Show REV ELDERKIN UI HI HIS SUNDAY EDITORIAL Some of mr in friends both and Gentile have told me mae that lint there was no such thing as free speech within time the Mormon church rIds I have steadfastly refused to lie he hero In fact while In the tho east cast thus this summer I nall flatly denied the charge and I said I knew a Mormon was via just as to condemn an any loader londer or 01 an any of his church as a a was free fleo to the tho loaders leaders or 01 the proceedings or of his church churchlow Now low time tho News the Republican nail ancl the Ilie Tribune toll tell us H that Pl Sm h B 13 Ii 11 Rob rtH ho hi tim tho right to criticise and condemn certain weak In his own church I trust President Smith has been incorrectly reported Long ago men hold to the tho idea Idaa that the was once delivered to the tue saints that truth was stationary But understand that Truth Fluet Be Onward rime rima m maces 1 cs ancient good They hey upward still stihi and onward who would keep abreast t or of truth or Gorman used to Insist that progress came through discussion it II was discussion which broke time the back or of custom Custom enslaves vc Slavery It iii of r i freedom Without freedom pro progress gross gress Is And Aud discus slon ion tile tho powerful agent of pro progress gress ress mn may itself with tile tho faults and which Inhere In eor every Institution touched by human hands as well as with the elements clements of growing power and strength within It Gag rule never helped Gods truth And Gods Cods truth need It If an truth nee needs s tIme the of en enforced silence It is truth not worth orth possessing The Holier Than Thou Attitude Altitude Mr lr Roberts was condemning the attitude found IJo Ho was contending that lint Ir if it 11 Is found In the tho Congregational church it Ii Is bail brill and that If It Is found In the Mormon church It Is just as bad There Is for overy lion Ion when its lis constituency recognizes Its weaknesses and seeks to remedy them Theil this oth other r matter In the cbs clos closIng lag Ing address last Wednesday I he be that hint time the Elders or of Israel Ismel and limo tho of lime he church should dC IC vote themselves to the tho proclamation of time the gospel of life everlasting and amid that they ther should not dwell or seek seel to dwell time the trivial and nonsensical thIn timings or of this world or 01 con or affairs It Is so the tho Ito He pUblican reports President Smith President Smith In Error President Smith bias fallen allen Into the lie I common error of Imagining that ever eyer everlasting lasting lire begins after death Ever Eol lasting hastIng life Is a present reality It is 15 not a future event Are we to con can i elude that ones personal conduct may many i ibe be h what It will here and ani that nil limo I amount and nd character of ones faith fire are to be the only considerations on the tiny day of reckoning We hao hae been nt at much pain jam to get time the now oh view It Is fair to toss it so ruthlessly to time What else is there thoro but personal con conduct duct hid Wh li should we ask for or a aI amanns mans manns creed when his whole life i breathes a kindness and mere mercy and I love Is not of the tho Criticism of Modern I What has hns ben been tIme the most stinging criticism C ri t of modern mode rn Ch That It def defend nd outward forms That it Is antiquated this that touch life and ani t I lint hat touching life It transform life Th The crowning of oC real religIon Is Its power to o affect personal an unjust man Jan just The gospel President Smith preach preached ed last Wednesday Is the gospel gosel of too loo man flatly Gentile As If to say sar p Pay your our pew pest rent remit repeat tho I creed honor tIme tho cloUt cloth look book saintly at atit 1 it t Sunday morning That kInd of religion may mar be comfortable hut it ennobling Time Tho religion that lint transforms conduct Is time the com coimi comIng lag Ing religion President Eliot Is not the only one who believes that lint The J I gospel oi of lIfo everlasting is the gospel of this life Living thIs life well we never foam feal concerning Its con comm be beyond ond time the Incident ot at death I little Short of Blasphemy I ITo ITo To to n a great greal host or of In Intensely I tensely religious people here In Utah that thal real religion Is a matter of faith 11 in an ancient or modern prophet be he lesus or 01 Joseph an and nothing more Is little short or of bias phemy 1 World Waits Wait FOr Justice The Tho world waits walts for Cor lie he 1 tween luau mun ane and man walts aits for am al eager and love or of ness waits walts for a real brotherhood conic come God Cod knows as men ex cx exalt alt the tue of justice anti and dimly anti and love loe to time the throne of everyday I Ilife life I |