| Show FAILURE OF christians Ca RISTIAN anto ISM TUE san ban francisco Franc isoo laco post has occasionally sio eio nally something to say aay about the mormons cormons Mor mons sl in a recent editorial it draws attention to the success of the 61 mormon propaganda s notwithstanding the opposition met with by tho the elders in some places and the general unpopularity of the system which they advocate and defend speaks of the landing of another shipload of immigrants pay i ing their own way to utah and in view of this fact and of the steady growth of mormonism as aa a religion one la Is impelled to inquire whether christianity has hns lost vital energy and Is unable to copo cope with that new and pestilent heresy mor monism it if we may judge from the failure of christian nib nih missionaries in utah to convert a single mormon to christianity and their appeal to the secular arm for help which they in variable make laake when addressing eastern nud bud audiences lences fences the conclusion is Jn evitable inevitable christianity la Is feeble in its presence it has ceased to be aggressive its standard bearers are engaged ja in whittling away all its sud suo denying deny ing or ridiculing the doctrines which have been the tho nope hope and solace of ages the dry rot got is destroying the evangelical church when things have come to this pass pabs within the church what wonder if mormonism or any other strange doctrine should prevail the answer to the foregoing ques tion is ye yes that which is called christianity hm has oat loat vital energy zd and that leat los llla unable to cope with mormonism has been demonstrated in the struggles af pf half a century christian missionaries to utah admit that it is a hopeless task to attempt to convert an adult mormon to either of their creeds creeda sy systems they think they may be able tu to catch some of the rising generation by getting them into denominational nomi national schools under the tho pretext ot of imparting secular education and in insidiously impregnating their youthful minus with the essential dogmas of the sects but bat a dyed in the wool mormon they have not the slightest expectation of capturing but this failure to convert the cormons mormons Mor mons the masses of whom are generally acknowledged to be sincere honest and devotional 3 it a beems of ma to us ua should make mak a very doubtful to a thinking mind the assertion that mormonism 1 Is a p pestilent est ast lent li heresy tresy the necessity of fth thau that at appeal to the secular arm for help heip which theros th the eros enos rost rosf refers to Is rather an argument in favor of the superiority of mon Mor mormon mons principles to those of their opponents than an ah indication that mormon ism is so la is hur hui heresy heres hei esy itis it la a mist misi akoto koto eay bay that so called christianity has ceased to be aggressive at any rate rato dinits in its attitude toward mormonism Mormon ism iam the legh legislation lation which was rush ed through congress with indecent haste for the irp of destroying the cMor mormon system was forced upon the country through the nir air og gress gres sive lve influence cf f the prea preachers cheirs and their fanatical followers conventions vent nent ions lons conferences convocations I 1 and other religious gatherings passed resolutions against the camor urging action on tha the part of congre congress ess and demanding the aid of representatives and senators in different districts to secure the passage of anti antl mormon measures R religious papers havo have published articles innumerable and christian Chri stfan stian societies have been formed to battle against the alleged herosy heresy and punish its ita principal adherents no end of money has haa been gathered and by the most zealous mormon eaters preachers and pamphlets have been sent cent to utah and scattered where it was thou thought they would do the greatest good the most absurd and outrageous things have been said about the system and the tho people so BO that ridicule might play its ita part in the warfare war fare tnie and a general hue and cry has been kept up to make mormonism unpopular and render embracing it difficult and dangerous there has been no lack of grog grag ag greshion gre greb blon bion 11 in times past chris chrls tian preachers have headed beaded mobs to drive out the Mormon Mor mons ss from their homes and possess possessions iones and even now some of those holy exion enta of modern christianity advocate the whole wholesale tale tnie massacre of efi the mormon leaders as the most feasible metho method d of solvi solving ng the 9 tM mormon ormon problem and less sanguinary disciples of christian orthodoxy are at the present time clamoring forthe for the political detthof death of all citizens in litah male and female who believe in the system ballel called mormonism 21 this is sure ly aggressive enough to suit the most belligerent it Is not for lack of the will or the money or the men that so go called christendom has not exterminated mormonism what whai then is 19 the reason reagon tb that at as the post remarks the former as aa feeble in the presence pres pree ence enco of the lat latter iatter it is because the established and widespread wide spread power is not what it purports to be and this so bo called 91 heresy is the genuine genuina christian system restored with all its pristine principles influence spirit gifts and assurance the much misunderstood marriage bys syb tem term which is a part of it Is ia bots nots not sa 93 supposed ita its distinctive feature nor its principal peculiarity it haa has been made an excuse for the force which prof professing ewing eming christians have used and advocated against this church even that is really a restoration of tho the marriage system of primitive christian times but 69 mormonism in ita its entirety is ia a new now revelation of that which jesus jebus of nazareth and his disciples setu satu set up and which has been perverted and departed from so widely for centuries until nothing is ia left of it in christendom bub but ut its shadow and faint memories of what it once was let christian to us with the Bib bible bibie lewith with the old testament or the now new or both and we are ready to receive the doctrines contained therein more than that we can prove provo to them that their creeds are contrary to the that they do not and dare not preach the doctrines with the promises taught by jebus Pet peter reter erJames james john paul and their brethren that which the apostles taught that that these those christians christiana neglect or repudiate we accept and enjoin nothing that can be established from holy scripture 13 ig is 13 found anta go goni stio to the mormon faith but it is all incorporated in the creed that the christian 1 missionary in utah wishes to attack hence the failure of all these pretended christian agencies to put down am ism ibm it itis Is the sham fighting lighting the reality the spurious trying to stamp upon the genuine divided er errorS ork ori charging furiously upon united truth counterfeit christianity boldly at tempting to outshine the pure puro and unadulterated gospo coin there ils lis ia no dry rot in that la called 9 11 1 which mormonism it is belld compact and vigorous it la Is reviving that childlike child ilko ilke faith in di vine things which modern chrls chris ti tl anity aulty saturated with vain philosopher and honeycombed with doubt hab has helped to drive out from the soula of men with the revival of that faith comes divine assurance and divine power and divine light end cheso make strong the votaries vot arles aries of thia this Morn mormonism 2 and shew show up in contrast the weakness and worth les ies of tho the vast sham which claims consideration and worship under tho the name of christianity this bogus christianity is so EO feebie feeble in the pree preb presence once ence of mormonism that it dares not depend upon the only weapons which are permissible by its own code if mormonism is buch such a palpable and pestilent heresy aa Is charged cannot truly christian agencies be employed for its overthrow why this general recourse to carnal weapons by the professed disciples of the cha charitable 1 I and pleading christ Is it not a tacit confession that in argument reason scripture scriptures they havo have no prevailing strength and therefore are compelled to let the strange thing alone or else fight it by force nut but whether the deCaY decaying ings discordant and reif belf divided system called christianity wields the weapons which alone may be 1 lawfully aw f ul i y u used se d ln in r religious ell eil g io u 8 w warfare pr rf a r e 1 0 or r 1 invokes n v 0 ke s t the he ni ald nid d 0 of f g secular e cu la p power 0 w e r civil military lo or diabolical bo lical the result will be ba the same sam e 6 mormonism 21 is but bat a nickname for the tho church andRing and kingdom dom of the living god set fet up on earth never to be ba thrown do wn for forever ever it is not a handful of united believers that are to bo be overcome comey but the lord god almighty who has haa introduced the beginning of his ris government on earth and who intends that it shall spread and prevail until the king hing kingdoms dome of this world become the kingdom of god and his christ and Bp spurious arlous chris mendom r with ith all the eions and creeds of mony meny men mon will fails falls fail fall like the millstone of the tho 1 s 10 into the depths of the denof bea of obal 1 v vion vlon lons ions and all peoples and deemed from error and and kinge raft and oppression of every kind shall willingly boothe bow the knea knee and serve and obey him |
