| Show THE NEWS AND THE PROPHECIES PROPHE-CIES The editor of the New last night was filled with a righteous indignation because the DEMOCRAT asked for a rest on its editorials proving that the prophecies are being fulfilled We dont care whether tho News gives its readers a rest or not but wo have heard some of its rpidors and who are also members of the same ecclesiastical organization and ward as the editor ot the News express the same wish for a rest that the DEMOCRAT DEMO-CRAT did We have also heard some of its readers say and who aro members as aforesfid that tho News was always straining itself to convince the people that sad and lamentable accidents are judgments of God Wo havo also heard readers of the News say readors who are members of the Mormon church that the chief scribe of that paper is bordering upon insanity and that some of his sermons ser-mons in the Tabernacle this summer gave evidence of this fact We refer to these things merely to show that the editor of the Ncw docs not always maintain his equanimity oven when he undertakes to help forward the fulfillment of the prophecies We assure the editor of the Newts that ue do not allow our concentrated concen-trated wisdom to be disturbed by the concentrated ravings of the News But we would suggest to tho News that it employ some other word concentrated when it AVishes to express ex-press its supreme contempt for anyone especially es-pecially since its editor used the same word in speaking of Chief Justice Zano in a sermon which ho preached in tho Tabernacle Taber-nacle last summer Let us see was not Judge Zane there described as being the concentiated essence of fiftyfive millions mil-lions of people Who would ever think that of Judge Zano to look at him Tho News in itfl nrtipln introduppR Lord n n n Beaconsfield in the guise of a prophet and speaks of him thus Lord Beaconsfield with his wonderful farsightedness foresaw the horrible climax of the phenomenal developments threatening threaten-ing the social structure of tho whole world peculiar to these times We wsnder if Lord Beaconsfield with his wonderful foresight foresaw the result re-sult of Mr Gladstones Midlothian campaign cam-paign Tho News near the close of its article says Whether our contemporary be willing to admit that the Diety has anything to do with His creation and creatures or not the facts of the situation cannot be truthfully controverted We may admit the facts and still deny the cause and wo shall not undertake to controvert the facts but we will illustrate with another case whether the facts cannot can-not be controverted The Salt Lake Tribune Tri-bune of August 23 1885 had this in proof of the hand of God showing itself If any one doubts the influence of The Tribune such a doubter should make a note of the weather Two weeks ago we said the streets ought to be sprinkled and there was a heavy shower the next day On two occasions oc-casions during the last week we have tried to interest the authorities on the same theme They moved only with their accustomed ac-customed slowness but mark the result Tho big sprinkler which is superior to any modem inventions was set going yesterday the cloud which has hung over the city for days broke and rolled away people breathed the fr h air with rapture to the sick a new hope was born and every one blessed the change It looks bad for a newspaper to make a great fuss about its merits but it does no harm to call attention to patent facts I factsWe cannot truthfully controvert some II of the facts which the News adduces as I evidence that the prophecies are being I fulfilled neither can we truthfully controvert I con-trovert the fact that the Tribune did call on the city authorities to sprinkle the streets and the other patent fact that it didrain immediately after the call of the I Tribune upon the city fathers and they i i refused to move in the matter Looking iI I i thefactHin tho faco it really does seem as though the rain had been sent in answer an-swer to the prayers of the Tribune 1 |
