| Show FREEDOM TO WORSHIP GOD under the he above heading the hart michigan journal of january ae 15 nas the tha following liberal and sensible leader which coming fram a non mormon source is reffe roffe refreshing ahing when contrasted with the usual bigoted bitter anu ana intolerant utterances te rances or of the press prem on the mormon question it Is not the purpose of this article to argue in favor of quakerism Dunkard ism spiritualism mormonism niam catholicism calvinism or any of the other religious ilma iama of the day only to say eay that while the tho acknowledgment of the right to worship goci oswen desire desiro is reluctantly wrung in theory from all denoel nat irons yet mah man is such a tyrannical animal that when it is po possible isible jor for ono one sec bec sect or combination of them hem to deny the right to others history shows that it has been done look at the long interminable religious wars ways of past agos ages fo for r incontrovertible ero tro prout proof of this and just ii ovall of that same bame old persecution beuma beema to ba be centered upon one poor helpless religious sect who in humbly follow flig the P liv ilves ea antl anil praet pruet practices ices of the tte old patriarchs pf af god so much exalted and glorified by all denoel national na nat tlona tiona are anathematized denounced aa as outlaws and criminals congressmen are trying to earn cheap adulation and glory in bursting forth in la violent philli pias plas against that despised mobbed and martyred marey marty red rod sect and almost everybody rises up in holy horror and cries why they are vile they com mif polygamy but hold on bigo try intolerance in ybur hasty popular deathly prejudice you forget that in branding them tham as US vile and criminal yda you pile up heta hota combs ot of crimes against those you canonize and have and do now exalt and worship next to god himself if it it is such a hideous and blackening crim solomon david and all of theold patriarchs and prop prophets liets of god if not slain sisin and their memo mamo ries rifca peri perl perished phed phad and cleansed from tho tha C earth rth fah ouid have havo been confined in prisons all of their lives and aud then than la in denh death their bodies should have been c embalmer embalmed ed and preserved in dungeons and chains until this day that ye ibb iba noar judged and remember that no infinite bod god si sanctions mellons commends mends s and approved approves a practice in oua ona one age he is angered at in tho next truth is stranger than fiction and man is a weak strange and imperfect interviewer of god hate aud and despise polygamy in far away uway utah as much as you please but butti buffi would world it not be botter better if it con gress would cleanse itsel of the taint tain tremon treason and with which each side charged charges the other before breaking wreaking wre aking imprisonments and dung aona dona upon a far away mray sect for believing in the th e fell feli religion glon gion of the wisest servant of god that evel ever ivied and of all hla hia in and saintly compeers com peers for in iu doing the i iatter latter jatter would it not strike at the right of religious conscience s lence and freedom and at the same time cast a reflection back upon and brand solomon and bilof ail all of the patriarchal hosts hosto as better tegid ro other and mori jorj important porta poria fit eit matters aud wait and see gee let none say that this ar article articie ticie advocate advocates polygamy at it acea no such euch thing think 61 viet veraa but it states history and ind laet Jact gund sund urges congress and others to tobe be unknot cowardly hurl huri their power upon and against a few thousand choup and aud frugal and industrious chinese and a powerless leebl who a few dew years yeara ago fled froin from the fury of mobs through a then trackless desert and wilderness to ton toa a resting place among the mou mountains stains nt ains I 1 |
