| Show ous toleration IN PAISLEY those of your readers who i in the habit of ra a the progress of religious n in this free country of a ay y feel interested to know ertain firm here have taken if f the spiritual tuii tuil well being of servants cr two employees 70 a the misfortune to be ba mor 4 vere the other day inqui 3 concerning their religious es they were first asked were cormons mormons Mor mons and on an in the affirmative they creppon given their choice 0 o renounce their faith or aela ir situations being nien men i C cuned this form or of th tha a oath gation and were at once 4 or han hau hanged 9 ed but mercifully Is this mr editor one of t tattle olt cit 1 aatlo tricks which some bome I 1 dressed dres dressed dree sed in a little brief nut sut aul J occasionally play before t ivena aven and nd at which angels aw ves tes an and eans weep lra irs wais N seeing see feeding feeing ing a letter on the above in your yesterday d Is rue aue and being so far concerned as aa to be one of the men who were mercifully paid off I 1 have a desire to let the facts be made known for myself on friday the ad dinst I 1 was seat sent for by the manager who wanted me on a very serious matter and having got to his office he informed me that he had received from the firm a letter which aich he be would read to me and which I 1 should well consider before making any reply I 1 was not to be in any hurry to decide what I 1 should say pay as the firm was satisfied with the manner in which I 1 filled my situation etc the letter contained the following business information 1611 having avii ag casually beard that one of the foremen belongs to the mormon persus persua persuasion slon 1 and that he has been successful in leading another man in the esme bame direction if that be true dismiss that man at once understanding I 1 was the man who was successfully frilly leading ap my answer wa wab 1 I intend to remain as I 1 am the letter you yon shall observe did not say pay both men were to be dismissed but I 1 was wab eoon made aware that my time in the employment had expired as my line for uplifting wages was lying written waiting ray decision waiting to hear herx whether I 1 would nt serve the firm on the seventh day as well ao aa the others what a question for men of business and in a land of boasted religious liberty no woud erthe poet sang my native land fa farewell rewel mr editor pardon me for taking up so much oi of your valuable paper but it may not be amiss for me to say that mornion mormon is not the name of our church the the name is IQ the bithe church of jesus christ of litter day saints 11 and it is so named because his doctrines are taught and not the doctrines of man but the world will not lister listen and therefore cannot know this because it is not popular they will not come and hear therefore knowing this I 1 las lag aa an humble seri servant rant pant do heartily pity those who have done this thing because they knew know not what they did but the chapter of matthew ath verse shall I 1 hope be read by them with much profit I 1 am ac night LIGHT and AIND bir bin having read the letters in your useful journal on the above subject by Walin euck and one of the men who have minds ot of their own owa and who seem beem to have no wish to be led by the nose by others I 1 write to give thoss those two men my for having the courage of their opinion opinions my own opinion Is that when a man acts in a way which he honestly thinks Is right whether as to his religion or any oher omer ohen thing he ought to be admired by hh hit fellowmen fellowman fei fel lowman and will be admired for his honesty I 1 hope they will soon eoon ond nind other and better situations and with some arm firm who give their employees liberty 0 of thought and who do not rule their little Ji empire with the hand of a despot I 1 would like to know if this firm la Is in the habit of putting a religious test to the men they emboy if not end und as I 1 have a little ambition to better myself while here I 1 might find myself unknowingly in their hande and if I 1 did not go to the same esme kirk alkirk get dashed against the same bame rock if they do not give this test then I 1 think it should be known not tor for curios curiosity itys sake but for the sake of those who might get employment with them and did not attend the sarce I 1 am etc ONE WHO WANTS TO BIB sib perhaps a few lines from me on this subject might not bebout be out of place I 1 see aee that light and Li liberty bertys has haa led the way ways and I 1 beg liberty to testify to the truth of his hla statements so BO far as I 1 am concerned 1 I like him was sent for to the managers manager office and had read to tome me the letter to which light alight and liberty refers on being asked by the manager if the thee statements tate ments in thib this letter from the tha firm was cor I 1 replied in the affirmative and the manager then bad lid such being the cas case ze I 1 have no alternative but to dismiss you yon I 1 was dismissed accordingly and since then have often wondered why some of the parties artles arties so closely concerned in my noy dismissal ils Nis dismissal missal are so zealous for the fus kus us cenance and instruction of bible classes when they are so eager to dismiss men for really believing ss ty 11 and trying to carry out cut in their lives the sacred instructions of of that holy book it surely cannot be wondered at if I 1 come to the conclusion that parties teaching and ano anc upholding I 1 bible classes chases and acting EO obviously contrary to its divine teaching can have any other object in view than that of 91 twisting 31 19 wresting and screwing it to suit their own convenience and in so eo don do ng seek to make mate men believe that they are what they really are not namely christians I 1 am a christian sir that is I 1 have made a covenant by the tho waters of baptism see romana romans vj vi 36 36 26 to follow christ through good and end bad report and although as in the present case un bel bei believers levers ievers cause me to follow him more closely than is sometimes comfortable for table to the flesh yet set I 1 glory in his name and earnestly solicit his hi 8 spirit to enable me to bear faithfully any amount of persecution for his names sake and for the sake of his glorious gospel as it is revealed in the tho old and new testaments I 1 say this sir air not because I 1 have any desire to suffer buffer persecution oh no I 1 would far rather be without it but it Is a fact well known to all true servant servants of god in every age of the world that persecution in various forms forma must of necessity lowthe fol foi righteous longas so lan ian gas Mam mammon monand and his workers coworkers co sway away the sceptre of authority on earth that the time of their reign has been specified and agreed upon la Is also plain from the conversation between my master and devils among the tombs tomba lin in gin the country of the Gerge senes see matthew vill viii 29 but that mammon and his friends will ultimately y bo be put pat out of power is also plain rev axi 3 4 ao also dan v vii if 27 these things give me comfort and desce peace and enable me to endure affliction for the present without giving way knowing this that taateo so sure bure admy as my masters promise of 1 persecution ir se for ton his sake has hrs already followed me do ao sure shall his promise of peace and victory meet me in the future if I 1 gl endure to the end at the present time the words of daniel xii 10 are being fulfilled and I 1 can well amford afford to wait the issue towards theoze those through 0 whom I 1 have suffered I 1 have no hard fe slings my most severe wish in relation to them la is that they may I 1 soon be made to see bee the error of their way as one said bald lately who perhaps may have had i some little hand in my dismissal and be brought to repent of their thought thoughtless less leab course of conduct and latterly be saved with an everlasting salvation in the kingdom of my god josma joseeh JOSEPH 4 thomas street paisley feb 1883 paisley daily Ex express feb 15 1883 |
