| Show editorials A SINGULAR DO OU for what it Is WE give the following worth and that value we do not pretend to p determine it ia is an extract received by dr usha osha from a letter lord primate of ireland it ia Is dated march 1 1639 and came from a learned clergyman of the church ol 01 E for a acordi 1 CI I was lately looking and lighted upon a strange passage the that in the reign of a jew jow a emperor man mau jerusalem goldsmith of S much great one who with in authority was fava whom a al a and christian lived a wery very rich l in was amular familiar the goldsmith in private he that discourse told him one day thata dently jo birr our savior and our va kors korb v orb ors prophecies 3 accod Js 0 that it did ti yot kot lot at stand with his becu 1 rity and continuance in authority t toi toj turn christian but had a long ti time in a good opinion of that religion an and d he would wo wid uld discover a secret to him which was not come to the know ledge edge of any christian it w was wai that when the temple was founded in jerusalem there were twenty J two priests according to th the number of the hebrew lette iette letters rs to of in the tho temple and when an any y was chosen his name with his lather and mothers we reused to be registered in a fair book in t the time of christ a priest died and ryn rin onel was chosen in hla hia place but w when hen his name was to be entered his father joseph being dead his mothe mother was sent for who bein being 9 asked who wh was his father F she he answered th that t she never knew a man but tha that tah tab she was conceived by an angel so his hilj name was registered in these words jesua christ the son of god audom and the virgin mary this record ati at the destruction of t the he temple wa preserved an and d Is to be seen in tibe ube J rius to this tg day y THE tile SPIRIT OF laur laUE MURDER der DEB TIM THE shooting shoon na at guiteau and the th e threat threats 9 of lynching lyn ehing ching which h have many times been uttered with the organization of clubs to avenge the attack on the presides t are plain indications of the spirit of lawlessness law S and revenge that burns bums in the hearts heart of many people it is no more mo re justifiable than the ded deed of the CO cowardly W Gul gui guiteau the tho aas of summary vengeance to 1 inflicted upon the assassin ani ani c torture or a aj peculiar lin linger gertr ir eath yath which ha harej been serles series suggested even by ad journalists are a conceived in III as low JOW and brutal a manner as the crime w which aich is bought sought to be expiated P this spirit 0 ot lawlessness and re tenge should be b y ever lover of his country L law aw should be maintained and anil i M meth eth oos be end doie ipie un should id not enter into we punishment of criminals no matter how vile their thel acts the extreme penalty is n not inflicted by way of retaliation or in a vindictive desire to kill but as a just juat retribution and in the interest st ol 01 the public alic protection all tru tit those ose who seriously contemplate a personal assault upon guiteau outside of the means id bv liw assassin 51 than he e had i to shoot garfield jar field and those who by tongue or pen encourage the re vengeful and boboc ratio ratie io sentiment I 1 that exists in the country are lends ing themselves veA ta to an evil not restrained will one day fill f ill ili the land with violence and destruction I 1 let those who break the law be judged and punished by the law 5 whatsoever W is 14 more or less JOBS than I 1 thesis this is wrong and baneful and I 1 is unworthy of ot any people who profess to be bo civilized THE land LAHD BILL I 1 9 mor bior of our readers will vill doubtless ess remember the telegram concerning the recent conflict in tile the parliament during the pas sage rage ci tri the land luand bill Telegrams Pele granni 5 have I 1 ave 11 I 1 I 1 te e ad advantage vantage of rapid trans mission 1 but do not always give a clear an l explicit account of deta iIsE ilse in regard rega e t to T his be the ca case e may it I 1 is aver a very im ioa the bill in question the thee most os it t berha perhaps ps measure of in its scope and e effects is 0 important that has passed into int 0 ani british bill 5 any century the present law during a its provisions I 1 it is not confined in is con ireland it i to the domain of that in passing hand eded coded on ever every y bellel the this law for ireland the aristocratic gelement je of element lement of england makes no heredi mean moan of old established of the claims for fon f or the benefit jeary tary masses and althous although gil the principal of the bill are inte intended yet is ireland or will as that tiley they the fact ino ing ng extend ovel ovet ov ei and effectively in england scot rights land proprietary sand and wales Wale sand and consequently IL th tiie tile mere were ia Is great probability shak of a considerable near future 1 efthos of those the titles ingup ing 1 up aa among ong droud boast boas old aristocrats whose over ove it is thab that ancestors came auth with u william the i mount to pre pro present ent legislative e ment the british land Jand landlord lord can n no longer declare that wis bia house ia is hla h castle and that he can dp demand mand what wha rent he pleases for this thia law compels him to leasa at a reasonable rate and further pr provides 0 vides a govern government ment officer to decide what is reasonable hence the bitter opposition to th thee passage of the bill during which scenes of violence were enacted that were a disgrace to england JEn glaud telf legislature slature the passage of the land bill ia Is a great concession to the popular will willi and a most bitter pill for the titled and landed aristocracy of great britain but it was swallowed and one ont of the derangements derange ments of the body Is politic removed and another of the chains of bondage Is brok broken en the world moves THE wore IN GEORGIA THE rhe following letter to president joh soh john u T taylor ay lor written by his son john W a young C man who ia is now an n a miss mission ion lon to the southern states will prove very interesting to all who are batchin wat chin the progress 0 of the tho work of god goa in the south and the efforts of the adversary to impede it FELTO haralson county ga 4 sept september ember omber 3rd ard 1881 dear facher father since my last lette leite letteri to you J 1 have been very actively engaged in the minis ministry t cyp and generally had good health you have doubtless been informed in regard to the 0 outrageous u tra geons attempt upon pow pon the ife ioe 1 fe of or E elders eiders iders Morgan Bean and nd houston in st clair county state of alabama the last news from elders in other parts of qt alabama is to the effect act that the spirit of doboe raey racy is becoming general in the various elds oi 01 labor in that state and by threats which are received by the elders a r repetition of mhd foregoing would not be be surprising at any time times judging from the shape things are asiLum assuming ing as the prece precedent dent established by the au thorit les ties of the state in letting e the th perpetrators of the foregoing outrage run ran at large unchecked and unpunished is virtually a sovereign license to all such as may hereafter feel reel inclined to take tile the law int their own hands the georgia legislature have hav ejust jugl passed a law imposing a fino fine of 0 f two to four years imprisonment upon any person abri nufi tr dr audin u Poly polygamy lett div or bigamy or any one endeavoring to decoy emigrant emigran from this StateS state liall shall be nin fin fined ed sult snit amt auit not men tinned and imprisoned ned same as above the bill is so worded aa asi to MIS mislead ead the masses of the peo people ph the me morial to the legisla legislature ture gives as a reason for the great importance of their immediate favorable action that mormonism is based upon polygamy etc and the cunn cunning ing tamers framer of the petition n have so ingeniously ly arranged tt the I 1 e bill hill that th the public generally understand oot for rather infer that the law is against the preaching of mormonism while it is nothing more or I 1 les ies esk est ithan than a law against pol poi polygamy agamy big bic amy stay and emigration the press is not slow siow to decoy the public mind away from the true meaning of the law the gentle clergymen are now holding protracted meetings and the above law isreal is to their ansu unsuspecting specking spec spee ting flocks flock and it almost resolves itself i n to ce whosoever kelleth you will thi think thinh that be god service 3 the whole people are oil on the qui vive on owing n tc to mormon question the damnable heresies her estes esies from the the and press and the old cry ie Is taken pulpit up away with himl him away with h him im I 1 II 11 I 1 is 18 the credulity of the ignorant and the insidious by worked upon such buch ilch lich a degree priests to si adulterous dult duit erous for eider elders that it is hardly prudent back woods this through country to travel holding holdine meetings until the th breeze is over mobs blobs have organized in several adjoining settlements in this vicinity ty and would carry carryout carr out for the significance were it not their plans far thus ni ance of the promise ae thou go anu anti nik hj president of t the e scott walter ier and narrowly a conference georgia escaped the infamous ous pr week last life his lAt tempt attempt upon and I 1 led in J packer rf E eider elder ider lder wm win several to the waters the whole of ba baptism household household to cism of a lasa iasa laya ago anti and influential gentleman wealthy zere sere there were 11 10 in his hia family all i nn un two j of the jailor and his household loi jol i we needed his hia name fame influence and everything else that thai he could afford us to kee keep P I 1 I 1 think the most salu tary effect upon the regulators i was their knowledge that the broth ess esa er saive nive five sons were good marksmen i not that they would use them theli thell theli I 1 guns uns by any means but a chicken hawk will not steal a chicken I 1 is 13 ro upon a shotgun having been beehn much blessed of th lord dord in my labors I 1 remain will gratitude your affectionate son JOHN WT W AYLOTt ADVANCED IDEAS AN exchange say says a that henry ward beecher takes the most advanced position on all reh roh religious grous matters mattero 1 and quotes the following from a lecture by the noted preacher on the subject of atan an everlasting hell heil it be said that the he popular notion of hell now is gross barbaric and kand devilish I 1 believe there is a period of penalty that follows transgression gres sion slon in this life but it is 4 mental it is 18 moral it is in the other life ilfe and aud under clearer circumstances a remorse a self belo condemnation A As a man mau who has squandered ilis lila estate e G tate and nd is brought to poverty and then begins to think what he might have had eo I 1 can understand how a mans mind may torture him with constant reminders of what he h ha Q lost strange enough this advanced position was taken by the disciples of mormonism fifty years ago and the brooklyn preacher in proclaiming it to the world is merely lowing following fol rol in the wake of tho thousands hsands of the humble advocates of t his this despised 1 and unpopular religion TI the he book of mormon pages 79 89 says bays now this Is the state of the souls of the wicked yea yes in darkness and nd a state of awful fearful look looking iniz for the fiery indignation of the wrath of god upon them 1 I wherefore we shall have a perfect knowledge of all our guilt and our lin and our naked I 1 11 ness and their torment is as a ake lake 0 of it fire re and brimstone and if they be evil they are con signed to a awful view of their thein own guilt and abomination abominations ir or 01 me we terms endless pun punishment i ashment and cr eternal punishment ashment ish ment ts which have been used by preachers to terrify y the souls of the timid the book of doctrine and co COY p gives the follows following ng behold I 1 am endless an and d th the e punishment which is given from fro m my hand is endless punishment for fol endless is my name wherefore eternal punishment 19 is 19 gods godys punish 1 ment endless punishment is G gods od a punishment this was given in march 1830 01 nd and opened the eyes of the saints saint t to perm pero eive elve that while the eternal ete anal judge has bas provisions pro visions for punish punishment ment which are as eternal as himself the transgressor receives of that punishment so much arjust as justice C e shall determine det Irmine sc according to his wor works a on page it is declared con concern r ing the sons of perdition s who commit the unpardonable sin these are the only orly on y ones who shall not be redeemed in the due time of the lord after th the e Su suffering sufferings frering 8 0 of f his wrath for all the rest shall 1 be brought forth by the resurrect resurrection lou iou of the dead through the glory and who triumph of the lamb lambi glorifies the father and eaves saves all of ochia his the works the son ion Q son eon who deny of perdition sons sona nor noe the tha has revealed him literal pit of offa the doctrine of a fire nire into which most 0 off gaming flaming be cast to tom toa were to 1 god cloiva Is creatures without rei bunner suffer eternal torments spite and without release through preach 4 ceaseless ages was generally modern ed led by the advocates of of when the bool book christianity I 1 it asi asp mormon aw wan was is first published does doea not a part of true christianity 1 and was not hot beono belong beona to the 9 gospel 0 1 sJ not taught it by the early Apostle oj ors addled bra brains it originated in the ng eccles llata slata lasts jn BP apostate state romel 3 I 1 tile creed creeds of al all ail jtb the e sects lins lbs IBS tinged the from which have sprung out cut y IN lother mother of abominations con ibon J ideas advanced most the cc of dealings and the purposes arning of the children le the almighty with of late lato year years shavo havo have pre pro U lota luta ac creeds of the sects with the exception of those gross errors I 1 into nto which whis some 0 of f them have fallen in their anxiety to figure as liberals RL JEL religion and which are contrary to ancient clen t as well as modern revelation were set forth in great plainness by the prophet joseph jospph smith b have been preached I 1 far and wide bythe by the el elders eiders de rs of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints r nd we have reason to believe have bee cc copie cople k and adopted b by y popular preachers who get got credit for them as origin ul and id danced ideas so solon long iong g as they teach ruth inath an advocate common sen ecla e it is all right antl and the I 1 be world will be the better for it we no objection but we take pleasure in noting the made upon religious thought and the modification of the old notions of orthodoxy orthodox effected r ted by th the ministrations of th the servants ervall ts of j god od while their names nam arat aret are koutas as evil and their cree creed d is ba held d u up to ridicule and gen general eral an animadversion i mad version version REPLY TO A LIFE MEMBER WE published publish ed last evening acom a communication muni cation from cra gra A life lire member of y th the thu JO 1 A and M society So clety 21 complaining pla ining that the greatest premiums at the coming fair were offered that which is not so much forth for nor benefit of industry as for the gratification of the seti seizes ses aes the cause 0 of this complaint seems to be the prizes altered for flowers viz three silver mi in dais dals and two diplo diplomas as 3 ja while lefor lenor nor for the sli all silk blik k 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