropriate name murphy et al it is evident front from flin purport of their remarks that they have been dreaming dreams and scein seeing visions the rev wishard talked out loud when lie ha said that poly polygamy amy was being I 1 openly p practiced and further farther that it wig was being openly advocated ad vacated in the schools of cache c county bounty in this regard we venture to assert and defy the reverend gentleman to prove the contrary that he wis was talking through his hi hat bat in other words that he pre either deliberately or otherwise when he be made the statement I 1 lie ile made a statement concerning the sheriff of this county and his observance of the law the of the spirit in this in otance came from an unclean source having abma instigated by the unlawful doings of one who professed to tiie the presbyterian vause ause in utah butali and who whose case is pending in the courts iab 0 odds in favor if his conviction the resolutions passed say hay watchman what of the night is the eager question that is ever coming over the mountains from all parts of our beloved belov methodism as it looks with inter interested eyes toward utah anion the first of the he anthers ang ners I 1 the methodists of utah in conference assembled make the following 1 claim it cannot be denied and the fact ought no not to be 11 obscured that the confronting the christian ian workers in filati are such as to demand the highest type of faith and manhood min houd in endeavoring to arrive at a just e estimate tini ate of the work several things must be carefully I 1 considered in detailing the coulle 1 the cormons mormons Mor Morin mons onsbe he report further farther says 1 it baust be borne in mind that ohp th i s M I 1 or u people while never more in ned than now of exalted hyppa of christian ph hristian ristian manhood and correct I 1 inching caly concerning the vital tru brulls 3 0 of christianity lanit was never so PO diplomatic powerful a d that many of the results of effort put forth in this fielis fiel during the last fi e years has been unseen th that at the t with fiust t be carried on for the mr most i art among a foreign population aho vho hr tire lire from the beginning drej i icid against any other faith thai bat at which they hitherto ep apouse ouse hat bat State statehood hoof while it has in more firmly establishing lishin the th american idea in the minds of ta t e cithens citi ens of utah ulah and in plan tin securely the gullic school cyst in in this state has we must adin ad t embarrassed em barra sed rather than assist I 1 evangelical work jud judging ing methodism ethod ism by its works al ab what it i slid sad commentary is 13 I 1 there my c e it evidently becomes necessary in order to draw sheku i from i the pockets of fai the raith faithful n t the he east to represent the tha mo mon man people as wallowing in in the c of benighted ignorance ald aed from th the stand estand ard laid i own wn by the lV master aster where here are te ll 11 s pharisees Pharis ees if the iii irmon raaon people are actually aall y in ia uc tie il of exalted ty types pes of christian lanwood and correct teaching c c Incer interning ning the vital truths of C risti anity in which direction sh bh 11 they turn in order to obtain tb lh ma in judged jud ed by bv their utterances which chich are both un i charitable and untruthful no toward the methodist church IV ten len any member of the methodist ir r any other church state that tha I 1 I 1 in or any other ism i i being taught in the isam public bublic ua U ae so 1 ho I 0 9 G of f cache county lie he tells an un uth when he states or infers tha the practice of polygamy disapproved is approved or countenanced by the chur j lie ha lies when lie he states i th distinction is ii made ia choice of teachers in the public 1 school ithac any other test thin that of ability is required lie he lies or has hag bee been misinformed the unqualified opinion of tim ann JOURNAL 11 is that havin having the facts before it which directly jirec ly controvert the wild charges made the M E mission biasion 0 of f utah is more closely attached to sensationalism than truth rath and thit if it believed blood atonement and mountain Mea meadows doti s stories would answer its purpose better than the corn conadera nara lively mild misstatements mia statements now made we would be regaled with an abundance of hair raining stories if methodist is ia intended to be a of christian and is ia supposed to convey the idea of long suffering loving sympathy sym path charity kindness kind and all other othar virtues of the master allister where can a sample methodist odist be found it is evident from utterances utterance made during their love feasts feast I 1 that hat these thee qualities do not abide in ill the M E church of U utah tali it is no wonder that its ministers preach to vacant pews and its schiol 3 have but a limited Pt attendance N V thin of christian love can not conceal the hygia tycia L depths of the underlying pool of hatred |
