The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-29

for truth and light. $50
1t is time that every man who
loves truth and righteousness
should, with humble and prayer
full heart, ask Him to reveal to him
the right way, that every man
may be ed and guided by his spirit,
so that his will may be done on
earth as it is in heaven. and the
time may come when Gods law
shall reign supreme, and not the
laws govern the poor, and the rich
govern the laws.
It is time that man should en-
brace correct principles without
hesitating as to the consequences.
1t is time that every man, being re-
sponsible for b mself should throw
aside prejudice and study principles
for himself, and not believe lying
sheets pretending to express public
opinion, while really they are ex-
pressing the opinion Of a few indi-
Vlduals who, by misstatements and
misrepresentation, are trying to
model public opinion.
] here is perhaps no place in the
world where two greater extremes
meet than here in Salt Lake. One
class of people, honest and pure in
heart, come here to learn the mind
and will of the Lord, while a great
many of the other class-cool, calcu-
lating, smart come here attracted
by the mineral wealth and other
resources in search of the golden
calf. They come to serve mammon,
and as man cannot be worldly and
righteous; as man cannot love both
God and mammon, you can no more
asslmllate these two than you Z
Oil and water.
These very people. who so boast
ingly assert and most emphatically
declare that they are loyal and
good American citizens, do all in
their power to disgrace that very
name. Wherein consists their 10y.
atty? If a man loves his country
and the name of it, he will above
all not disgrace that name but keep
it honorable. True loyalty consists
in living an honorable and virtuous
life, for without them liberty viii.
soon vanish. There is an egotistical
class of fortune-hunters living in this
our Territory who will one day be
forced to acknowledge that there is
an element living here who value
the American Constitution and ap
preciate liberty more than those
who call themselves-professedly-
"loyal citizens" This class also
claims that the people of Utah are
not brought up and trained to live
under free ana republican form OF
government, because they are
greatly foreigners. Now, without
any irreYerance to our native born
American citizens, we claim that a
foreigner can be as good an Ameri.
can citizen, and, compared with
some in our midst, perhaps a better
one than those born here; the former
came here of his own free vii, while
the latter is here because it was not
IN his power to prevent being born
here. And those inspired men who
framed cur Constitution would
blush if they could see our legls-
lative body influenced by wealth
lobbyism and an army OF denai-
monde, who make the city of Wash
ington their rendezvous whenever
Congress meets.
Any man acquainted with the true
state of society and moral standard
Of those who so bitterly oppose Nor
mOnism, will at once see why these
men fear the light and hate the
truth. Being in the dark them
selves, they point out those OF this
people who in their weakness and
not living up to the teach.
ings, do not possess that God
given will power to resist TEN Dta.
ton and overcome the weakness
and passion Of their nature, and are
therefore not able to obey the high
est law given to man. It's the peo-
pie they look at, not the principle.
AS every Individual, so comes
every nation as q collective force OF
individuals with his or her faults to
this our Territory; they come with
their respective weakness which
they have to learn to overcome. A
trading natl on willhave to suppress
the love of money, for it was the
love of money that turned
the rich man away from Christ.
And if we look at the Indo- Germanic
races that are now chiefly repres-
ented amongst all the other nations
which We find represented in the
body of Christ, we find the English
as the mind, and the countrymen of
Gustavus Adolphus, representing
the sineW and muscle. and one day
there will be that German heart
which until now has not been
reached by Mormon elders, that
element belonging to Manassah
which has not been mixed by either
Roman or Slavonic blood. There is
a people living on German soil who
have turned infdels because they
loved truth and righteousness, and
had seen the inconsistency of their
state religion; these will one day
see the true light.
May the time come when that
universal religion of Christ shall be
and the universal eman-
cipatiOn of all mankind shall take
place, that every knee shall bow and
every tongue confess, that every
man not only with his lips but in
his heart may love God and
that fashionable
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