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Show Would Let the Church Alone. If these people in the east who are taking up their weapons against the Mormons only understood, says the Salina Call, they would just lay quiet. They would do more good, as the church is hurt more by being let alone than by being persecuted. Just start a good live system of persecution, and even imprison a few and they wi'l see stake officers and apostles and the ministry drop much of their money-making work and take to their church duties more, and travel and preach and exhort and solidify the church .and thoroughly unite the members. And the news will spread and people who never before be-fore were interested will begin to in vestigate and soon the would-be persecutors are helping to spread the religion and even to make converts, This is true . Some warfare on the church, an imprisonment or two aud even a martyr is always a stimu Iqus instead of a set-back. |