| Show SOME QUEER objections THE bishop of gibraltar writes to the london times a strange letter about monte C carlo cario a r 0 th the e gre great a t g gambling a m place there was a scheme on foot for the erection of an english church at this headquarters 0 of f bad morals the bishop says bays that the place contains the very soum SCUM of nil nii europe and that its morals are so bad that there is no use of trying to plant a church there therefore he declines to give his sanction to the proposed enterprise it is bug eug rested ested that in this the bit hop takes hakea curious carlous ground it Is ia generally held by promulgators of the thu gospel that the woree worse a community la is the greater is the reason for planting a church there but the dignitary of gibraltar is not more inconsistent than borne home of the religious leaders jn in this country we notice an article in the new york independent about mormon missionary work in which one of the complaints urged is that our elders go among tha eha most ignorant people in the south ern em sl slates beates lates that they make converts among the buor and degraded of europe and that the people seen in the mormon taber tabei tabernacle nacle nacie at conference reborn we into low plebeian elan eian estate and have lived at the bottom of the social scale s these aro nrc singular remarks coming from persons parsons professing to be follow ers of the nazarene Nazar ene cne did he come from the mop top of the social scale did ho he select men of aristocratic estate for his disciples Is it not noi written that the common people heard beard hun him gladly and the apos atlea declared that it was the weak things of the earth whom god had called gito cito to confound the mighty we acknowledge that the masses of the mon Mor mormon mons people are of plebeian origin that they aro nrc of the industrial of the old world or the new now that they aie are sons and daughters of toil that the kid gloved nd daintily raised dudes and dude lets of society are fire not likely to take very kindly to an ular ulan faith and to heo remain to ornament the churches of modern apostate christendom and that now as of old not many mighty not many learned after this world hath god called to his great work on earth and yet it is a marvellous marcellous marv ellous work and a wonder 21 2 1 the wisdom of the wise when directed against it s If perishes and before it the understanding der standing of the prudent is hid it accomplishes grand results and moves onward in spite of all opposition k why because its people and leaders are so i 0 o highborn shrewd and an d powerful no but because god la in it the poor again have the gospel preached to them they rejoice in the holy one of israel and the great cause will accomplish that which is designe dand triumph over all opposition from the wise the learned the rian rich the mighty and the proud and jehovah will have all nil the glory of the grand consummation Itis bis His work amditis and it Is marvellous marcellous marv ellous in our eyell emeel |
