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Show A COXSEVATIVE VIEW OF UTAH. ' Elsewhere vj print an article from the New York Post on the situation in Utah. ; The article is moderate in tone but cora- 1 prehensive in view. It describes the situ- tion in Utah about as it is, and it is the fact that such papers as the Post, a paper conservative in all things, radical and sensational in none, looks upon the con-' con-' . dition of affairs here as serious that should give the people of Utah pause. It is with sorrow and regret thaf we are com-lelled com-lelled to admit the truth of the Post's assertion that "the Territory of Utah, and considerable portions of Idaho. Nevada, Arizona and Colorado are inhabited by a people as hostile to the United States as the Tories were in 'the Revolution, or ' - as La Vendee was to France in 1793, or as the Fenians arc to Great Britain to i day." The vast majority of the people of Utah know absolutely nolliing about the genius of American institutions, and what ; they do know of those institutions they j 1 have learned from Mormon elders who j ' have taught them that God instituted this'Government and established its Constitution Con-stitution for the express purpose of estab-f estab-f " lishing and protecting His kingdom. With such teachings is it at all strange that the people of Utah, who are isolated from intellectual contact with those who differ i from them, should look upon the institu- tions of the United States as created specially for their benefit and for the pur- - pose of advancing the welfare of the 1 church of which they are members? This f false idea is to a very great extent the , cause of all our woe in Utah, and so long as lasts this false idea so long will last the woe. How sliall this false idea be eradi-i eradi-i j cated and true ideas of American institu-i institu-i ' tions be inculcated ? This is the question, j The simple fact that such a powerful j church as the Mormon church could arise in the nineteenth century and grow and ! i . spread in spite of all opposition is one of i the most remarkable facts in history, j All religion rests more or less on j faith, and among Christian churches I the Hebrew Bible is the foundation of I their religions. The reverence which is I paid to the Bible forbids the majority of 5 Christians to examine it in the light of i- true criticism and to apply to it the same rules that are applied to all other books. To the devout believer in the Bible the I criticism of Mathew Arnold is as ob- noxious as the criticism of Strauss or j Kenan. Still the criticism of the writers I is not alike. There has been no influence I - "of authority working among Christians I to prevent them from testing the j i- IHculiar theological works of the t Mormons, and the consequence is that people have condemned without t. measure the pretensions o the Mormon j works. Thc.y are not so grand or so in- - t vstinct with the highest hopes of man as j UX the Hebrew Bible is, but taken by them- ; 1 selves have they not as much right to a rlaim of divine origin as the Hebrew j Bible? The claims of divinity and inspi- ' ' j ration for anything cannot be success- i fully disputed, while the evidence of such i divinity will be found in the heart of each l believer. The Mormons find plenty of evident in their hearts for '. the divinity of their belief, and to destroy ; this is a most difficult matter. There is no objection to their beliefs,, but only to their practices, but unfortunately these are but the outgrowth of the beliefs. Here , is the problem. - |