Show THE MORMONS history has no parallel to the flie en ergy and perseverance of this p people eo they were nurtured and M made bade robust by the fillip of persecution so that when they left the banks of the missouri they were hardened to the work before them the journey of moses and the israelites ra even with its pillar of fire before them pales into insignificance compared with this let us accept dur our own revelation while we ridi ridicule cule euie that of the mormons cormons Mor mons then we see god on theslie the side of israel tormenting their persecutors with plague pestilence and famine opening seas and rivers for them that they might pass dry shod making water to gush from the rock rook laining mining down vegetable and animal food helping them when they were too lazy xo to help themselves and fighting their battles for thom them they all the tho time repining growling and apostatizing anu and after all accomplishing in forty years what they should have done in a month look now at these latter day saints not only at this comp company compans tny iny of pioneers but at each succeeding hot host ho t every morning and night t thanking the lord who had brought them thus far on their way did not ire he know their sincerity it must have sounded like irony in liis ills gars ears the id evil devil beare we re are told cis is its good to his own surely if these were his children he showed ills his kind kina kindness nesi strangely alil ah they were lygre no children of ills his but they were fulfilling a mission of the same almighty father hather who rules the universe and every creature therein who has a work for all to do the object of which we w shall better know by and by till that time comes we will ln never ver doubt that these martyrs of religious enthusiasm thusia sm in a cause that was as in some way acceptable to hm him ne the mormon country by john TOMI codman coofman |