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Show THE YOUNG MORMONS. H It is an encouraging sign when we hear of the M refusal of soveral hundred young Mormons In a H small Utah town to be dictated to on a trivial mat- M ttr by the church authorities. These young men J M and women were expected to aid a business prop- ' osition of the church by the boycott of a dance M to be given by a rival enterprise. They attended H the tabooed party en masse. The situation is now tM Btrained. M The next decade wiU reveal how much has to M be feared from the Mormon ascendency. If the j'J present and rising generations continue to bo as j; docile and even servile in their allegiance to I )m apostles and bishops as the past have been, Amer- J M ica has indeed a prpblem before it. If, however, , M the young people catch the spirit of their coun- I H try and ago they will not tolerate the despotism I fl which in many essentials has reigned in Utah for r'H two generations. j Fortunately, with the conglomeration of faiths, , H ceremonies and ecclesiastical machinery which !H the Mormons have gathered from wellnigh every j 'H country and every church, they are ambitious also j H to unite the modern interest in progressive move- J H ments and scientific knowledge. i H While there is little that is thorough or free H from church manipulation in all the attempts to be advanced and informed, it is not without some H wholesome fruit. The future will reveal whether (' or not in one quarter of the globe .a medieval the- i 'j ology Witu apologies to the middle ages and an ' ! I extreme form of church domination in all mat- ' ') ters industrial or political can continue undls- H turbed by the spirit of the twentieth century. , Denver Times. Ill |
