Show HUMAN AND lUVINi LAWS liil it never occur to tin people of Utah that tlipy tue runnlni an nltocotlior too Minrp diitinction between linnini laws nml dilno 1 Has it nocr dawned upon Iliolr undcrstandinj lliit litnnnn lawn the canio Irttts which dliiiul HIKIII our national stntnto books nnilnio heillil unforced by the Tcderal courts of tliis Territory today aro notli Ing loss limn tin traiiHlatlon of dlvino lans nnd theli ejiccial application to tho exigencies of liuinnn life H Ilio Kreat moss of the peojilo of Ibis modern 1cm would but slop to think a moment hoiv could < l they help being biought to a icaliialion of Ibis great truth tho recognition of which would bo as a bright I light Net upon nit eminence to guido their steps alight through the mil rounding mists of error superstition I When a community of people piofms a willingness tosoordet their HVCH Hint their conduct will meet with ilivlno approval ap-proval the sincerity of their pretension can best be tested by tho obedience they render to tho laws of the land No National Btatuto oxists in Ametica today that has not ically leceived its vital element from the will or mimlof God hluisolf Through infinite mistakes through infinite sulfuring through nil manner of dwarfing inllti Inces mankind could not bo withheld from the forro that has perpetually lifted them up and on and pushed them forward for-ward and Ihoy hivo found out ns they progressed that tho results of human experience ex-perience ns made known in social clis toms in civil law in great commercial elements nro tho laun of God In tho growth of mankind wo 1mo come to such a stngo that things which are absolutely now may be divino laws notwithstanding notwithstand-ing that is to say they aro found by experience to piomoto tho welfare wel-fare of individual life of social lifo and of national lifo nnd whatever does good to innu has the presumption in it that it Is the divine will and whenever anything that docs good to man on being tried uinoni all civilized nations and nmlcr all conditions in which men live together is found to prove everywhere and always beneficial then wo have indications ot the divine will just us much us if it had bocu pro claimed amidst thunder nnd lightning and spoken by tho voice of God from the heights of Mount Sinai Tho final results of human uxpsricncu us embodied in tho laws of tho land aro divine volitions voli-tions tho manifestations of Gods thoughts nnd Gods will among men These nro truths which he people of Utah will do well to ponder Tho Anieti can people have declared that certain practices common in this Ten itoryw Inch aro subversive of the general welfare must cease This mandate it is rue is not prefaced with 11 Thus sailh tho Lord nor ia it protended to have been received by men who claim to be in personal per-sonal communication with Go1 Almighty hut it comes to us through n medium which can no more bo discieditcd titan can the commands in Holy Wilt and that medium is tho Congress of tho United States n 1 body ot men representative representa-tive of tlio American people whoso voice in thq voice of tho only God with whom wo havo to do when dealing with matters which affect our welfare as u nation |