| Show separation OF CHURCH AND STATE THE deseret news in tuesday evenings issue raises the old fight ta of church vs state which has so often been stirred up in the past w with ith all its attendant harshness animosities and prejudices why not let the dead past bury its dead why not let the legislature when it shall convene choose se a senator to represent the state of utah in the national congress gress s uninfluenced and without being prejudiced by any church the legislature in the performance of such a duty is serving no church and hence it asks no dictation or instructions from any ecclesiastical source soura e but the duty of the legislature in this regard is to send such a man to the national congress as will honestly ably and fearlessly represent the people of utah in doing that work the legislature will not ask or permit t any eh church u ach to say how far it ij may hew for its only limitations are the political boundaries of the state the functions of the different departments of state are purely of a political nature those of the church are am entirely different being of 01 a religious or spiritual character the boundary or jurisdiction 0 of f the state is as well defined as are the corporate limits of salt lake city so it is with the boundary or jurisdiction of the church B both oth can operate within the same territorial to rial limits without any encroach ments without the least clashing or conflict but bat bound together with a tie of universal sympathy and universal brotherhood As the planets planeta and worlds in in C gods universe move on in their accustoms accustomed d spheres each working out its own divi divine de destiny Y the aggregate of which is a work of consummate cons mate art so 60 should the bodies of church and state move cl onward sd and upward each in its allotted aa sphere of actman actio tt the one asat ahe baer the hohti aid and a I 1 |
