| Show iran us OB Is carroad number of the he Juvon juvenile ile instructor la in looking over Us its excellent contents we find and the following fol towing article the able you pen 0 of the editor of that wag magazine under the general head bead of topics of th abe e times it will be read with much interest abe topic now most talked about probably is the prosecution of the suit auit by the government befort before the examiner president john taylor the trustee in trust while he be lived and andrad had the niana management gement and control of the properties of the church had but bat little confidence in any plan which bo w heard board agg unvested to save the prop rt from fro appi 0 spoliation lation he seemed led 0 atee beep issue congress had bad raised by byl abe b passage so sa I 1 p of the F amunds ly e aw and q openly etly he I 1 al 1 averse to putting in it e erlof tile church 0 ob of his arop bands ands khot WR t ibe hope 0 e to saye gaye it ate he farm arg ly gd bat hat we had bad ic acquired aai t 8 property honestly and law fall tally it was the bird bard earned fruits of toe in industry stry of the people which they had cc consecrated ra to te the service 9 ef the lord co it was used need only for proper pur mud and was a source of benefit to all a and injury to none and was not in a either la in value or extent of that pip W anich aich was as needed to carry I 1 on the the lord had bad BS 0 1 o Q perform fn an the he i most vigorous rp og 9 4 Hage a ge lie be fe e age this his plan to poise tai the a p property rc of t the church as a scheme p robbery only equalled equal led by thy combinations tio of mobs in former days to drive us from our ou homes rhomes and teal steel our property it was violence nee and ana greed g to conduct its plundering operations under theonise of law alea the congress of t the nation enacts a law of 91 this character and the government and aad ita officials feel themselves compelled to enforce it who what hope can the people have he be would sky say to resist their attacks or to save their property pro erty from the contemplated ro robbery on the alde aide of the government the law folau and all their machinery with full fall power to execute any and all decrees we would lie as powerless be fore them as we were in missouri before the organized mobs turned loose upon us by the sanction of 0 governor lilburn W boggs the dominant beelin feeling gindis in his mind appear to be if corig congress re is determined to take our property in this manner property which is honestly and law tully lully ours by all the laws of god and man and upon which they have not a shadow of claim no more in fact than a band ot highwaymen hio higa waymen would have upon the property of the peaceful traveler or thin than a gang of pirates would have upon tile cargo of the legitimate me merchantman upon the high seas then having the power and we not being in a position to ully resist they must take the consequences quen ces we have endured such flagrant outrages and leli lefi our cause in tae hands of ef god before we could do so again president taylor had a lofty lefty sense sease of duly he felt to the fullest extent the responsibility P 0 risibility which rested upon him as the peoples trustee in tr trust ast he held himself accountable to god and to them for all that had bad been placed in lais bis hands it this were wrenched from him by a power he could not resist he would have to submit and leave to a higher court than any earthly tribunal the defence and vindication of his rights but in nu at other way did he feel to yield an iota of that which had been entrusted to him the seizure within a few days past of SOW SM shares of gas stock claimed by the officers of the government and the receiver to be trie tae property of the church f fully ally reveals even it if weir previous conduct in relation to other property had not done so what we may expect the seizure ana and confiscation of every dollars worth of property that can by any possibility be claimed as having belonged to the church Cht |
