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Show THE CAUSE. The News reports the burning of a Mormon church in Mississippi by the "Christians" of that region. Christians do not burn churches. There are tough men in every state, Mississippi being no exception. Acts of lawlessness are common everywhere, but will the News frankly tell its people why that church was burned? Does the News believe that had the covenants made by the chiefs of the church in order to secure statehood, state-hood, been kept, that church would ever have been burned? Had Reed Smoot been contented con-tented to fill ably his office as a high priest of the Mormon church, leaving wicked and worldly politics poli-tics alone, does the News believe that cnurch would have been burned? When the head of a groat religious organization testifies that for fifteen fif-teen years he has been living in defiance both of the laws of the land and of the command of his own God, are the single-minded men of Mississippi Missis-sippi liable to have much respect for a gospel of that kind, or be anxious to have it spread among the simple-minded plney woods rustlers of their state? When a gentleman appropriates a rope to the other Qikx of which another man's horse is attached, at-tached, and he gets taken in, it is not held that he makes out a case In his favor by howling persecution. per-secution. When the head of a so-called religious organization declares vender oath that ho cares nothing for human or divine laws, there are men so obtuse as not to desire to have that kind of gospel spread. Maybe some of them live in Mis sissippi. |