Show convention DOINGS AND MORMON WK wic notice that a number of papers in discussing the question of admission into the union as a state compare the action of the constitutional convention on the subject of polygamy with the missionary nuy work now gains going on in the southern states and otner places what rela relation tiou these totally different things have to each other is not perceptible to the com common mon I 1 mind it takes the warped imagination of an anti mormon editor to bring them into any kind of connection 4 the elders of the church of jesus christ ut jatter balms nave a mission to perform winch which rescues to every part of the world it is to preach tua gospel of the kingdom as at a witness to all ail nations before the end comes they expect to till nil the obligations of this mission no matter what happens and they have an indisputable dispa table to proclaim the i ruth as they understand it wherever people are willing to listen to them they do 11 not ot propose to use compulsion in any 10 form m nor will any degier of force prevent baem from doing what they conceive to be kneir duty the delegates to the constitutional convention met in a political capacity to per performs performa forma political duty lor for which they had been selected by the citizens religious views had nothing to do with their woi k it does not watter matter whether they were mormons cormons Mor mons methodists cattolica Catu olica olics episcopalians Episcopal ians Qa akere jews or infidels Inn dels Neit neither liel lue government nor the nation has any right to raise questions as to their f faith it is i no business of the pruss press the die constitution they have framed must be criticized criticised it if at all solely on its merits but it will ue said th the convention made provisions against bigamy and polygamy and it will be asked do not mormon missionaries preach polygamy tae state statement meat is correct tae question is based on a fallacy the elders of this church are not abroad in the world preaching polygamy they are not sent for that purpose As a matter of fact they do not attempt to make proselytes prose prost lytes on that ground mormonism niam in the mind of the average newspaper man means poly polygamy and vice versa this is a wark mark of ignorance on the subject so proto profound propound und that it seems useless to try to reach it by fact or reason let it bu repeated until the idea penetrates the fog with winch which the press is enveloped on the mormon question tion that the people of utah who nave this statehood movement iu ia hand are men who have hav e not broken the laws in regard to poky polygamy gamy and have all taken the oath to obey in future tae laws that they have kept in the past they nold the political acal power the mists are all diff the men who framed the constitution and those who will vote upon it are citizens of the united states who have the right to struggle for their I 1 full all liberties under the constitution ution aad the laws which they have observed and they are endear endeavoring ring to do so in the way thea that has been pointed out as their only paro paik to statehood what the elders of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints are doing abroad or in the states has nothing to do with this movement it has no relationship to it but it if any connection could be made out the truth is that the elders are not engaged in any such wark as is alleged but are preaching faith in christ repentance of evil baptism for the remission 0 of sins t the e laying on of hands bands to impart the holy ghost and the gathering of the saints preparatory to the second advent of the tae savior and it may as well be understood first as last that no matter what religious changes may take place in utah or elsewhere the warning voice of the elders of this church will be raised until all nations have heard it and all people have had an opportunity of learning the glad tidings oi of the latter day gospel revealed from heaven anew but the tha question that is now agitating the country consequent upon the action of the constitutional convention of utah has no essential bearing upon that missionary work and will not affect it one way of another one is a political the other a religious movement and neither will affect the other in the least degree those editors who have been charging the cormons mormons Mor mons with I 1 mingling religion and politics till they could not be distinguished are involving themselves in their own muddle and do doing 1 1 n that of which they have contina continually a i if accused their neighbors A great many beams will have to be taken from the taa deyeo of some members of the tae press before they will be able to see straight enough to take a square look at the supposed aup posed motes in UK ine eyes of the mormons cormons Mor mons |