| Show RELIGION AND POLITICS tim THE public opponents of tho the poo roo pies ploys party are very disingenuous when they ara are not actually mendacious some of their accusations are utterly untrue others have enough of the elements of untruth to be misleading and alethe are the samela effect as though they were positive falsehoods among the latter iatter lat ter is the th e attempt to show a union between church and bbate in utah when the impossibility y of such auch a condit condition iod lod of affairs is pointed out and facts are adduced to prove beyond question that the ther cal and the political machinery in utah are entirely separate and distinct the ground is shifted and arguments are used to show that the cMor mormon moW church exercises influence in the politics of its members or that some leading elders have given advice to their followers on political movements they then purposely confuse two dif dil different ideas the influence of religion in politics they interpret as a 4 union of church bud and state now wow while we deny that tho church and state are made one in now wow while we that tho church and state are made one in do not dispute the fact that religion has bome some bearing upon its politics nor haft hafe men who ligure as religious teachers exercise an influence in the political political oli affairs of the territory rut ent but wo we claim that there is nothing in this antagonistic to american institutions ministers of religion nave have as much right to talk in public about politics as lawyers or doctor doctors or gene generans or civil officials but bat their influence to in that direction does not constitute a union of church and state bbate any more than than the political influence of physicians makes a union of politics and physic in utah methodist priests have t taken ken the lead in political meetings and they preach more on the sub jentof eject of local political affair affairs than mormon elders do but their action is endorsed by the howlers bowlers about church and state while white any thing said or done by a mormon preacher is denounced as a mingling of religion and politics now we af firm that it is tho the right and the duty of every american citizen to take on an active interest in the afro alro affairs ars irs of the country and cp carly in those of his own state or territory and and n public minister should be lie something more than a mere sentimentalist he should take part in the discussion of every measure affecting the public welfare and oo 00 long as he uses no undue means it is hib his to exercise leh hla bla insa enee in favor ot the best beat measures and the baat beat men according to the tho that la to in him and this as and the baat beat men according to the tho that la to in him and this as light much if helan he Is a mormon as if he were a methodist a catholic a jew or an infidel shenew the new york yole gierald has the following en this abject subject in a recent 1 issue SO 11 61 gilt it ia Is a healthful sign of tho the dimsa to eee sea the pulpit take up and discuss jn in a m manly aly earnest way the esl cal questions and issues of the day while great criman in tho the body politic are being committed the church chinch should not ba silent at another date the merald herald say says A reference to another nother page will athow how that what are arb called political 11 k sermons mons were vigorously ly preached in many of the churches 9 yesterday ay we welcome this thia as a healthful sign of ot the tho times religion foa ioa and politics h have ave often before gone hand in hand it is impossible to divorce them in this political canvass the annexed are from the providence E R L LJ star concerning the preaching of politic ica lea by several clergymen thib athis this valuable accession to the ranks of competent critics la is everywhere regarded as au a hopeful sign of good to come the teachings of christianity can as well be illustrated by contemporary politics 09 s by the statesmanship of moses when with the dignity the sedateness the candor and the au which it Is endowed the pulpit speaks on the daily topics of ghuman life and the stirring issues of national struggles a tru ggles it speaks with a weight and carries a conviction to its listeners that Is equalled equal led by no other agency in fact rightly used and especially when the great bueg question of human present interest the power of the pulpit has been second alone to the power of b the pre pres s and then second only because of necessity confined to a smaller circle evidences of tho the ne cognition and employment of this power are cheering in g indications of the growth of a br broad oad progressive liberality the clergyman cler geman who confines himself solely to the spiritual motives governing a mana life will fall to understand that life as a whole and his neglect et to attempt euch such an understanding is 13 an obvious failure of his duty the way it works is this it is all right with the democrats it if the preacher favors favora democracy all right with the he enunciates republican dogmas all rig right ht with the 96 Liberals Jf he fiercely attacks the mormons cormons Mor mons au all wrong if he bespeaks speaks in favor of the peoples peopled party that is the way with the anti antl mormons cormons but the mormon mony way is to accord perfect liberty to any ny preacher or layman to G support just euch such politics as he c chooses 1 BO so long as he does not lie and abuse a his opponents nor seek to injure them in eife liberty or the pursuit of happiness and even then the mormons cormons Mor mons do not propose to retaliate but only to hold him up to the contempt ol 01 the thoughtful and the despising of the just |
