Show THE boadt OP MIGHT T w favorule ostensible arguments local enemies of nrc fond constantly is based of repeating upon the principle that might makes right we refer to the boast that fifty millions nf people are determined that alie faith delivered to the world gli tho prophet joseph smith shall perish from the earth itis it is contended that whereas this mighty nation ia almost a unit in demanding eliat the mormon religion roust and shall be crushed therefore it is and proper and aho certain that such a consummation shall be brought about Anti Mormon agitators are not philosophers neither are they students of history moreover they are not with one breath they cry that the fabric of the mormon church as crumbling into ruin and the next moment they raise a wail to the effect that the sovereignty of the united states is menaced by a few thousand people in utah As a matter of fact the vast majority bof the american people neither know nor caro any thing about mormonism they are entirely ignorant of thereal in st itu tiona which have been in this territory it has become popular to denounce the cormons mormons Mor mons and the unthinking or misinformed masses acquiesce in the generally ignorant which the press repeats mormonism is not fashionable but this is no argument against its claims to superiority so was christianity once unpopular and every christian creed that has sprung butof the parent catholic church began its course in unpopularity and has crown into respectability in spite of sneers taunts obloquy and persecution any person familiar with tho history of the reformation begun by the great martin lauther knows very well that this religious movement was at first met with terrible opposition the pope and the priests 0 f that day hurled their anathemas ana themas against luther and his followers who were denounced in every respectable quarter a 9 heretics and in many subjected to cruel exael eions and monstrous accusations wealth mient and overwhelming numbers opposed the great reformer and lie was vigorously abused by a legious order from which he had withdrawn but the creed which he established did perish be cause it was at first and long coni tinned to be unpopular and meager in strength as compared with the fops that assailed it on every hand alt kindred exam plea of history prove conclusively that religious re formations such aa lutheranism calvinism and puritanism were in their incipiency cannot be crushed by force ar dis disi i troyed by any human power whatsoever the spirit of religious liberty united im ward conviction of rectitude is in and of itself whether it be cherished by one hundred or one million of conscientious men arid the mordou church ul in almost every external respect following footsteps of every religious revolution that has ever importance its way into popular favor it ap peals to the world also in the way of a reformation all tho chrisian creeds 04 the face of alie earth to day have to a great degree lost their primitive character and passed into that stage of inert iii common to the age of all mundane institutions religions or governments faith has degenerated a merely a form and infidelity eats at the heart of all nations un these circumstances ism steps to tho front as a vital renewal of primitive inspired religion even if tho incredulous world is nut inclined to believe thai the faith of the cormons mormons Mor mons originated with god yet it certainly must bo conceded by all ca that the chalm of this church to inspiration is at the least quite as good as the exploded of numerous sects that have attained power in spite of every obstruction possible for huotari might or inge to ilovic matory religious movement is essentially falise all history shows that the boasted might of opposition to it only gives an to its growt hand perhaps the only poi biblo way to ottay tho onward march of such a propaganda is by mild those who do not believe in mormonism if they are aen BibIe will aalto these facts into consideration jhb force and the pui sanco of opposing millions cannot prevent its onward march even r ir 1 if ft ia based on erroneous principles the gospel of the lat ter adny sainta ia true as thousands of Honest men and women in utah do of a truth know how much more impossible will it be to destroy the work of god embodied in the mormon church |