| Show THE CAUSE OF THE ax AN anti mormon paper after pouring ingolt oat a tirade of invective against the advocates of equal rights in utah asks what is there in mormonism that gives it the right to keep the country in a turmoil year af after ter year As to the right of mormonism it is the same as that belonging to any other religious denomination in the country it has the right to place its claims before the world to send its missionaries wherever they can gain an 0 pening opening to promulgate its principles and to organize for their ZAvan advancement cement H if it succeeds in making a mark upon the rubic public mind it shows that it has some orce lorce and power it if it were like many of the dying denominations it would make no stir in the land and would not be worth talking about the turmoil that is kept up year after year is made more by suca persons and papers that ask the question than by mormonism or its advocates it does not assail them but they attack it it if it did not stand up in its own defense it would be a poor and flabb flabby affair but as tar far as right is concerns con concerned cerne y it has just as much right in law and in reason to arouse attention as methodism catholicism or any other ism the some very liberal people would accord us as is to hold our oar tongues while they misrepresent and revile us to bow down meekly while they put a yoke upon our necks to relinquish ila aish to hem hein all power political ana and otherwise ie and simply believe but not primul promulgate g ate or practice on our religion we do no not t propose to submit to this and hence the turmoil mormonism is a live religion it does not consist merely of something shut up in books it is a vital and vigorous system destined to move all mankind and work a change in the affairs of the world it does not seek or expect to accomplish anything by revolution or violence of any kind but it proposes to talk and to act it cannot be muzzled ed it cannot be fettered you may chain up some of its advocates or put them to a cruel death budmor but mormonism mon isip is deathless and unconfined it has come down out of heaven to live upon the earth it is a little leaven that is going to leaven the whole lump of society it is the resistance that is offered to it that makes the yeasty turmoil which some folk complain of of all the same it will go on and it cannot be stopped the reason why it is so opposed Is because it presents truths that have force and application today to day and that come in contact with the hoary errors of ages which have been venerated b by many generations those who iiii will not receive them but yet recognize their force become angry because they cannot ref refute ute them nor silence those who proclaim them then follow that violence which is the fruit of bigotry and that desire to destroy which is prompted by inability to overcome with reason coupled with unwillingness to acknowledge error the turmoil is sure to continue it will become more general as mormonism grows and advances we are not unmindful al of the likely results those who embrace it with all their hearts must expect turmoil and to meet a world in arms they must not shrink from the conflict that will be forced upon them if mormonism is not worth everything it is not worth anything and he who is not ready to forsake all things for it when needa need ulis fulis not worthy of its blessings As for its opponents it if they do not lakeit they are at liberty to let it alone but they seem to do that they must light fight it well then they should n not ot complain if the result Is turmoil 1 mormonism forces itself on no one it compels no one to embrace or support or stay with it but when it is attacked its natural and inherent vior vigor is manifested and it presents an attitude of strong defense it will not succumb nor f fuse us with the false systems of the times it has a mission on the earth and will strive to perform it lawfully peaceably but with determination and steady persistence and as sure as there is a god in heaven it will accomplish its wor work k the regeneration of the world and the establishment of therea the feign n of righteousness and truth for gog god is its author and promoter and the adversary who is the creator of turmoil will have to yield to the rule of heaven and the power ower of the everlasting king of peace peace |
