Show BEGGING BY BARROWS A san francisco paper states that rev W M barrows has been lecturing in that city on missionary work in utah according to the synopsis given of his discourse he indulged in tho the anti momon vituperation slander falsehood and malignity peculiar to his cloth this clerical absurdity belongs to the nutshell system of souls his stylo style of liberality is of that kind that was exhibited by the dominant religious power iri iii the beginning of the thirteenth century when tho the were mercilessly persecuted lie hc said a jury law should be passed dis franchising men who believe in polygamy this pious specimen of perverted religion does not confine himself to tho the restriction olfaction of action but ho be would like people to be compelled to think thin and believe way under pain of prohibitory disability mr air barrows and a number of others of the same quality and profession would have made excellent pharisees Pharis ees in early times they arc are the tile kind who feel like exclaiming exclaim lord ld I thank thee that I am not as other pen men 11 they do not feel any more thankful for the diff difference arence than a the other men do of course the lecture could not bo be passed over without a pathetic appeal to the pockets of the people these sanctimonious souls have an eagle eyo eye to the main chance when near the conclusion which is the hat passing point the lecturer said eaid tiie the bum sum of would bo be needed during tho the coming year to carry on tho the work of educating the people in fh th nj the ice not to keep their christianity nil to themselves themselves but to endeavor to impart a portion of it to others of course mr barrows mean it that way but tho the quotation makes it appear as if lie consid considered aed tho the christianity of his hearers to consist of money a portion of which lie wished them to impart to others especially specially himself from tho the mercenary manner in which he tries to draw raw in the dimes it looks as if his own christianity waa was conati constituted considerably of cash anyhow everybody knows that genuine religion does not consist of making money on the strength of s scandals and advocat advocating ino legal restraints against religious iou S belief the tile assertions of religious hirelings and blinded bigots to the contrary notwithstanding the I mormon community arc are a good people taken as a whole in tho the practice orall the cardinal virtues they are not surpassed by any other class on the continent |