Show r I OA MORMONISM REPUBLICAN IN ITS GENIUS The very genius of Mormonism is liberalism To the last' degree it is not conservative in the sense of its being In a republican nation v this offspring of a new era had its birth and this V child of promise of a glorious future civilization bore all thy features of a robust republican character It has but very foreign relationship to priestcraft kingcraft or aristocracy and’ nothing American born can possess a stronger repugnance and contempt for anything of the kind than does the true genius of Mormonism In a preparatory age Washington and his compeers — those noble God-seapostles of social and pcliti- cal liberty and inalienable rights — had sternly battled with England and morally fought every institution of the old world which tended to the social and political enslavement of the people or which was detrimental to the progress of nations1 Thus was a new mission won for humanity and most fittingly America bears the name of the “New World” Those patriot High Priests of the social and culminating dispensation of the world not merely made the Declaration of national independence and rights for fhemselves but for humanity at large It was a grand declaration of the rights of all mankind and because - thereof that declaration was not sectional but belonged to every nation or people who dared in thought revolution or gradual progress to claim their inaliena- ble rights In framing the Constitution of their nation they also not merely laid down the platform of -- the American Confederation of States in one grand union which typified the holy brotherhood of nations “to which the great and good of every age have direct- ed their inspired vision but as it was an instrument ’‘of government framed to secure the inalienable rights of man its genius was destined to spread its eagle wings o'er all the earth where're a branch of universal man be found It was the political and social ushering in of a new dispensation crowned with the glory of the last days The Supreme Ruler had appointed that humanity should transmigrate itself from the old world to the new one clothed with higher diviner forms of social and political institutions Thus grew up a grand Union of nationalities to represent the dominant em- pire of the future — tin s was moulded a type of uni-- “ Versal brotherhood of nations Shall we say that Washington and his compeers in their declaration of independence and inalienable rights for themselves and humanity at large ‘were socially and politically crying in tin wilderness of old systems the “ Prepare ye the way of the Lord make straight in tho desert a highway for our God ?” Shall we say that in organizing their government and framing its constitution they were socially and politically laying the foundation of a millennial era 1 We think we should be clothing in language the spirit of a great1 " social and political truth ' which the liberal as this such some It view was ? minds of Europe have taken of the political apostle-shi- p of America in the great future and your Owens and Brontierc O'Briens your Cobdens and Brights saw a political and social millennium near aiid your ' Mackeys off poetry and prose wrote of “the good time coming” But there was another plank in the platform to be laid down Thus Mormonism teaches Washington and his compeers began the work as the social and political forerunners of the new dispensation and when the world became ripe through their preparatory work i ’ ' IN ITS GENIUS MORMONISM REPUBLICAN a youth— a robust son of robust republican America starts forth with his mission — a new dispensation of His part was to lay down the chief corner religion stone of that glorious social political and religious temple of the world in which universal man shall worship in one common brotherhood be its members name or creed Such was the t of whatever nation mission and prophecies of this religious apostle' of millennial reign and such a proclamation his compeers resounded throughout the nations This was the Alpha and Omega of the new revelation—the end and aim of the mission of Joseph the prophet of the world’s future civilization representing millennial glory and universal brotherhood This is the mission of “ The Latter-da- y Work” and the thousands who have preached this to the nations from their youth know full well that this formed the grand programme which they offered to the world If we lose this part we lose the whole represented in the mission of the Latter-daProphet and thenceforth Mormonism has no mission and the hundreds of thousands of its disciples who with holy extacy received the new revelation of Deity manifested to the upheaving of the world into a grand universal civilization are again afloat upon the dark ocean upon which the world has sailed before no “"good time coming” — no glorious millennium near The revelation of this new mission was not to do away with what the republican high priests of the social and political had done in a former generation but it wras to give the new spirit to the body of the representative nationality of the future which the Almighty had inspired them to organize in which he might entabernacle the soul of a recreated world representing universal brotherhood of nations and bringing forth the common good of universal man Many of our readers will probably grant our position that it is a great fact that Washington and his brother high priests of American nationality did lay the social and political foundation of the world's reorganization and future glory and we would crown this concession with the fact that the mission of Joseph the of prophet was not to pull up their foundation-part- s the grand millennial fabric but to lay the chief corner stone thereof Dwell with us a moment in a summary on the consistency of the view before us The rise and fall of empires is the law of human experience Briefly then the world had grown old and the civilizations of the past each of which1 had heaved its tides of progress into its successor had reached the period wdiere the universal civilization begins theologically denominated the “ Dispensation of the Fulness of Times” Old systems and forms of thought were passing away and a new era was spreading 9 ver the earth represented in the character and genius of the Declaration of Independence and the inalienable rights of man Europe and all nations feel it but the new world is the chief representative of But the history of political and social regeneration the world shows that incarnated in every new civilization is the soul of a new religious inspiration The last example is Christianity becoming incarnated in the body of the blended civilizations which Egypt Babylon Greece and Rome as well as the chosen nation had developed Facts proving abundantly that politically socially intellectually and progressionally a new era of the world has come the analogy of human experience brings us to the idea of its new religious incarnation' The point of Joseph's missionis Christianity reborn to become the soul of the new y J |