Show THE LATE SECTARIAN CON LAST week the clergymen of all the protestant denominations held a convention in this city pursuant to a published the object was as we understand it in brief to consider what steps should be taken to employ with greater efficacy the forces of sectarian religious influence in the present transition of the aspect of if affairs in general that is claimed to be is ia progress in utah in other words our sectarian friends had bad resolved to pose a little higher in the capacity of regenerators and somehow the tools they work with are not of the right sort consequently they remind a person of one woo attempts to dig down a mountain with a boiled carrot the implement gets broken but no impression is made upon the mountain which represents mormonism and is the object ot of sectarian assault it was announced by the learned learne dand and unlearned divines that the panacea th that atwould would effect the object desired comprises sua and the bible indeed these two agen cos which must be blended are exceedingly potent mormonism gaill incorporates both therefore we are constrained to sa say gentlemen in perpetrating that remigious religious ious chesnut yuu you are not nol even carrying coal to newcastle but approaching cromb pro aching ng that venerable town with practically an empty boat while you yon repudiate the teachings of the bible by wholesale no people on earth adhere more closely to them in f faith aith and practice than the latter day saints any one of the speakers of toe convention conven tiou undertook to 0 throw mud at them because ot ol their belief in and practice ot such new testament doctrines as the laying qu on of hands miraculous gifts of healing etc what an ineda sistena individual he must be to join in the advocacy of the spread of bidle bible doctrines to overthrow Morti aon I 1 I 1 and anc in ill toe same breath t tie e mormons cormons Mor mons for their acceptance ot of I 1 what tue toe good book teaches another wise man of the east who i has come west did not seem to relish the idea that the saints should i believe in revelation in apostles apo stleo prophets and other commissioned anu ana inspired officers such as characterized the church established by christ himself all this incongruous mixture of deplore ment and repudiation is exceedingly cee peculiar andi very far from flattery flat flattering teri g to those who indulge in it A reverend gentleman hailing from malad appeared bent upon E tricking out in an original if not a learned ch chauser chau ausel ael speaking of the mormon religion he said i the theory claims unity and life for the true church the result shows that today the disunion and contention among amone the followers of joseph smith are simply unparalleled in the history i of evangelical protestantism and are absolute proof that mormon claims are without foundation this gentleman is an innovator bei cause in addition to a desire to demolish the religion of tine the saints one I 1 would si suppose appose him to be fired with 1 unusual zeal to break down the pot pet theory of the generality of their opponents that the mormons cormons Mor mons ameteo are too solidly united it he believes disown statements in this latter regard h he e need not worry himself ov erthe decay of the system as disintegration Is As a sign of weakness and dissolution this gentleman is a little off however with regard to the history of protestantism which is nothing but bilt a heterogeneous mass of incon grous grou religious splinters whose nam ber beris i legion besides it is a self evident fact that from the days of the reformation when it was born it has been one continuous spitfire spit fire battle between the fragments it appears Is as it if there wha was but one subject UPOn which they are ready to fall upon each others necks and weep opposition to mormonism 11 la IR the days of christ chilst there was a similar unanimity the sects against him and his doctrine this latter day phase of religious religions inconsistency is ii bat a renewal newal of the same phenomenon one deluded member of tile the convention went so far as to assert that mormonism fosters infidelity 11 how true itts it is that some pi people eople have eyes it and cannot see ears and cannot hear their options are clouded with bigotry and their aural organs clugg plugged red with pr prejudice eudice nowhere in christendom is there the same proportion of et people who bow the knee to jehovah Jehova Lk as in utah II if it be infidel not to believe in existing religious religions which repudiate those portions of the word of god that are ace distasteful to the bulk of seeta tar rians lans and that set up a god other than the divine belog being worshipped wor shipped by abraham isaac and jacob then are the saints guilty that they are infidel to the religion of christ is totally untrue before professors of religion can expect to have any wiLh othe lat ter day saints they must show weir sincerity by their works if they believe thie bible of which they speak so glibly let them repent of bf their sins be baptized tor for the remission of them by one duly commissioned to administer that ordinance and receive the holy ghost by the laying on of hands bands walking bf in a all I 1 humility before the lord these doctrines doctrin ea being laid down by the good book as indispensable the sectarian way of saying one thing and doing another without making consistent people feel sick is ia being relegated to the place to which it belongs STAKE CONFER the paro carowan parowan wan stake conference convened in cedar city tabernacle march 31 and april 1 1888 president morgan richards ichards It jr proffered offered opening remarks expressing S sing pleasure in the privilege of meeting ng in quarterly conference in peace he reported the take stake in a very fair and prosperous condition the bishops and counselors gave favorable reports of the people under their immediate care as al W the various varius us organizations and schools in tae several wards the geheran and local authorities were presented and sustained by vote 0 of the couf conferences conference eren ceas as also a list of home missionaries reports of the stake and various organizations were read the speakers were president M richards jr and elders john P jones myron S roundy charles adams R 0 allen alien C U D adams robert B dalley dailey daniel leigh rees J williams R W heyborne john eyre U T jones P M jensen jos hunter and david matheson Mat beson the topics mainly spoken upon were fulfillment of ancient prophecy storing and savins saving grain training the youth first principles of the gospel sustaining the sabbath schools and a variety of other subjects edifying and instructive to the saints the various reports indicated that the saints were improving improving qute quite a number of the S saints a ints in the stacie had been afflicted during the past quarter with diphtheria dipti therla croup and bad colds etc but ti by the blessings of god but bew few had die died the usual priesthood meeting was held and business of the stake attended to the conference was unusually well attended and aad a good spirit prevailed rhe 8 singing ing and music oy ny the cedar c choir h 0 I 1 r added adde d greatly cratl y to the enjoyment of the saints who were present COD conference ference adjourned for three months to convene at carowan parowan Pa rowan WM H HOLYOAK i stake clerk |