Show written for aw pow paper infallibility WHAT OF IT it IB 10 many years ago since we listened troed abroad toa setting forth of the doctrine ot of infallibility as vested in ID the pope probably many of the details of the argument are not remembered but the gist thereof was wag that be was lithe abe representative of the odeeg the most noble the most glorious dynasty the world bad ever reedil been th tbt t besides this he be was the representative of divine rule and authority the head of the church the vicegerent of god it il was further understood that his hie dictation in neat matters or of faith and morals morale V to the 19 universal church was marked by the attribute of infallibility be being the personification a cation of jesus christ who was wad V e first head bead of all things unto the church it was also shown that the true catholic was wag not at liberty to disregard the words of the pope when be spoke lupow matters of politics for the reason that not cintr political matters held a very lot i mate connection with things pertaining to faith ad moral 2 so bo that as a corollary if the pope was infallible whenever be taught the universal un iveral church in matters of faith and morals wherever politics touched either and be taught the church as polle be was I 1 fallible in this also alno time thus broadly stated all good Catho catholic liot it was claimed would be agreed but the abe liberal outs ones who raid paid that the pope nope had bad no right to meddle with politics said more than ban their pra prayers yero 11 and who further said that ithe the pope papa could make mistakes in politics and that therefore they were at liberty to choose for whatever he be might say on such mat matters terp were not considered fit to be members of minor organizations in the church much less of the church itself now this was in conservative england and probably would be unpalatable to the american judging from a thousand manifestations and a certain antipathy to ecclesiastical controls control even where ao an influence may be used or based on vastly more logical gf grounds for most lievers would admit the intimacy between morality and faith the church and religion being as much the guardian tiu ardlan of one as of the other there is however another phase of thought and argument which occupies but lit tie attention and that is that obedience is required in all departments of life although it may not be asked for or expected on the assumption of any claim as to infallibility simple as to the catholic believer or perverted and misrepresented so as that principle msty be by the entire protestant world the exactions of obe obedience alence are everywhere predicated on authority whether in the abe home the school or the church obedience in the first is never dever urged because fathers and mothers are deemed to be infallible 12 there must be order d ne restraint and obedience parental control must be unquestioned there must be re to the voice of authority and as it is in in the home so it must be in the school in business and in the church hydra headed rule would be as monstrous aud and as mythical as the fancied serpent of a barbarous age for the teacher is not honored and obeyed because he to is lo infallible fallible any more than the bishop end ad the scholar the pupil cupl listens to this voice or dobao would come again agal a so bo the good devout catholic recognizes the voice of authority the pope to ham to the supreme voice and while local authority may be the medium between the pontiff and the people in all general matters yet the lesser authority to la also alio entitled to respect honor and obedience as the representative of the higher ani to obey Is i necessary logical praiseworthy and as oear near absolute as ae things can be yet men do not obey their bishop because they doom deem him infallible but because lie he is in his bis sphere superior he be is appointed and if the first authority is divine so also alao is the second if the first authority is in from god so is the latter it Is his to command and it is for the people to obey and insubordination would be as an fatal in the church as in the home or school that two it is true rue in the church as a church is also true in IB the state laws are made to be honored and executed and no secular govern government ment bases its authority on the plea pies of infallibility fil laws may be arbitrary and unjust may day amount to oppression way may even invade the domain of religion of faith and morals as the people of these valleys leys have found at a serious east but there has been obedience not because courts were deemed infallible inlall ible god forbids not even because of diplomacy or of force but there was as much bueb of an evolution of principle in obeying an unjust and tyrannical law until that was repealed or became obsolete as in carrying out another principle which was known to be right and true and deemed and lawful until an adverse decle ion was reached in the he courts and probably even now this opinion may remain unchanged it is true no such protest may have emanated from the Mormon church as an would have doubtless come from the catholic church under similar invasion of ef matters matter of faith and moral nor has the former church whatever its ILS claims as an yet ventured to protest against acts act of tyrannical procedure in the home or foreign governments ern orn ments as the pope did when on behalf of his bis roil religious glows subjects in poland years ago he be stood alone amid the civilized civIl izod powers as the personifi person ca tion liun of right liberty and honor against the colossus of the north the argument used in this land has been that the catholic was disloyal that be held a divided allegiance sou and know noab ingiso was based ou this as was fras that organization called the amorine s but is the catholic religionist lose less patriotic than a the protestant sy or can either say eay that the mormon religionist lonist to is less so than they because he be accepts joseph smita brigham Y ung wilford woodruff or any other nan isian as an the prophet of the living gods god and the pontiff of his church nay does not hold as an a matter of conscience eDcar the right to value the opinion of respected leaders on politics as all affecting faith and morals alst as does the catholic the episcopalian the methodist or the humblest who in alliance with any church respects the opinion and counsel of ble bis pastor as equal at least to that of the demagogue the ward heeler or the partisan of cf decided type whether you call him democrat republics republican 0 populist or the question la in pertinent even now la Is not the man who accepts accents his bla religious faith as from god who given allegiance to the voice of authority who seeks to square himself by the principles of rectitude and juanice ju jui atice stice and who would transfuse into official life the abiding sense of re to god as adwell well as aa Ma kanmore man more DWore likely to be incorruptible than the one who only seeks a position for what it Is IR worth and works for the suf frages of ble bia follows fellows that he may have a comfortable berth at the public crib without a loftier aim it would be a grand thing in this territory in the now new state in other states in the general government if scrupulous conscientious incorruptible men held bold the reins reine of power and it if these could counsel with their religious leaders leaden men of groat great experience to la control would not this inure it if possible to the general gloo go on the pope sways awaya the mentality lity the spirituality the faith faigh and morals 10 of many millions be la Is ti tA millar with power be knows of human nature his hia experience eta ce is ia comparatively infinite organization adaptation success is ia written to in a universal language on the forehead of the catholic church and the ame can Os be said in a loss less degree of we the mormon 12 church brigham young was no ho he was a king among men be was waa a statesman teaman ata and probably more of a practical executive than big bia illustrious predecessor joseph smith but both could have given points to any ephemeral Preel president dent of the united states whose term usually expires ere be learns to bold the be reins of power A lifelong life long iong experience As la that of these great and prom prominent inept churchmen and it would be folly to deny that they were not raised to their notable eminence by the divine band and that they recognized this fact themselves indeed that they sought and received in varied degree perchance those hose keys of power which are no do more et ee in sacred than in so sc called secular things keye keya which politicians usually ignore anu so bis baaba their rule antho on the shifting sands of expediency when they might bass base all national progress and greatness great on the rook rock of an undisputed 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