| Show 0 QUALIFIES OP OF 19 1 9 THE following is from the philadelphia telegraph rhose people who abo have looked but a little atle way into mormonism practically we the body of the gentiles Geu tiles that is to say have no notion of the strength and end at ing quality of that strange organization org ia iza tiou tion no greater ral mistake stake could be made than to hold bold or declare that the mormon faith is simply a mode ot of living outside the marriage law accepted ty by the rest of us in th tha popular view mormonism means simply and dorily polygamy in fact but a small number ol of mormons cormons are poly while great numbers of the them are as opposed to the pr practice acIce as any people eatable can be Itts it is prope properly aly viewed a very avery sincere and devout religious conviction and it is moreover bound up WE with industrial social political and ceo economic considerations of a searching and fundamental kind which make the church an organization tin so strong and compact that it is the merest folly to talk of its being a wicked delusion delm dot which must be b e dissipated like a mist when the sun of truth shines on it this sun BUD of truth is a most variable quantity nearly everything of any consequence the world has done has been through the influence ot of conviction aed faith of one kind or another and there hatnot been greater fervency or sincerity shown anywhere in the sun duing oi nature to mans seeds needs than the despised latter day saints have evinced polygamy must go if they continue to live under the laws of the united states but our own conviction is that this earnest people have force enough to let iago it go or have it taken from them and survive becan we can but reach this conclusion from noting the successive crises arises which the mormons cormons have surmounted not to speak oi of the various removals of the seat of the church it was held by many mistaken persons atiat brigham foung and mormonism were identical that the whole system was dependent upon the of that remarkable wan man but the church was stronger after his death than ever before naw president ident taylor dies and the same note of triumph over the im mediate dissolution an and its belongings has been heard beard but it will be bt best to wait abhi awhile e before joi joining in that cry tile the organization seems beems 70 10 be intact and the address issued by the apostles Apo atless proclaiming proclaim ipg that the WOI K goes on unhindered atu dered is dignified forcible foi cible sod and convincing v vin cing let the mormons cormons live within the federal law and all will be well with them their religious reli 11 rious belief I 1 it no more strange than that of many people who stand high in the esteem and they have the courage of their convictions which is more than a great many of us can say |
