The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-06

spun WAOAO II AOIm6rly SLOOd
turning to the right throuSbU u land
the numerous arch-Ways and C n Of
ingS leading of from both sid Gpen-
this famous thoroughfare S we a. Of
ourselves confronted bv the ne una
and uninviting walls of 4 eiro, rude
domed church rising from a nIan
somewhat lower than that p m0ot
which we have halted. 'tT T53o1
says our guide, sis Temple Cbn MS
one of the few churches thai w Vi,
capped deflement in the davs
Cromwell, who il seems took da1ioIIt.
in defacing the interior of such a az
fees and using them as bar-acI. ,
for his soldiers. 1t was d0pbtIass
the extreme plainness Of this bpiiJa
ing which saved it. You viii oe.
that it could make but little n-e-sT
siOns to beauty. But it was sloo
shielded from dissertation bv thu
precaution of having its walls in
side, which are Of marble com
pletely coated with plaster in An.
tlcipatiOn Of such an event. Tho
occurrence 1t appears was after.
wards forgotten, and it was not lin
many years subsequent that
the accidental falling OF of
some of the plasterinc dis
closed the marble surface under.
meath. 1t was then uncovered en-
tirely and is a very beautiful wall
as you would discover personally #
the warden were only here to let na
in. The outside remains substanfi.
ally the same as it was in times Of
Cromwell"
Having visited the ancient town
Chester (n0t many miles from Liver.
pool, where l was told that Crom-
well even stabbed his horses in the
cathedral, 1 here mentioned the fart
to our guide, with the remark that
it seemed strangely Inconsistent. 4
party so puritanically religious as
the Roundheads, fighting in fact for
the principles of religious no less
than civil liberty, should have mani.
tested such irreverence and lack of
liberation in the course of their
icOnoclastic enthusiasm. This
elicits the following: Yes. it
would seem rather Inconsistent. did
we not remember how inconsistent
religious bigots are generally. I suu.
pose the Puritans of that day were
actuated by something of the same
spirit as that manifested by some
people who call themselves Chris.
tians towards you Latter-day Saints
The freedom which you have as
much right to as they-since your
fathers helped to fight for it-they
desire to mOnOpolize, and being in
the majority like the Roundheads
of the CrOmWellian era, they see no
reason why they should not use
their power to that end. Therefore
they coolly strip you of your rights.
and on the false prineiplel that
might makes right and the weakest
ought to go to the wall, deny you
the exercise and enjoyment Of
those privileges and immuni.
ties which if withheld from them
for a single hour would cause them
to clamor themselves hoarse. After
all human nature lis Human nature
the world over, and maDifests itself
according to its opportunities be
they afforded under a monarchy OF
a republic. Cromwell, the patriot,
the king-killer, 'twaded through
slaughter TO throne" He and his
firon sides" only crushed one
tyrant to set up another. The Pu-
ritans, from the oppressed, became
in their turn oppressOrs, and-you
will pardon ne for saying so, but
it really seems to me that the
Americans, in their treatment of the
Mormon people, with all their
boosted liberty and enlightenment
are not proving themselves so very
much superior. I suppose the
Puritans thought they were doing
God service" In desecrating these
"fine sanctuaries,' which proverb-
tally rob the pOO2," but if that pas
sage of scripture had such solemn
weight with them, how is it they
ignored another equally forcible
which declares "the powers that be-
to be Ordained of God" and moi
content with overturning the power
of their sovereign, wound up the
bloody tableau by cutting of his
head?
"You may well AJAX why, but !
suppose it was for the same reason
that DR.. Talmage, an American, and
furthermore a professed minister OF
the gospel, recommends the bonn
bardment Of the Mormon Taber-
nacle-a house built and owned by
the poor hoWever-and the whole,
sale massacre of men, women and
children throughout all Mormon
dom, unless they will give up what
they believe to be the religion
which God himself has re
Vealed to them and practice
| instead something else which
he thinks is better. Now, Talmage
pretends to believe in the Bible.
which plainly says "Thou shalt moi
| kill" and declares that a muir
| derer hath not eternal life abiding
i'll him" and he also processes grea..
reverence for the American consp
tuition, which as sternly fOrbids any
interference with religious Liberty
why, then, does he take a stan:l
so decidedly anti-scriptural, anu.
constitutional, and unequivOcalg
advocate what his master, JeSai
Christ, and the fundamental law o.
his country so unqualifedly con
dennis?
" Why, because he's q hypOcTIte