The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-25
This is q gentle and besstifsl


This Is a gentle and beHufffs
way Of talking about religion, j
J it not ? One might imagine he heart
these worJs in low gr0ggery, blu
he never would expect them to pro
coed from an agent of "sGOd anG
civilization" in a Christian taber.
nacle on a Sabbath day!
Regretting the fact that the Nor
mons were not massacred in 1857
You say, "Had that army under
General Sidney Johnston marched
on, MormOnism would have been a
matter of history instead of an aw-
full fact of the present. 1t will be a
saving of human blood, if armed
battalions march on and destroy that
great evil before it is a hundred
told more fortified
Cdndidly, now; what would you
think Of a Mormon who should say,
"Had the &C atch ur strangled 4.
De Witt ralmsge at his birth. he
would have been matter OF history
Instead Of an awful fact of the
PRESENT."
TO an unprejudiced mind, there
seems to be wonderful similarity
of fitness between your statement,
and the imaginary one; each being
! alike ridiculOus.
Referring again to Mormonism
you exclaim: What a legacy for this
generation TO leave the following
generation A vast acreage of
Telterjng putrefactlOn, of lowest
beaSt,iness, of suff eating stencil,
all the time becoming more and
more malodOrous and rotten and
damnable."
Deary me! What a mouthful
| Such comments could not be made
by you if you knew anything of the
subject; i. e., assuming that you are
| honest. Better information would
certainly unfit you for the task.
You say, eve want some great
political party, in some strong and
unmiStaka ole plank, to declal that
it wilt eXtirpate, herOically and i'm
mediately, this great harem OF the
American continent"
When l read this / forgot for a
moment that you were a folio wer of
the iOwly NaZarene, as it sounded
so much like the cutlery of an aspir-
ing politician. Of course you have
no political" aims, as you are so
much opposed to ''church and state"
You further say, I'VE want some
President of the United States to
come in on such an anti-Mormonis>
tic platform, and in his opening
message to Congress ask for an APP
rroprlation for military expedition.
and then put Phil. Sheridan in his
lightning stirrups, heading his horse
westward, and in one year Mormon
ism will be extirpated anu national
decenay vindicated 3"
Phil. Sheridan might as We'll be
sent On journey 10 the moon, so
far as the good he could accomplish.
Whatever may be- wrong IN Utah. it
is not of a character which Little
Phil" can adjust. In that respect
he resembles yourself, / should
judge, but l trust. for his sake, there
Is no other resemblance.
You tell us that -" Religious tracts
on purity amount to nothing. They
will not read Them In this you
are entirely mistaken, for they read
everything OF that nature, even the
sermon upon which l am comment
ing. They are the most attentive
readers of this kind of literature,
and If you imagine that they lack
intelligent conclusions in regard to
such rawlings as you gave vsnt to in
this sermon, you should encounter
some OF The lOquacious ones.
Again, you assure us that amy
thing SHORTER than bayonets and
anything softer than bullets will
never do that work"
AS you assume to speak for
Cod perhaps 1 ought not to dis
pute this, but l seriously question
your right &c make any such asser>
tions.
And. now. in regard to your COM
ments on the effects of Mormonism.
You say that 1.-The malaria of Salt
Lake city has smitten the nation
with moral typhoid" This is
"fgger as is figger." but you ex-
plain 1t when you assert that the
Influence of Mormonism has caused
the divorces IN Massachusetts, Con-
necticut and other parts of the
United States.
With as much reason You might
assert that Macbeth's air drawn
dagger had caused your own in
sanuy on this subject. The
effects of "the blood of
Jesus" on many Christians" truly
is py8mia.
The brilliancy Of your intellect is
astounding. In its electric display of
the problem in some respects You
say: 1--WE do not want divorce made
more easy in this country; we want
it made more hard, so that people
will be more cautious in their aft
ancing, and you will understand
that ii you marry a brute OF hus.
band or fool of a wife, you will
have to stand it." What this has
to do with Mormonism. no one but
you AMI God" can define. It is
wonderfully rough, certainly.
You proceed: "Ahl my friends.
there vii! ba no tOninO nm on this |