Show ISOLATION 1 AlION NOT NOl l IH SIlUm EU t A correspondent of 01 tho the X New tW w York Yak Evening Post makes a 1 plea for i Russia anti and 1 out that If Ir that country Is III kept Isolated and prevented train flam ob oh lamming outlets to the tho and wI the Mediterranean Us Its peculiarities will continue but It If It Is III to ox x pull and coma cOllie In contact with civilian bait It will In thus bo ho and be like unto the he rest net of or the world In Illustration of or Ihla view 11 ho quotes a n 1 paragraph from the tin New II York Times In which th the r t alts lie he sup supposes up poses r f h he knows about Mormonism It will b be not noted J u I a tI finite popular subject nt at present rOl nl al AI almost most moil BI as popular as u the tho war ear Ir In tell Aria It so 10 there them li Is a fitness In III th the com comparison parison II between anti and 1 p rullar Th The idea of the New Neuv York limes li Is or nay any nn other lam Ism eon con connot not std and ant grow when once cites the normal civilization of the times lutes catches up ill UI to 10 It In III particular IllY lw i town grown and ami by IU its isolation When When It lay ore oft In the heart henrt of gr th tits the 11 U rent front merlAn Desert and had to o b ba tracked rocked to by stout slow and painful stages mages the peculiar people might remain r r ro 10 cullar culler Hut lint the opening of of oC the woe was the Uti beginning of at the end ehll Once brought Into Inlo relations with the 1111 general curlent of or American life tle Mar Mor monism mOil Ism was doomed The only quos ques thou teat left was of ot th Ih the rapidity of or Its UI ox ex extinction The paragraph may mA not b be particular particularly ly I strung trong an BY a 0 revealing the consequences of ot Isolation or expansion but It li certainly reveals the tho tact fact tl t that tuna 1 of or public Ion are ore entirely entire Ignorant even evell of oC the tho thoi i history hIe lory of oC not to say lIay of ot Its doctrines or that they lire arts utterly Indifferent as to 10 whether they tb elate otate facts or not when that re reo religion ligion It Involved Mormonism has lias never neer aimed at Iso Isolation eD lation and hoe hall never nOer suffered from Irom contact with civilization Tho The greatest efforts of the Latter Saints have b been en put forth to overcome the Isolation to which mobs mob thought they the could co ld doom thorn thom In the tho hope hOlle nn no doubt that destruction would overtake thorn them One Ono of ut tho rho first by b the tho Saints when they the had found n a O In thin the than thon was IS to 16 the wide gulf between them rued and civilization cl and to make lie Iso Isolation lation no II rib Inure more They Tho have labored for tor this title They Tho have taken their stand In the Itle front ranks of or educators educator and devotees of ar ari i and sciences They know noV that tho the worst on Du s of ot na us of ur nil all truth url are Ignorance prejudice bigot bigotry bigotry ry r and trios thou with such mental mid that I nt friends for Cor the Church ore ure always among tho the In tn und and classes The Tho opening of It tho the Pacific railroad an nil event of ot toy joy JO to In Utah and tU the tt Church members m mb The rho only forces hUB hag to fear are Ure those that the seeds Heeds of ur Mi 1411 und mind unrighteousness the mom mem members hors bers tho those o that hut are arc nt tit work In tho the dark Hut lint oven even these theeo will willbo willbo bo ho overcome Kor Jor or the Lords hand Is U IsCer over Ills Ilia people and ltd Its destiny Is as ns assured cured |