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Show TOUGH COMPARISONS. The News loves to have its fling at all Protestant Prot-estant creeds; not many evenings since it fired a full broadside at the Catholic church, winding up by intimating that there was but one true faith which, of course, is that of the Latter-Day Saints. This to an outsider seems natural enough. When there are so many creeds in the world, the followers of each one believing that they alone are on the right track, why should not all of them pursue their own ways? But the News is insistent insist-ent that its religion has been directly revealed from the Lord in heaven. We put aside the lack of invention displayed in getting it to the people and cm judge it merely by comparison with the New Testament. The first four books contain tho life of Christ on this earth, beginning with his birth and ending with his death and resurrection. resur-rection. Whatever discrepancies there may be in tho different narratives they are alike in one fact. They all make the character of the Messiah the same, and so marvelous is that character that it stands out distinct from any other character pictured in history. The News claims that the Lead ol its creed obtaind his commission through legular descent direct from that same Messiah; that he recoives daily revelations from that same source, and that hence the Mormon church is Christ's church, conducted here by the Messiah's directly appointed agent. Right there the comparison begins, and it is a little confusing for men of ordinary intelli-gance intelli-gance to try to reconcile the ancient record with the present fact. Certain it is that the Messiah was never charged with any desire for wealth or for such honors as men could give in his day. He was never president of any banks or grocery stores or irrigation schemes or mining companies in or near Jerusalem. He never insisted that to pay tithing was necessary for c man's salvation or that polygamy was an essential if a man desired the greatest exaltation in Paradise. He never gave his disciples directions to attend primaries and be sure that certain good brothers should be named for the important positions, He never absorbed a perpetual tithing fund and declined iJfl to make an accounting; rather to make clear liHH his mission in contradistinction to that of this $ f world, he commanded that the things that were ' Caesar's should be renderd to Caesar (referring Hll alone to money), but that to God should be rcn- IrH dred what was God's, which he explained was a H contrite heart and charity toward all men. I fH He told his apostles that if they had sufficient fffl faith they might cast out devils and romove iflHfl mountains, but he never interfered with the way fgMM the City Council of Jerico carried on its bud- ffll ness, and never connived to have an apostle FlH olected a Senator of Rome. J9l He touched the eyes of the blind and they liHI saw; he rebuked the winds and stormy seas, and ffl they were hushed; he raised his voice and at the jD sound the fetters of the grave melted, and those SH who had been dead were called back to life, but "flH he was never known to be solicitious that If nee- ifllll essary one of his own disciples( should be ap- JH pointed chief of police of Caperniam. He rode lH on an ass into Jerusalem, but never insistd on IH giving jackasses, city offices. He never inter- IH fered with the public schools, and never asked ll tithing of the teachers. The News may, of course, jl be all right, but it cannot charge that Christ il wanted a personal organ or an editor who could j daily dodge anything about his religion which H had a suspicious look to an outsider. B The Messiah came preaching peace and for- H giveness and pointing out that sincerity and char- H ity brought most peace to mortals. We fear that H were the second coming to be realized the News 1 ni would have a hard time to gain recognition. I j |