| Show A SERIOUS SITUATION The excitement on the sheets last jiight and especially about 0 oclock was intense but not so great as has been seen here before but be it remembered ljeJt well considered be it well weighed be it not forgotten that it was the first a ripple telling of the tidal waves to come AVo are not writing thus to be paradoxical paradoxi-cal we are not writing thus to create a scare and be the first to announce it but + we are writing thus to fore Yarn and to counsel all parties Mormon and Gentile Gen-tile Republican and Democrat to peace and moderation for a crisis is impending a crisis that sounds the knell of a great political party God grant it may not bound the alarm to conflict Note aflr l factWhen Marshal Ireland Ire-land first went to the Gardo House to serve subpoenas he was refused admittance admit-tance andwas told that without a search warrant he entered at his peril Note a second fa The search warrant o war-rant was procured and on its authority he was admitted Note a third fact President Taylor was not at the Gardo House Note a fourth fact Marshal Ireland did not expect to find him there and was not searching for him there Note a fifth fa Throughout the city yesterday it was known there would be no Annual Conference this April in this city but that it would probably bo held at Logan Note a sixth fact The Descrct Evening News of last night published thcfollow ing NOTICE o The circumstances of the times render it desirable that all orders of the Priesthood Priest-hood and the Saints generally should assemble to worship the Lord and learn wisdom at His hands To this end our Stake Quarterly Conference which convenes con-venes tomorrow at 10 a m should be recognized and attended that we may counsel together in the interests of those responsibilities that the Lord has laid upon our shoulders AXCJUS M CANNON President of State Note every word closely scan each line mark the tone mark the times which call forth the tones read between the lines for there lies the information all would wish to have Are these seeming simple words so fraught with wondrous facts Let us repeat re-peat them anew and in parts The circumstances cir-cumstances of the times are there any circumstances cir-cumstances here which at any time tract attention Another All orders of the Priesthood and the Saints generally gener-ally should assemble to worship the Lord and learn wisdom at his hands In times of trial and peril with all religious bodies do they not seek wisdom at the hands of Him alone who is their support and their hope Read on and read closely II ac that wo may counsel together in the interests of those responsibilities responsi-bilities that the Lord has laid upon our shoulders See ye naught in it friends and foemen Note a seventh fact and sum total of till The United States are determined to be supremo in United States territory and the First Presidency and Council of the twelvo apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints know it and feel the gravity of the situation situ-ation In the hour of their greatest trial they rely upon their God the God of Abraham May He counsel them inv in-v sdom in moderation in forbearance and in obedience May He who in the opinion of the Mormon people has set up His Kingdom on earth counsel obedience to the laws of the government in which ho has chosen to establish that kingdom king-dom May He guide them aright and I urn them from the Red Sea to which they are fleeing for safety for it is filled with blood Let all be moderate let all be just let all friend and foeman rise to a realization realiza-tion of the situation for a great and per Imps I-mps we may think an erring church is going to the grave At the tomb let us all be silent and forgiving Let us who have not liked it be what we would have them be noble generous gen-erous free men forgiving and aiding aid-ing those who are falling Let us remember that when Scipio saw the plow srare coursing over the ruins of Carthage he wept and recalled Homer The day will come when sacred Troy shall fall and Priam and Priams People toot too-t i |
