Show TEMPLE AND ITS BUILDERS the smart writers on newspapers in this ble and other cities have not yet concluded their observations and oom corn ments menta on the dedication of the salt lake temple it would be uninteresting aud therefore useless to quote or reply y to many of the views expressed where imbecility or bitterness carries carriee its own refutation other views however are of more friendly tone these being the great majority and they give utterance to sentiments that are in the highest degree gratifying since they breathe the true trub christian spirit of charity and at most moat argue a desire to win those who may be deluded hack bask to the pure form and essence of godliness by moral suasion and peaceful meana the old time popularity of such talk as this from the pittsburg commercial Ua casette jazef sette te the evident fact is ia that mormonism wounded au as it la is must eventually die and someone now living may yet see the great building dedicated april 6 occupied as aa a methodist episcopal or presbyterian western university la is now BOW noticeable for its rarity and newspapers of every shade ahado of creed and politics take up the cudgels against the insinuation declare boldly tuat that the mormons cormons have been a misjudged aud and an outraged people and that the broad folds of the american flag bag should cover anti and pro even this most unpopular sem in their rights of conscience and of property it to is true that many who are other wise wige just and accurate in their hold that the system called mormonism is is in a declining state and that the great temple recently dedicated way may outlast tho the religion on this point it is in interesting to observe that the religious press to la somewhat skeptical As aa a sample we quote from the now new york Chr christian ishan advocate which in its attempted sarcasm expresses a solemn truth in an age and country in which the sublimated nonsense of chriatian science the puerilities of spiritualism the fanaticism of anti means faith healing and the munchausen tales of theosophy are not only tolerated bat gulped down while their dupes like children listening to fairy tales cry for more it is in not improbable that Nor Monno monism niam will last a long time this la is but equivalent to the aeder wn that intha in the multitude of false lights to waved bato before re the eyes of the world there d is bound to be confusion fusion uncertainty and gradually fisl disintegration in which condi tibb to is it not fair to believe that the searcher minor after truth will eventually turn his attention to a system within which his hie doubts are dispelled his uncertainty IK le removed and his bis skepticism replaced by the sure testimony many of atthe the comforter ane christian advocate argues ironically but well the greater the number of false tome and foolish va vagaries garles the less reason to is there to anticipate the downfall of a faith founded upon a ibok among adherents the humblest and the least learned may enjoy as thoroughly as the mightiest and nd the most eminent a knowledge of the divinity of the worship that made them one in the bonds of christ we hope the splendid building dedicated last month will last into and through the earths earth Is glorious millennium and we can assure our esteemed and all their esteemed readers that what the world calls mormonism will live until that time and a great deal longer |