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Show The Milford Times evidently has it in for the "Mormon" church officials. It says "Salt Lake City's electric light ' monopoly has been controlled by the , Mormon church officials for several years and the service has become so miserable tint many citizens are discarding electric lights and returning re-turning to kerosene lamps. The church officials recently acquired control of the street railway monpo-1 ly and complaint is made that the street car service is the poorest to , be found in the land. The church authorities have been running Salt air beach for ten or twelve years and have never made a dollar. Re ligion does not seem to mix with business anymore satisfactorily than it mixes with politics and the notion that churches should give exclusive attention to the salvation of souls is gaining strength1" We are not familiar fa-miliar with the character of the electric elec-tric light service in Salt Lake City, nor yet with the situation in the other "monopolies" msntioned, but assum ing that our esteemed contemporary is correct in statements, it does not justify its Conclusions as far as church mixiiiii in business is con- woulu care forThe body as well as the spirit. As far as the term soul is concerned, the good old book informs us in the second chapter of Genesis, "That the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath 'of life and man becamea living soul." If this is "straight goods," it takes both body and spirit to constitute the soul, and that is the sort of soul we want our religious leaders to seek the salvation of. Ope of the apostolic apos-tolic writers, James, we think he is, says, "If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food and one of you say to him depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled notwith standing ye give them not those things that are needful to the body, what doth it profit?" Now, we do not say that the Mormon church offi. cials provide for the temporal wel-j fare of their flock as fully as we1 should like to see done, but we do say they come nearer doing it than any other church that we have any knowledge of, and that is one of the ' many things about them that we ad- f mire. It is just possible that the church officials that are said to be i controlling the monopolies designat ed, are not in the business entirely '. for profit; it may be that they are i trying to manage the business on i the principle of live and let live, and I it is possible that they have made too much concession to the let live ! siae of the proposition. The statement state-ment which our contemporary makes 111 relation to the Saltair beach, would give room for such an assump tion. Hut be that as it may we have no hesitation in saying that the average aver-age church official does more business busi-ness for the benefit of his church without compensation, or for less compensation, than does the officials ol any other religotis denomination of which we have ever heard, and as far as we have seen, some of the ablest business men in Utah have been prominent church officials. While not agreeing with our broth- er editor on the matter of church officials in business, we are side by side with him when it comes to their being mixed up with politics as we have taken occasion to say more than once in the past. |