| Show THE TAE washington evening evenings star of the dinst contains a short farag parag paragraph rapi upon the belief of the latter litter day saints in which the writer a christian of the straightest sect we will warrant betrays great ignorance judging by the arrone er rone ous conclusions he arrives at he cites a quotation from a discourse by prest young and without giving the whole of his rema remarks r aks in connection with the subject referred to affirms that the presidents si belief in the scriptures is very limited and that from a similar belief on the part of the people here springs all their incestuous practices the writer in chestar the star staf may be a very smart man but smart men can be illogical illiberal and narrow as we shill shall show in this case his remark that because of a bisbe lief or an apparent disbelief for fon it amounts to no more in the case to which he refers in any single statement in the scriptures implies scepticism as to the whole of 0 them is certainly as illogical as anything well can be kli kii IB it p possible oisille to find a man in the who whole le of the christian hierarchy who believes every individual statement contained within the lids of the old and new testament we chok not they may bay kay they believe them but if actions eions s are any index of mena mena mens belief we ca can ean n prove beyond the possibility ot of dl dispute that there is scarcely one among the divines of the christian world who believes ail all contained in the scriptures yet because of this we would not be warranted in affirming that their belief therein is very limited we do not believe any such thing again our in affirming that because of this limited belief the mormon commits the most flagrant i violations of the moral law known n in the christian world manifests ignorance unbecoming a journalist and an amount of prejudice unbecoming a christian we beg leave to assure our that the maxmon mormon does not violate any of the laws of decency and morality but in every respect aims to square his lifa life and conduct by the law of god and so far as belief in the scriptures are concerned the 11 mon dior nion mor mons as a body believe more than any other body of professing prof essing easing believers in existence and they are not oni only theoretical believers but they show their faith by their works and that is the great difference between them and the members of df the various christian sects and rind the sole cause of the continued hitch between mormonism and the bogus christianity of the age when our again takes fakes up the quill to write on anything pertaining to the members of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints wo we trust that he will confine his remarks to matters upon which he is better posted and that he will manifest less intolerance bigotry and prejudice pr ej udice |
