Show DRIVING OUT THE MORMONS tho mormon missionaries arc to bo driven out of germany on the ground that they are propagating a form ot religious belief incompatible with tho laws of state and public morals tho expulsion wo are informed is a polk o measure for which no explanation need be made here is a sample of old world intolerance in matters of religion the action of the prussian and authorities brings to mind tho earliest history of the settlement of this country when the pilgrim fathers left their english homes to escape the bigotry of the ruling one of the foundation stones of our present civilization is religious liberty and not until broad mindedness in matters of religion gained the ascendancy did the worlds modern progress begin prior tp that time mens minds were so narrow and completely preoccupied pre occupied with fanaticism that there was no room for the growth of a liberal idea or ail ambition beyond the range of intolerance children ocic steeped in religious hatred and they conceived highest duties to god and themselves to bo bounded by hatred for those not of their faith and the children grew to be men and women bitterly antagonistic to all who could not eco heaven as they saw it or whose road to salvation did not lead down the same lano through which they had been told the chariot of jehovah was rolling on to celestial glory were we enthroned in the hall of justice there to judge the characters of men and women and pass upon their fitness to enter the kingdom of everlasting joy the soul shriveled with malevolence whether in alie name of religion or worldly ambition would be sent back to earth on probation with instructions to try to cultivate charity and love the driving out of the mormon adders ia not alone an attack upon mormonism and its but is a blow at that freedom of conscience and religious expression ft kiich the ment of the twentieth century must vigilantly guard if we are not to retrograde in civilization |