| Show MORMON j O PROSECUTION I 1 IN NORWAY ABORTIVE Court of Norway Says Mormon J Elders eAre Arc Not me e Guilty of Laws Law Infraction by ly Baptizing Converts Homing transition i tr from n T A t paper lP NV y TM dat r ell April a 18 t a slit wiit to ti II the thi Xi No v l now Denmark Il U lb t 1 lp p pah Mi ah jL 1 ee bt rr r r t to e I rl nn nil Important It II n ot Norway I In the thu theu e tr truse ill hI 1 lJ u tI t lader Iris use H ft two 01 V 1 y yI m s lor 1 I r n it 1 in it iv a I meeting The Jim Jimr he Sa Of r nr nn d the I Wile 1 nanU o 6 0 or 1 Tho Th U 1111 t 0 A II id d the u of ot tho loxer tour court fr u II ui s r Following In 14 tha tho i ud rI I to the ra rase ciS at t tho fl to Mormon I m l In thu Mi ri i i t I i loo 11 decision a 11 I hi h I ir r ou t l Itt et pit hy by which tho the r C Cud ac c cIT IT eW ot AH AM the 11 i xi Ie ud COV lil in r M tull till 10 pages WI must mustI I f rte s err all r after mUll citations i teethe lile fa taw W til the M decision Ii de ISion Ilou roads rends I as 1111 tot fol folI I Ira Uy Apps atlon allon or of this Ihl pF passage nie In the a j u m made e In u II decision of ot tin II i ourt 0 4 1853 by 11 whIch ref Clem m ra nf nt tho the sc sort called Latter Iatter ii 11 M who not M u J unions Imong the dissenters lu 11 tho r I lux II then lu In luI I r re tried for tor unlawful exercise o od fore d religion f tho baptizing Vron and aT also decision of or ori J Si pa I deck dc 1 m out confer conr r o a 11 i tut of April 13 ISM 1654 this l ti ri c S It decided that hint tho the J 11 us 15 cannot lie he b considered as nil and they ther 1 L forc If Ir they Itley on account of or orr ofte t Li of Norway have H a 1 right te r I toll to n lire IDs and reside In this country und and andIs I Is II i private to tu exercise their religion have havo no right to lo It t irr ll l n In public Mullis The Tho court holds hold I nit 1111 the accused In III this clIM taunt must be he 11 1 as us having i 1 their rc re rcA r A cu i publicly and Ana to do so they thc re 10 rl hl according to law MS nit to They Th are however not noi at leant riot directly of having h 1111 IM f that law la They mire arc ace accused m t ml h pint part III lay Which hl h i t ii to punish him who performs Inv any art which only ran can bo be performed with Ith r fro fen ore nee to n a office which does not nor hold hol 1 It dues does not appear Moat t t the cat can hi bit h pun punIt It Ltd 1 h eI Ui tp With this para pain rolph fir fsr 11 that baptism or 01 that mi Ad miff nt ff of or the tho Sacrament which t they nTH lr hl hare performed Inasmuch an nit the thet til th J t to which they th 1 Is not lIot COM colt COMBS md BS ilK bailiff Christian It H Is h the time I baptism and the tha Ih which III h Is placed upon tho the tF as 1111 dissenter lenders leaders to dorm and which supposedly Is gen Ren n T I rall drilled denied others to lo o 1 0 Church hurth 2 7 T 1653 16 ell ear That u IL t religious sect which Is III nut not colt II M uch such H In III tin exercises of ot lh their lr which h more mON or 01 lens lees resemble re thu the Silver cannot make that sort n II Chris Christian tian church neither can call It ihu t ceremonies Christian ChristianI II I While there ther Is le no 11 or III mock k kInle InK ing of M th the Christian taint there thero tall run supposedly be bb b nothing to tu hinder a u non lion Christian sect acct from u using by 11 pouring It upon or In III Into Into to designate the tho th persona per Initiation Into Inte Int such flitch sect met From Frum such ouch an nn net art however will no of ot the tho Christian faith claim Anita that th the parson pArton no so baptized has hah hasIn hahin In filet fact through such mich become a n of ot time Christian church nut Hut It IN rat fit the same mitno instance admitted that It If was wan not a I baptism that wan and an as It In is only this thin ono one which itch nono nano other tins the Ch priest can edminister and the tho same lImo nil ruin rulo a holds good aoud ft its I to ml ad the tha It fo tol lows lown that the tho ll have not lIol per performed performed formed torm d any tiny act connected with any 1111 public om e which lu he h does IONI not hold Inasmuch as they have only performed nn an act which In tho the P t yc es of at tho the Chrle than linn Is ely without effect and could Just suet nn oe well be bo per performed performed formed by any other person whomsoeVer eVer II Presumably l thin thus rule rille will apply the same Men even It if the members of ot the tha non Christian sect in question them elve hold that th they Ihy y belong to the tho Christian church ChUICh If U It In Is but held Unit that this ex excluded eludes 8 them from fellowship with Chris tiaras II The will therefore have luve h le t p li ho be not guilty The Th court la ru le fully tully that this verdict will In inthe tho the minds minch of oC many appear very ver unfortunate nail that It to my say Sl the tho least looks very Ct that at lit the sumo MillO time tho the Christian thul dissenter who baji hap a n person who inns has not reported himself for Nr withdrawal viii trout from the tho t sect to tu which ho belonged will be he III lo Io tf tr punishment but the non nan Christian Moi tor moil lIon who does the th namo samie thing will wilt BO ho o tIt free Hut But mere hero It should bo bl remembered that In the flirt t Instance Is met with an nn between tho the state church charch and amid those dissenter sects which by the time state are ur acknowledged as al Chris Christians thins ions where whore the tho lato alato with frith threats ol rat hn tins find lill to draw n a limit while In the th Utter latter Instance In It to 10 acts which the time state stale from Its 1111 posh position Lion tion does 1109 not look leek upon ulloa an its boing of ot con cun to the thu Christian church mild that the that may cony appear in III the till law la W If It such h you please pl to cull It t cannot be hE remedied r except by lIy making a 1 new n II w law 0 The Tha court coull rules ruleD that time the accused Are II r not guilty Time The judgment was unanimous |
