Show THE intervention or OF THE CHURCH while tho the majority of ilia utah commission deem the effusions of methodist or presbyterian in their church capacity dt fit matter for insertion in politic political documents there should be A cessation of the measly rot about union of state and mormon church in this territory mormons have as much right as a any other christian christians to crowd their religious or social views into politics if it is bad for one church to maice make interference in state affair affairs it is bad for all churches chur clie and the singling out et of one met to be condemned for that aich is i aided and applauded in others is nothing but witch burning bigotry the fact is that entirely too much importance atta at clito to the feeble effort of churches to exert sway away in politics every aemi occasionally the catholics aro are pummeled or squeezed into metaphorical marmalade it ie is suspected that they have dark and grasping designs upon the state for our part ne we n e see nothing now to fear in the political movement of any church in this country it is not possible under existing ex ittin conditions dit ions dorany for any church to gainson gain control religious infidelity and a multiplicity ity of faiths even among mong believers insure the ilia political choice to political parties to the extent that the churches in ter vents in politics that intervention seems to bo be more advantageous than disastrous when beecher preached a doctrine of political purity certainly he was aiding the cause of good government ern ment without the active aid of churches some of the most essential reforms would languish and the superior mortality inculcated by churches ie is a mighty help in american political life in this ago age of realism and official scrupulousness that help may be as visible in utah as elsewhere ele where but certainly the effort to exert moral eway sway over public servants for the public weal is in not or ought not to be stronger here than in any other territory or fate state |