Show A GLANCE 11 iru inu ivan ITAN feb 28 1883 1885 editor deseret late numbers of a certain foul sheet published at salt lake city sti stigmatize ma the saints as cowards because we do to not readily jump into the trap they and their ilk have set for us sorry but maybe we wiil wid when the right nighttime time comes a and d when it may not be to their adv advantage niage five times the saints were driven from their comfortable homes and farms rather it than give up to their enemies and in 1817 1317 when the body of the church mch men women and c children hilZ iren were banished from illinois and were halting oil on the boun boundaries darle darie s 0 of f civilization they had the privilege 0 of f returning if they would abandon their principles no on they plunged into the NUd wilderness erness to apparently die of starvation or be killed by indians but through t the ll 11 e hatred of their enemies and the blessing of god they thay have come here and built up a prosperous territory ill in ithe great desert and here they tiley intend to stay even though they may have to pass through trying ordeals to prove their devotion n and sincerity these will probably come in the due time of the lord who will also bring judgments on their enemies and it the saints barely escape how about the wicked we read in the good old book how in old times a much dreaded allcon all con querin army invaded the country of tee people of god who cowardly 11 gy 11 gave up their fenced cities and treasures rather than fight but the enemy in their blind rage still determined to wreak vengeance upon and break up the saints the lord bo however wever overruled their wicked designs let the daughters of zion laugh them to scorn sald said he ile through his prophets 1 I will not let lot them come against thic this city nor raise a bank nor ca cast st an arrow against it I 1 will put my hook in their nose and my bridle in their lips and lead them back the way they came then the angel of the lord smote the camp of the As syrians and were killed in the night and nache rib arose and fled to his own country where he was soon af atter after ter killed by his own perished I 1 the enemies of zion the rits ribs and thi ir followers of today to day 0 aught to profit by the experience of their prototypes of old as lyen ayen given ulven in this example |