Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-04
SUNDAY READING.

to q new Messiah, and In whose name
there are, already, certain prophets
and deciples perambulating the land,
preaching the new faith of the Walla-
Walla. We may, by and by find that
we have made light, in these first days
Of . new religion, Of that which,
spreading with the age and borne afar
upon the minds and in the hearts and
consciences of men, has become as
broad as civilization and as influential
90 IN abiding and sustaining faith.
The history Of the great religious
movements and convictions OF human
life find almost invariable origin In
the humblest conditions. Christ, Ma
homet, Confucius, Swedenborg,
Bhudda, as founders Of the earlier
faiths, came up out Of, only to illumi-
nate and glorify, the obscurity OF their
origin. Look at the scorn with which
the Jews spoke of the idea OF any good
coming out Of Nazareth. 1t was as
when we should speak with irrepres-
sible derision of the ilea of Messiah
coming from Puget Sound, Arizona or
Missouri for the Nazarenes were
doubtless as unprepossessing class
Of breeders Of the divine and worship
full as ever we regarded the "Webfeet,"
or the "Pikes." Look at the history
Of Joe Smith. the head Of the Mormon
Church. His father was poor, shift
less village lout from the mountains
of Vermont while himself was a
loiterer, q charlatan and a vulgar for
tune-teller before he became SIN
spired;" and Brigham Young, coarse,
uncultivated, bulky and brutal, is
fifty his prophet and representative.
The more successful champions of re-
ligious movements have also been OF
an humble origin, as the Disciples OF
Old, and Martin Luther, the father OF
the Reformation. So we warn our
Sunday Reading auditors not to be too
ready to laugh away, into the realms
Of the Prepostereus, the newborn
holy child of the bleak and stormy
forests of the far Northwest; for say
what we will, despise as we may the
day of small beginnings, his start IN
life is as promising as many another
whose fame is as wide as the earth and
whose name is the name for faith as
deep and as abiding, as comprehensive
and as assuring as humanity with all
its hopes and fears and doubts and be-
liefs has ever cherished and enter
tanned.
In this consideration may be urged
the Injustice of recognizing facts as
they exist rather than suffer ourselves
to be swaysd by impressions, customs,
presidents or prejudices. A fact is so
stubborn a thing that, not to admit 1t,
is to do ourselves and not the fact the
inexcusable injustice of uncandor. 1t
is out of this character of injustice
that men permit themselves to blind
their eyes to the importance of events,
while belittling the more prominent
incidents and actors in those events.
With no thought of anything like an
admission of the possible future inn
portance of this small uprising star in
the armament of earth-born deities,
we would merely remind our readers
that the present obscurity OF that star
is not in any sense an assurance that it
will not, some day, become first
class planet in the ever-revolving sys-
TEN Of religious life and strife. Judea,
as travellers tell US, is but little more
attractive in its general features than
the characteristics Of the scenery Of
Nevada and even The Christ was
carpenters son, and was born in a
manger.
We have spoken of the self-injustice
Of ignoring the irremovable facts OF
life. There is still greater selfinjus-
tice than this. 1t is the injustice OF
injustice. Not any man; not any
party; not any interest; not any adj
vantage that may be gained in bust
ness, in statecrafs, in legislation, in
law, physics or morals ever could af-
ford that purposeful act Of injustice
should be performed in its name and
behalf. And these same stubborn
facts We have spoken of are of mighty
eloquence, sometimes, and cannot be
put down. Especially are they elo-
quent when earnestly presented,
pleading by their presence against a
contemplated injustice which them
selves have revealed. We heard Thorn
plead and heard them pleaded yester-
day in the Assembly in the protest Of
Eered by q member Of the special COM
mittee selected to visit the Prison and
make an examination of its affairs in
order that the Warden's Reports might
be verified or disproven. There is no
rhetoric; no polished sentences; no
defamation, which can compare with
the eloquence of a Straightforward
statement such as Mr.. Assemblyman
Bell made yesterday concerning the
homely facts brought to his knowledge