| Show controversy the news very often receives from missionaries and frields frier clippings from newspapers containing ait tacks tin on and the doctrines preached by the elders of the church they art are generally accompanied by a roque quest fit to refute the falsehoods false boods pub fied sometimes we have felt called upon to comply with the request but 4 r jp diore oft this has not been done T the be reason la Is obvious the refutation thorough would not have the desired effect since it would fall fail through a utah joural jour nial to reach the arble ot off readers for which it would be intended the proper way to meet the attacks tacks would be through the papers where they are made it is noticeable that most of the objections raised i to mormonism are founded on absolute misunderstanding of its principles and on the misrepresentations that were so common years ago but which never have g gained credence among well informed people all religious denominations have similar difficulties to contend with in localities where they are in a minority what protestants say about catholics and vice versa is everything but complimentary even some so called ecclesiastical histories his written from different points of view bristle witto with insinuations and tales of horror no less soul stirring than those published against the latter day saints the rne way to meet all such difficulties which have followed the work of the almighty on earth since the beginning is by pure self sacrificing lives in the midst of men on the part of the exponents of the system attacked and by humbly and fearlessly yet in all wisdom proclaiming the truth it was in this way that the first followers of jesus gained the day against overwhelming wh elming odds in eloquence they with their rural dialect could not mot compete with the orators of the age in worldly I learning they were no match for the followers of the great philosophers but when in the name of the master they brought health to those physically sick and peace to the souls that were in despair an argument was presented against which objections Jee blons were powerless the boast of those who wrote their masterly apologies in defense of the christian faith was the high standard of the morals of their associates justin martyr Minu cius felix llan origen igean Or lus and even emperor julian point to the believers as worthy examples of brotherly love and pure morals and before such arguments 0 P positron posit fon often was waa silenced |
