Show advocating MORMONISM unintentionally THE rii rit st louis louls advocate which Is we believe a methodist organ advocates the establishment of a aou aon pou strong ct religion i by this it means a religion that will master everything that will master earthly ties and subordinate the Sanc sanctities tItles of home and blood to its superior demands that will master money and vind control the last coin to its uses Is not this pretty strong doe doctrine for fon any one but a mormon the popular idea in regard to religion is S that it must not enter at all into the domain of the temporal it must con alne nue itself to the and the church it must be kept out of financial and business circles and remain a matter of sentiment and feeling and if it attempts to regulate in the common affairs of life it is denounced as dangerous and called by the name of bior Alor mormonism monism 11 the advocate explains f urther further the kind of religion it wants as follows not to give one day in seven to god but to give all days as sacred to him not to give the tile service of the church alone but the service of business and home rigidly and sacredly his not a moiety not a tenth of income or capital but the whole of income and capital to be invested for him to be husbanded hus banded with frugality lity for him to be iacre increased se e with diligence dille dilie for him to be c dispensed with liberality t or held in inviolate for him A religion celis ceils flon which makes him owner of all real sovereign master in fact which brin drin brins brings s the charm of brotherhood into the family of god luxuriated luxuriates in the corn coin communion prayers and alid delights of his people to whom the brotherhood is more valuable than real estate 9 and tights rights are mastered by love and nothing claimed for self but all for god and humanity why these are the very things that our opponents find fault within with in mormonism they want to keep god out of politics out of business out ot of social life ife out of everything but praise prayer and preaching the very essence of 11 mormon 11 ormon doctrine is that god should be supreme in all things and that his people should be consecrated body soul and spirit wit with it all their powers to his service and hold themselves and everything they possess subject to ills his direction lind devoted to the accomplishment of his hig purposes it is this that prompts the mission work of the elders that animates the colonist and pioneer that moves upon the tile whole people in their united action for the interest of the work in which they are engaged they recognize the right fight of the eternal father to their complete obedience the kingdom of god and his ri righteousness are to be first alf all ail personal matters of subordinate im importance ortance and consideration the advocate z duo dvo cate in the above paragraph is advocating mormonism without knowing it the methodist authorities will have to call thau that paper over the coals I 1 it will never do to allow such an endorsement of the and mormon spirit to go out to the world in one of the tile or organs ans of modern methodism but the advocate is right A religion that only figures in the tabernacle is not worthy the name of religion ell eli gion glon A god who is only to be acknowledged led med ged in those thin thins things s called spiritualities 1 is is not the god of the bible nor the go god d that is needed in this lower world worl d men have imagined a detty delv apart from actualities and so ridicule the alivin living and true god who numbers even the hairs of our heads and watches over all things down to the sparrows and their destiny if it is said that he is 4 aa a business god as well as a being to worship by petition and psalm singing the idea is ridiculed and denounced as absurd and blasphemous but the god of bf abraham isaac jacob Moses gideon elijah lesus jesus and the saints of ancient and latter days is a god of war of peace of bubines bu sines of politics of temp moralities of interest in common affairs down to the minutest things of earth as well one who wha rules on ill lii high gh and a spirit that must bo be worshipped wor shipped in spirit and in truth to be communed with in the most refined and exalted and spiritual sense Alor mormonism monism I 1 establishes that union of man and his bis maker that brings about the condition described by the advocate therefore it Is a strong religion so strong that the f forces arces of the world cannot break it up it is a vital religion laying hold of the heart it is a spiritual rill religion gion glon lifting the soul on high to the heaven of heavens it is a temporal religion regulating the lives and earthly acts of its adherents and influencing them in ali all it is a brotherly religion bandin binding men and women together by fraternal bonds that are real and enduring it Is beav enly earthly for time for eternity for tills world lor lor the world to come and if will never pass away it is divine for it came from god it aad and ad it leads to god and makes him jn ill all things the master sublime omnipotent and sn preme |