The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-08
THE TRIBUNE's SYMPOSIUM.
To Which Mormon Contributions
We're not Wanted.

With its customary sense of fair pla
the Iribune,lof Sunday last. publishe
an Easter Symposium, in which th
several ministers of the differen
churches of this city, took part in dis
cussing the resurrection of the Savior
and its bearing upon Christianity. Tn
Episcopalian, Congregational, Metho
dist, Baptist and all the rest, were az
mitted to the talking bee. Ali salt
their say with perfect freedom, and un
doubtedly each gave to his followers ar
additional assurance thereby, that their
pain TO heaven was the correct one, al
tnough IL varied somewhat from that
chosen by their brother Christians.
Reading on to the end 1 observed that
| the particular branch of Christianity
most numerously represented here.
had not contributed to the Symposium,
and 1t seemed strange that such should
be the case. Even the Jew had been
invited to talk of Christ.
and, although the strength of his fol,
lowing here is as nothing compared
with the overwhelming predominance
OF the Latter-day Saints, not a voice
from them was allowed utterance. The
idea OF an Israelite. or any other lite.
taking part in the supposed general pre-,
entation of Christian subject in Salt
Lake City, and the Latter-day Saints be-
ing excluded, is of itself solid subject
for thought
1t is an open secret that nearly all. if
not every one of the Symposium writers
recently met in politico-religious capac-
lty, with certain, or rather uncertain
brother Christians, whose protested
business is political, but whose real
business is religious" for the purpose
Of crushing out the Latter-day Saints.
Its also currently understood that the |
ustl1cation of this politico-religious |
as given by these Ch,is-
lans Is, that the Latter-day Saints are
,lVen to combining religion with poll
ics. If it be true that the Latter.
lay Saints are the only religIonists
'lven to this practice, it would seem te !
re natural inference that the Mission
lreachers have all Joined the Mormon
'hurch. Either the inference is incor-
ectly drawn, or the peculiarly of the
'atter-day Saints is not a peculiarity.
It any rate 1t does not appear that the
entlemen have the courage of their
onvlctlons. sufficiently to assert their :
ttachment to Mormonism, as thew
ich retain their ordinary Sectarian
title.
knowing the present unanimity of
ought.feeling and action of the Mission
lurches and the Mormons. on the i'm
,rtance of the utilization of religious
huence for political ends, and being
lily aware that this matter of RELIGIOUS
'litics had heretofore been the bone of
Intention between them, the nom
pearance of an Easter Symposium
ticle in the Tribune, from the pen of
John Taylor, seems all the
Ore remarkable. Upon the main SUBJ
1.-THE Resurrection of Christ-there
never been any difference between
Latter-day Saints, and the Mission
urches, greater than exists among A
Symposium writers; hence the alb II
ice OF such an article cannot be ac-
lnted for on the hypothesis of heter- Y
oxy. Now the bloody chasm has
m brldged between the clerical repre-
tatives of the several local churches.
their adoption of tactics exclusively
rmon, there can no longer be any
eStlon regarding the correctness of n,
Mormon church policy, and the iii
chet should have been buried on
IVA mn ny lIC duIlllSSlO0 TO |
t grave Symposium, of a contribu-
from President John TAYLOR. of
Church OF Jesus Christ of Latter
Saints.
Ihen the Catholic, and all his ortho- F.
y, stands upon a common Tribune f s'
form With the most heretical apos-
(Protestant). surely the Latter-day Sf
1T has claim for a voice, and a
ing equal with all the Others. who.
himself, stand or fall upon the re-
,ectlon of Christ. In this Sympo-
Il business, however. it would
ear that the Tribune acted
moderator, and ruled out M
Latter-day Saints; and while the Cor
'red ones were allowed to sing their
discordant strains, the Mormon
'Jerked to Jesus" IN the editorial of NJ,
same issue, and strung up to con- "o
pitch by the orthodox-heterdox-
lolic Protestant-Republican Dem Lar ~
t, Scribe and Pharisee. who sits up %
and sings mud. p
no can wonder at the strength of sr
monlsm, or be surprised at its
18th, and the tenacity of its adher-
when such exhibitions of unchrist- -
Christianity are so common? w
would be terrible calamity sup
II some Latter-day Saint had pro-
d incontestable evidence if the
samist parentage of the resurrected Nc
II, incidental to Symposium article u,
e Salt Lake Tribune on Easter Sun Sn
in the year 1885, when modern
samists are lodging the cyclone in
by modern SectarianS, who have -
ranged matters that all the Bible
HES would lose their vote and
e attendance on a q and jury, were
now alive. Regardless of the SYM
m, even Jesus himselfwould be IN n
N Utah now. III. III. 4
not be deceived; ask for and take l.