Show A LIGHT THAT ENLIGHTEN in a recent editorial in the new york sun on the mormon temple the disposition to be unfair to join in with that class which has bag made anti mormon lain its study by day and its dram by night until the mind has ba become so ao warped that it is incapable of even an iju involuntary voluntary impulse the other way la Is PO manifest mani tet that any un reader must be b struck with it at a glance it to is abe the more because following an introductory paragraph of unusual fairness one in which the writers writer a v i active honesty and disposition to be fair evidently have away all or nearly all after it la gc go much pandering to the ignorant prejudice of a misguided populace and as aa kuch to is undignified uncalled for and strangely incongruous the paragraph spoken of is as aa follow e the faith or foresight which induced brigham young and his little band or of mormons cormons to lay the foundation of a vast mormon temple at salt lake city cily forty years ago was justified in the dedication ot of the completed edifice last thursday this huge temple has cost more that or more than any other religious edifice in the union though the estimated cost of the cathedral of st john the divine to be erected in this thic city is about it the formell former 1 is of a structure so BO massive that it will remain for centuries unless destroyed by accident or intentional violence it will be observed that there to is no ne special praise in these lines whereby they commend themselves to our attention tent lou they am to simple statements ut of fact fac containing nothing by way of endorsement or censure and facts ou ht bt to be good enough in auy case came whether used m a swords or abl shields elde but facts long continued relating to a cause which a majority of the worlds people have elected to be unpopular galgat militate against the popularity ot the paper and doubtless realizing thill thie the writer within a few lines linea thereafter switches off to the track on oil which the aD approval of the greater nume num er will n not t be a matter of question he says the ilabe day of the dedication ot of the temple was also the sixty third anniversary of the foundation of mormonism mormon ism in 1830 joseph smith printed and published the book of mormon which he professed to have discovered at Maue manchester beater a hamlet in western now new york under angelic angell 0 direction and guidance his elio 8 story was that he be found it burled buried in a b box orz and that the revelation was written I 1 on thin gold plates 2 the sun every day prints as tho the truth matter le ie ported to it when its only evidence that such is tile the case to in the unsupported supported uni statement of the per son who claims to have seen or heard the things spoken of and in mt claw such person is utterly unknown to the journalist but that it cannot or affects that it cannot believe statements duly verified by reputable refutable men when statements happen to be an endorsement of the correctness correct nees of the history of mormon lom binm as an told by its fout derp Is apparent iu it the lines which follow really it was a manuscript written fifteen or twenty ears before by a cranky preacher as aa a historical romance of which smith had obtained abion he was an almost illiterate young man of a bad inheritance of qualities but at once he found many people who were ready to accept his imposture as a veritable message from god one of the earliest accessions new dew religion thus fabricated was brigham painter and glazier irom from vermont in which state also smith himself was born fiot 37 odi only y dov does i s the sun repudiate the evidence ol of evidence made good in accordance with the forms forma of law jaw and which would be received in any civilized court but fl proceeds upon a plan peculiar to bigots to bauw that the truth to la the reverse of such evi evidence evidences dencel Rea really fly 12 it begins with well really then how does the editor know kno he does not give himself the benefit of any doubt debba antho in the matter sit at all but proceeds to demolish established h hots hote ote with no more trenchant weapon than his hia own icae dixit he does not know that what be alleges is the truth he has ha every severy reason for believing that what be seeks to rebut Is in the truth and yet he be gevea out his hia threadbare falsehoods with the preface of a yI and ABU then look at the manner in IB which the sun descends from dignity to scurrility in its treatment of the subie oi it does not weaken an argument in the least to call distinguished men by the names which those who uphold their cause and advance their principles 0 call 11 them dropping off kofl the christian name is baij bad enough in the case of a mau man whom a quarter of a million of educated edu cited ed christian people honor but further on it appears the writer la Is not contented with even abut thatis it is not scurrilous enough for the rabble and the first name is abbreviated another state ment that cannot be proved by the paper or by any man or combination of men on earth is the succeeding one VA to the founders qualifier itier tiep it its ia some thing like the be ignorance saturated w th malice which prevailed among the she more ignorant on both sides idea in the civil war jedla adavis to the northern illiterate was wan a murderer of infants infante a horrid monster and a wretch destitute of every moral and quality while fabes abe lincoln to the ignoramus of the south was a baboo u part and a common loither loit lost fer only the tun sun cannot interpose the poor plea of ignorance nor are we willing to regard it as altogether malice the cause of the disposition to so write is contained further back in this article we think there is much more of the some same kind only some of it ja is worse in the article spoken of conclusions are adduced from assumed premises and bald statements not always consistent one with another are set down as facts it all ail goes to show that there are wore more spots on the sun than were previously dreamed of in our philosophy |