Show Z JUST THINK OF IT In all that has been spoken or written of the confessed adulterer John Q Canu and his expulsion from the Mormon Church it is singular that among it cannot be found one word of sympathy or tender feeling for the woman who is his wife and the mother of his children In all the solemnity of the great Tabernacle when Gods sun ligii I t ole in in myriads of rays through the 4 tin of that meeting no ray of the hcaeu1j light fell upon one man or woman who thought of the wife of the man who acknowledged his crime to them and who cnded his confession say jug As you my brethren and sisters will be called upon to pronounce judgment upon me 1 nolc that yoj will after pronouncing judgment at lc as jive me a chance to show that ther < SLmo good in me The unii t lie confessed adulterer in propoii nephews excommunication excommuni-cation is said to tll o moved the audience 411 to tears at the hlJldge of sufferings from the sins of lr nephew and editorially editor-ially the Church igan in speaking oft r the of-t matter says Take the entire m idzit and it will be observed to incorporate the element of grandeur as well rs be deepest pathos After the first sb iofc uj on the assemblage and the arousing uf profound sorrow for the young man himself the minds of the people necessarily reverted to the afflicted father No tongue can tell the depth of the grief into which he has been plunged by the fail I of a son of brilliant promise on whom he lavished an inexpressible fondness No allusion is made irom any source to the stricken woman who is the wife of the culprit nor among the tears shed I over the solemn proceedings was one drop produced by a memory of her wrongs and humiliation The Church organ winds up its notice as follows Let Israel behold the spectacle of yester day and receive the full force of the moral it conveys Jf f such should be done what a rover al of the teachings of Mormonism would result therefrom The great love of which they preach would be held a lie and the real sufferer condemned to seek solitude feeling that by no act of hers she had been forsaken by mankind Well might the seek her prayer stool and smiting her breast in agony cry aloud 0 Christ in thy boundless pentecost of love and mercy to mankind is there no part for 1110 I am guiltless in thy sight yet must bear this grievous burden and the pity and love of my people are given to the author au-thor of my wrong and I am desolate Is this the lesson the organ would teach And yet it is the only one truthfully conveyed con-veyed by the whole proceedings Does it not show to all the wives and mothers there assembled that pity and mercy are for the man and none for the woman he wrongs by such a crime Is not a plea made for the man and none for his wife who is shamed by his acts Out upon such a cursed creed as would thus belie the teachings of the Christ of Nazareth and pervert christianized human feelings to such selfish actions Even the lowest denizens of unknown lands will shield their women right or wrong and keep them from the stroke of adversity but this teaching of the Church organ would leave the women of Mormonism Mormon-ism entirely out side the pale of pity and doom them to be patient bearers of any burdens an unnatural husband might see it to inflict them with Jesus whom the Christian world loves and worships lifted up the Magdalen and sent her on her way rejoicing I but who in this whole crew of blasphemous men will take the partner of Cannons crime by the hand and do likewise No one If by Gods providence provi-dence the poem which made Tom Hood immortal in the hearts of men could be distributed and taught to this people who claim to be so near Christ what a revolution revolu-tion there would be in the sentiment fashioned in the Tabernacle on Sunday Who is her father Who io her mother Has she a sister Has she a brother Or is there a dearer ono Still and a nearer one Yet than all other Alas for the rarity Of Christian oharitv Under the sun Oh it is pitiful In this whole city full Friends she has none How grandly does Hood picture tho want of love and mercy for the fallen ono just as Jesus of Nazareth did for Mary Magdalen and yet these selfcon Htituled and blasphemous priests can see 1 no ray of pity or love for the woman who was a partner in the lust of one of their i number j only pity for him and a plea that he be not ostracised from the companionship H I com-panionship of his fellows In all the devious de-vious paths of unchristian acts trod by 1 tho men who lead the Mormon Church no act since the birth of Smith calls so lt iI4 l loudly to all classes of mankind for condemnation E il I con-demnation as this selfish unmanly and r unchristian act of covering the crimes f of one of their number with the mantle of charity consigning the heartbroken wife to oblivion and irretrievably damning damn-ing the unhappy woman who pandered 4 to the lust of one of their own kind What at first sight looked like a manly intent to save the wretched woman who was a partner to time guilty acts j by this tender of charity to the man and its utter absence to the woman is turned into another reason for gaining the hatred of r all honorable men fora creed that teaches I such unChristian lessons |