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Show THE RECENT STORM. A torm of intense velocity, terrible in it- di-;ru.-tive power, wept over the Salt Lake valley ! ' Saturday inidi', leaving in its wake a proerty of bun. I .Is of thousands of dollars and a life of three human beinir-. The demons of the air shrieked and moaned. 'riv.!T lives from their roots, yr.-at windows from n- Irame-. chimneys fnmi their sellings, roofs il houses and toppled newly erected walls w-ith k eked sway and sujireme disdain, ill.' same winds that hurled battleships on and sent heavy trains from the tracks as if ' were children's t ..ys. racing winds that no man ' ven a Rationalist could tell whence they -' nor whilher they -u. jdayed havoc with i ''atie thiiius. from ihe stalue of liberty, a n " cars, to the pedest riaiis' headpear. How ' ' this -od of nature, of energy this yod of Ra-::' Ra-::' ::. !tst and of Fr..,. Thiukers-se:ul us su.-h a !;,;:! ,lispl;iv of his or her or its power '. Who - ; v li i in or her or it permission f What a bar- '!!. desjiotic dis..ay of a rigorous rein by an .'itoeratk'. energetic, forceful, elemental, many- - " I and many-1'ailured Rationalist, Free Think- d it Mas. to be sure! Without so much as - ; ourdeare or an if-you-ilease! WTe choke witji '.d:.::ation ! W'- are too wrathful for righteous ' : o rai'.- .. Rv what right does this despotic ruler u u,-n devastating storms or rain to grow .heat. or cattle to furnish us with milk and iie-h. . ; sunshine ami Viewers, or tears and laugh-1-.r. when we do not ask for t-wli things It is p d librrale innlt 1o Ian! What is the Free-Xhinking Free-Xhinking nationalist Man going lo do about itf V . Let Him assert llimsdf immediately. It is preposterous pre-posterous for this natural mass of energy to whirl a man and cars and rocks about as ihoujh they were toothpicks. If the writ.-r v-er.' a '-'re -er or a Rt:tioalir.r, he w.t;M nut tolera: k. : ; ? lid. ile would assert hints elf as a e. ;.-,.:- ar-lieipant ar-lieipant in an u.ifoUlinir ii::iv-:r-e! . R 't '. merely a Roman Catholie. en.-iav.d ! ,; d cen -monies. e humbly thanks the S -wt- !': : world thai the- damage and lo-s o-; lif i. greater, iirmly believing that it 0o;l v.-ei im ! i finitely merciful He would destroy a ! r . -d cities in terrible rage at the detestable in-:.;!:-, i i:::t certain preachers, sects and anti-Christs offer to His crucified Son. |