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Show J : if V TWO POPES. B j I I The one thing for which the late Pope Leo will fl 1 1 , 1 1 be longest remembered for will be the fact that M 1 1 from under his triple crown he recognized the M ' a I , I; world's advancement and sought to adjust his B I fa I church to the present age We have a Pope In B J I j Utah who claims to rule by as high authority as M I WW does tne PPe ot Home Higher, indeed, for his ft If claim is that by daily revelations he knows the I fj will of God now not nineteen hundred years J r ago. But if he is wise the story of the life j - of the late Pope of Rome ought to be filled with B jk Interest and instruction to him. He, too, should B i , b seek to adjust his church to the present needs HL i l' tf o tnls nat,on to tne longings of his own people HKj If the history of the United States teaches one Br 1 1 t thing above all others, it is the truth that there B I fc L should be no mingling of church and state. Bi . I i When the astonished world seeks for a sov- H,! jg r ereign reason through which to make clear this Hi ' 1 L land's advancement it finds bul one. While the B i 2 1 ftp government throws every protection around re H1 ' ' ligion and forbids interference with it in any law- Hj ful principles which Its advocates advance, it just K q as sternly forbids church influence in politics. B " The result has been progress unparalleled. Our H Utah Pope should consider deeply this fact. He m I should do it for his own and his people's sake. H Pioneer Day passed quietly. Thousands of the H i descendants of the pioneers, in holiday attire, m I ? went to the resorts or to the canyons and spent H J I I the day in innocent pleasure. The picture they ! I presented in contrast with the picture of their H ancestors fifty-six years ago, naked and weary B I " and destitute would make companion pictures !' which thoughtful men would linger long over. p But there have been as marked changes in the M i S minds of young Utah in those flfty-slx years as B 1 there have been in the physical and material as- B $ pect of the state. B "U Fifty-six years ago one man was sovereign B here, his will was law; from his decision there B j was no appeal. Now every youth in Utah has a B I mind of his own and while the thousands are, as H f ready now as then to support the church and its B ' !, authorities in all reasonable things, they are H ' nevertheless Americans, they have the free B j f 4J thoughts of Americans and they believe they B should bo let alonaio espouse any particular poli- K tlcal belief which Js convincing to them, to cast H any, ballot -whiih. their, patriotism and their sense Hl j - of duty as, Americana may prompt them to cast. Hl i -T,hu head of -j-thcy cliuirch, Uke the late head of the Bfl J f - trChurch of Jlomeshould. fqcognize that fact and BB i I . Adjust. himelf aiid his 1 churjch to it. Fifty-six B ,4 - - years Ago in -UtahtheL government, Jthough ever 1 2- so mildly administered,. was a pure despotism. It H ' -can never bo .restored here. Every attempt to B restore it weakens the power of the Church, and BflH this truth will be apparent to the head of the IHH j Church if he over stops to consider it. H It must be so. The lights are increasing daily. HBb ' The telegraph brings every day all the world's BH news; the press distributes it; the telephone WKt ' ', H -mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm voice is a perpetual call to the manhood of men, ' the schools are filling the world with new echoes, under the new lights old superstitions are being shrivelled as is the cancer germ under radium rays the priest may henceforth be a father, he can never more be a king. This Is as true in Utah as it is in Rome, and the wise priest will accept the fact and conform to it. No priest can save a man's soul, ho can but intercede for it; the burden is upon the soul itself and this is as true in a Republic as in a kingdom. The ballot is the people's weapon of defense, and no man has any right to dictate to any other man how he shall Wield it. |