| Show EDI edl editorials T 0 R LA L S i communicated BE big sulue SURE OF THIS I 1 li v alt ait yourselves yours youra elves in imagination tn 1 the ancient and sacred city of jerusalem bame same eighteen centuries a ago go the great teacher had but lately been crucified between thieves had broke tho the power of I 1 leathand deat hand demonstrated tha the reality of the resurrection had bid hla hia disciples tarry in the place made madei ea cred by his presence in life death burial and resurrection until ili lit they were ware endowed with power from on high the great manifestation come they went forth to proclaim their message the tho lord 91 working with them thern by signs following folio wing the believer bellev er As converts and congregations increased suppose if xou you will that there thele were those who neglected to practise or repudiated the customs and met method methods hodo of thebe these early apostles and disciples by what show of consta consistency tency teney could they claim to be Chri christians allans or 0 the followers il lowers of christ had a congregation congie arisen athen and declared them belvas independent of the priest hoal hoai or oi apostleship ignoring Ign oling bring that organization mentioned incidentally by paul how could they claim to be called the church of god or of his christ if another section had haa separated themselves denying the necessity the cormor tho the purpose of baptism how would they namo have leaeu estl eau mated by the primitive church if any man man had claimed to 10 a tea teacher chbr char of the go gospel pei pel and declared d e in that capacity that the laying ing on of hands was only fiction annd nand and conveyed no power J how would he have been ti treated by the of ficera of the church of jesus jelus christ would not each of these disson dia dis terr tera from the official and authoritative aut ant t order older been deemed apostates and an d heretic her etim or would they have been as work era in and for a common cause and ahat that cause the one ong established by thedeas the dead yet yett risen no matter how popular how numerous or wealthy these ee se ceders cedera might have become nor how closely they might ht have the original in some thing if they deliberately and voluntarily gave up part thus calling in question the intelligence or integrity of the founder could they hive have been said to be his hia died pies they might have said they were of paul or apollos or cephas or later of wesley or luther or knox jknox they might have preferred episcopacy oli oll cism or judaism but in what banse sanso or with what justice could they have havo expected the bies bles blessings slugs and results inseparably attached jo 0 a special system while they were follo following wing one of bf their own and it fria icia Is preposterous to suppose that in the very cradle of christianity thele thelo e could bo those without exciting both ridicule and contempt it is very evident from tha teachings of jesus that he inculcated culea eulea tea ted and arid expected unity in the church that there were means and machinery ta secure and perpetuate eo so desirable and aud es santiag a feature jn id that which without it could not have been considered a divino divine work I 1 the results of this union unton would as heritably inevitably be power as that there is 19 weakness in divisions division and this power being prote protecting eting and aggressive would inevitably create tion tiou lidd and in time persecution the conflict between good and evil be ing eternal the hypothesis among so called christians is that jebus jesus wab wai tyl the e revelation of to man mun that in the devices bf D the gampol there was and is baly ealy bal Pal alion vallon yet with a fatuity really incomprehensible ef ibie ible all the jarring conflicting and aid contending sects expect whet when in ignorance of in hi hostility to or in repudiation ot its ita cardinal and necessarily essential characteristic that ail sli il which fhi in its unity and entirety the gospel alone lone a can give I 1 now is there not a parallel between the primitive age of christi christ anity and the present age mor mo monism nisin professes to be a new now revelation of the ancient system its pro fes sessions may be genuine or they may be false but so far as all out ward observation goes in its organization iza tion in ita its ordinances in its algas craa in its reception by the world it ia Is a perfect jac fac simile of bf the ilie original there ia Is thi this ls much in its cavior favor and men may cavil and they may d doubt t whether joseph smith r was vas ass asa a prophet but the tho fact above stated remains for eaver ever over and unimpeachable n 0 o i 1 now if the sectarians sect arians of this day aroln love with jesus if they are aro in lovev lovec with bib bis system if they have falth faith in the tho record of ot the past is it asking too much that they abstain now from all inconsistencies which would have been beell in the early dayt so 80 if it there thero are those who profess faith in the great restorer of our eur times who ho award to joseph sm smith ith alth the position i of ot a prophet who in that a admit d M it the possession of every requisite qualification fi ti for his hia office the tho campas as they would in the great revelator reve latoi 1 jebus jesus and yo yet ignore or repudiate his hia practices and aad the methods of salvation salvat ion lon consequent upon that practice how can they con consistently latently I 1 claim to be followers of joseph can those who win the applause of the bitterest st enemies of hla hia wor work be indeed his bis friend can those who meet no opposition who receive no persecution who practice ho innovation who ate hail hall fellow fowx well met with every dis of the vagaries of sectarianism ba be the disciples of joseph whose whole life was a continual protest and whose death wag waa testimony to the undying hatred of that class who now pet pot and applaud P fauct some of his so aa called followers can those who ignore the gathering and all organization and power growing from that the founders under god of that kingdom which shall stand forever fo rever are these they who aro ate to have arrayed 1 against to them first a county then a state then the united states and finally the world worlo we trow not noi the elements with which the world would battle are not there but sa V they polygamy is an ovil evil a f filse ilse ilso doctrine and not an essential of mormonism niam whence then comes this opposition to it la Is the world tso 0 o filled with love for ahn thai that lt tam benema JAI advocate and c champion ambion bince since ince inee when wab was this most wonderful of all revolutions brought to pash ah ali it ia is very evident that our cause causa ia is inot hot as their cause our en emles themselves being judges then again how does it happen that the rich spiritual experience of tens bans of thousands under the administration of president brigham young is tobo toba so depreciated and ignored since he came to power th the 0 gathering plural marriage persecution temple building and blessing have gone golo hand in hand and history says the work of god through joseph has never been overthrown nor given to another peopled people these are all charae charac characteristics teril a tics bics of the church of je jesus qua christ ch rist of litter day saint saino s they are the fulfillment of prophecy the marks of an honored authority and the unmistakable voice of god I 1 ay ELECTRA EL ITY tue tun folio win wing gis sis is an extract from correspondent of the philadelphia Conj fcc fec journal and will no doubt be of interest to the farmers of utah utis I 1 can call do no better than call your attention to au extraordinary experiment peri ment made on c saturday on the estate of the affluent manufacturer Menier menler A few fow journalists and scientists were invited there to witness the first attempts at plowing by electricity the tho rumor of the event had bad brought ta u great crowd at a given signal the petrified crowd saw a machine between a plow and a bicycle start off from t the he edge of the field f and furrow a wide deep track ba hind Ito it until arriving at the upper end of the ground it turned and with the same invisibility of or of propulsion came gravel gravely y backward the man mounted on the saddle seemed to have a side bide sinecure cure BO so rl fat tat ty as effort was wai concerned he held a levert which gauw havethe ga arthe requisite depth to the blade and aeida from froin this seemed to have ina nb pur pose pom in the economy of the thing the motive power caule caole through slender wi wires tes tea attached t to 0 the plows kept the wheels revolving even in spite of the impediments of a furrow which might have been called subsoil plowing the menters have bought the patent and if ngan alan it can ean be made to work regularly as it worked saturday pho tho ho horse as a a motive power hi in all sorts of agricultural machinery may be sald sald said to have lost his big hold bola the motive power wai waa supplied hup plied piled to td the plow by a gramme machine itself set in motion by water power which is abundant on maniera Men Meni erya iera estate thel the plow did about the bame work as if it ole oie were wore cie drawsby drawn by four oxen etwas it was wab a fowler plow with six shares the motive power wai supplied by a wire at idil a distance of nearly half a mile to a profane looker ori orl on it was amazing to beo bee a plow propelled by an unseen agency without teams or dir steam the gramme machine 1 employed was the same that supplied al Men lera iera manufactory with electric light 11 4 the SHE bosmon W wid P direct a attention tt C n to t the h e di discourse 8 delivered by president tay lorat provo the full text of which will be faun ct jn this lesue of the thel 11 news T r w s portions of this thib address garbled and distorted of course have been bent cent over the wires and copied into a number of newspapers those who have any desire to know what president taylor really said and what the people really endorsed can learn leara by reading for themselves there are a few unscrupulous persons pere ons some oi of whom reside in utah who beera seem to take delight in stirring up strife against the lat ter da day saints and who make a of cry ery ing dreason Treason hostility to the government re cormons mormons Mor mony mons DA defiance flance fiance of the awl law andio and so forth alet a public r Ep speaker eaker aaker here take exceptions to any measure of the national authorities or give the reasons for our adherence to a tenet of our faith against the practice of which congress has legislated and a howl is raised at once sensational dispatches lire lare sent cent east and w diw wil ym gagg MI ers mouth that he neither uttered nor hinted at simple e argument is wrested ested to mean th ninga and sedition and law iau abiding peaceful and worthy citizens nie aie pain painted tedas as bloodthirsty and rampant rebels if there were lot not BO 80 many people who love a lie as well aa as those who make it such a rumors would become BO so stale a tal tai e by repetition and BO so flat by frequent refutation that no attention paid to them notwithstanding the popular notion that are hostile to the laws institutions and of the united states are aro no people in the union who are more closely attached than they to the principles which underlie the tho american system of government it la is a part of their cf creed eed that the constitution waa was framed by divine inspiration that all ali jaws laws passed in accordance therewith are binding upon them that they are required of the almighty to uphold and sustain buch such laws jaws and who arc elec elee elected tedor or appointed to execute them that all people who become converts to the faith and who gather from abroad with the body of the church should become citizens 0 of the united blates slates and conform to its constitutional laws and regulations and thab that nil all the liberty which chany any people can reasonably desire may be obtained under the government of t this thia 4 country evnen the spirit and form fortu of the supreme law of the land afe are observe observed dand and respected I 1 and they avei hamd manifested their faith by wein works they have remained loyal and true tb athis nation under every every overy every tiia levery indignity driven n from their hard earned homes into the pathless desert they still cherished a fond regard for the he government which denied them the protection which was their right smarting under the provocations pro vocations they had endured mourning loss losa of their murdered prophet and patriarch fleeing in the depths of wictor from ruthless mobs their road lit up hp by the blaze of their burning dwellings or huddling together on the verge of the wilderness surrounded by sav eav savages ages agee they threw off no alle aile glence to the government that had looked on and permitted these outrages but as its soon as i a call came yielded up five hun hundred dred of their stoutest men to fight the battles of their country in distant mexico arriving on the shores of the dead bea i of america aftan a weary mary mar march ch from the missouri Rive rover houseless plains toilsome toi tol isome lEome sand band bills and rugged mountains and finding themselves on mexican soil they unfurled to the breezes from the ever everlasting listing hills the flak flag of our country the glorious stara stars and stripes one of the first political acts of the people vm was to frame a republican constitution and seek admission into the union under the title of ther the state of DL deseret seret this position they have steadily endeavored by all to obtain but as yet in vain do docs cs not bil all this thib show that the charges of rebellion disloyalty and treason raised by designing persons are the the tho blackest of falsehood falsehoods the only thing that can be vie construed to give color to such ac cura cupa tiona is the resistance of the tha troops sent fent here by president james buchanan but no notice of such a movement was given to the governor lo vernor or people of this terr terri tory they came as an armed mob with boast boastful ful fal threatening and were so treated until official notice was received but bat not a drop of blood wab was shed and no movements but defensive ones were attempted by the cormons mormons Mor Alot mons with regard to our present at attl is iff clearly stated by president taylor have we no acknowledged precedent for the stand taken on the question now at issue hear what Blackst blackstone utie brie says if ever the laws of god and men are at variance the be former are to be obeyed in derogation of the matterand iatter Jatter and further the the tho law jaw of god iod is under all circumstances superior in obligation to that bt of man we take no aggressive to toh tot t wards the government in this thia matter we never ne have bave at any time congress passed a law jaw against an established feature of our religion and it i is s the government not the Mor mons phaisy that may be properly called aggressive we are placed between two tygo opposing obligation obligations ii and when the question come comes which is the mato more binding and potent the answer needs little lle lu ju n acuti ur lna lua the present effort directed direct edi against us almb alma at the dissolution of family ties which bind heart to heart and are the closest bonds that hold bold ha bu man mud nl together toge thieT Thede the dealgie aten algo I 1 ia to to make men not only forswear their god but thrust from them wives and tender children whose happiness in time and hopes for eternity centre in them as their natural and korn sworn protectors can we look od ori sueh such hellish attempts to break up the most i sacred acred |
