Show VOICES THE PEOPLE R discuses the great principle of obedience the first lion tion of happiness in family or state EDITOR HERALD I 1 writes few words for your readers among whom are many man bof of thoe those degraded ones we hear so much ft gabble about talk without sense while the pre press pres s is literally crammed with stale monotonous gib gibberish berith about obedience to priesthood and disobedience bedi ence to law as though these cormons mormons Mor Morn mons ions were slaves savea and criminals and should bo be dl and outlawed eyes blind with tears of pity professedly can see no good in I 1 them ely em and every tongue to 11 gue poisoned with w i I 1 h hate utters the cry ot of evil accusia accusing them olevery of every degree of criminal dr i min 11 dishonor immor aRty and vice as serfs and slaves to an order of ecclesiastical sias government which unites all classes in one common norn trion brotherhood and embraces all interests the virtue of obedience to church or rule which unites the people becomes au an into erable vice in the estimation on of f these retainers detainers deta iners by them this principle rin of obedience Is a represented as a mere system of slavery and antagonistic to civil liberty obedience to a system or order of things that produces union union a CO concert of action it is said renders tuch such a people un american unfit to have the rights of citizenship or to enjoy the liberty guaranteed by constitutional law if such a statement be true then disobedience and disunion must be the elements of americanism the character of the american people fore shadowing the destiny of I 1 the he government admit there is no people so devoted to thia this principle of obedience as the mormon people it is to them the law of life with all intelligent beings i 4 and disobedience is the thelah law of death death to all who have life it is not only the law of life but the law of liber ty he only who obeys the law is live free there is no slav slavery eryin in auch such obedience those who say chemor mons are slaves and seris serfs because they obey the laws of god through his priesthood may just as consistently tell you that figs grow on thistles es and grapes on thorns or that th life is death and deanthis death is life for they greatly err and the truth Is not in them obedience to the laws of god and the honoring lio noring of the ordinances and institutions of his kingdom bring complete religious reli fb 0 u liberty and in like manner mann er obedience e d i e nce to the laws of our country with a just recognition of its jokers pokers powers and institutions bring to us the highest degree of civil liberty granted by those laws obedience of all persons in all places is i s the price of life liberty and happiness there is neither time nor place between the cradle and the grave in which one is free from this law of bis his being the child owes it to tho the parent the citizen to liis his country FI from om expert ence in all countries we learn that the price of liberty is obedience to law that by obedience all desirable affinities may be preserved that exist between earthly az 0 heavenly beings with ith father on earthar ear thor with v ith it fathers ft FIC in If heaven eaven the solicitude apparently felt for the mormon women as exhibited by tho the press is only equaled by the impudence and brazen effrontery wit with ai which they aro are berated as being in enslaved and tyrannized over by husbands and fathers who are accused not only of inhumanity but actually tyranny and why because they have learned that the law v of love in all cases teaches submission to the tile head and that the blew blessings an and A happiness of that institute institution 1 19 can only ordy ba be realized by recognizing ma man n to be the head of the woman vroman as christ i is th the e h head ea d ol 01 th tho church consequently Cuti the wives mothers and daughters of the mormon I 1 people eople fail to appreciate this misplaced misi p laced sympathy which comes from those th ose who do not recognize any christian virtues t ties 0 daf o ir the marriage arriage ni relation TO those who havo learned that all blessings bles aings come from god through obedience all this press clatter has just jua about as much sense as the braying of odthe the ass or the screeching of the owl it may create surprise and even excite pity but nover conviction convict ion they prefer the I 1 ways N a s of bf tho the lord and choose to maintain their relation upon the same nine principle ciple that every meniver me niber must Klin his is relation fo christ christ and nd il lna i din g in fin b by y obedience all of god and be a head to be tit the rii ruler ler and governor over nor and when all the tile ment members aers of f the body conform to that rule there s perfect harmony ani full realization of purpose but let one single member refuse to obey obay and find not only confusion but lut the tile most dreadful con consequences sequences follow kins king saul learned at the expense of hia 1 kingdom 1 that to obey obeys iwas far I 1 to sacia sa crance tied fur for ut disobedience though lio lie W was kiugo no for him fil im he waa of ars Kuig 31 the tire aholo nation oar 0 israel atio winia A waa was thereby taught that uncompromising obedience was the only CO condition n up upon 0 n which gods f favor av or could be secured to mau was w given ven dominion LI dominion I 1 over the earth and d all an things created up u on upon hia his fail failing iric to com comply PF wit with h the conditions failing fading to obey the law he was thrust down from his high domain it was H mighty fall not only to him but to all under tinder his dominion and terrible in its conse quen ces one simple act of disobedience bedi ence entailed misery upon the j race by that act mans enemy was admitted 0 to o the tho realm and an d in every act of disobedience his presence and power are mani manifest fesL jhc the dutiful eon through his obedience inherits iube rite from the father all things the relation id is made sacred and perpetuated only on thai that con the rebellious sou tou through his disobedience becomer bec omea suan tin alien to the family relation forfeits his inheritance and haa has hia his fathers displeasure pleasure until has batis ned ed the demands of justice A for violation of jan the terras terms and conditions conditi oua of our relation to the are similar ini ilar to those of the earthly as 9 indicated by b the history of roan and of or the 60 I 1 dealings d of god with him life and happiness are nn the result of obedience while misery and death are the legitimate at e and inevitable results of disobedience submission therefore to lefiti 1 mate authority and just lawe espe cia bially 11 to god s authority anil and laws ahil which are just and perfect should be the first iho last and constant lesion lesson of life there ia ii no slavery avery in this universal law of obedience akis the road to true great greatness nea and be he that serves his god his bis country and fellowman lowman fel the most under this t 9 law is greatest of cfall all obedience Ob diece is the golden link that binds earth to heaven mail mad to god and to hia his fellow man it is the door through which nil all roust must pass pas 4 to the that celestial glory by it are secured all blessings that can impart perpetual joy to an intelligent intelli beut being bein all dominion and power that tha i t kingdoms kingdom ll rn earth or in heaven ca can possess it is 19 simply because the mor mons have learned learned this lesson ao well appreciate ita efficacy and are united by its power and influence their envied growing potency must be checked they dowiny tike i e their master must be falsely accused dishian dis fian elligen el liged aadne and we waitto aitto w hear what next R |