Show THE AUTHORITY 1 OF TRUTH i e thornas Th thoiras Tho iras carlyle the cotch W philosopher p probably of the most profound and original minds that ever the world with ita its thoughtful products whatever conclusion tho the reader of hi his s works may reach as a to the accuracy or br correctness correct nesa of hia his view views there can be no doubt as ta t bis his entire sincerity and honesty of bf aim aini in one of carlyles Ca most celebrated volumes he tells us it Is moat most true that all available authority is mystic in its conditions and comes by the grace of god 11 i religiously carlyle was in hi hia his days a eort sort of solecism in his fearless and honest search after truth and the foundation of 0 things wings he often paid but a very doubtful homage to the peculiar tenets tenet s of the degenerated und tind effete christian creed creeds with which he be was acquainted quain ted and yet thero there waa wads a ii deep and grand vein of unadulterated worshipful and pure religious sentiment in his whole whole nature and many of his stinging rebukes aired at quacks frauds and hypocrites of all sorts evince a paramount love lovd of truth and a are leverance verance for the divine reality of things which comes comes only by the grace of godel god there is no authority on earth parth that has not something eom ething of the myrtle about I 1 it ft whence Is the source of the various aut authorities horld ae s under which men live and how shall the world distinguish the true from the false falie pretender to auth authority or true it is that those who represent civil and military authority b have ave their commissions and certified credentials to attest their fig rightful hatful power but the independent moral reformer reform er ahw a and the missionary missid nary though provided with ever so many certificates es of commission may nevertheless be impostors nor can there be an any y doubt but that the most gross and prid flagrant deliberate frauds often exercise great authority among mankind people in general are never so happy as when completely capt dap by some clever sweet delusion and therefore ft it is a common spectacle to behold gigantic shams enthroned ugh high abo vei a zia king or president in absolute ir OW r ia kene generally rally a SL lii nei when when all frauds and lipo hypo cn cruca aea are punctured but the collapse of n huge deceit or delusion is f frequently terrible to wit witness nesi there is the french re revolution what was it with all its horrors but the collapse of a fraudulent state of society lity which bad had existed for centuries and in the long existence of a fraudulent state of society we may observe th the e bove sovereignty and bogus take the so bo called christian sects of today to day bechom the authority ut bority which many of the ab chief ef creeds c ex arcise all if 0 over i ver the C christian h n world and yet they have long since filled their mission and sunk into decree so de deep and complete that nothing remains of their own original spirit except cold and sorry forms again for instance take the adminis administration of justice among men and note how frequently the courts err in their judgments judg mente though exercising a great delegated adt authority hority they sometimes exer ciso it so no vilely and add shamefully thai that even professional rogue rogues are alarmed again the usage of the world gives authority to wealth and yet how I 1 often liten is the of gold abused whatever what over may be the source of any individual or collective authority it ia the ru rule le that khat those with whom the aut authority hority is lodged are chiefly anxious to preserve it and extend its it bounds are they not the one ones chiefly interested d i in the premises perhaps apparently I 1 yet not really eo so one half of the abris christian chu churches iches which survive today to day would have perished year tears ago had bad it not been for selfish and interested tuen men kept them alive I 1 q for pa living and ye yet t who we reper p haps never in need of dupes the chief source source and indeed the substance tance of all ill genuine authority i ia s tr arth u thie authority of f falsehood is like ka a sepulchre lilt spona upon the he sand which w aich falls ills with the abet wind and scatters gire dead men a b bones ones but tho the autUori authority ty of truth i ie a dt eternal ernal the dawie yesterday st erday td tb day andhor ever a safe and prA profitable table guide guld e a true and faithful companion indeed a real and bever ever lasting authority there is i some tang about irule complicity which wins its own way when it is spoken but alas how bow few really speak truth not that the basses masses wilfully I 1 lie but because so many are deceived mistaken deluded purblind or perverse t i bowl and th then cn scarcely arcely ec more frequently antly than once i in n an age 4 there C cornea omes forth a great man F great rent Ire cause true and aud he lie sounds tre rie tocsin n of some divine truth for all truths are divine in their very nature then th en there is a great awakening among the shams and frauds Collo Coll saal hypocrisies and rotten kingdoms and sited social forms conspire together 1 to defeat the truth and dainta ln their heir own unnatural existence thereby joseph smith was the great roan man of bis his day and age the enemies of the cause which be he inaugurated cannot gainsay hie his greatness in that though be lie was murdered in the earlier portion of by lif eyet did he ba found a system and breathe the breath of resurrected life into the original form of religion which at once became so bright that it has dr drawn wn all the hypocrisies and quacks of the day into opposition wo we bay pay that joseph the prophet established the t he great latter day work and yet after all joseph smith would haye have been nothing had bad he lie not voiced gods truth and thus made him self be if as it were a fountain of authority for truth is authority ab blute and eternal parrys evgine Xv a gine conies to hand 03 bright and as over ever the december number a good portrait t of En england glands great statesman 1 Y X high literary standard of tine this maga fineis tine la well kept up among other first class selections tiona an article on the value of Libraries and hints on speechmaking Speech malting will be found in and valuable vala able 11 L Nals bett also contributes a poem the imprisoned apostle SINCE khz D it K 0 W ry has been magnanimous enough to set the example of donating coal to the poor in this has been But to us that it would bothe bethe proper thing for the other roads centering cent erine in ible this city I 1 to follow their worthy exi example mple the poor would appreciate it the roads thern themselves silves would bo be benefited by y such an act of and ana goad prow grow out of it all around ground who will speak first I 1 J burgy curgy JUSTI just ht bained the seventieth year of hasage hi sage he ile is n now ow entitled to retirement and A a pension it is ie not expected bow ever every that be will vacate his scat beat in the highest judicial tribunal in the country for a few years 6 |