| Show NOT A PROBLEM The Presbyterian banner pittsburg 4 commenting on the progress of mor in this country and foreign 1 observes that the results of the S of the missionaries of the church a wonderful and adds the mormon problem Is by no r means solved its solution Is one of the 7 now staring the people of ithe the united states in the face and it has feben abeen greatly intensified by permitting utah to become one of the states of the TETa ioB aen a casual reader of this quota tn will perceive that the banner Is in several particulars there ehl to itt tact et no mormon problem in any sense than there Is for instance ertan or a lutheran problem t yell that st to is problematic about mormon abet exists in the imagination of appo generally destitute of all knowl tassi as aa to its principles doctrines and eq jpe it to is especially true that the F I 1 religious system mentioned to no problem pr Is staring taxing the eo alof ot the united states in the face it Is ft it offers nothing at which the volon as such must feel alarmed it is CZ iasso ilace to the institutions of this fifty or any other country its voi e ita and practice loyalty to the governments and have done even evan in the face of oppression and rooe ution standing on the funda mental principles embodied in the con mormonism only asks to be toed d the rights therein granted 4 lal with other religious systems dw luther and other champions of liberty it respectfully asks kl SWa bearing and to be judged by rea itom orthe word of god it has no A beems for the state otate to solve es of df the religion of the true living god have nearly always t that t faith on the pre pretense tenie of its loyalty 0 t to the state it was so in of the 06 babylonian nobles who to open the lions den to liel the he hebrew rew they found that success was greater than theirs g flaa that no matter how closely they watched veto him they could find no plaus atie iwase for action against him aeji Ae JF was aa problem in indeed deeda yet it was telva tv ba by an imperial decree the pur t wee of which the emperor himself was J H from suspecting the son of god was treated much in leasame way his death was de wisa J if it we mistake not the lessons d history chiefly because he lyriE eed with the scandalous traffic WT OBEtt the precincts of the temple in the mighty family of annas was at but even false testimony for conviction another Is e problem at last ingenuity S ed his teachings and made sitsa a pretender to the throne of da ivyl then in the hands of caesar and r at i was accomplished by the crows that according to ancient only themselves were the con akots i r zt tt to la the same with mormonism mormon ism i who ho have prejudged it and dek ats destruction have also been 1 for the so called problem t xai been said to involve but the PW eal problem or rather mystery is ah that people conversant with the fitter batter of the scriptures can see the c id erful work performed by the n the manifestations of al power that has sustained them more than halt half a century ot of il f fill and heroic struggle tor for their swa and that of their fellow Y men from the bondage of sin and yet deny the finger of god in that work that is an enigma a mystery of iniquity |
