| Show IBERAL LIBERAL FINANCIAL TACTICS AMONG amona the minutes of the third district court proceedings on the loth uit was the following item people vs edard edward bird embezzlement continued continued thereby hangs a tale this case was set for last september the witnesses who had to come here from tooele thoele were on hand at the appointed time but the gase case was continued till february they returned without tabing taking t the pre precaution caution to get their certify cates of service from the clerk so they get no fees and have to pay their own traveling expenses this is hard upon them but nobody can bo be blamed but themselves for that they appeared again yesterday but the case was again continued and will not come up until april when they must take another trip to town perhaps to find the case further postponed we do not wish to find fault with this repeated continuance of the case T there ere ero may be reasons not known know nto to the public why its consideration should be postponed more afore important trials my may be bd at hand and the press of criminal business may render this continuance necessary but we are of the opinion that the people who hav have e to testify in this case will not suffer themselves to be worn out by their frequent journeys journeys our if it the attorneys do their thell duty as doubtless they will tha tho witnesses will we think be promptly at hand angwill and will persevere even unto the end A few explanations of this case will perhaps be interesting to our readers it is one connected with the management of ain air affairs airs in our sister county bounty under the admin adain administration of what was boastfully denoma bated the republic of tooele thoele by ross frauds at the polls the liberals managed to gain am possession of most of the county offices and held control of the county finances for sometime some bome time but by a determined struggle under wise leadership and by the aid of the courts the great majority of the people regained their rights and the people now once more regulate their own affairs through their own the TOS successors to the liberal regime found that their predecessors had been true to their thel r party name so far as making 0 it comfortable for themselves was wa s concerned and among other very liberal transactions actions was this A number of transitory herds had been brought upon the grazing grounds of the county and had been duly assessed by the county assessor oi or his deputy receipts for the amounts collected were also given in proper form to the sum of more than a thousand dollars but strange to say to those not familiar with liberal tactics and the ways of the regenerators of the mormons Mor mons sl none of 0 these amount or of the names of the herdsmen who paid them and obtained their recel receipts is appeared an the roll or the gecox records inmany in any form the county was min minus us the sum total this is only one of the many tricks of th the c cl liberal officers of the republic of tooele thoele during their term in which they ran the country deeply in debt and reduced the value of county scrip from par par to nearly nil fifteen cents on the h e dollar being asked for it in vain in this city on the collapse of the usurpation bothe eg rhe the receipts to which we llave have alluded were signed by edward edwarc bird as deputy assessor this gentleman was also co county anty treasurer and deputy county clerk hence this plo pio prosecution ution for embeA embezzlement lement where me the money went there is no sign who participated in the steal we do not at present pretend to say but the facts are clear that the money was paid by the herders gerders cash mind not scrip nor chips nor whetstones whet stones that receipts were given and signed by the defendant and that the funds did not go into the treasury neither does any account of them appear on the county books it is an ugly case and stands as one of the proofs of the excellent way in which certain so called liberals would manage affairs if they could only gain control of the finances of this territory THE WORLDS AND THEIR CREATION THE lectures delivered in m this gity cuy by professor proctor have done much good because they have agi abed the waters of thou thought 0 ht and stirred up the public mind tore to reflection flee u upon PO n sublime and important themes betit but it is remarkable how the same things affect different minds to the reverent and devotional the vastness va atness of the creations the infinitude of their number the orderly process of their development the harmony of their relative motions even the decay and death which are apparently their destiny are confirmatory of their faith in an all intelligent creator and demonstrate I 1 strate strato the necessity of othis his existence and controlling omnipotence while to tha skeptical and unbelieving the universe with its wonders and evolutions its stages and gradations its vast periods of growth and regular movement to culmination and retrogression as described and calculated by science calls for no regulating C governing mind but is the effect of laws jaws without a lawgiver and at the sometime same time lime its own great 1 first cause to the latter day saints everything which science can demonstrate and many things which science deduces from established facts and principles furnish additional monies to the truth of ideas which have been obtained by divine rp revelation the theory of the birth hirth and growth and death of worlds as described in the lectures and writings of advanced astronomers is in no sense opposed to the scriptures when ghen properly understood the calculation of the im immense mense perio perlo periods ds of time alleged to have passed away from the first stage of the worlds production to the next and to have intervened ter between one important change and another does not necessarily conflict with the revelations of religion although the former are not sufficiently denn definite nite to rely upon as settled truth geologists as well as astronomers differ among themselves to the extent of hundreds of millions of years as to the periods necessary to produce given chanat changes and there are mso iso many reasons to believe that the forces and energies whose action upon matter can now be determined by experiment operated with greatly accelerated power in the ages of a globes incipiency I 1 that the deductions of geological jime time counters are at the best but and unsatisfactory still whatever the periods may have been which passed from the time of the glowing to the vapo vaporous rolis rotis stage thence to the time when the dry land appeared and so on till the time when the globe was fitted for vegetable and animal life eiven even genesis with its brief and sen not state anything which conflicts with demonstrated scientific truth certain facts are ate declared but between the stages described until the days day sare are mentioned no periods are named an and they may map may have been as immense asthore as those claimed by the most daring in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth this goes back of everything that the astronomer mert meri can an fathom with the limited line of reason or discern by the cold eye of science he declares that in its first stage BO so far as is he can determine the globe was a glowing gaseous revolving body how it started he does not pretend to know revelation ancient and modern says that god began the worlds how the creative force which started the motion of the first germ of each in its own time was falth faith god chaos heard and worlds came into order by reason of the faith that was in him that faith is a spiritual force a movi moving n 9 creative energy it exists in man but is undeveloped it is an attribute of the almighty who possesses it in all its falness and potency can those who have reflected enough on the glorious harmony and reciprocity of the heavenly bodle bodies 4 really believe that this splendid order and correlation this perfect ad as to bulk distance and time this mutual dependence and benefit needful to establish the equilibrium and preserve the safety nay the very existence of these rolling spheres with their products and inhabitants are all the results of blind and unintelligent action without design and without a mo tive if so the so called skeptic is the most credulous of mortals he is far more believing that the devout worshipper wor shipper of the infinite and eternal god for the skeptic believes that order came of itself out of chaos that unthinking forces of immeasurable energy subdued themselves into mutual forbearance and interdependence pen dence and und that intelligence made itself out of unintelligent matter while the rational bel eiver denying nothing of or the processes by which the results of the universe have effected admitting the eternity of matter and the gradual growth growt hand and development of worlds and their products yet grasps in his faith falth and higher perceptive powers the fact of a self existent eternal intelligent controlling being whose organizing designing mind blind is evident in the wonders of boundless space and the immensity of the creations with their incomparable order majesty and glory when the vaporous stage came and darkness was upon the face of the deep clouds covering tho the once glowing 1 globe from the outside 9 gaze aze no wonder it was waa pronounced without form and void but when the spirit i r it of god which is the light and life ilfe 1 of all things moved upon the face of the waters form was cven given to the mass and light was evolved alved through the motion the gradations through which the earth passed as described in genesis are no doubt common to all worlds of the same order as our globe and the description corresponds with the deductions duct ions of the best scientists leaving out their calculations as to time but the days there spoken of are not to be considered as the earths diurnal revolutions it was celestial time that is referred to the lords days not mans according to modern revelation the sun and earth with other plan pian planets etsy are governed 6 by a higher world which in its turn is is governed by others still higher 1 and they by a vast orb which 1 is s nearest to the celestial where the eternal father is enthroned in glory this great governing planet takes one thousand of our years to make a diurnal revolution by this time were the periods regulated 11 called days in genesis 1 one day with the lord kord is as a thousand years the birth and growth of worlds proceed according to fixed and eternal principles they did not all spring into being at once neither did they come mine forth by the divine flat fiat out of nothing creation is is organization As man was formed out of dust and it Is said he was created 11 so worlds were formed out of pre preexistent existent beginning less matter and they are said to have been li created 11 all beings and worlds viewed in classes as to their temporal organization have their times and seasons of infantile fan tile adolescent and matured life and then proceed to decline and death in their order but there is something after death and more than death which science cannot determine which no human thought unaided by divine illumination can grasp which no telescope or microscope of earthly make can penetrate and which nu no mortal calculation cu lation can determine either as to its nature condition or continuance but the spirit of revelation which sear cheth all things yea the deep things of god can and does unfold these mysteries to those who can cah and will receive them as fast as they are able to rasp grasp and profit by them itis it is the life essence of all worlds it animates the smallest moving mite and vitalizes vita lizes the most minute plant it glistens in the scintillating sun and shines from the face of the eternal god and it will quicken and enlighten all who submit to the laws which prepare the soul for its action and lead them from truth to t ruth truth until they can grasp eternity and gaze upon the infinite manifestations of infinite power and comprehend even the majesty oil on high in the falness of H his 8 glory at another time we will return to this subject and lind say something can concerning the future of worlds their death being the stopping place of the astronomers chain of deductions as their glowing condition in their first appear appearance anceto to him hird is the beginning thereof IS MODERN christianity SPREADING 1 IT is often represented by the advocates of the various sectarian denominations that they are increasing wonderfully in number and the leading cl orthodox sects rejoice greatly over the spread of their societies but men who know whereof they speak tell quite guite a different story for instance revar rev kev dr cuyler declares to the very contrary in the new york independent and says the alarming feature in the present aspect of the evangelical churches is that the number of eccesso ries rles is eo so small smail whether wh ether by the gradual system or L by the periodic revival method last year the total increase in the number of communicants in the church north was only and when we consider that it includes individual congregations and shows that there was less than one addition to each church the statement is positively appalling some statistics equally startling were presented at t the congregational council these two denominations are probably no worse off than the baptists methodist etc if the bottom facts were carefully brought out the falling off coflin in church attendance over the land id Is undeniable all attempts to conceal or falsify are both cowardly and criminal the thing thin for our churches to dois to face them this terrible dearth will end tomorrow to morrow if gods people only do their duty rev bev dr harrison congressional chaplain states jn in the wedeman jve lVe devan deyan christian advocate that in the seven years from 1852 1852 1832 to 1879 in the middle states the increase has been 27 per cent less and in the border states 40 per cent less than the growth of iopu lation in the latter iatter states he says while the tile population increases increases per cent the methodist episcopal church increases only 6 percent per cent and taking the whole northern half of the united states there has been instead of a relative gain during this time a relative decrease of over 11 per cent in in church membership A fact which he thinks profoundly suggestive of waning influence but in the south Dr harrlson thinks ther them methodist church has done dolve better and has kept hept up with the darance of population and he gives some fl figures bures in in support ort of that view but beit rev dr fuller of the atlanta ga methodist advocate denies thi this sanu gand sand and says lof of the methodist episcopal church south it qt has ills not doubled the number of its communicants during the last thirty nive five years though the population of the country lias has multiplied nearly threefold three fold in iq that time further and more important the efforts effort sto to gain members since the war by the abolition of the one probationary system and by the ext extraordinary mor pressure brought to bear upon the multitudes to induce them to join the church has brought such sueh an irreligious element into the adm communion that damaging reaction is inevitable nev bev ray bay palmer D D in the new york independent asks what shall be done in view of the decline nth n the e churches statistics show the number of accessions ces during the or four years to be painfully small taking the whole country together there has been comparatively little fruit in the form of in gatherings to christ and few indications of positive christian earnestness and vig v it g orous spiritual life in answer to the question what shall be done he remarks that the results of special revival |
