Show MORMONISM AND infidelity WE give place today to a reply to one point ja in mr chas ellis letter published in a previous issue of the NEWS the writer takes a correct view in the main of the relative positions of mormonism and infidelity it is true that in their essence they have nothing in common mormonism Mormon iBin means faith in its ito fullest religious sense infidelity means unfaith UEl faith falth or disbelief als belle in divine things but everybody who is called an infidel does not deserve that appellation as it to la commonly used aeed we are all lievers to some extent that lo is things that are believed by some of us are di disbelieved believed by others and that which is divine in some persons 2 eyes is absurd to the vision of people who are just as rational and sincere as they it has become common to call any one an infidel who does not accept the orthodox ideas of deity and the christian religion and yet there is more true faith and genuine christianity among many who are unorthodox than exists in the breasts of some professing religionists infidelity then as the term is frequently used must not always be treated no Hs opposition to true religion it if it is meant to express the idea of aderial a denial or disbelief of god and revealed religion I 1 in D general genera of course there is nothing in it I 1 cuan mon men with mormonism nirm p but what we understand mr ellis ellia to mean is that mormonism Mormon iBm I will fi nd that J justice ustice fairness and aid I 1 la a defence of its lawful Jil liberties bertles among adiong the people who are classed alamed as infidels which have been denied them by professing christians in the orthodox religious abeta and there them is some truth in what he be advances we have known so called infidels to stand up for those equal rights which Mor Morna mODS should enjoy in common with all other believers in christ while religious min illers and their very pious fo followers lloweN employed violence to prevent the exercise of these rights another thing we have met with men and women denounced as infidels by orthodox church members who fervently believed in the existence of ill a supreme being in the eternal principles of truth honor justice right and retribution and in doing good to their fellows for the love of it while they disbelieved in the organized forms of religion as the inventions of men they vehemently opposed what they honestly considered cant hypocrisy pretence predence pre tence and soul dise consistency char charity devotion to a just cause jand find eye everything that is beautiful in ia cultured humanity from such infidels so as these we believe Mormon lam lew P inthey properly understood it bould receive the support which mr ellis ellia suggests aug geets N not 11 perhaps through their faith in it as a divine system but through their love of fairness and equal rights and ald their sturdy hostility to injustice and intolerance therefore while it la is true that mormonism and infidelity are utterly incompatible also that the triumph of the former will be achieved by the aid of influences higher than any human agency it is nevertheless reasonable to believe that in the struggle for c ivil civil and religious liberty the mormon people are far more likely to receive help from so called infidels than from the orthodox sects the hired clergy and the self sufficient pharisee pharisees Pharis ees of the nineteenth century who would deny to the mormons cormons Mor mons even the right to the common title of Christ christians lans p |