The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-09-03


splrational force and gave to the
charter of the commonwealth the
seal OF divine approval and
decree. Be this as it may,
this Israel were then but labor
ers in the land; they were
familiar with the crude elements
alone, and "hewers of wood and
drawers of water" merely, yet
claiming afiliation with the IN
crowned kings of the land. Steadily
Inc spirit of opposition increased,
ana this aided nightly in compel
ling certain individuality. and
making more decided both the OBJ
pressor and the oppressed. From
every state the elements of cohesion
came together, from foreign lands
came here, and then those recipro-
cal in thought and life, until the
enemy suggested repression, sup
preston, absorption and EXITING
ton.
Township became arrayed against
the few, counties against the in
creasing number, the state against
the growing power, until New
York. Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, each
in turn decided that assimilation
was impossible and undesirable.
liberty to worship, to organ re. to
have the gospel and priesthood, and
laws, and customs, and faith, and
God, and Bibles, was a foregone
conclusion but to be DESTROYED: DO
litical equality was denied, social
equality was not desired, reli-
gious equality was systematically
ignored; those counted as pro
phets were ridiculed, imprisoned,
prosecuted and murdered; their fol-
lowers were harrassed, and hunted,
and shot; lands bought of the gen
eral government were stolen at the
muZZle Of the rifle and at the bayo-
nets point; county authorities, state
officials sanctioned, by their silence
and nOn-punishment of mObbers and
despoilers, their deeds of rabine,
robbery and crime, until, finally,
continuous spoilation, privatiOn and
deaths could be endured no longer;
protest after protest had been made,
claims for redress had been pre-
scented, legal effort had been ex-
hausted, until general exodus, ego
ing into the wilderness to worship
their God according to his dictates, !"
was proposed and then accepted as
the last alternative. But a few
days, so to speak, and repentance
fell upon Egypt; an attempt at re-
/, capture was suggested, certain de-
Structlon was anticipated, the
Red Sea was before, the
defles CT the hills were on either
, side, but deliverance came as it had
} been predicted and expectedSof the
: Saints. Probably "history ever re-
peats ITSELF" and there are yet
, greater struggles before final pos
session comes of the promised land.
, Whatever opposition came of old
I was from sections of Egypt where
= Israel tarried for a time: now,
= trOublOuS times come from 4 con-
! centratiOn Of these sections, from
: the general government. goaded
i may be to action by persistent and
S damnable misrepresentation and
t chimeras Of false imagination this
: power III time passed said ''yOuI
4 cause is just but we can do nothing
: for you" now to placate the enemy
t says, we will take away your vested
/ rights, your religious liberty, your
t political status. your love for and
y fealty to the national authority, we
Y will gOad you to desperation, tO
{; overt acts, to INSTRUMENTATION, you
must be Americans, amenable to
e American law, without American
!, rights or American privileges; in
= other words, you shall be in bond
: age and slavery, you must ''make
! bricks without straw Israel CON
i tinues to multiply and prosper; SO
!; jealous Of increasing powers
r tyranny misrepreSe the contest
e and might seeks to force the issue
!, lsraelitlsh customs give offense
IsrelitiSh prophets rebukiag by lives
5 above reproach, and earnest denun-
: citation of false and tickle rule
Lring upon themselves the anathe
mas of politician, people and priest
: a God-fearing section of Israel are 6
8 silent yet ever present protest
5 against popular politics, sectarian.
ism, and irreligion: a community
s with 40 patriotism but for country,
t with lie reverence for rulers than
8 for law; with more regard for duty
/ than for public opinion; with
t deeper love for truth than for sup
3 posed self-interest; with greater
+ faith in the future than content
t with the present; with more faith
3 IN God than in themselves, and less
: faith in sectarianism and parsons
and place-hunters than ever before
, in their experiences, they really ex-
hibit more of the spirit of Israel
2 than can be discovered on islands,
|, or continents, or earth The hosts
of the high ones of the nation are
3 combined; munitions of war and the
, united forces of. Egypt in wealth
and power and party are marching
] on the fugitives in the wilderness,
+ Yet their faith is in the parting of
! the waters, and the UsSer overthrow
Of ostentatiOus injustice and IN
, righteous demagogues by the waves
of more than Red Sea magnitude
, in the hand Of their proved and
) trusted God, UTAH.