Show V I 1 LABORING ERROR while a certain class of people apparently enjoy a great amount of satisfaction in abusing 0 us our morals morais and our institutions there is still another class of avowedly pious folks who seem greatly exercised about our religious faith viewing it as a kind of Pan domas doras box from which a multitude of evils are let loose without even the consciousness helous belous ness of remal remaining ning hope being left drawing their information from incorrect sources they tiley appear to think that we must be miserable that our fanaticism as they are pleased pleaded to call it is so thick a single 11 ray of genuine 1 happiness can scar sear scarcely eely cely penetrate it and when they hear of our enjoyments enjoy ments rational mirth and properly directed amusements they shake their sanctimonious heads heave deep drawn sighs 0 and groan out their horror as though it was the recklessness of a people who were trying r to drown thought C and bury reflection in oblivion independent of the glaring larin C inconsistencies in their reasoning concerning these things certain grave errors have had llad their origin with this class in their fancied notions concerning bernin us which have spread and continue to exist people who make no particular claim as professors come here charged with these fa lacious opinions ready to explode at the slightest za touch and they are scarcely willing willing to admit the evidence of facts when presented to them it is no unusual tiling thin for gentlemen passing through this city to step into our bindery and bookselling book selling department and enquire for a copy of the I 1 mormon lormon A bible hible upon being t handed a veritable copy of king james authorized version oi of the old and new testaments they look jook at it with an air of incredulity though assured that we believe in and accept that book as the bible the foroe force of settled notions is so strong that they often can scarcely credit it T they li e y 1 fan fancy fany y that we must have anoil another 1 er 1 0 one n le which entirely supersedes that which I 1 oar fe fadum lter iker i tool or in m perin 1 ome onu think it very probable that we retain in it part of the one in general use but even they believe it must essentially differ from that which they are accustomed to study if they study the tilo book at all now so far from that being behig the case the latter day saints are the only people of whom we have any knowledge who really do believe what is c contained olita ined in the bible many are willing to avow a belief in it taken as a book while it is closed arid will open it read certain passage passages with an unctuous intonation tolia tion and diug in the few ses seg thus culled to their hearts lie lle arts as all that is worth notice or belief we pre pro fer to accept acce p t the whole of it and are old fashioned elou enough 0 h to think that god is after all a better exponent of his eoin coin commandments fiand indents than any number of learned but uninspired commentators possibly can be As a result of this ad great reat anxiety for our spiritual welfare they would like to convert us to their way of thinking but if it we had an inclination to meet their proselytizing 0 desires half way we ire would be sorely puzzled what particular set iset of opinions to ree rec receive elve eive WL would suggest C that they settle their little religious among themselves first and decide which party is to travel by express to the mansions of endless bliss and which is doomed to the hottest locality where fire and brimstone are dealt out gratuitously and without stint before of fiering to pilot us themay to either cither region we ire might otherwise happen to be led into the wrong one and that would be far from flom pleasant seriously speaking we would fain ask what whit it is we would be likely to receive for what wo we now possess if we were to give up our present faith hopes and realized blessings we enjoy peace happiness prosperity union and contentment cm caa they oner offer superior inducements to throw these aside in the world outside of us there are war misery disunion discontent and lack of confidence the tile practical workings of the systems advocated as superior to he the one believed in by this community do not present a very pleasing or attractive picture la Is not the philan a little mistaken that seeks us as objects for its exercise while so vast I 1 a field i ay iy spread around it in which it N has ample ampie le room to operate we have no desire to travel back to the quagmires of corruption the crossroads cross roads of uncertainty and the thorough rough 0 un uncultivated cult euit lynt ed regions of contention from which we have fled and leave the fair prospect of oa happiness with its garniture of virtue knowledge and united confidence which I 1 we have already readied reached if they could exemplify any of ohp christian virtues described in that bible which they profess to believe in but which we do believe inasa in as a 0 general and P practical rac rae result of ansof anhof the heterogeneous mass of so called christ christian lan ian systems of reli rell religion 0 ion lon there might mi 0 lit be some hope of their doing a work among us but until that time we beg to assure them we are content with the kernel and they may regale 0 themselves with the husks to their satisfaction we meet everyday with people who once believed as the class alluded to do many of whom came here imbued with the tile erroneous ideas who when their minds were disabused dis abused commenced themselves to study that bible which they had once allowed their religious teachers to study for theland the them mand and are now I 1 as a result faithful members of the church yet we have proved to the tile world a thousand times and in a thousand different ways how deep and abiding 0 is our faith in all the revelations of god that have been made known to us whether contained in the old jewish scriptures in those of his ancient people on this continent or the revelations I 1 irl sri criven iri in rhia thia age to the church of christ many are ignorant on this as on other points concerning concerning us because they prefer taking their information from sources that are more notorious for romancing than telling honest truth and that seldom state anything reliable unless it should be by accident they may keep on but despite their efforts the truth will move steadily and surely onward accomplish its destined work and ultimately shed the light of its heaven given effulgence on the hearts and minds of the honest and true everywhere throughout the earth carth |