| Show the mormon clurah and the women exponent the cormons mormons haye have a publication called tile tho edited by B wells and ru published senji monthly at salt I 1 lake city utah it is a well edited and a well educated paper outside of its A doc trine a it is unlike other ably managed publications but when it touches upon thatty that tc one outside 9 church ahe v con ments mems and expressions seem strange the issue of ali aug 1 87 w was as lar largely gely given give it over to editor editorials bals and articles on oil the death or 0 john taylor their dead president and the editor opened ile her editorials as follows once more the latter day saints are ane called upon to mourn the death of their leader the man who has held the keys of the kingdom of god upon th tho earth president john taylor departed this life at ai five minutes to eight on the evening 0 of bf monday july ath 1887 aged 78 years 3 8 months and 25 days the expression the man who has held the keys of the kingdom of god upon earth may strike a gentile as a little odd to sty say t the 11 least while it must bo be acknowledged that the dogma referred to in the clipping that is that president taylor held the keys of the kingdom of god on earth is a little remarkable not say startling c it is no more preposterous than sonic of the of the catholic church perhaps we might el say of some of the protestant churches as aa well the mormon church as a church should be subject 0 4 o the same saine laws and no others as any charsh in this country if polygamy is wrong and its practice a violation of the laws of the land then these who commit the criniti ra should be punished for that crime but the goes toa far when it undertakes to confiscate property belonging buloti ind to a church because that church countenances a doctrine contrary to the law if this is done with regard to the mormon church it should in jus tic be done with other religious bodies whose tenets are not in accordance cor dance with our oar laws muss pv |
