Show AN unmitigated SNUB THE ministers association of this city have taken up a labor with the organ of the sectarian clergy of utah in order to induce it to cease the issuance of its sunday edition in support of their position the gentlemen of the cloth present four reasons all of which are sound enough hut obey hey have no more weight with the parties addressed than the pouring of so much water on a ap rubber coat the signers of the appeal aber areal G ce pastor first presbyterian church john E hurlburt pastor phillas Phil lios lbs congregational church J A krautz pastor swedish lutheran church W S hawkes supt bupt congregational mission work F L annh astor aster westminster presbyterian church de witt D forward castor first baptist church it is pleasing to note the fact that the plea put forth in the east that there is need to christianize the cormons mormons Mor mons seeing they believe ir IB and practice a genuine system of christianity is beginning to be acknowledged as a mero mere pretense this effort on the part of the clergy to convert the publishers of their own organ is in the line of an admission nal selon in that direction but note the ungrateful reply of the object of ministerial solicitation it says the argument turned around may be made to read this way for certainly there is no valid reason why a minister of the gospel should open his bis place of business on the sabbath in order to make his weekly salary for the alleged mal salvation of the publio public nine tenths of whom never hear him which would not equally justify etc al 21 of signers of the ministerial appeal to the publishers of the sunday morning edition had been pi placed aced in a row and a member of the editorial staff of the paper designated for the purpose had bad twisted each clerical nose in turn between his thumb and finger the snub might have been a little worse than the one administered but not judg muan |