The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-02-01

object of the article win loom up nearer
home. The people must be educated to
look with distrust upon the innovations
of Christianity, and the Netcs is the edr-
Gator. The article needs no answer; We
merely present il to show how dexter
ously our shrewd neighbors garrote any
principle sntsgonistic to the Mormon
Church
"Why is it that, wherever so-called
Christianity goes, results precisely simi-
liar to these against which the Chinese
protest follow3 1t might be imagined
that pure system Of morals, such as its
preachers and missionaries declare il TO
be, would bring forth different views TO
these But il does not. Visit every
land where soi dOisant Christian minis
ters have gone to propagate their creeds
and evangelize ~ the heather, and you
will find the standard of morals among
the poor, ignorant creatures lowered by
the pernicious teachings Of their visit
ors. Treading on their heels are all the
vices of their false civilization, which
are blight and curse to any nation
among whom they are introduced. r.
The Christianity of this age has been
of no benefit to any heathen nation to
whom it has been preached. The visit
OF its missionaries TO q pagan land, is
the sure precursor OF misfortune and
evil to that hapless race.
In proof of this we need not refer to
our own aborigihes, ts India or China
but only to the Sandwich Islands. For
years that group Of Islands were he'd up
as the missionary paradise. There
christianity had achieved it's highest
triumph. And certainly missionaries
never could ask for fairer and more
unrestrsined field for the propagation of
their system and the practical carrying
out of their schemes for mans redemp-
tion than they had there. The entire
control fthe government, the education
of the princes and mobiles and leading
men of the kingdom, and the dictation
and the enactment of the laws, were all
in their hands They were virtually
the rulers of the country. Had their
system been anything but sham, they
might have made the people as attract
i've as their climate. But misery, deg
radiation and prospective annihilstion
are upon and before the people. The
laws which they enforced and the prac-
tices they promoted, have proved the
ruin of the nation. The institutions of
modern christianity have crushed them,
and they will soon be blotted out.
The people of this Territory should be
thankful that pseudo-christianity finds
no field for its operations here. 1t is
true that owing TO it's absence we have
no number of sauctimonious, devout-
looking men-we have no churches and
chapels: bat neither have we any broth.
els. gambling saloons, and the other con
comitants which flourish under it's
protecting wing. If ite missionaries
could operate 10 their satisfaction, our
happy and peaceful Territory would
speedily be transformed into = pande-
monium. Uader their fostering care,
the institutions of Christendom, in all
their vileness, would soon flourish here.
In this manner would we be christian
lied, If they had their way.
To call such systems Chrihtisn, is .
libel on the Savior. The fruits they
bear give unmistskeable evidence of an
other origin" .-- .m..a