Show 1 IF THIS MAN IS RIGHT GOD IS WRONG We get a little tired of ot William Thurston Brown a n pretended minister of ot the gospel of Christ in Salt Lake We concede to him tho the right to advance advance advance ad ad- vance an any doctrine that commends Itself to his judgment But Dut we dont don't think he should sail under false colors He pretends to be a minister a preacher preach preach- er cr a Christian If It that is genuine and anel not a pretense the tho man is a fool 1001 11 IC it Is a pretense pretenseS we have e very little respect for him He Is a professing Christian a minister minister min mm- I ister of the gospel and yet he doesn't believe in the efficacy o of his faith I He doesn't believe beHave in the supremacy of ot God nor in the power of or righteous righteous- ness Ho lie finds linds theft theU and lawlessness t. t tto be assured ot of reward and equity 2 ro and a a. delusion Here Is one oneN N C ot h a statements from a a. sermon of at V. V l last sl Sunday Sun ay V Every velY man who who slays alaya in business bus B plays goo O taJh iL rUy iw for his bis b health nor nor as as' as asa a bun- bun r- r V. V He may later on pose as one one ma may even think he Is one But 1 If he attempts in his business to put In practice the principles of oC the Sermon Sermon Ser Ser- mon on tho the Mount he will very quickly be out of or business busness and on the town If Jesus lived Jived today and attempted to act out his alleged Palestinian life Ufe he lie would be arrested as a vagrant and put to work on the stone pile There Isn't a n. business busine s firm on earth today which would have a man a-man man in its employ V who owed a his determination to act und under r all circumstances on on the principles principles prin prine taught by Jesus If IC that is right God Cod is wron wrong If dishonesty pays better than honesty V Mr Brown l is a fool to work for a living liv liv- ing He has a very fair appearance and would make make n. a superior thief If this big scheme under which we all live Is so arranged that it Is folly to todo todo todo do right then this Brown has wasted some valuable years ears and if the scheme of or final justification of or right is 18 true then he has no business telling telling tell teU ing our people it will be better for them to throw virtue to the winds Here Is another o of his utterances V from the same sermon told Napoleon that he lie didn't need the hypothesis of God In his hla science Ask any scientist today and he will tell you ou exactly the same V thing It is as a source of moral a ac action action ac- ac tion Uon or moral satisfaction that God can alone be of service to men and women V 4 A fA little knowledge makes one doubt God but a deep knowledge makes one know God Napoleon knew better V than that the hypothesis of V I God was needed needed and and is needed needed needed-In In science And even Lamarch smirking smirk smirk- ing tog s at the knee o of a conqueror conqueror con con- knew he lie was lying to Napoleon eon eon and trying to flatter and curry favor for the riches the Corsican could bestow And the scientists of oC today will not by y an any means tell you what Mr Brown says they will They know better They know there is a cause cause- V V somewhere They dont don't know whether i ithe the name of ot It is God but that is a qui quibble ble They know the very accuracy accuracy accuracy I acy of ot their science rests on law They need that hypothesis or or all is accident acci ace dent ThIs Thia man is dan dangerous unless dangerous unless erous-unless unless ho be is understood Strip from him the cloak of of church indorsement of pulpit sanctity sanc sane t and let Jet him stand on his own feet feet feet-a. a man who has has Ideas that he be wants to express express and and he will be j harmless He will wUl lead lend away some ome V silly and arid shallow souls V But men and women think will wll not tako take as as' as gospel gospel gos gos- pel the utterances of oC an atheist and a n prophet of perdition But he should V not stand In a Christian pulpit and I I preach such perfidy V Over at Goldfield some of the miners min rain I V ers era insisted on their right to steal J l' l h high grade ore from the mines in which I they were working They would not I v V permit themselves to be searched as the they came canio from the diggings And because they could not lot be e permitted to steal they the kept c t Nevada Neld in 11 trouble fo 10 for a l year ea ear and sha shamed shaded ed it b by the necessity of summoning t troops ps Atthe Atthe At th the time the soldiers went eat to Goldfield this ct minister delivered an address here In which he Ito condemned the President of oC the United States in terms which fixed his status as a n traitor Now he proves his hH Jo loyalty to the tho cause caus of thieves by the following following follow follow- ing How man many people in Salt Salt Lake City or Utah would receive into their homes and ann treat with courtesy those men In Goldfield who have been heen guilty of stealing some gome of or the tho rich ore they dug down under the ground in ground round the title to which rests finally in force Corco or fraud And how many of oC the people of or this city and state would decline de tie- de- de cline ChIle an invitation to be present at a banquet In honor of Senator Gug Guggenheim enheim en- en heim helm or Senator Clark or Mr Harriman Harrl Harri- man I That pleases a n. certain kind It tickles the less lawless the hater of ordee order or or- der dee the miserable creature who dreads to work for a living JIvIng It soothes the conscience for the weak wight who loves love's ease and can not afford it and who finds in such sentences an ex cx excuse cuse to exchange his peace of or mind for the conscience of a criminal And a deeper infamy than all in the tho following for it strikes atthe at atthe atthe the boys the boys tho boys whose lives Jives can never be made sate safe If the they believe this satanIc creed is safe Read Your ho boy hoy finds that It doesn't make an any difference how bow ho gets his moneY mone If Ie only he ho nets gets enough enouch Not even cven his father and mother will scrutinize mime inize his dollars or ask him how or where he got them Their hearts heart will swell with pride over his success And the more he ho gets and the faster the happier thc they are There is only one wa way of ot accountIng account- account Ing ng for such statements The man mann who utters them is wicked Surely no speaker even outside the pulpit would enunciate such a gospel unless he believed it ft And one can believe it only on the tho theory of being depraved |