| Show DOES WOT NOT FAVOR THE BILL thic tax biblical record has the following to say about the new legislation pending in congress against the mor mons i while believing that many of the mormons cormons are honest and conscientious in their views of mormonism we havo have never regarded their organization as a church or their creed of faith as a religion within the provisions of the constitution that only can be considered a religion that receives the general consent of christian nations as such and is moral in its teachings and S radices practices polygamy as a system of elief belief and practice is a violation of all our moral and civil laws it ls is therefore as a system to be destroyed yet while we thus favor the suppression of this vice we do not favor the act recently passed by the senate committing to commissioners ners the material interests of the mormon church we believe such a bill to be cont contrary raTy to the spirit of the constitution and that should it become a law it will work great evil the mormons cormons are an industrious quiet ople and should be protected in all their rights and should be allowed to practice everything in their creed not in conflict with the moral sense of the people or in violation of the fundamental f u laws of our country I 1 I 1 the record would probably be puzzled to give a correct definition of the creed of faith accepted by the mormons cormons Mor mons but it is able to perceive the wrong and robbery contemplated in the bill now before congress the idea that only that can be called a religion which receives the general consent of christian nations Is is very absurd bythan by that rule ananew any new christian sect would be declared outside the pale of religion and the areat great religions of the world like buddhism etc would be designated designated as not religions at mh all the general consent of christian t an n nations has nothing to do with tile the truth or falsity of aej any system A few years ago that I 1 general consent would have been denied to each of the now prominent dissenting denominations and to go back a little further would have shut out as religion the whole cyst system e in ot of protestantism with all its offshoot shoots off ts mormonism is isa a religion because it is a system of faith and worship of god which affects the whole lives and acts of its adherents and it is the christian religion because it is set up by christ himself and is carried on under his divine authority the record should find out what the creed of faith of the mormons cormons Mor mons consists of before deciding so confidently that it s not a religion |
