Show EDITORIAL E D I 1 T 0 R I 1 A c i FUSION 0 OF r PRO protestantism TE AND THE PA papaw PAPACY faw FAM A REPORT waln extensive circulation a weeks a ago go being tele graphed all sil ail sll over tho the t he civilized world the effect that thai an arrangement was waa in progress by which over three millions of protestants would soon seek the shelter of mother hother church and become adherents sot of the catholic faith wo we had no confidence in the rumor at the time and the particulars which now come to hand show that it rested upon very slender blender foundations however there was bome something in it the falsehood was not mado made out butof of whole cloth at a meeting held in the classical city of Oxford certain high church dignitaries of the establishment J and anda a number of roman catholic priests considered the subject of a fusion of what they considered the two branches of apostolic succession ces ees ision but the very expression was itself an absurdity and involved something inconsistent and impossible pos sible sibie the roman church takes the ground of uninterrupted continuation of authority from the apostle through the popes down to the present incumbent of the papal throne which indeed ia is called the chair of st peter it claims to hold the keys with power to bind and loose whatever priesthood the tho Episcopal Church professes professer to hold came through this same succession if the church had no priestly authority the tho anglican church could have none but supposing the former held this ecclesiastical power the se Ee ceders from it were excommunicated and being 61 loosed from their position tiou tion were deprived of every right thereto pertaining dg an anglican bishop e op therefore was waa no bishop at all and nd the priests and deacons who whom he ordained were as void as he of any bacer sacerdotal dottl dotti authority how then could any such fusion as that proposed be seriously entertained by the papal it would be a virtual denial of its jw fundamental principles and contrary to its teachings for centuries A distinguished roman bo man catholic prelate monsignor capel cape in a discourse touching on this matter makes the following pertinent re marks the essential characteristic of the roman catholic church was that there was no appeal beyond her deci decisions dons she says in language that cannot be misunderstood that there can be no union between truth and falsehood her teaching must must be accepted in its entirety or wholly rejected for that reason the doctrines of the thel real presence of absolution of the fleacy efficacy ef of prayers to the saints and angels and of her infallible authority on earth must be accepted or there ia Is no a admission masslon into her fold they stood before all the world making this as their first declaration that the roman catholic church was exclusive and had no right to sacrifice a tittle dofher of her doctrines or authority they must musts repudiate the theory that there were three branches and no trunk the credentials of the roman cst Cit catholic holic church were divine and her docI doctrines rines must be to al all ail lages ages this was theonE the one answer which the roman catholic church could give to those who advocated the re ro reunion union of christendom in conclusion monsignor capel said that those looman itoman catholic priests who stood on the platform at oxford were not there in a representative character andee hoped ho d this would bo be under stood by 2 roman eza ema an catholics irwill be perceived that such euch a union as proposed 1 is 9 au impossibility if the church of england 0 or any portion of it goc B over tu to rome it must be aa a repentant or a re turning prodigal not as a branch of apostol leal iosi authority as that church cannot by its own admissions and in the tho light of its own history possess one single particle of legitimate succession luro iuro i the ancient church established establish ed by christ and me big apostles the Church has a slight shadow which it persuades itself is a reality hw bul its ita oest oldest daughter has not the tha faintest phantom oil on which to K depend ilot liot 1101 nor any any botian ot lan ian as a temporal tempora branch Spi 1 living lilg 1112 or bicad de spiritual anual or 1011 LUSES CAUSES OF national RATIONAL lay DECAY IT was once the fashion among asocial scientists and preachers who were troubled with polygamy on the brain to attribute the effeminacy of the turks to the teh their air practice of marrying more w than one this was a staple argument of the champions of monogamy for many years but the extraordinary energy glaud aud and tremendous fighting q qualities uli uil exhibited by the edans in the defence of their country against the russians knocked the bottom out of the proposition and we do not hear immen it mentioned nowadays now a days but now comes a new argument based on the supposed sluggishness and feeble physical of the subjects of the sultan mr bir frederick laue lauer r in an address before the Bre brewers congress Ss at st louis roc roe recently enter attributed the tho rapid dl de e 6 cay eay ay of the turkish empire to the abstinence of oi its Ito people from stimulating beverages beve he contended that beer bedr drinking people ff have the we advantage in vj vigor ae over wine aud and spirit nations and instances the powen power power of britain the supe super r i of the germans over the french a and nid rid the victories of tho the north over the south in this country here hore is an extract from what lie he saiu said about the turks thare aro samples kamples of nations that have practiced prohibition but it has invariably been to their great disadvantage the madans adhered 0 to o total abstinence for fon fora a period of 1200 years they CO constituted the principle population of tur turkey key on the tho three continents of europe abia abla and africa and the turks aa as it rule have faithfully adhered to their prohibitory laws we find aa as a result that ot of all the nations on oli the earth they are the moa stupid luggi balov slovenly and even hven the most filthy rhey they are as far back in civilization today to day aa as they were when they conquered constantinople nearly years ago being A a nation of wali wati drinkers they have become as a ti t uie ule A ale to civilization hib his statement is stupid of course but it is just as and aud defensible fen sible us the assumptions of the ant anti auti in lif legard to the effects oi of plural marriage the rise and fall of nations can be traced to causes which are certain to produce the t effects fleets recorded in history from duox mcants and the practice of biblical matrimony cannot be shown to be numbered among them on the contrary they each conduce to lobe lohe he permanency of any deop ts and mormonism ism ibm which inculcates both temperance aud plural marriage will yet demonstrate thia this truth to the uhe world in such a manner that it cannot be ed CHRISTIAN WORLDLY INFIDEL iry I 1 t THE tiva advance of I 1 rational rationalism ism ti tf 11 which is 0 o liberal name for infidelity Is with alarm by vy most of tho the leading minds of the various christian an churches and is freely acknowledged if not feared I 1 by the rest this is plainly perceived in the many discourses aimed at the unbelief of the age and the attempts which are made to reconcile the developments of science with the tenets of dogmatic theolb theology gy at the recent great oxford meeting of eminent clergymen and prominent laymen of the ank ang anglican llen church a at t which the bishop of bombay presided the following resolution was adolard ado lAed ted eliat the advance 1 0 of f the infidel movement throughout europe and the tho actual or threatened dissolution of the r relations of bf church arid and state constitute a froh freh call on all sf sincere beli bell veis to pray and labor earnestly for wo the reunion of christians in ono oue faith and sivi one fold the sentiment and desiro expressed in the resolution are highly commendable but bud is there any probability a that such a union of faith and effort can ever be effected the daut lal ial elements of rr protestantism oties and pr f the thy papa papacy cy nie uie natu raly discordant they cannot be harmonized thu only way vay tbt tor for Jd entity identity of interest and aud action of the anglicans with the romanists Romanis ts is through the portals of the catholic church the two systems cannot combine as s such catholicism yields nothing it will accept a c capt recantation and sub bub submission I 1 but never consent to fusion there ia is more hostility between the oth catholic and ea episcopal pi churches churched than between the latter latte X and the DisE ent rug 1119 heets beets which repudiate all priesthood dand and these cannot be reconciled with the establishment except through c return to her juris jurls diction the project from worthy motives but it ia 18 impracticable and impossible the disunion existing among awong the professedly authorized expounders ex of relli religion lon ion fun baa haa done much towards producing the in fidelity tiie tife they Y now implore both catholic and protestant divines of the highest as well as lowest degree degrees sj have declared aa as essential to salvation doctrines and tenets on which they cannot agree themselves and about which they are compelled to admit tha they they know nothing the creed concerning the trinity Is a easo caso casein in point it says whosoever will be saved caved before all things he be must believe the catholic fath which faith except he be do keep heep whole and undefiled uncle unlit tiled filed he shall without doubt pe perish ril rii h everlastingly and the ct catholic h a faith is th thim this I 1 that he worship one god in trinity and trinity in unity neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance ac jt it goes on to explain e that there are three separate and distinct persons in this godhead but yet they are not three that they are all es essentially differ ent and yet all exactly and pre bisely alike that one begat another and the third proceeded from the two and add yet they are coeternal neither before the other oher and neither after the other that one has a body the others llo ilo none noue ne yet the whole is without parts after a great deal more of this bind of definition itlo aitio 11 the being describe d is blared barei to beslu all its ita pa parts rth entirely J i tills thia vain attempt to declare the only true god falth faith in whom is the tho vea very main earing of religion ia 14 naan p egiy I 1 bof their entire systems or 0 f heulu h eol oy jc damnation on all who do not accept them and then confessing utter inability to comprehend that which they unde uDde underage rahe to explain tinder under prete prett pretended authority conferred from a divine source na 0 wo wonder 12 d e r tb that a t infidelity I 1 prevails and increases and that as lib liberty eity elty spreads in the earth and tho the pains and penalties which rl este raft framed agai agal against ansle olt oki cli who nad had thie the tomen towed temerity ty to dis dia dispute pu its is pre tent teut lons ions become mere wordy phleat the thinking of or mankind everywhere throw oti the trammels which have bound the world in bondage aud that thai they jump to the estr extreme we of utter un unbelief belier and re repudiation p of all religious lous ious creeds t 1 forms ceremonies and instructions The rh only thing that will save the world from the dar dark darkness kniss nesa aesa aud and woes boes that are ule uie the result of rt the supreme siu riu preme being is a new revelation of the truths which wll wil lead mankind into with hemr bo so called christianity is i s an old worn out motley garment that is only rendered red ren dered worse by patching it its y das dab are numbered nu it will perish and pass away the old gospel preached by christ and his apostles with its baptisms and aud its authorized priest hood and covenants its heavenly gifts and binding and loosing power its ordinances and ana manifestations all of which have been restored through the prophet joseph smith contains in itself the only iu fluence that will bind roena souls together in a bond boud that cannot bo bu brohen broken for the work ef of saving saing mankind dl dispersing pers ing the powers of evil gathering the elect of god redeeming zion and aud rebuilding jerusalem aud and pie paring the way for the second advent of the messiah the work is commenced it will wilt roll on to a glor gior glorious lous ious consummation and while whig the sects which men b have a ve formed talk union and practice strife and move downward down waid to dissolution aud an everlasting grave which tuey call mor moni m will wil rise rhe in strength beauty aud almighty power to fill the 4 tarth arth with lh glory of gd god aud esta estu establish blish tuat that bulou antl anil brotherhood which shall never be dissolved for ever THE luttrell UTAH BILL bili ACCORDING to a dispatch from WashIng washington ton toD this morning the committee on territories submitted a leport before the adjournment on the tha luttrell bill to regulate elections in utah the committee struck out the provision polygamists considering it w rong wrong to punish persons persona accused of the practice of polygamy until the laeb fact shall have been determined ed by trial by jury however they consider that thattie th atthe iha tha plea of religion in with boly polygamy gamy is untenable and state that bigamy had find a well defined position flon in the catalogue a of crimes when t the tho h e pr provision 0 was made in the constitution for the trial of all crimes they express their wonder that the r audacity and publicity of llie violation 0 of the statute singularly enough has the effect to lessen lesson the enormity of the crime in the minds of many 11 they recommend the disfranchisement of the women of utah and consider tit lit that the new now election law of this terri territory altory discriminate ts in favor of females and opens the way vay for polygamous wives who were born aliens to e exercise the franchise I 1 and thus u use so their votes to foster the practice of polygamy while the naturalization laws jaws can recognize re cog but one woman as a citizen c by reason of marriage with a citizen they recommend the enactment of restrictions sand and safeguards similar to those in practice in california but consider registration unnecessary nece osary in a newly settled country like a territory the bill it is said was placed on the calendar BO so as to be brought up early next session careful examination of article III section ectro 2 of the constitution i will show that the cefere reference nce to it is irrelevant having no bearing upon pon u the power of congress to pass laws of u certain character but only providing that trial for crime shall be by jury the point about the votes of plural wives is not well taken for it has to bo be proven first that ans any but wives as j ed in the law jaw are registered in J utah as couzens by virtue of their marr marriage lage and then it would bb difficult to show in what way their voits vola would that it la is not a question that entell enters a into our politics either territorial or national naul nati oual and aud it la is quite lunny funny I 1 to hear bai those who mako M wie mie hux that women are in le bondage in I 1 D utah talking about the danger of their voting to sustain and perpetuate that bondage we do not know whether this report was actually made to the house or only intended to be presented but it is not likely in ILI either case that the bill will pass when congress meets again we ve have havo a gudd goud election law in the territory which by that lime time will have proven itself to work wull weli many of the objections which are aro urged against it will have been shown to be without |