| Show THE irrepressible MORMONS THE philadelphia american recen recently aly had a long editorial on the sible aible cormons mormons Mor Mort mons ly from which we take the following finding therefore that the church of jesus jeans christ of utter latter day saints which is the title of record of what is popularly esses known as mormonism niam pro lesses all that admitted christian sects profess both in matter and form it becomes a marvel that it has not only survived the vicissitudes that are the lot of new departures but has even grown steadily for fifty years its pilgrimage is in remarkable forced from the spot 0 of its 0 rigin origin it first pitched its tents in ohio again driven out it settled in illinois thence it was driven to domicile in missouri whence after a brief struggle it struck out for the heart of the continent and pitched its tents in the region about salt lake the mormons cormons lound bound a desert and they created a garden built temples and founded a great city far very far from the madding crowd to ignore this wonderful vitality this unprecedented in persistence rai stence under adverse circumstances in discussing the mormon question is to ignore what is really the most remarkable feature of the movement the lyof of constitutes the t to the pro problem em had it been a different race e there might have been something in that to account for the survival but the movement was originated and has always been carried forward by the anglo saxon race it has recruited itself chiefly from that stock it had some undeniably deni ably superior intellects at its head and within its jurisdiction J jurisdiction uris diction it has governed successfully it is of course a hierarchal force but its economic results indisputably prove that it has governed skillfully fully and wisely having converted an arid land into a maze of fertile farmsteads its chiefs pushed bushed out colonies in different directions wherever it planted colonies they flourished becoming truculent in success the hierarchy defied the federal government added plural marriage to its institutions tut ions and set itself to check all colonization not in its interest these were its great mistakes and it found itself arrayed not only against the civil power 0 of f the nation but against the moral sense of the millions outside of its habitat there could be only one solution of the problem another departure accordingly it has turned out and turning their faces to the sol southward athward the mormons cormons have invaded two mexican states and taking up the rioh rich valley lands have already transformed the wilderness into smiling farm thi is doubtless preliminary to the migration of the hierarchy in which case the mormon problem will be solved so far as this count country ry is concerned and the books will be closed there are two errors in the foregoing which need correcting one is that the hierarchy by which the mormon church Is 18 mistakenly designated set itself to check all colonization not in its interest and the other is that the mormons cormons Mor mons speaking of them as a body have set their faces to the southward preliminary to the migration of the hierarchy into mexico it is not true that the incoming of people unfavorable to the mormon interest has been prevented or checked by the church and it is not true that any extensive migration of the mormon people into mexico has occurred or is contemplated the rest real of the article puts the subject fairly but mormonism niem I while being essentially christian in its doctrine and discipline does not accept the vagaries of the various sects its ito steady growth in the past is a promise of its future vitality and progress and at no very distant date the world will have to acknowledge lege that it is a religious power in the earth |
