Show RELIGIOUS intolerance RUN MAD THE utah presbytery recently assembled at spanish fork utah exhibition of its has h made a public narrowness and sectarian bigotry bv ij ii declaration decreeing that no fellow hip shall hereafter be extended tell ud to the mormon church by tile the 1 presbyterian 1 resby terian church the they y proceed to open an impassable gulf between the two organizations by a series of ot ten reasons and by their avowals they conclude that the mormon oll people are not only unchristian christian but hypocrites liars and benighted he athens such as flour lahe in greece and rome the writer not a believer in the creedy creed and no apologist for their shortcomings but from our limited invest investigations gat ons of the dominant anant church in utah and from aur per personal zonal acquaintance with many man of the leading Ln members embers thereof we would say the ten arin assigned by the presby are either misstated or ab untrue but even if they were all true why in the world should these blue stoc stocking kine descendants descendant cen cendana dant ts of john calvin at this time seek to a anathematize and damn their neighbors and fellow t citizens christian fellowship is to tie ie withheld from the church of the latter day saints after so many years association in this god blessed valley by a set get of men who to any rational mind proclaim a creed far more monstrous enslaving and inhuman than any any assigned in the tan ft n reasons set forth the thou thought 15 ht that there are isif infanta ants in liell hell not a span long that nome are decreed from all eternity to be to perdition that human fouls are sacrificed to the eternal fires of heu hell simply to exalt atie e glory korv of god is so abhorrent to t the aumau mind that it is no bouder the world is becoming kep and that the adherents to bukh a creed are becoming scarcer tn tery ery day dav but we have no fight with either of these chum churches hes we believe e in m liberty of conscience and 0 of allow allowing ing every man woman an and d C hild child f fill ill religious freedom neither do we believe in in ostracising or denvin fellowship ellow ship to any human bein un account of their honest belief lief the great master when on canh made no such distinction as lla ilu rated by the man who fell feh aming thieves who thinnest thin kest thu th ju was neighbor in to him who fell arnu ngat thieves recently Recent lv the BROAD ax has openly criticised criticized the leaders leaden of the mormon borm on church for attempting to burp the prerogatives of the citi ien en but this step of the presby shows them to be fully as d dangerous an berous in and far more narrow and bigoted than anything the mormon church as yet attempted if given the power such a body of religious fanatics would apply 1 the rack or the fagons fagots to the heretics and make their creed the state relon religion by force of law AU all such attacks on the mormon church fall harmless on the int intended endea victim but react upon those who b bin begin in the warfare we believe the present political crisis will be solved by the mormon Nf ormon people themselves and such assaults as made by the synod of 0 utah will retard the adjustment of our political troubles mor ethan than anything which has occurred k IT utah tah for years the action these bigots bigot a is unlike christ christain ia un american and uncalled callea for r siad and should receive the of all classes parties AMM |