Show A MOWING SERMON delivered deliver ed at the first baptist Chu church relli by rev charles F richardson pastor of the first presbyterian Chur ct at a union service r ibo attendance at the U union it ion chanke berr service lee at the first baptist church was very large and the address waa was delivered by kev rev charles F richardson pastor of the first presbyterian church after the sermon by a rising vote of the congregation TUB STANDARD was requested to publish the sermon eer nion aud ald it is as follose foll fol lowE owl FREED FREEDOM EDUCATION MORALITY ASP AND LAW on the main pedestal of the national monument erected to the memory of our forefathers at plymouth mas lawa 1 a ands the tile colossal figure of faith the open bibe in her arms her uplifted finger pointing to the skies the plan of the principal pedestal is octagonal from it projects tour four buttre buttresses sees upon these are tire seated figures emblematic of 0 the principles upon which the pilgrims founded their commonwealth freedom Fie edom education morality law it was for these our forefathers landed on new england shores nearly three centuries ago ngoot it was wa for these that they left behind them tyranny persecution and wrong it was for these they endured that rigorous a winter on a wild and foreign shore with he the crushing sorrow and burdens which followed but is it not these which have made this bleak and desolate wilderness wilder nees to blossom as the rose Is it not through these that we realize today this real prosperity and this true tru ejoy joy where now is the forest primeval the untilled soil and the benighted savage lift up your eye and behold the and grandeur of hill and valley surrounded by the wheat fields and fruit markets of the world we eland on such soil as that of which sydney smith said ill if you tickle the earth with a hoe boe she will laugh at you with a harvest your tyes eyes have locked on no fairer vision that that of your beautiful harvests and if when you looked on this vision your heart a swelled welled aft with new pride you ou are no true am ican can but deserve to bo a wanderer and a vagabond in far lesa less fertile hill hille valleys and fields and again azain unless this prosperity this this advance these fertile valleys and fruit laden orchards unless these things aid in maintaining and ici ine these brioc principles aples for which our forefathers suffered so much instead of causing ua us to neglect the same they cannot and should not be mentioned among the things which contribute to the of the republic bu as among those things which endanger and unsettle une ettle it might it cot not be well hen then to ask in the the midst of our prosperity and success do we hold as sacredly and guard as zealously these principles an and d law as our forefathers did or of are we by neglecting neglect ine to do this placing them in danger and in placing these principles in like condi condition tiou and it if the latter be true and our republic is in any way endangered dang ered is not one justified in pointing out impending dins evils and throwing up safeguards Fafe guards and thus turn aside from lie the general joy and thanksgiving of ahn th day for a I 3 brief time and indicate the same ame 11 we believe so and to that end will directed liet beb the remaining part of he present die discourse course when the athenian commonwealth was in peril her greatest of orators demostene though abundantly qualified to discuss in classic style on many themes called the attention of the citizens with an earnestness ear earr estness rarely it ever equalled equal led to the at her gates philip of macedon likewise when the roman republic was in peri peril her matchless match lese lets scholar ela teaman and orator cicero chose such themes as enabled him to utter to hie his fellow citizens words of 0 earnest entreaty and warning war nine so an today let us lift up the standard and raise the battle cry erv tor for freedom education modality Moia lity andraw and law today if my knowledge eerkes me well there is no king or slave on this whole continent we call ourselves oure elvee a free people this a tree free country con bat but treason high treason ie is involved in the numerous declarations of yesterday and today of ROMANISTS of loyalty to the nope aa as temporal ruler of MORMONS ot of loyalty tay to the priesthood aa as temporal rulers ae As chas J bonaparte elated stated io to nie nis paper on the independence of the holy see the pope ie is to answer at no human judgment seat 11 and romanists Ilo manista will never neve accept aej any law which con considers con cont sidera iders the pope a subject the surjeet to no law the pope as ruler everywhere ia is holding today loday the alle allegianis gianos of americana americans alsten again to the words of C ordinal Mann manning irig so we ve declare affirm define rits and oron pronounce ounce it necessary to salvation tor for every human creature to be act to fie the roman pontiff Pon liff at the N new ew university we 50 understand tuat that the ppul blaz a waa was intertwined everywhere with the american flag whose whoso biaz ie is that what does it represent aa As prof Town townsend Fend hae has said it re presenta no nation no civit civil or constitutional ruler no race nor any people struggling etrue gling for freedom it only an ecclesiastic clesia and an ecclesiastic ut at that whose infallible intal lible encyclical and syllabus given in 1864 and later anathematized r R free tree pros free speech liberty of 0 con science Eci ence state education a frie church and many other fundamental af r principles of the co constitution of the united states W why by ia is thie this rait which represents hin who strikes thus at cur liberties and freedom wrapped around the free told fold of our stripes and stars stara citizens goard guard mu conr r f freedom I 1 tell yon you la ia payette Peye tle a romanist m a waa was not altos altogether tether blind when lie sad if the liberties of 0 the american people are ever destroyed they will fall by the hands of the rom ish clergy but again the people ol 01 these united states have gien ghen but little heed to the hostile attitude of and have been slow to believe and bisin to recent resent insults to the blaz of by of this system we are informed by the best of authority that it is but a little more than ten years since they hauled down the flag which had been unfurled by loyal citizens on the fourth ot of july in salt lake city A about out the same time they hauled dawn duwa the stars stare ard stripes from a mission house end and trailed it in the dust and in its dead tead ran up a filthy fragment of a rag carpet in another of the smaller cities of utah the mormon city authorities refused to allow the flag the property of the city tobe run ran up on the pole that stood I 1 is the public square or to be used in any way whatever on the fourth cf july but on the twenty fourth the anniversary of their entrance into the salt lake valley they unfurled it to the breezes and marched in grand procession to the bower where their orators predicted the ultimate conquest of the kingdom over the govern a ineat of the united state and rejoiced in the hope that the fourth would then be forgotten or notten and the twenty fourth take its lie place as a at national holiday I 1 hold bold in my hand a little book which I 1 purchased at cannons book store a few weeks aeo ago it ie is pratts key to this ie it I 1 belied be liev vp of the laet last edition and bears the date 1893 1 I will read from this book pire paragraphs graphs which aro are in direct line with the actions to which I 1 have already referred on page 74 wo we read all merely or political institutions all republics states Ling kingdoms doms ein empires pires must be diss dissolved olred the dross of or ignorance and falsehood be separated abated and the golden principles of dunall unalloyed 0 sed truth be preserved and blended forever in the one on consolidated universal eternal government of the saints odthe of abe moet lugh 1 I they claim that their prophet lagods VI vicegerent gerent and as such is superior to all constitutions and laws of this or any other outer nation let me read from page 70 he ile holds the keys of revelation of the oracles of god to men upon tho the earth the and right to five give laws and com war to individuals churches nil erg era nations and the world to appoint ordain and establish constitutions and kingdoms to appoint kings presidents go governor cover vernom nors or judges and to ordain or anoint them thein to their several hol callings also to instruct warn wart or reprove them by the word of the lord now in addition let me quote from vol XVI of bf the siar star which I 1 have also alsi in my on page 49 is part ot of the minutes of conference cone rence held in salt lake city john taylor in inan an address says priesthood is the only legitimate rule upon ulon the earth and all the nations will yet have bave to submit to it let me ak aik ho lie can men who claim such powers or how can adherents to ruih a system be loyally subordinate to the constituted constitute i a authorities of our country that they are making good their prophecies is made clear to us in the statement of president joa jos F south smith when whet he lie told us only a few month ago in february in his lecture ture in the oden tabernacle now we are a state and bold hold the bal aice atee of power in utah nevada colorado arizona and idaho it may be asked risked why refer er to these mutters matters and again disturb the harmonious relations which exist amo among n 9 us no a as a a people why brethren as the salt sait lake herald of 61 tr e ot of thie this month mouth says in art an editorial anere ariere a person in utah but knows that beneath the smooth surface of our political and social life lite there are eme currents and that they run in ibe the old channels we hope that eventually 11 the currents underneath will cease to be and all become tilled stilled and quiet lu bus there I 1 is 3 no ue to tell people who live in utah that tha t our erstwhile troubled waters have reached ab absolute solute quietude fur for they have not and further in reply it ie is not we but the president of the mormon church himself who has brought forward these disturbing questions qu stion iii by lla his dramatic little sermon of only a few weeks airo where he be declared in the name of israels god saying god almighty requires you to unite together to unite in your temple work in burines bu eines ainess and in your politics tha the day has come when you must put aside democracy and republican I 1 amand as litter bay saints it ts untie unite together and appoint men to rule in this city and etaf stat 1 what is the result in salt lake city alone the P lection of a mormon wio mayor and out of a city councilor counci cilot lof fifteen iteen fl there are thir teen it would be grateful Brat etui baye the eacie same authority which I 1 havo have heretofore quoted to I 1 be able to believe blat the mor mons have abandoned their fundamental p principles aples discarded the whole theory 0 ol 01 t mormonism and become loval citizen citizens they hava have A con OK ON PACK 7 A thanksgiving Ser sermon nion right to their faith and worship but they have no each right to maintain an alien and hostile government it to perpetuate practices which are at variance with the laws and customs of our ou country to abridge the common rights of citizenship to inculcate principles which are destructive destruct ivO of dome dona estic tic peace and social purity or to deny to an any law abiding citizen the privileges ar aad d immunities guaranteed to every euch such citizen by the constitution thie this ie Is the first time I 1 have expressed myself in a public way on mormonism niem and I 1 desire to 0 o state that mat this is only after careful thought and investigation of the whole in connection with aith the line of thought we have before us of let us however pass on to consider the second of these principles symbolized on the national monument education Eda catlon the rhe american ayatey of 0 public education ir a popular one but popular ao as it I 1 if it says a noted unless it adds 0 to o the patriotism patri oti am and the tha integrity of our citi citizens zelis by the development of what is noblest in man mang even this boasted advantage will not in any considerable measure make inake for the perpetuity of our free institutions there are men of considerable conEie rable distinction who insist that everything religious ralI g ions should be banished tram frain our public sc schools byla and urge that t the he moral precepts of 0 the bible should have no place in our educational training with the plea that the function of the public school is merely to develop the intellectual faculties and allow conscience to take care of well does not then america need conscience as well as here the speaker quoted from washington victor cousin and herbert spencer and then went on to sav say the romanist io Is most certainly right when he saya says the child should have religious but oh ob ho he is wrong rong terribly wrongly and we say hands off I 1 w when en he e says blat a I 1 that at re religious a ious in struxton ton should come from rome if washington cousin and spencer and nearly every nation in europe are cpr reel in their methods and judgements judge ments we are wrong in oure cure and our public schools are a possible menace instead in tead of a safeguard to the republic just now we are especially interested in this matter of education we being about to elect a new bo board ard last were the democratic primaries and in each of the warde wards except the Third a resolution was adopted as follows whereas the school system of oden ogden has his through the earnest efforts of other her pro kive citizens attained a high standard of efficiency that reflects reflect a g great rea t credit upon the interest manifest in e educational advance ru and Wh ertis our high school so ably sape piles plies an indispensable need in the preparation para of our youth lor for the duties of citizens c pire fzens therefore be it Ille resolved solved that we demand that every candidate for a position upon the school board of ogden city shall pledge himself to keep the high school up uv to at least its present standard ot of attainment to make improvement his watchword and to make only such chall chances Res in oar our school system as progress shall demand deai and now in one of the wards at which the speaker was present while this resolution passed by a maj majority orith there was quite a etring minority who voted against it and citizens it is no secret when I 1 tell you there will be a concentrated effort made by enemies of our school to scratch the names ot of who desire to keep out schools up to at least their present standard this pDt is made to use the words of a cita paper not with a view to creating a y scares but tor for the purpose of having baring every man and woman interested in the cause of education turn out on election day and cast a ballot tor for the educational system which prevails let lot va us place faith with her aneer pointing 0 inting heavenward and the bible un under pd er her arm in the public school Neglect neglecting ine these things they are a possible po sible menace instead of a safeguard to our republic let us ua pal a an and consider the 3rd and ath of these principles symbolized on the national o 0 monument morality and law Moral morality ityl 1 what is to it that strikes at our principles ot ol morality it is our lax divorce laws and the saloon there iq pi only one law for divorce amark 11 12 in regard to the saloon it ought now io to be regarded us as a thing settled by many years year s of experience that the great deliverance liverance of the body is right when it declares that the 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