THE SOUTHERN STAR. A PROGRESSIVE AGE. A NON-PROGRESSIVE VS. A PROGRESSIVE RELIGION. BY BEN L. RICH. This is an age of marked advancement. | have denied religion, counting as spurious The nineteenth century is the one century everything that savors of religion. The of centuries in which man has more fully agnostic is not to be inculpated as much as the systems of theology-if such they developed his latent resources than in any other period of one hundred or five his agnosticism. It is not arrogance nor can be called-which practically forced hundred years. In the past century, more than in any other, man has shown assumption, neither is it blasphemy, to his predominate superiority over all otherMormonism" is a progressive and adwhich men call say that the system kingdoms of creation. Man is progress-vanced order of theology. Its martyred ive, and, when he is not advancing, he is Prophet taught that, "The glory of God retrograding. But to look circumspect- is intelligence," and that a man is saved ively and see the wonderful works of this no faster than he gains intelligence; he similitude of God, it seems difficult to be- cannot be saved in ignorance, for ignolieve that he would ever sink back into rance is sin. It teaches that the path of a non-progressive state. eternal progression is before man, and his future depends upon his progression. His advancement in power and intelligence, resultant from observance and obedience of law, will constitute his heaven; while his non-progressiveness or his deterioration, resultant from inobservance and disobedience of law, will constitute his condemnation or hell. "Mormonism" accepts all truth. "If there is anything virtuous, lovely, praiseworthy, or of good report, it seeks after those things." Discovery has been on the alert, and has pried into the mysteries of ages; it has disclosed many startling facts for contemplation. Education has pushed itself into another sphere, and facilities for mental development are within the reach of nearly every man of ambition. Philosophy is piercing deeper and deeper into the unknowable. It has unravelled many a stubborn problem, and passed many Gibraltars, which have, heretofore. seemed barriers to past civilizations. Governmental obstacles are becoming transparent in this dawn of intelligence. The Caucasian race is not now, tyrannized over by barbarous chiefs, who banquet in mad revelry-drinking from the skulls of their beheaded subjects. Man is a free being, and if he desires can enjoy freedom or prosperity, and become his own master. If he does not enjoy these rights and privileges, it is because of his own negligence, and not a lack of opportunity. In literature and language the appreciative genius of man has not been idle, neither has his inventive genius been dormant. Customs and utilities of centuries standing have been shelved, and are now looked upon as relics of the past. The winds and waters have been turned into the service of man-the lightning has been bridled, chained, and made to subserve the desires of its captor, in the instantaneous transmission of thought, as also in locomotive, lighting and heating purposes. When we see the stage coach exchanged for the steam locomotive which goes thundering at a terrible speed across the continent, through canyons and over mountains, drawing hundreds of people: | when we see the old-fashioned steamboat supplanted by the iron-plated ocean plows that cut the seas and care nothing for wind or storm; we are brought face to face with the stern reality that man is a progressive being, and this a progressive age. 167 speedily repent and pray to the Great One for forgiveness. The history of the trials, tribulations and endurance of the Latter-day Saints, is one which invokes sympathy and admiration. The history of their persecutions and oppressions at. the hands of American freemen, living under a government brought into existence to administer justice to its citizens in religious and political right, the very name of which government carries with it the ring of liberty-the history of the persecutions of the Latter-day Saints, I say, is one which causes the spirit of Truth and Libyou blame a "Mormon" youth for conseerty to rise in righteous indignation. Can crating the best years of his life to the which cause, his parents were mobbed, vindication of his cause, when, because of plundered, whipped, imprisoned and driv en from state to state? When his own flesh and blood has been wronged, and, as a result, forced to a premature grave, is it not his holy and obligated duty to contend for Justice? The early Christians did not suffer more than the early "Mormons." The Huguenots, Puritans and Pilgrims have not suffered more. Although in this age, and under the American constitution, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has felt the weight of tyranny, and the deepest injustice. Before and after its organization, in 1830, its advocates have been subjected to physical abuse, and violent persecution. From New York it was gradually forced west until it reached the banks of the Mississippi river, leaving in its trail the mounds of hundreds of graves, the result of blood-thirsty intolerance, There, at Nauvoo, the storm of bigotry and religious fanaticism, which had thundered at the heels of the "Mormon" people from the Empire State, burst upon the Saints in all the grim horrors of hell. Amid the terrors of carnage, the prophet of God was martyred-foully and cruelly murdered in cold blood. Oh! why did men crimson their own souls with the blood of these innocent Seers! Saints were driven by brute force into a trackless wilderness to hunt their food and neighbor with the savage. The It teaches the doctrine of continuous revelation, of communication or instruction from a merciful, loving Father to His children as they go through the life of probation in mortality. Its teachings, when understood, are elevating and inspiring. They show that man truly is the highest creation of God, and suggest his possibilities. Its teachings make plain the words of John: "Beloved, it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but now we know that we are the sons of God, and when He shall appear we shall be like Him." Its teachings satisfy both brain and heart. "Mormonism" is loved and cherished by its supporters, derided and ridiculed throughout Christendom, because it is not of the world, and the Rocky mountains is marked by human Though the way to the heart of the world knoweth it not. It is no exception skeletons, God blessed the people, and to the venerable rule, that from prehis- the tree of life, planted at the cost of toric times down to the present it has Saints' lives, and Prophets' blood, took been the disposition of man, because of root, deep and wide, in the bosom of the priesteraft, to reject God's truth. Some mountains which chain together the poles of the best men who have stood for Truth of the earth, and flourished. They transupon the earth have been stoned and formed the desert wastes into beds of martyred, and their cause Sometimes the reformation can be meas- twenty-five years they founded upon true rejected. flowers. In their undisturbed peace for ured in righteousness by the degree of principles, a strong and healthy commonpersecution it invokes. French author say: Truly did a wealth. Look at it today. No purer, "Many a truth has stronger, or healthier people are to be reached its earthly kingdom by way of found. Golgotha, jeering mobs In education, advancement, tolbrandishing sticks accompanying, erance and progress, they are among the and clubs; or has peers. reached its goal crucified between revil- such results cannot be other than the A religious system, productive of ing thieves." most desirable, let puerile opposition pet While such progression has marked the largely at "Mormonism" receives its persecution and whine as it may. The founders of the hands of growth of the past century in almost priestcraft, fearful lest it reach a prema- than the most noble types of humankind. a frightened such a system could not have been other every branch of thought or occupation,ture doom, and lose the hold with which we find that the religion of the world, that it has wielded and swayed the past. Pro- elevating. "Mormonism" is progressive, clean and It is proved by reason, it is system which should be most dear to fessed disciples of the Nazarene who for- corroborated by science. man; which should teach him truth di- get the commandments; "thou shalt not not dispose true religion-they go hand Science does rect from his Creator; progressive prin- bear false witness against thy neighbor; in hand. Science does not disprove the ciples able to make him perfect as his thou shalt not lie," incite the unthinking existence of Deity-it does not confute Heavenly Father is perfect, we find the multitude to take up the cry: world's religion not only not advanced, with it, crucify it!" When the cry is organism surpasses all other creations, that the soul is immortal. "Away Man, whose or keeping pace with intelligence, but, de said they have produced their strongest was not made to flourish or sparkle, and teriorated from the simplicity and power argument; more effective, however, when then, after a few short years of existence, of its incipiency. Furthermore, it has fought liberty, free done. they are executed, which is sometimes sink into oblivion or blackness, like the thought, and progression. It will have sincere and malicious. Many a well-in-made to endure, and religion and science All are not accused of being in- dying embers of a camp fire. Man is to answer for the death of more than one tended person has earnestly fought "Mor- are given him for his advancement. True poor martyr whose life ebbed away amid monism" and thought he was doing God's religion and true science never contrathe smoke of the stake because he dared service. to assert his honest convictions. Many more, however, have ar- dict, but exist together, both subservient rapid flowing stream of disbelief and in-hatred and jealousy. The raigned it solely from the standpoint of to Him who rules on high. fidelity is growing wider and wider as let it be said: "Beware, ye men of today, To the first class time tallies the progress of years. what you do; if this work be of man it Scientific men, in their zeal for the es- will come to naught; but if it be of God, tablishment of true philosophy, have beware, lest haply, ye be found looked upon the puerile system called ing against God." fightChristendom, with her superstitious contradictions and division, and taking these conflicting factions for true Christianity, doleful example of the negligence of true The present condition of the world is a religion. has established a wonderful and mighty Science has been at work: it civilization, the likeness of which has not of persecutors. let it be said, "Mene, much to ease human pain and increase To the second class been known before. It has contributed Mene, Tekel," is stamped upon your fore-human happiness. We fairly stagger at head, and your future is sealed unless you the rapid strides of progression, when REPORT OF MISSION CONFERENCES FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 31, 1900. we contemplate the possibilities of steam, electricity, liquid air, and ethereal waves. There is an agency which groans with more threatening power, as the prospects of civilization deepen. It is the same power which destroyed the civilizations of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Greece, China and Rome, and it forebodes ill to our own advancement. Let us turn from the hum of the factory, the throbbing of the engine, the glare and brilliancy of artificial stars, into the wake of this civilization, and we shall see that our progressive, earnest, active age is an age of sin and crime, where wickedness and corruption fester and disease, threatening to decay the vitals of life itself, and call down the wrath of a just God. Because of the lack of true religion, crime and sin walk arm in arm with the civilization of the nineteenth century, producing an unbalanced stability. Is it not time that an earnest and an authorized reformation be waged? "Mormonism" has been planted to redeem the world of sin through truth, which it champions. Like the Elias of nineteen centuries ago, its mission is to prepare the way of Him whose right it is to reign; to cry, "Repent! for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Men of Genius. Upon examining an old biographical 55 435 93 782 62 685 19 183 22 49 397 12 81 26 171 22 361 26 316 erty. Sir Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the machinery for cotton spinning, was a country barber, a dealer in hair. Miss Benges, the authoress of the "Life of Mary Queen of Scots," and other productions of merit, was so poor in early life that, for the sake of reading, she used to peruse the pages of books in the booksellers' windows, and return day after day, to see if another page had been turned over. Sir Edmund Saunders, chief justice of the King's bench, in the reign of Charles II, was an errand boy. Simeans was apprenticed to a shoemaker. The famous Ben Johnson worked some years as a bricklayer. Kepler spent his life in poverty. Pope Adrian VI could not, in early life, afford candles; he often read by the light of the street lamps. Claude, of Lorraine, was the apprentice of a pastry cook. Buchanan, the Scottish historian, was born of poor parents, and underwent many difficulties. William Hutton, the historian, was the son of a wool comber. Bunyan, the author of the Pilgrim's Progress, tinker, and himself followed the profession. It is well known that Burns was a peasant, and followed the plow. Capt. Cook, the navigator, was at first a cabin boy. Daniel Defoe, the author of Rob was the son of a The Gift of Prophecy-Its Fulfillment. On Sept. 24, 1899, while Elders R. A. Bolin and Jos. P. Emery were holding services in Wrightsville, Hanover county, N. C., the gift of tongues rested upon the latter (Elder Emery), and for some time he spoke in an angelic language. There were some fifty persons present who were not connected with the so-called "Mormon" Church, and also six members of After Elder Emery had said Church. dictionary recently, containing five thou- inson Crusoe, was the son of a butcher, ceased to speak, Elder Bolin arose to his One-half of these five thousand were descended from poor parents, and raised themselves from the depths of poverty by their own exertions. Some trades seem to have produced more men of genius than others. Many shoemakers have risen to distinction in literary pursuits. A number have commenced life as tailors, many as weavers, and others as gardeners and stone masons. The following are among those who have struggled with poverty, but have succeeded in benefiting the world: Aesop, Terence and Epicetus, men distinguished in ancient times, were slaves at their first outset in life. Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher, was a common porter at first. Cleanthus, another philosopher, supported himself by carry ing burdens and drawing water. Prof. Heyne, of Gottingen, one of the first classical scholars of his age, was the son of a poor weaver, and for many years struggled with the most distressing pov and had to struggle with many misfor tunes. James Ferguson, the astronomer and philosopher, was the son of a poor barber, and was a shepherd, Geo. Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, was the son of a weaver. Gifford, the distinguished editor of the Quarterly Review, was at one time so poor that he could not buy paper, and would work algebraical questions with a blunted awl on fragments of leather.-Juvenile Instructor. From Country to City. and The migration of young men from the farming districts to the towns cities has reached such proportions in Great Britain that not long ago a writer seriously contemplated the possibility that England would some day consist of a number of immense cities surrounded by districts of market-gardens, while the rest of the island would be as wild and uncultivated as the wastes of Central Africa. Without accepting this prediction quite literally, it is still nevertheless true that the movement in question is going on in this country as it is in England. The young men of today are most of them reluctant to adopt any pursuit that involves manual labor. Their impulse is to push into the already overcrowded sedentary employments in our cities. Thousands of them do not realize their anticipations, and live meager, discon In three weeks after the above mentioned meeting the winds of heaven_began to stir the calm of the earth. The mist of the coming storm bedimmed the sun's searching rays, and black clouds arose over the eastern horizon. The mighty Atlantic ocean roared, sighed, and groaned, as if some master hand troubled its tranquil rest. Finally the storm broke over Wrightsville with great fierceness, half to three-quarters of a mile the "Shell destruction. From onecausing much boards, etc. Road" was literally covered with lumber, Fine houses were swept away and one beautiful building was liftinto the "Banks Channel." The sea arose ed bodily from its foundation and hurled five feet higher than ever before knowntearing railroad demolishing up and tracks. So we see that when a servant of the Lord filled with the Spirit of God utters a prophetic warning, a literal fulfilment thereof is sure to come to pass, for Jesus said, "Heaven and earth may pass away, but not one jot or one tittle of my word shall pass away unfulfilled." Kindness wins for us the affections of others. farm, in the legislative halls, the judi- ELDER E. L. POMEROY. President of the East Tennessee Conference lives of good men and good women. While he was quite young his parents While righteousness and peace shall reign, moved to Arizona, for the purpose of And Error, vain deceiver, thou shalt fall, settling in that territory, and his father When only sixteen years old he at- voidable No. 22. circumstances, he was compelled to forego his aspirations for the completion of his education, and at the close of the school year he drove by team from Provo City, Utah, to Mesa City, Arizona, intending to return in the fall and continue his work at school. When he reached home he received a call to devote a portion of his time to the work of the Lord, and apply his talents in performing a mission in the Southern States. His brother, F. T. Pomeroy, had just returned from a mission in Mississippi, where he had labored for some three years for the cause of truth, and the two met in Salt Lake City-the one having performed an honorable mission in the South, and the other (E. L. Pomeroy) ready to go forth with a fixed determination of doing likewise. A little over two years ago-April 16th, 1898 he arrived at Chattanooga, and was appointed to the Florida Conference. Here he labored with diligence and energy-baptizing many honest souls into the fold of the Good Shepherd. In February, 1900, he was called to leave the Florida Conference, and when Elder John Peterson was released Elder Pomeroy was given the affairs of the East Tennessee Conference in charge. He says: "I have had more real joy and satisfaction in these last two years than I have ever experienced before in my life." History of the Southern States Mission. (Continued from page 162.) November, 1896. The usual tranquility of our Mission was somewhat disturbed during the month. The spirit of mobocracy which announced in hellish glee its mission among those striving to serve the Lord. No lives were lost, but great persecution was waged against the Elders. Their success in spreading the truth among mankind had assumed such gigantic proportions as to force Satan to greatly manifest his powers. About noon of the 6th inst. some 150 armed horsemen passed the school house near the Carter settlement, about seven miles west of Live Oak, Fla., headed toward Mr. Geo. Carter's, where Elder John A. West lay almost dying upon his bed, being nursed by Elders W. G.. Fisher and T. F. Wasden. Learning of the mob's intention as they passed the school house, little Mamie Carter, 12 years of age, made a short cut through the fields and woods, reaching her home, about a mile distant, some three minutes before the mob arrived; bruised, brier scratched and well nigh exhausted, she sounded the danger signal. Elder West was very low and had just dropped off into a fainting spell (these spells had been coming on him frequently, always leaving him very weak). The excitement aroused him. The Elders at once dedicated themselves to God and cooly prepared to meet the worst-let it be life or death. The mob was met at the gate by Mrs. Carter and her brave daughter, Hattie, who sternly refused them admittance. The outlaws threatened the women, but to no purpose; in no uncertain language the two heroines said: "If you pass through this gate you shall walk over our dead bodies." At the suggestion of Elder West, the three leaders of the gang were admitted to his room. By his cool, gentle, but impressive, determined manner, Elder West succeeded in melting their hearts they left the room blessing him, while their eyes were filled with tears. The purposes of Satan were defeated for a short time, but soon arose to former bitterness. Mob meetings were held in different parts of the county. It was openly avowed that "Mormonism must be uprooted, cost what it may." Whisky was provided by outside parties, and became a factor in the outlawry. There appeared in the "Florida Banner," heretofore friendly paper, the following notice: re a "To the People of Suwanee County: CRACKER. Commenting editorially upon their actions, W. L. Whitfield encouraged the mob proceedings, characterizing them as very orderly and conservative. Elder W. G. Fisher wrote Gov. Thomas L. Mitchell at Tallahassee, Fla., relating to him the proceedings in full, giving the names of thirty or forty leading mobocrats, and praying for protection. A communication of similar import was addressed to the Governor from the Chattanooga office. The gubernatorial reply came from his private secretary, D. Lang, stating in substance the disturbance was one which the local authorities must deal with according to the laws and constitution of Florida: when they had exhausted their power to quell any disturbance, and upon their report of the fact to the Governor, the state would come to their assistance, not before. As the proposition appears to us, our Elders and Saints must first be hounded down, whipped, beaten, then hung, at which juncture the state will come to our assistance, cut the ropes and hold an inquest over the dead bodies. O, what perfidy! With a view of averting some danger. Elder West was moved by wagon about seven miles to the house of Brother Redding, near Live Oak Station. The move was made in secrecy at night, while his condition was so serious as to necessitate sending the following telegram by Elders Fisher and Wasden: "President West is very low; we fear it is serious." The month closed the mob agitation still active, but no fatalities to record. (To be continued.) THE DARK AGES. BY A. ARROWSMITH. opened with Europe filled with strife and war; men toiled to burn each other's cities, to waste each other's fields and of darkness, which has covered We still find hundreds of jarring sects. would satisfy his rapacity. His turbu- all tenacious of their own ideas and bit defeat. While the above was transpiring in Europe, the new world, America, was resting in tranquility, looking from afar with serene neutrality upon the throes of war abroad. Eventually England adopted high-handed and offensive In other words, In is only the crystalized ideas of the leading men of the age that gave them birth. For example, the Roman Catholics did not depend on revelation, nor even upon the Scriptures, but wholly upon the tradition of the Fathers. the rule of faith, in the Church of Rome, was the conflicting ideas of men-often ill-informed and superstitious-who lived during the period of darkness, until the sixteenth century. The creed of Luther is simply his own uninspired ideas. like manner the Presbyterian faith but the reflex of the doctrines taught by Knox. to obtain sailors for her navy, using the Likewise Methodism and Quakerism are but the products of zealous "press gang" and searching American vessels, contrary to the laws of nations. reformers of the past. In fact, all the America naturally resented such proisms extant, that were known in the beceedings, and trouble arose between the ginning of this century and that two countries. These troubles and griev-known to this day, are entirely behind but America and England were too anances could have been easily adjusted, the times, non-progressive and unfit for gry to be reasonable, and war was declared in the year 1812. England was so embroiled in the Napoleonic troubles at home that she could spare scarcely 3, methods are the consideration of advanced thought. this An up-to-date religion is needed; earnest, active, thinking period demands a religion that has life and power in it. The cold formalism of the narrow, contracted, long-faced, hypocritical sec000 men for the defense of her posses- tarian, does not fill the bill. This is atsions in this country; in consequence, the British force in America was principally tested to today by the fact that infidelcomposed of Canadian militia and volun-ity is growing, and the empty churches teers, which were sadly defeated at the show that their systems are failures and battle of New Orleans. This war lasted From the time of the invention of printing to the year 1814, scarcely any of all. This spirit of invention operated upon George Stephenson, who, in the year 1814, practically demonstrated the feasi bility of his locomotive. In the year 1825 he operated a locomotive, carrying passengers and traveling at the rate of twenty-nine miles per hour, which was a wonderful innovation and a marvelous disseminater of intelligence. Robert Fulton, in the year 1807, built the "Clermont," the first practical steamboat, and started up the Hudson, greatly startling the natives, who thought the devil was at the helm, it being beyond their comprehension to see vessels operating against wind and tide; it was too miraculous to their understandings, whereas in the present days of inventions and electricity, nothing shocks or appears at all marvelous. Such were some of the forces at work in the early part of this century: forces which were bringing the human family to a high state of civilization. are going to pieces. since In the midst of this strife and confusion in the theological world, a youth was born on the 23rd of December, 1805, in Sharon, Windsor county, Vermont, whose subsequent life has proven him to be the most remarkable personage that has graced the earth Jesus. He was born of humble parentage, living in poverty, amid pastoral scenes, among the pioneers of the new world. When fifteen years old, he was much concerned about his soul's salvation. He was living, at this time, with his parents, in the town of Manchester, N. Y., where a religious revival was in progress. It was a joint affair; the Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists all taking part. This boy was unable to decide which sect to join; thinking of course their systems were all of God: never suspecting for a moment that they were all wrong, devoid of inspiration and an abomination in the sight of God. The only question with him was, which sect shall I join? who has the most truth? Incidentally, coming across the passage in James, where it says, "If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him." he became impressed, having great faith in this promise. The result of this faith was that he went in secret to the recesses of a wood adjoining his father's farm, and there, in humility, on a beautiful spring morning, while all nature rejoiced, this youth importuned his Father in Heaven for light. He relates a remarkable circumstance, which in this age of scepticism and man-made religions, seems incredible. He says the Father and the Son appeared unto him, and gave him advice and instruction, THE SOUTHERN STAR. as every honest investigator has fully For a concise history of the above Smith," by Apostle M. F. Cowley. As this closes the "Dark Ages,' or period of 1,260 years, which fulfills the prophecies of Daniel and John the Revelator, as described in the first article of this series, it would perhaps be better to throw a little light on the subject, and show what God has wrought since the establishment of His Gospel in the year 1830, up to the present time. telling him that the various faiths, dog- saw another angel fly in the midst of the one who is called the Baptist, came (To be concluded.) GLEANINGS. To his many friends here in the south, Though my lot is not cast (personally) States A. G. Haskell, Wilbur Sowards, John Ohio Conference-Silas S. Smith, Jr., Virginia-Francis Childs, I. D. Massey. South Alabama Conference-Theodore Transfers. C. O. Cherry from Georgia to Ohio Conference. Oratory. Senator Hoar's reference to Aguinaldo and his associates as belonging to a race that "handed down to us the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, the poetry of David, the eloquence of Isaiah, the wisdom of Solomon and the profound philosophy of Paul," would be exquisitely funny, had it not been made in the legislature of a great nation, during the discussion of a most serious question. Under the circumstances it must be characterized as a grotesque attempt at hiding a grim falsehood under a brilliant cover of oratorical flowers. Someone might with as much reason compare the Russian Laplanders to the race that gave us the Bible. but Aguinaldo is, by all accounts, a Tagalo with Spanish blood in his veins. The race that gave us the Scriptures were neither Tagals nor Malays, Shemites. These were the leaders of civilization through many centuries, and it was during their golden age that they produced the poetry of David, the eloquence of Isaiah and the wisdom of Solomon. It Elder William T. Jack, for some time president of the Southwestern Mission, with headquarters at St. John, Kansas, has been released to return A legitimate use of oratory is to imhome, and Elder James G. Duffin, of press a truth, to illustrate an argument Toquerville, Utah, now laboring in Texas, and to rouse sentiment in favor of that has been appointed to succeed him. Elder which is good and noble, but to use it for Duffin is the senior president of the the purpose of concealing the shallowness Ninth quorum of Seventy. of the water and induce people to beDuring the past week Elders F.W. Kar-lieve that there is depth where there is The youth further declares that John, ren, R. R. Humpherys, Charles McNeil nothing but mud, though very frequently and Thomas S. Karren, who are laboring has no effect on thinking people but to done, is nevertheless reprehensible. and delivered upto him, by the imposi- in the city of Jackson, Tenn., have been render them suspicious of being imposed tion of hands, the keys of the Priest- doing much good. They have been holdupon. A public speaker should first be hood, which was after the order of ing street meetings with much success. sure that he has the truth to present, Aaron. Subsequently the Melchisedek To be sure they have met opposition, and then do it without recourse to the priesthood was restored, and every key, and that in an un-American-like way. At tricks of the orator.-Deseret News. ordinance and law constituting the ever- the close of one of their meetings a few lasting Gospel of Jesus Christ, as taught nights ago, eggs were showered upon by Him in Judea. The above events them. They did not expect to have bowere not done in a corner, but have been quets thrown at them, inasmuch as they attested to by hundreds, yea, thousands, preach such an unpopular doctrine, yet of honest men, who today declare the eggs were unexpected. An appeal to the truths which this young man has left on chief of police was of an encouraging narecord. These men positively know. ture, and let it be said to his credit, he what he has, but by what he is.-Chanwithout doubt, that the thing called promised them protection. He assured "Mormonism" is of God and nothing them if he could find the guilty parties, more nor less than the Gospel of Jesus, they would be punished. The leading citwhich has been off the earth, "driven in izens of the town feel grieved that such the wilderness" for 1,260 years, and re- a thing should happen within their comstored through the power of God and munity. The street meetings will be conangels, in this "the dispensation of the tinued. These four brethren have been fullness of times," in fulfillment of the busy as the following report will show: words of John where he says, "And I Two hundred families visited, 120 fami Let Tomorrow take care of Tomorrow, Man is glorious and happy not ning. by The laws are most numerous when the state is most corrupt.-Tacitus. We take no note of time but from its loss.-Young. Until the end shall charity endure.Churchill. |