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Show B A PAIR PROPOSITION. H Tho testimony of Senator Smoot bo- H foro tho somite connnlttoo mnkos very H lutorentlng road lug, but tho hondlinos H of somo of tho tfolly papors taken In H connection, throw somo grotesque H ilguros on tho wall af common sonso. 1 It nppenrs to bo tho id en of somo of H tho liuiidllno toribos thnt a man who would presume to bollovo that Uod H lias n right to bo oboyod In profcronco to mou, 1h n bud oitizan. A sonti- B mont lllco this coming ovon from mon H w.ho do not bollovo tho solpturros, or 1. ovon in tho oxistenco of 11 Uod, 1h B not in tho host of form' or nenso; but B whon Christians ondorso nnd sustain such viows inconsistency sooms to bo 1 outdone. Senator Smoot is roportcd B to havo said that if ho got 11 rovoln- V tlou from God which required tliut ho B should do something that whb con- trnry to tho laws of his country, ho H would loavo tho country and go where H ho could comply with tho command- H mont without violating tho law. This H answer by tho sonator Rooms to havo H something in it which somo of tho 1 newspaper writers evidently think is H evidence of either folly or worso, and H Is manifest proof of his uusuitnbility H for tho position ho holds. Can any H Ohrlstiau say lees than what tho Sonn- H (or said in answor to tho question that H was nskod, if ho auswors at nil, with- H ont olthor denying his boliof in Uod, H or lying? Would tlioy havo him say H that ho 'would disregard tho command of God? If ho said that, would it H not bo ovidontj that ho did not bollovo k in n snprome bolng?v Would oithor K th cross or.amaning porscoutor or T- niiefSTib'trsinitB'orltfo daro to disoboy H that boiug If they know that if they H ' did so llo would immediately punish H Tho wholo niattor lies in tho fact H that they do not boliovo that thoro H is n God, And whon you como to tho H root of tho proposition tho scribe, H tho nttornoy, and tho olorlcal gontlo- H men and ladies that aro at tho bottom B of tho wholo episode aro all of about M tho' flame opinion. Even thou it Is fl uonsonso to oxpect that Mr. Smoot, H who uvldontly docs, bollovo in such a H being, to say that ho would disregard B what ho know to bo Ills commands. Yet to oxeento thorn In opposition to tho law would bo bad oltizonship, B"" and would subjoot him to tho ponal- m ties of tho law ; thoroforo his only H courso would bo to got front under B tho jurisdiction, of tho law or tho B Doity. Tho vital point 1b in know- BB ing that what purports to bo a uom- B ' mand of God is such. But it is ovi- BB dont that thoro is no dangor from Mr. BB Smoot In any caso, for ho will loavo H tho country rnthor than vlolato its B I |