| Show PRIESTLY intolerance AND ifa iff J A quiet quint england been thrown into considerable excite men tover the death laih of a widow who during her ber afe made profession of the of what is called mormonism newspaper correspondents have madel madei the case caso public and mid it has baa been bruited bruised bruit ed aboud about and commented upon by the press presa it appears that in I 1 n england it is viewed as lk u very chock ing ling thing for a corpse to be entombed without the burial service being mumbled over the abdy bya clergy man we cannot gather what effect noncom non com aliance with this custom is supposed to have upon we the spirit but from the importance that is attached to the thel ceremony should suppose that it would be something very terrible at least leaa we should imagine that the rector of the villa village e where this old lady died entertains sueh such u ch an idea he had heard that she wa s a mormon formon 11 it is not improbable that ho he had reason to know that bhe she wa wail wasl i for rot it is very cam mon men far forment nulen of tf his cloth to ferociously pounce pounee upon women and children who make madda a piare slon sion of mormonism and overwhelm them with their show of learning in their ht attempts tempts to td prove their doctrines land and it is very COM common commodo moni MODi too ido for them to get woefully discomfited in such encounters when the body of the widow gaspre was prepared for the grave he refused to perform the burial ser sek service bervice vice alleging as a that being a latter iatter day d ay saint she w was a not a Christ christian lahl credible and respectable witnesses who attended her in her last moments testified that she was truly penitent and a christian that she prayed most fervently to the almighty anid arid grounded her hopes of salvation on the atonement of the lord jesus christ this was all made known to the rector before the funeral took place with the hope that upon hearing these statements he be would alter his previous determination but to all entreaties he was wits inexorable so the poor old woman the english paper pathetically exclaims was to the great indignation of the inhabitants taken take A to the grave and buried with no more cey evY ceremony emony than would be observed in the mhd burial of a horse horbe or a dog dod 11 how shocking what a terrible penalty for oi a poor old woman to endure W far pro professing the principles of 11 and what immense satisfaction it must have afforded this pious manto have it t in his bis power to inflict on the corpse of the thet refractory re frac tory olef one he perhaps indulges in the dope bope that his refusal to read ihl burial service over the widow will have hive such an effect that there will not be another old woman in the kingdom dare to turn tura latter day saint for fear of having to be buried with no more ceremony than a horse horg ora dog if athis this woman had bad been a murderess this thia rector would doubtless have haire been ready enough to pray with and for her and to have accompanied her to the scaffold and aud assured berthat her ker that she was a christian arnd arid that they would meet 11 in heaven ac we see in another column of the paper in which we find ahe account of his case a murder case ease the murderer killed almost an entire family he is 19 a christian 1 however at least the clergymen say so and abd they ought to know of course what it takes to constitute a christian they ask the prayers of their congregations in n his behalf ardd arid their words are so consoling and their prayers so assuring that he be thinks he has got a through ticket to heaven and he is going when he is hung straight to the arms of the savior he is sure surp he says he hid will meet all his friends in heaven how much better is his case than that of the ai poor old mormon woman V he will wiil wl I 1 not be buried as a horse or a dog he will have the prayers of the parsons and on them be wafted wafred to glory can anything be more absurd armore or more li bellous upon the attributes of he the al mig nty lity if such men had their way heaven would be made madean an undesirable place lace for any decent man marl who had any asire desire for good society they would place the blackest gillians vil lians and the most cruel murderers near the throne of the lamb according to their views and practices murderers throng the courts of heaven who if they had not been murderers would ln in all probability have weltered welt ered ared through the endless ages of eternity in hell bell the viler tiler the sinner the greater his chance of exaltation and ani glory y with hsuch stew bird ar A liles illes t thing ing it esuo 8 to b betra betia ea in murderer what wonder that men are reckless about taking the lives of their fellow men when religious teachers assure them that they only need 0 io o repent recent and believe irr in jesus tobe forgiven of the blackest crimps armes such Oam damnable doctrines people jalis jails and offer premiums prem tuma luma to crime I 1 I 1 an upright moral man who has dait dalt dolf justly with his bis fellow man all his days kiy may sicken bleken aud arid die but bilt what notice is taken of him by the tho clergy at the most probably some preacher may turn up the whites of his eyes and say to the afflicted relatives that he ho hopes pea the tho dear departed has gone to a better world but let a murderer be caught one who has outraged everyal ever every yaw law of god and man and committed deeds of df heartless cruelty and how quickly he if visited and prayed with they do not merely hope hore that he hb will lil ill go to to glory they are certain of bf it andee and he and the public are assured that his soul will bd saved Is it any wonder that there is infidelity in the world or that men men have no faith in systems of religion and many have no faith in god when such buch are arel taught as his sis gospel I 1 i I 1 t if modern so o called christian preachers had bad a chance to pray with lucifer for a little while they would assure him of a r reentrance entrance re Cn trance to heaven and insist upon his right to be there according to their theory the surest way to get the reward of or the righteous is to be desper abely wicked how much they dafler differ from the lord is seen by reading rending atrue servant odthe of the lords words john johni the apostle Apost leye know that no murderer i hath eternal life abiding in him |
