Show CLERGY AND WORLD THE atta ama california of april 28 has the following for its leading editorial organization and operation cooperation co are roces forces that should be into th field to fight poverty crime and disease Ua ease bishop fountin huntington 1 ton has re antly spoken his mind mu af as to the alc place plc held by his church and its ecclesiastical organization in the practical poetical economy of the world lie he 18 sot not with it his espres on of dissatisfaction applies equally to 9 nearly every other prot bant extant church organization orga niza tion what ty seem to need is an intelligent and profound inal influence bence in the wery overy day practical affairs of this world orld why should christian communities muni ties have so much crime and g everty D verty erty and why should christian t have such oppressive public abts and why should three great professions processions process ions ons start from the cradle he bound for the prison another fot the poorhouse and the third for the tte insane asylum these groces Qs never lack recruits the people who march in them increase in numbers out of proportion to the in abase of population the sitting 11 churches the increase in wor shipping dipping congregations may not keep ep pace with the population but lao matter the insane who chew their steu tongues and shriek as they oh the paupers haupers who whine and obiter and the criminals who jest qa 04 their way to jail keep kee up the th e ta Sage and account for the loss 1088 the e march begins with the cradle i W 10 it ends with the grave and ads bftts and hearts are broken as the sf lines diverge to the three trent erent institutions which va has provided to shelter the re vw tor for which it seems to be res ble each force of society 1 bear ear its ta share 0 of the e rayf I and according to bishop the pulpit is getting ake to its part paa in reducing the sidlee ies of human life he a clergy would seem to need a of 01 wider grasp of the practical affairs life 6 A pastor il if the he suggestions of tt the 11 bishop are am to be accepted a wt have an equipment that will se him to be sought for sound vw in matters that concern the hah and economies of the body 4 6 is now sought ha for r comfort in uee afflictions of the soul which 4 re TO the common lot of man t 18 safe to say that a large per itose 0 of the ne cays causes which wh I 1 c h lead to ty crime and I 1 insanity anity might averted by timely and wise council so many fall fail for lack nf if knowing how to stand and ehg they might know if only the trusted a adviser were at hand our great churches have much to learn and more to teach in the physics of life and yet they equip their clergy only for metaphysics acs ics if they only could have clergymen who are not only strong in prayer but sharp in a horse trade they would fill a want which we believe is felt more and more every year if they could not only advise and the conversion of the young but with keen insight into their capacities could also advise ad vise the profession they should follow or of the handi handicraft cratt they should learn the pulpit would regain its vital hold upon men and by equi equipping ing them better for this life would fit them more easily for the life to be the of the of some people whom they teach their flocks cecyle to despise le me I 1 would be of benefit if f t the te american pulpit were asked what organization in the country might be studied with the least profit for useful suggestions beneficial in the moral and material concerns of the people we are persuaded that a large majority would answer the mormon church of U utah tab its ite practice of polygamy condemns it at once and men turn from it with aversion and disgust and condemn its people to vicious pursuit and rigorous punishment but suppose we forget about polygamy for awhile and honestly look 01 ook into the jails poorhouses poor houses and insane asylums lumson of that community of souls let us get the detail and the sum of individual municipal county and territorial debt let le t us examine carefully the standard of official honor see what is the ratio of defalcations in office of carru corrupt nse of off official leial position and hones honestly y strike a balance in these matters with the surrounding states and territories which are not shadowed by polygamy the balance is creditable to mormon utah and yet it has I 1 a mixed population it has tapped europe below the line of lees it has on hand the same problems of education and assimilation that afflict other communities which receive a higher claw class of european immigration bishop newman of the methodist church has just said we have the race question to settle as between american born and foreign born but that question does not seem to trouble utah where order is the rule lawis law is supreme industry is universal and the man manliest fiest of qualities have con quested a desert and graced it with homes over it all esthe cloud of polygamy but aside from that the silver lining of temperance virtue economy and public and private honor offers a subject for philosophic study if we were asked to give reasons for the existence of of so many desirable things in that mormon land which make it exceptional we with present lights would answer that it is due to the practically helpful character and qualities of the mormon ecclesiastical ecclesiastic al establishment charged with the sin of polygamy that church may challenge the rest of the country to 0 a show of facts and figi algis ires aik oik t ate rate of taxation the economy of public expenditures the grade of official honor bonor the perfection of public schools and universality of edua education and the percentage of insanity pauperism and crime we declare without fear that no co community of like population and as to mixture of nationalities can safely accept the challenge and stand the comparison and all aal this not because of but in of it all this lead in the race with a millstone around the mormon neck surely such a condition may well be studied not by critics but by philosophers all men know that if any other church organization could point to such results of its domination adint on of a or state it would trumpet the fact to the world but here is just that situation standing ready for study what we say may be startling it may be unpleasant it maybe misunderstood I 1 but we will be glad g to say it of jew or gentile catholic or protestant and that some one may sometime and somewhere be able to say it of each we piously and persistently hope but whether in utah or elsewhere the clergy and the worm world need opportunities for study of ih tho conditions of a more mor practical relation to each other eche the great and wide reaching church organizations have the machinery if some genius will set it in motion instead of depending on his flock th the should make it depe depend pd on wm not as the of inq inquiry ry the fhe blockader bf progress or the agent of superstition su a but as a guide phila opre opher r and friend in the daily kocun ing emergencies and material trials of the flesh as well as in the metaphysical epidemics which furnish work for the revivalist and evangel and for the bedside bedelle bed elde practitioner of theology it may be answered that the mass of mankind are self poised and self reliant in these material re respects but if this be so why do the thew then awful and solemn process lo hade less hapless and forlorn keep kwapp sip from the cradle to the 0 poorhouse dor ouse the madhouse and ehte the i prison son thoy are facts and they deac teach while thoy they terrify if they are noni n 0 r aventi bl then all that wip we hay have D said jd is in vain avaiu if they are let prevention be studied wherever light catt cat be had |