Show MORMONISM we cannot help feeling astonished to still hear bear and also to sec see iterated and reiterated in the public journals the gic questions how shall we treat mormonism and tho the mormons cormons Mor mons what method ia is the best one to pursue to settle the perplexing problem many methods have been tried by many people in their fashion and many of them have not been of the mildest character and all fill have been thus far in ineffectual but yet they will not ilot give giva it up now we suggest that they treat the 11 cormons mormons Mor mons as human beings fellow creatures as though they had rights of every kind in co common minon with other people which should not only be respected but protected do unto the ai mormons cormons Mor mons as you would like tho tile cormona Mor mona or any other people to do to you yourselves relves cease to interfere with them in ill their pursuits of life liberty and happiness so long as it does not interfere with others ia in their e enjoyment ajoy j of like privileges and if they do not like the 91 mormon ormon religion they need not receive it let all be treated with equality bufore the constitutional laws of the country this is all the ho mor mon men people would ask this is what they have a right to expect from choir fellow citizens of the united states they arc are entitled ito to it they live for it they have earned it and they deserve it but such methods do rot suit those who think they have tb the unquestioned authority to regulate tho the ecclesiastical aff affairs lairs for tho tile great majority of the people of this territory il Hw However ever they would not attempt to do it for any other class of people inthey if they did there would soon bo be the fat in the pan and a big flaro flare up why not then leave us alone to still improve the land and build up the country which we have redeemed from sterility the mor mons cannot consent it aft other people regulating their social and religious matters far for them they feel capable of doing this work themselves as it concerns them and them only some journals affect to bo be surprised at this says one eastern enchau exchange 0 c the saints have no intention of giving up the cornerstone corner stone which sustains their edifice of course not why should they the chief cornerstone corner stone sto ne of their edifice is the great Messi messiah all and a firm faith in and reliance on him min is with 1 them a fundamental principle of course they could not give up these the same journal says until the church ia is utterly extirpated the practice which renders cormons mormons Mor mons hateful to modern Christianity will be maintained extirpated I 1 is is a terrible ward word to uso use when coming from a professor of christiani christianity t y 11 and applied to other followers of tb the e savior it means to pluck up by the boota to destroy entirely these are the methods recommended by some religious reformers which they COB con sider the only effective way ia in which to settle the 1 mormon I NIO rmon business bo iness another journal echoing these sentiments says the sooner the crisis crisis comes the better it is anxious for the contest another member of the press a strictly religious publication has another method to settle the matter That journal thinks the only effective means to reach tho the end is to hanetho haye tho territory governed by a commission appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the senate and authorized and directed under proper provisions of law to suppress the crime of Mor D employing the military power if necessary to preserve public order ard enforce obedience 0 be to the law we shall have bave to come to this at last and the sooner it is done the sooner will the end be reached now that seems to have the real ancient ring to it the military power was used to silence the founder of the christian religion but it failed to accomplish its purpose force will fail to extirpate the mormon religion and the longer the attempt to do it by such meana means is deferred the better it will be for all persons who feel any in in terest in the question if modern christendom is still determined to fight the tile 1121 mormon religion they should fight it by legal means and scriptural arguments if these fail then leave the matter to the decision decil 1 of the great arbiter of tho the destinies of all men to settle the controversy THE PASTORS of the methodist episcopal churches of York Penu publish a card giving their reasons for refusing to attend ao so called methodist camp meetings tings many of enterprises they say arc are not under be control of any department part ment of the church and are managed by gro grossly sly immoral men who use money to bribe uneducated consciences and obtain this money by collusion with railroad eions we arc are in favor of camp meetings the clergymen add whenever it can be de demonstrated that their influence is more helpful than hurtful to the cause of christ THE QUESTION ox is being publicly discussed di I 1 in quebec whether dent isny igny is 13 a proper calling for a woman some of the newspapers are condemning and others defending a woman who baa has become a dentist and tb clergy of st john jelin and lewis churches havo have prohibited their people from patronizing her A PRESIDING ELDER who w went ent to con conduct duct the dedication of a new methodist church at grand rapids did not do it tho debt was not all provided for and he lie said he be had promised god not to dedicate any more duo due bills mechanics liens and mortgages HARDSHELL HARD SHELL FAITH was shown by the rev rv mr jackson in a sermon on faith in boston oh oil ive got great faith in do lord he lie cried ef do lord was to sa say jackson go butt yer head lead agin dat tree ive got faith to bleeve dat d de tree tree ud be removed afore I 1 got dere SAYS THE N Y sim sun of august fth mrs harriet beecher stowe writes to a western neu newspaper shaper that the character of undo tom was not a biography or a portrait but a work ot of tho the imagination A similar explanation seems necessary in in regard to mrs harriet blechor lord byron AT THE TILE new oil town garfield pa oil is cheaper than water the latter costs 60 cents a barrel and cannot be secured in exchange for a barrel of oil cents |