| Show THE SILENT FORCE OF TRUTH AN exchange which is published in the interest of working people and called ahe Ber remedy nedy has the annexed pointed paragraph freedom will not come until the people unite onue but the people until they know what they unite for and they will never know that never will unite until the they fully learn certain grand truths political parties cannot unite them old parties nor new parties trades unions cannot unite them knights of labor cannot unite theme them alliances and confederations cannot unite them for parties and organizations have power only as they have truth itis it is the power of truth and that only that can ever unite the people nothing else yet few men really understand der stand d this good men who will I 1 reely freely spend days and dollars to organize to mild and to make a noise and a show how w will ill very grudgingly spend minutes and and ce cents ants to quietly spread the truth As yet men know little litile of the silent irresistible power of truth and in their ignorance make little use of it I 1 there have been a great many foolish and mistaken notions expressed concerning the influence that unites the mormon people we admit they are not as united as they ought to be all things considered but there is a cohesive force among them that is potent and marked and is generally recognized what is it the common answer is the power of the priesthood pa this in the euse enee i t in which it is uttered is a most egregious mistake the influence that unites the mor mons mono is the spirit of of truth it is 18 a power that accompanies all truth of every kind when any truth la Is perceived by several persons it makes them one so far as that perception extends people oan can be brought to the unity of the faith both in natural and in spiritual things no matter what maybe may be said about the variety of minds mind and the differences existing in humanity any number of persons who desire truth can be brought to see eye to eye they thue become one to the extent that the they see alike desire after truth and readiness to accept lt it causes action in that spirit of truth which illuminates the natural light may be set in motion and enables the eyes to behold the visible universe the power of the priesthood in the mormon chu Church reb apart from that administrative authority that relates related to ordinances and ceremonies is in exercised for the dissemination of lelit light by the presentation of truth truth there is no force work in it it ii bears beam no right and claims no rule of compulsion its influence is to enlighten persuade and bring people to the unity of the faith when they believe alike they we are united the more they agree in mind the greater is their unity the more they are one in spirit the stronger to is the power of their union of effort and the spirit of truth operates upon them in their collective capacity and makes them free as well as mighty for as set forth in the quotation above it is the truth that makes men free this is one of the doctrines of christ there never was a greater error than that which attributes mormon unity to mormon nl priestly coercion anything in the nature of binding the souls of men is absolutely antagonistic to the doctrine spirit and tendency of the mormon system and wherever it is indulged in it to is through the folly and errors of men and is not mormonism P but a violation of its fundamental principles to destroy mormon unity it is necessary to destroy mormon faith not faith in men that is not the potent influence among them they are am sometimes compelled to lose faith in men because of the weakness of humanity made painfully manifest but when that is lost as to an individual it is not affected as to principle and it to Is principles not men upon which mormon faith is centred cen tred principles that have emanated from deity and have been 06 made plain by ba the spirit of truth there are no people freer than the mormons cormons Mor mons from any force or coercions chions or compulsion from their leaders in church or secular affairs they are a people with convictions these have brought them from afar and from divergent points to one centre these have united them in spirit these hold them together and when they act as a body it Is from an inward common assurance that it is right to do so and it is lone from choice they soe see alike alik ethey they act as one they have come to the unity of the faith and the truth they have received makes them one in heart and free in action it is 18 the silent irresistible power of truth and the spirit that attends it that form the moving force which the enemies of mormonism dislike and fear |
