| Show expressions FROM THE PEOPLE THE nest KEST OF US 1 I wish L you au out there could be like V the he rest of us ire lre president aident cleveland to utah delegation SALT LAKE CITY may 1885 this sentiment uttered by the chie ma magistrate istrate of our nation is undoubtedly intended to apply as a whole to the christianity and civilization of the nation and it Is endorsed by the people 1 I might say to a unit great men wise men ministers law A editors doctors and judges with perhaps an occasional exception are all agreed on this point now let us LIFT THE CURTAIN a little and take a sly peep at the situation tile the people of our nation are divided into a great many different sects and parties religiously and of the present population 3 are professed christians it is that we should be like these christians that the people so much desire and that our chief magistrate urges upon us WHAT IS THEIR christianity let us u see prof T AT lindsay DD of glasgow scotland says in the en the christla christian n religion is the result of two factors i neither of which can be omitted if a true description is to be given anthe one hand there is the objective element which consists in the manifestation and revelation of GOO god to his people for the purpose of salvation and on the other side there is the subjective element ment which consists in the appropriation oe ox this manifestation and what it implies by man through falth laith both elements enter into and form the coil coa elements of a new life which all share in common a and nd I 1 is the essence of christianity II 11 so far so good but now for the reduction d of this statement where is the christian sector party of the world f who accept 11 manifestation and revelation of god to his people for the pur purpose ose of salvation 11 true Tru ethey they pr profess at ess to believe belleve the bible and say it is the 0 foundation of their creeds but claim that with the days of christ the manifestations and revelations ceased the facts are these they have havel no knowledge of god of his person or attrib attribute attributes utes and will not accept or permit him to give an account of himself in this our day and time they the whole of them may be classed with that number who are worship ping an unknown god and I 1 teaching 11 for doctrine the commandments of men now it very remarkable if the learned ministers of the day are right f and they have the gospel that they iley should be so alarmed about god makin making known his will and that they shoula object to manifestations AND revelations where is the christian minister of the nation that dare darc accept these and retain his standing before the people as a teacher echo answers where no they dare not do so for god does not deign to talk to them they do not de desire sire nor will they re ceide ills his word aud and is a consequence the heavens are sealed over their heads can a man satisfy hunger by the i rattle of knives and forks on empty plates can the soul be satisfied with reading of the manifestations in the days R of christ and being told these things are no longer needed why should partiality exist and they wh who 0 lived over eighteen hundred years ago be more favored than we why are cause canse and effect changed Is there any effect produced anywhere without a cause where do all of our min ministers is obtain their authority for act acting 1 in christs tead stead z when I 1 they deny ills his power manifestations and cevela tion sIll stil to ask the latter day saints to accept THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD r in their enlightened christian sense Is simply asking them to den deu deny god ills his J power manifestations manifestations an and cevela eions and do away with alithe all ail the principles ci of our noly holy religion as Is it a crime for a man to have the holy ghost to have the testimony ony of jesus and the spirit of prophecy Is it a crime to li believe elleve in III the revelations of god congress backed by t the conscience andi andt moral sense M t oi of the nation says so and the mail man who dares to honor the law given for his salvation must be arrested tried convicted anh and sentenced to tiie tile the full penalty which the tile conscience of the will allow now the question is can we afford to be like ilke them some may shrink and try to be like them and deny what the they once knew was truth but these exceptions are rare and the mass of the people of our faith will say never no never will we deny our religion we know too much we vc cannot afford afford it we cannot accept christianity having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof we cannot consent in our feell feelings to worship a t being belue who cannot hear talk taik walk nor manifest his power we prefer to wor shir shit the god of abraham isaac and jacob for we know in whom we have trusted and we are satisfied with ills his dealings towards us tae Tac in a Ch christian sense we cannot be LIKE THE REST for their faith is foreign to every principle revealed and taught for the salvation of mau man and for tor us to dothia would place us in a it worse position than many of the christians of the world are in for they in many instances are honest iu in their professions and we would nol noc oe ne we would be trai traitors ors denying that which we have received and know to be true 44 but says one 11 only so far as polygamy is concerned do we ask you to be like us put it away and we will let you alone cease to holdout 1 your wives as bearing that sacred relation to you and be like us st what a requirement god has spoken on thi shift subject and commanded it saying for all those who have this law revealed unto them must roust obey the same and no one call can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory 11 we ll 11 accept capt the issue forced upon us we do not wish our marital relations to stop at death we wish to live with our wives sand and children hereafter we expect to know them ani an au 4 i they will know us and the love and union we enjoy here la Is only a little foretaste of the great love lovo for each other that will exist hereafter while the people of the world will have no claim upon each other for thir ties and covenants end with death what has the prevalent system 0 of marriage done for the world look look at at ane statistics of crime divorce adultery prostitution infanticide seductions and all the train of crime following in their wake are these the g result of christianity and civilization IF THE BIBLE was ws enforced and the seducers and adultery adul were to pay the death penalty how many professed christians would be living today to day how many of the learned ministers of today have never cohabited with ary any woman only their legal and lawful wives how many of the tile whole mass who are loudest in their demand for the extinction of polygamy have never cohabited with any woman ot of the marriage relation let them answer who sustains the social evil and visits houses of ill lil fame and assignation Is it tile the latter day saint or is it the so called christian come now you moralists mora lists you would be reformers reform ers ern if vou are without this sensual sin you can begin to throw ston stones esat at us the situation today is the men who drink the most whisky who profane the name of the deity the loudest who gamble lie steal and commit all maun mann maun mann er of abom nations nat lons ions and who sustain the bawdy houses are arc the loudest in their demands for THE DOWNFALL OF POLYGAMY shall we accept the life and conduct of this class and their leaders abour as our example leta let a thinking moral world judge e we are not immoral we dema demand nd and sustain the holy family tie and before the so called civilization made such inroads into utah we had no houses ofell of ill lil fame gehad we had no gambling dens nor opium hells bells cases of prostitution were unknown and seductions did not enter into the thoughts of the elder in israel A woman could then go from one end of salt lake city to the other at any time me of the day or ill III night h t alid and she was safe f from rom insult b but t t today to day we have the christianity of the world with all its concomitant vices nourishing flourishing in our midst the fine houses of worship warship erected by various sects with heir their tall tali spires pointing in heavenward cast their shadows upon dens of infamy who brought and introduced this state of things in our midst not the mormons cormons Mor mons but THE GREAT reformers who now demand that we put away our wives make bastards of our children and prostitutes of our daughters and turn virtue into a stream of vice then we would be like the world god being our helper uc we will liever do it mancus MARCUS |
