The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-08

VIII "a. 10 CfcDtc-tudI dIlyLlllE
In legislation than has taken place since
ded.
The church will be stripped and bare
and in every part of the land the ma
chinery by which Gods word has been
preaehed-bY which Christianity has
been upheld-by which the sick has
been visited and comfoTted-by which
all the mlnlstrations of religion have
been carried to suffering humanity in
Its various stages and need-aI this
machinery will be by one blow des-
/ trOyed, and generations will be reonired
before it could be replaced. This II is
which, with a light heart. MT. Gladstone
is prepared TO sacrifice. We have no
sympathy with those who think that
by supporting the Liberal psrtv now
they may get better terms when the
catastrophe occurs further on. Thers
are Liberal churchmen, whose action I
confess, in this great crisis astounds me
| can understand men who think the
interests of the church are of an inferior
character, who think that the imDor-
lance of keeping the party together.
and supporting the party funds. and
getting the party into Office, and nav
ing homage to the party leader. that
these things are more important than
keeping up Alright that provision for the
teaching Of Christianity which has
existed for a thousand years. But to
those who are Of an opposite mind, to
those who are believed to be numerous.
to those churcnmen who think that the
interests OF the church are the dearest
matter upon the whole field of political
foF, - L
TO do, to them / appeal to consider as
to the course which they shall pursue.
Now that it is announced in no obscure
accents that their leader is prepared to
desert them on the first convenient OBJ
portunity they, at all events, must
know the importance of the stake for
which the contest is being Waged.
Liberal churchmen who now support
the Liberal party, after the declarations
that have been made, are supporting
the machinery which is to destroy that
which they hold most dear. They are
sharpening the weapon by which the
church is to be struck down; they are
furnishing party strength and Civ
ing an opportunity of extended
organization to those whom they know
are the enemies of the institution which
of all institutions they in their heart
hold dearest. I cannot conceive what
the sophistry is that induces them at
such time to join their hands. to ioin
their feet, and to join their efforts with
those who are ready to undertake the
destruction of the mechanism by which
Christianity has been upheld in this
country. At all events, We can hold no
ambiguous language on this matter.
Our party is bound up with the main
tenance of the established and endowed
churches of this island.
Referring to religious topics calls to
mind story which is going the rounds
of the press now, and which promises
frightful results for 1886. 1t is to the
effect that an old prophecy has been
by somebody at Rome which
applies to the year mentioned. 1t ap
pears that at OkermeI, near the city of
Treveri, Germany, there is a stone
tablet some centuries old. on which is
cut prophetic verse which may be
rendered in proze as follows: when !
Mark shall bring US Easter, and |
Anthony shall sing praises at the feet of |
Corpus Domini. then shall the whole !
earth resound with weepings and wall |
iDgs." Now it so happens that next year |
falls on st. Marks Day, Pentacost on
that of st. Anthony of Padua, and the |
Corpus Domini comes on st. John, the |
Baptist's Day, June "a. Here, then, |
are the first conditions of the prophecy |
fulfilled, so that believers in quaint old |
and anxious minded persons |
generally have only to sit down and |
imagine everything disagreeable that |
,an possibly happen to this poor old |
planet and the jewellers thereon, be- |
To- nd Of
In truth, if the cyclones, EARTHQUAKES, |
spidemics and disasters generally, to- |
yether with wars and rumors of wars of |
The last three years are to be eelipsed, |
the prospect is certainly not an agree
0ne.
1t is amusing to note the peculiar
turn which the animosity of North |
Lrishmen takes for their countrymen of |
he South. Not satisfied with referring
20 their religion as ar. ungodly one, by
that an alliance with Ma
because of the Roman Catholic
character of Nationalism, they are now
given 10 mimicing their use of English,
,r as SAKE in his suffering wife says:
mimicked her speech, like churl that
! am.
In a recent leader Of overpowering
ength, together with words of learned
ength and laundering sound, in which
Ar. Parnell and his followers were get
ing a fearful flashing, a conservative
heet referred to them as "pathrit Is
talicizing the word here quoted. 1t
vas using the brogue expression in
uch a sneering manner. that it recalled
circumstance very like it in all
aspects which happened in my hearing.
Two of the circumsized descendants of
abraham were quareling over some
,altry matter, and each was striving to
how his adherence for and contempt
# the other by the use of every degrad-
ng expression active brains could con-
ure up or originate. Finally one of
hem hit the nail on the head, and
wound up the fight by triumphantly
go ahead, my poY; Go
head. Wy. you was nuttink but dam
-ew anyhow
Marriage does not seem to be all bliss
lere. A young man has been sent to
all for six months for getting married.
II rather for making false statements
n. order that he might call the darling
# his heart by the term wife. "
t is a queer place to spend ones
loney moon; but the fellow that
be willing to remain in jail six
months in order to get so great a prize
5 chicken hearted. Hel might be com
orted by the knowledge that he is not
he only one who is rewarded by gov
.rnnent for marrying by q six months