| Show AN interesting controversy wim WB learn from the republican of scranton pennsylvania that a preacher of lancaster in that Sta State haa lately been taking a lancaster editor severely to task for sneering qt pt the preachers and at religion the preacher is the rev mr hark and the editor is 1 s mr hensel of the the editor has been taking up the cudgels in defense of mormon polygamy at least to the extent of refusing to believe that it to is more immoral than a certain other offense against the marital relations which exists in nearly every community in the course of some the editor has dragged king bolemon bolor uon into the controversy and expressed the opinion that the king of israel believed his bis practices to be in accord with the moral law the preacher on the other hand beli believes evos that solomon knew he was sinning when he practiced dolgy anoy amy an and d that he was defying the morl moral law in the pursuit of pleasure the editor replies that lit uis entrenched in his position behind solomons proverbial wisdom and argues that if he was a wisman he could not have knowingly i m n gressed ed a law by doing those thing thin hicl he know knew to be wrong the c n rr sv promises to become hig hia by alei sti sting it if pursued far enough T ed or does not assume that po a ai it ids us day and in this country i nl lit iwu e but he does adhere at siro ro y i ine theo theory that it was all t he ys ya of solomon the editor has much the best of the controversy so far and an lie he ji light inight with consistency go even ft f ther nd lid take stronger stron er ground an 1 aln nn i it A what was right right in one age c 1 in I tic no bf bavery very wrong in another a her to ads a 6 practice that was pi ii an boned ouedia if not expressly corm comi 11 1 d I I 1 ti alie e li almighty in the days i vid id A other ancient worthies canno consistently be regarded as contrary to his will in this age seeing that nothing in disapproval j of it can be found in the bible |
