| Show WILL tiie THE LIGHT GO OUT PROBABLY no class of persons are watching and waiting so anxiously the final result of the present crusade against I 1 mormonism I 1 as those who for reasons best known to themselves have apostatized and left tile the church and are now fighting against it no other class have the same interest in ia scein seeing 11 mormonism swept away or would would feel more truly thankful if it could be proven what they sincerely hope it to be a fraud 1 and obliterated from the face of the ea earth etli the reason for this the wise will under understand 11 but much of it might be proven even to the casual thinker by that feeling ce li ng of hatred almost hel hei hellish fishi fisli in its bitt bitterness er so characteristic of the blon mormon apostate true there are some se ceders who do not exhibit it boutwe but we do not regard them except in a limited sense of the term as apostates for they either belong to a class who never had any mormonism to secede from orto onto or to another more noble but unfortunate who have not in their hearts entirely forsaken the faith though they are counted outside the gospel gopel fold we are speaking particularly of those perturbed d spirits 11 who not con teni tear with falling away themselves would fain fabii drag drig everyone else along with hem ilem or failing in th that atwould would whelm in ruin anadis aster all ail who prefer to cling to the old ship zion despite the example of desertion and treachery which they have set them strange is it not that such should be the case these persons are for the most part men and women who have been heard to say perhaps a thousand times that they knew this 1 religion to be the gospel of jesus christ and have given evidence in ini many ways all by that infallible indication of faith and sincerity good works that what they said they meant and were then in possession 0 of fa a testimony ot of its truth which they could not deny and would not hear others gainsay with regard to the causes which watch have produced a subsequent si change of heart we have nothing to say nor of the peculiar predl ca mentin which which such people find themselves in repudiating with scorn what they before belore solemnly avowed as a fact attempting to trample in the mire the jewel they once wore proudly upon the breast and knowin a g to lo be all wron and morally rotten what they are already on record lor loras as knowing to be baright right and tind proper in every respect Sucha such are rethe the ones on c S we repeat who are the most anxious to have it shown s b own that the claims of mormonism Mormon isma isra to a divine origin are false and the proof of it is hat bat they ard are straining every effort it that direction and why gily this unrest on their part if they know that Mormon mormonism 1 la is not true and that they simply lied when they solemnly testified they knew it was true what need of all this nervous and restless activity why this haggard ard impatience this feverish haste to havethe ga havethe so called problem solved by fire and sword and the fact of its falsity demonstrated in its downfall beyond yon d the shadow of a doubt Is it a f feeling eel of philanthropy that excite excites s t his this solicitude Is it a pure ure unselfish disinterested regard lor for for the welfare of humanity that inspires s ires such inhuman propositions for tre the cure of an alleged evil against which the battering rams of mob violence special legislation and polemical debate have been thundering in n vain f for or fifty years or is there anova another reason supposed to be carefully concealed but nevertheless gross as a mountain open palpable I 1 to all who see aright why the apostate from I 1 mormonism more than anyone else to see the system extirpated and all who cleave to it swallowed up in the fierce maelstrom of popular fury we take the ground and we are not afraid of its being honeycombed honey combed that no man who fights against mormonism 1 after testifying in all sincerity that he knows it Is tiie tile the work of god feels positively certain that it is not and the bitterer his hatred and the more moie active his hostility to the pure pare and sacred principles which he once practiced and advocated the more evident Is it that in his bis heart of hearts he fears and dreads as only such souls can the possibility of its binal binal triumph and his own utter condemnation it itis is i the light 11 liht ht that dazzles the eyes and reveals our personal defects that we wish taken away for the honest man daylight has no terrors but the evildoer evil doer pursued by the torments of a guilty conscience would fain have the bright sun extinguished the moon and stars blotted out and the universe one eternal night anat that he might escape in the darkness and revel indis in his arn wrongdoing wrong r doin doln doing undisturbed those who are looking Z lon ion ward as the winds and waves begin to rise and the storm clouds to lo 10 lower 0 overhead ve and are asking themselves the question will her light go out may take home to their souls a negative answer the light will not go out it was the hand of god that kindled it and not all the floods of earth and hell heil can drown it or prevent event it f from rom growing ir I 1 I 1 brighter ter ann and brighter unto the perfect day there Is no such thing in the pro gramme of history as the extinguishment of mormonism 11 that pro gramme was prepared in the heavens lefore before the foundations of the earth were laid and though earth and heaven pass away taking takino with them to perdition all who forsake and fight against gods truth not one jot or tittle of what he has fore spoken and ordained will fall fail to the ground unfulfilled unfilled ul filled |
