Show MORMON ONly UNITY 0 mormon o rmon unity is i considered a strange phenomenon in this ago age of the tile world it is stronger 0 than the solid south it gives more cause for anxiety to the modern cli christian ristian the politician poI Urdan and the american statesman than any other phase of mormonism and this because all heir their attempts to weaken that union have failed and the vicissitudes I 1 i of whatever nature the tile people have encountered havo have only on ay tended to hnz them together cc ment their union and n make it if much stronger the file cormons mormons Mor mons have learned by experience that union union t is strength they realize too that knowledg knowledge know led e is potter power they believe there is no salvation for them while they remain in ignorance hence irence in all their movements they act intelli U gently they know what they do and why they do it when they raise their hands lands to vote a man into an an ecclesiastical office they the know the man and the position to which they are elevating C him by their ecclesiastical suffrage b and when a man ia is deposed by them in the same came manner he lie knows the height from which lie has fallen and that thenceforward he lie will be powerless among the people it was on this principle that the assembled assemble 4 thousands voted on oil sunday last to sustain tho the numerous officers of the mormon church at the general conference held in salt lake city every person presented was sustained in his position without one dissen dissenting ling vote the men for whom they voted on oil that occasion to be bo their leaders aud and to fill many other important ollices of trust among the tile arc are well known and many of them personally known to the whole people they have proved to bo men of integrity und and ability they have kept faith with the community sever never deceived them and hence tho confidence reposed in them by tile whole mormon Ifor nion chure hur cli this great oneness ess of f faith fait and action civilly socially and politically then is considered a stran strange 9 0 thing thin and something that ought to be broken up tip for such union is feared and considered to bo be dangerous 0 especially by the american anti mormon people this they have confessed has given them more anxiety then anything pertaining to tho the maimon Mo imon theory MAIM and they have from time to time for a 1 number of years past introduced such meas measures urea adoll among us a and nd adopted methods in their that they fondly hoped would cause ca use diw erencen of opinion create ci eaic dissell cin sion and culminate it in llie tile division of the people and thua thus give them then the control of the tile numerous offices ices for which vilich hoy have st so long hungered and thirsted thus fir far they have been ver very y in their efforts in this direction for notwithstanding that occasionally one lie mormon sec secedes edOll or is excommunicated the body 0 of f the people reri remain jain intact firm firmly luit knit together and the adhesion of the solid south is as al nothing compared avith the tile unity of the mormon formon people combined eubra have made the wil wilderness derne a and the deserts in thelt A luh enins blos blossom ai the rose tho tile immense gathering of people from all till parts of utah and from front oilier other territories and states 4 1 at salt lake city and tho the pro ce edings 3 of the conference gave C the world more 1 eviden evidences cea of the tile strength vitality and power of A mormon lormon unity there were no haggard ha 9 gard countenances no feeble knees nor trembling limb nor fearful for tho the fate of their system but on oil tho contrary the cheerful fac faces sparkling eyes tho tile 11 snap and vim vini of the tile people and lie tile alacrity aa crity with which h they responded to the call calls and supported every movement presented to them gave evidente evi dento ahat hat the lie spirit of the tile vork ia is neither r t dead nor asleep within them thus far nothing nol liing haa b Is been able to shako ell ako the faith nor break or even weaken the mordou Mor mou unity lity |