Show unnecessarily EXERCISED tim san ban francieco chronicle has haa been seized with one of its itt peri pori proxy paroxysms sms on tho the mormon question it rolls up its eyes has a budden sudden attack of gripes and vomit vomits a nauseous naus sous mass of stuff its cm corm plaint having been baen super induced by the wonderful vitality of mormonism monis monib mand end the cormons mormons Mor mong mons 51 we do not care anything about the splenetic rubbish it throws off ea as it does not come close enough to this quarter to taint the atmosphere breathed by the mormon community the best people under the sun bun with its offensive odor the people of utah stani on so eo high a platform that they are not affected by the scandalous lous ious insinuations of the low therefore we have no reply to make to the base foul and ballej ous sl andEra of the chronicle we hope it will become in course of time more luth buth ful humane and magnanimous although we musi must confess to having but ema ems emal faith falth in its reformation leaving the vituperation and general spitefulness out of the tho article tic le we must give the chronicle credit for collecting bome some inhere interest at edg iris facts as showing the blow growth of the church in its early enri eari rise compared with that of the church of jesus jesua christ of litten ietter day saints it estimates the numerical of the tho cormons mormons Mor mons at ai and fairly wriggles in agonizing twinges at a the thought that this proportion has haa been reached inside of half a century this accumulation is placed side silde by side with the comparatively slow growth of thu ihu churell church recognize by constantino constantine st in jhb middle of the fourth century after christ ea that of the boman roman empire gibbons places the official oili elal elai wo working hing king force of the church of rome romme years after christ an aa follows 1 presbytery 46 deacons beacons 7 sub bub 0 o 7 acolytes 0 42 eto oto 60 50 total t the same author estimates teetotal the total number of christians in that city at that time at and thinks it a liberal estimate he reckons upon no more than one christian to every twenty of the population of the tha empire A century before that the pro port portion ion lon was probably not more man wan one to five hundred and this after years of tireless effort in prose lating 1 it works the chronicle up to fever hoat heat to think that jn in one fifth of that time mormonism hag has grown to its present status of numerical development of course what la Is called by misnomer by the world mormonism has a high dezree degree of vitality and accumulative force ono would naturally suppose that this fact alone nione would cause people to investigate into the true character of the system but instead tho the rula ruia is to repudiate without scrutiny the power of the system lies in the fact that it is ia the truth which is ia always potent and forcible thia thib element of strength is all the more apparent in n connection with mormonism which is of divine origin on account ot of its growth and pros being met by a widespread wide spread determined and relentless relent lelent leeb lebb appo tion neither the system nor its ite adherents are understood by those who oppose them they krushat them blindly as aa a popular point ol 01 attack something after tho the fashion sf a bull at the waving of a red flag |