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Show o EDITORIAL COMMENT. Laporte, Indiana, witnessed a Baptist Bap-tist service conducted wholly by women last Sunday. The ladles in charge are said to have acquitted themselves excellently, and the "experiment" "ex-periment" is pronounced a success. There is nothing in the Baptist form of worship that any woman with sufficient suf-ficient strength of lungs and arms, can not do as well as a man. It is easy to believe from our acquaintance with Baptist ministers, that in many instances in-stances women are better qualified than men to "run the church." There ought not to be a vestige of Mormonism left after the Presbyterian onslaught at Los Angeles, if the bite of the general assembly were commensurate com-mensurate to its bark; which it isn't. What good Is accomplished by violent vio-lent language In characterising those who practice other forms of religious belief, or what hurt? For hundreds of years, our Presbyetrian friends have denounced the pope, in their creed, as anti-Christ, yet the pope survived sur-vived the attack. If Mormonism is the monster deplete J in the arraignment which shook the rafters of the Los Angeles convention hall, it ought to be suppressed, but pulpit phillipics will not put it out of business. Those w.ho know, tell us the Mormons are not bo black as they are paitned. Be that as It may, we fail to see how any practical practi-cal reform could spring from such vituperative vi-tuperative methods. San Francisco Monitor. Breathitt county, Kentucky, offers an object lesson to our backward" transpacific subjects, In superior American civilization. After two hundred hun-dred years, the Anglo-Saxon mountaineers mountain-eers of that section, recognize only one method of settling personal differences, differ-ences, the shotgun method. CdUrt is held under the protection of military force, and the law has Its way when citizens see fit. Luzon has never witnessed wit-nessed under any regime, scenes similar sim-ilar to those being enacted today in the heart of old Kentucky. |