| Show it sa iwu OF wire fine FIEFTY T niah HIGH mr 0 A young tho the astronomer and alid observer tho the head of the tho astronomical department at Dart mouthy bab baa cohr botn munica ted to tho jho jho the boston I 1 journal of chemistry an aa interesting paper on ap tji explosion be sun which occurred aboul about noon an on the ath of Septem september bei last y i there appear appeared ed an enormous protuberance pdro altu of a ayd hydrogen tog on cloud on the eastern limbos the sun on the ath which remained until noon on the lith described as a illow low quiet looking cloud not very dense or brilliant nor in any way remarkable except for its ila size it was about miles long by miles high the observer was cal cai called away at 11 1230 30 30 and returning in about a half an hour found that there had been a grand disruption the whole thing had been blown blon to shreds by boma eoma inconceivable vai val the air nir seemed to refilled be filled with debris 11 a a mass of detached filaments rap rapidly idly ascend ascending ing when first noted after returning to the observation some of or them had reached a I 1 height of nearly one hundred thou sami saml miles mile continuing to rise with a motion almost marked markett by tho the eye until in two minu minutes tas the uppermost most were more than tham two hundred thousand miles milea friem the solar golar surface the laments filaments Il gradually faded as they rose and at only a fa few w filmy wisps with some borne brighter streamers lower dovid dovin remained to mark the place mr young noted near one end of tha the cloud a nebulous mass similar simi larto to our al cloud known as a thunderhead thunder head which represented a wonderful change it ZU became active and dey doy developed eloped into h a mass of bf rolling flame apparently crowded down at first towards the surface of the tho sun bun then shot up ay fifty thousand melesin height when its top was drawn out into long threads which were curiously rolled backwards and downwards like the vo lutes of an ionic da capital pital this faded away liko like the other etheri and at 2 30 had bad disappeared the whole phenomenon had the appearance of an i explosion beneath the extra extraordinary ordina r y prominence spending its force mainly in an art upward direction somewhat outward in all directions followed by an inrush as though a vacuum had been crested created CHRISTIAN 91 11 when by any aily perversion perve slon sion of odthe the fun mental da principles olour of our oun national go gern ment its machinery is used to persecute any person or pary who Is carrying out in life the religion of the bible or the koran the shaster or nature and when such tell glon d dieb dies jes jeb not nov work injury or trespass on the tho rights or pro perty of other parteg parties 1 it ft is the duty 0 of i every lover of his country and her religions li glus freedom to speak out against such oppression even oven though the vie tims bap ba christians and the government infidel and the defender of the tha accused infidel also viewing the case cage of t tho the he government and the mormons cormons in this light we protest against the malignant and vindictive course pursued bycer tain government officials who are temporarily por pora rily arlly clothed with a little blittle brief authority which they use tse in the cause of off bome some few sects of christians to abuse and persecute a we weaker weaken and penha perhaps ps more superstitious and ridiculous sect than thoss those more popular and hence more fortunate with the government Govern me nt officers but certainly not noi m more ore fundamentally mentally erroneous and n not nol ot more at variance with the bibie bible ei the pre tence of criminality in polygamy ia Is a direct chargo charge against the ahe bibie bible and its greatest characters as bli well weil ell as against the founders odthe of the C christian hristian religion and although we believe it is unnatural and wrong and that each and every woman should be fully and perfectly protected in all her personal rights lights aa as if a sho she he was unmarried ast yet sine no one can cam deny that polygamy is bible doctrine and our government tolerates gole fole yates fates bible christians we cannot eee see how it Itcan anbo cube be made religiously crimi cilmi nal or those who practice pr getice it be ba punished ed aa c criminals we anticipate one of two results from the recent persecutions in utah either a reversal of the deel deci decisions P and removal of the a officer or fir a political revolution that will wl I 1 put pub the party out of power that thit al allows w i s 1 such buch of a weak eak and hereto heretofore fon tolerated fedt living out jtb ata religion religion quietly in the great k ley of thie this rocky Bocky Mount mountains aim kniehl which I 1 they ey have made to blossum bloss blobs pm and bean bear eat fruit in abundance the whole of religious systems bast emi which ia Is eminently chilia christian I 1 an land laud and band founded on the i i i t if bible is to us only superstition and folly including polygamy which ia Is not more criminal than other parts af it but while our ohr infidel government governa ent tolerates perfectionists shakers bakera catholics and quakers to us absurd and wicked to perse persecute cuta mormons cormons Mor mons even though they have some sowe soine boine unpopular error which thoy they have taen from the same sim old bible that furnishes th the creeds for some bome half thousand sects we are opposed to poil poll polygamy opposed to mormonism ed all 0 all christian sects and opposed to ali ail all persecutions af pf tiny of them believing that truth troth is strong enough to grapple grapple with brior error if jt it be left loft free and that t at it needs no nd law with a petty patty tyrant aa as a judge to decide what A christian government should dp we have already a small fore foretaste of what our government would do dw if the bigots could put their god and cree dinto ofir constitution they would begin J as they have already by cutting dutting WT off the Weaker weaken sects by the tha power of the law and soon boon we have havo but one creed recognized bylaws pud all alf others othera dut but cawed and parts of t their belr belief and practice arising from it declared criminal and once more the rack and prison would be ailed with persecuted re ligi omista of courage when the sects continue to combine against the weaker there would boott bo be brit but two and then but one and that one roman catholic if numbers buti but fortunately foi fbi alt all liberal eid eld elements ments meAts are etring enough to tco hold hid lile the lines lined of this government abd beep these beets sects from fighting andave an and dVe we greatly mistake our country if it it does dog not a stop to this nial ignant ant persecution of the nor mor mons mong under a pretence predence pre pie tence tenee of prosecuting polygamy which iea lea a a part of gion glon to which cli ell they have a right so conff Ws they haye a right to draw their cleed cl eed oed from the bible bi b le if the teaches polygamy alx lx hang bang nd imprison rion the bible not the ignorant believers banne banner of |
