Show R af A wealthy and sensible mao n w i i is bow n this territory was recently nt ft social assemblage of noted leopla in chicago the T he conversation turned upon the utah question and remarks became quite animated aa there were many fierce expressions used everybody bad his particular plan forthe solution of the problem band nobody at first suggested anything f original finally one of the most emphatic of the talkers turned to the gentleman who is bow a dweller in utah and eaid well what is your idea about this affair the reply was 1 I have a projects of which none cef boks en and I 1 am certain it could be made entirely successful 1 it is that T L F congress shall appoint a commis sion of learned men to a examine every religion known in the earth from out the number of existing laitha the commission ashaif select the true one which ashall then be recognized and established in ithma nation by law all adherents of other religions must then be com belled to accept the state gospel or suffer death of course the mor moh religion 1 would not e throne honored by the endorsement of congress because its devotees are too ador aad too few and alie work of annihilation might begin with i t them 3 ihen the executioners execution ers on to other secta until every faith but the favored one should be deprived i ia i A murmur of astonishment fol glowed of laughter sand applause succeeded the novel suggestion and the discussion closed probably the idea will never be ff M i L adopted at th abroad form j b w wi st i r stated but the question of religion established by tho state might as well be settled in one investigation as to follow through decade after J tto A decade of weakly legislation suppose that some one of the numerous plans for the destruction should ba so successful as to leave alive no adherent of that objectionable faith the iconoclasts would not rest their triumph in this case would incite them to new efforts the party of religion destroyers would gata vast accessions after their first conquest con and some other sect of greater b r less popularity would be the victim this mighty murder of life and sacred thought would go on until there would be left only a state religion or else none at all peoples may call the plana suggest ed by tho gentleman at chicago newspapers poli bician and preachers may declare that the idea is simply nonsensical but the gentleman was more nearly right than lie was cred cited with being he simply looked beyond the various steps of religious proscription result A thinking 1 cancan readily see the growth of disbelief in this nation the in ceasing disrespect abr god and christianity bigots and infidels have success in one effort they will go on until there shall be but bom form of worship permitted tn ithe land or what is more likely until the horror of the french revolution blasphemy shall be reproduced and abo namo of deity execrated and renounced by government and citizens alike |