| Show BISHOP SCANLAN AND THE SECTS BISHOP of the catholic church of this city has poked his sacerdotal stick into a hornets nest he has blown the local sectarian fire into a blaze and caused the flames of hate bate to encircle his devoted head the cause of this aery ery attitude of the wear ers era of the cloth toward him Is a discourse delivered by him on christmas morning in which he used some expressions pres not highly complimentary to the reli religious gibus status of the protestant sects the utah christian advocate published in this city rises in I 1 its I 1 01 wrath and assails him on account of his expressions pres res some of which that paper reproduces we give a few of f them here they give two hundred hu ndrec different an answers to the question I 1 what shall I 1 do to be a christian 1 what one declares is necess necessary axy to enter the kingdom of god another denies pr or declares evil they boast that they have power to deceive those who trust them lor for they confess that they teach merely opinions not one 4 of them can stand up and say that I 1 know that what I 1 teach Is true i nice teachers teaching the law and yet declaring that they do not know the law christ described them when he salt said false christs and false prophets will arise the advocate asserts on the contrary that the protestant denominations are 11 in wonderful harmony and emphasizes pha sizes this statement with the assertion that 11 the ministers of these churches in this city often meet and counsel together in delightful harmony this consolidation cannot be denied so far as it relates to one particular the representatives of a broken religious system are homo ganeous in their opposition to the hurch church of jesus christ of latter day saints and take more or less a pare para in every scheme and plot aimed to produce its destruction their consolidation so soli dation on other matters is not very apparent as there is amongst them an essential conflict of interests As an offset to the strictures of bishop scanlan the advocate publishes brief statements from the ministers of the five sectarian churches in this cit city v they gi ideas of each upon the essential conditions of salvation to one who mader understands stands the comprehensiveness si veness of the gospel of christ they are meagre to the point of attenuation yettee yet the advocate points triumphantly to them as exhibiting remarkable unity there is so little in them that the most striking exhibit they give is the greatness of the mass of essential con dillons and principles of the s system tau taught ht by the savior and his a authorized izet servants as necessary that they discard as worthless throughout the entire article there is shown a wonderful poverty of means and ability to controvert bisho bishop scan ians y strictures with fact ans and logic whis chis impoverished i condition is made all the more ore kine kinc by the plain disposition exhibited to make the controversy personal in place of intelligently polemic As usual it was for the sectarian bigot who penned the production to retrain refrain from exhibiting his 0 animosity to the mormons cormons Mor mons while showing his teeth at the loc local c al representative of the catholic chu church h here jzere is the final climax to his bis article the case is clear the priest is convicted down with the priests jesuit catholic and mormon they have been and are tyrants and oppressors 11 MM fanatic who wrote that might be a sailable sni sai table person to head a howling mob A against last a religious rellious body differing from twe the oue one he belongs to but bat he is a badly built boat dashing about without rudder or compass when he enters the sea of intellectual controversy |
