The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-15


alter all things, the minister included,
himself. To a dead certainty the Church
OF England will be diSestabllshed; but
1t may notnow, not perhaps at this cleo
ton, but soon; and the ministers who
are cooperating with politicians to that
END are sowing whirlwind the harvest
of which will be the ultimate destruc-
ton of their own clerical progeny. The
ministers themselves are helping to
throw down the bars which will allow
the cattle to run IN their own pastures.
Once in they will be unable to drive
them out, and the result will be the de-
structions OF their now pleasant fields
and places and they will be obliged to
earn living together with the rest Of
energetic mankind, whether honest or
dishonest. 1t is clear that Lord Sails
bury uses religion as a means to politi-
cal ends and he shows how utterly In
capable he thinks God is of doing His
own work ,lnasmuch as he 1.-THE Premier)
has declared that to disestablish
the church would be to destroy the
whole machinery by which Gods word
and by which works of charity and
human kindness have been maintained
I for q thousand years. This idea is
shared to a greater or less extent by all
denominations; it is the leaYen whi' \
is mixed with all and its use by minis
ters not IN sympathy with the establisLs
ed church is what will, ultimately. cut
off their own source Of revenue When
man. who views all religion alike,
equally good and equally bad, equally
savable IN their powers, finds it wrong
to require him to support by his means
denomination to which he does not
belong, and which he does not support
morally. it will not be long until he sees
no reason why he should support his
own, since his own minister cOnfesses
that the members of the sect he declines |
to support are on the high way to |
heaven as well as himself. Why should |
he support one more than another? and 1
as all are the churches of Christ and |
not only can the others get along with
out his support, but as he actually
should not support them, why. reason
ing to logical conclusion IhIs own can
get along without his support, and if it
is wrong for him to support another de-
nomination, though it is still the
Church of Christ, of course it is wrong
to support his own. being also the
Church of Christ. This is what these
ministers are getting with their whole
/ ale saving apparatuses and with their
4 forts to bring about the diseStablish
NJ mt of the Church of England. ] was
/
ian. DIS of their hocks with which their
,wn brains would yet be beaten out but
IS it would be necessary to prove that
PERSONS guilty of such assinity had {
,rains, I'll not say 1T. There was time
yhen men would have fought and died
'ver such question. Yes, says one,
,ut thank be to God 3 more civilized .
ra has set in. 1t may be. but in those
lays men loved as they valued their
ives what they believed to be true, and 6
he conclusion is inevitable that in i
hese days either they do not believe :
heir religions are true or they have
ost their love for truth that mankind
# a former age displayed, or both /
eIigion is relegated by beth its oppC1- o
nts and its adherents to the sphere OF 4
politics there is left in it only that
which will spoil politics and make it Il
he more offensive, and heaven knows 5
Inything rotten enough to produce such
IN effect on politics should be bur16d 4
athoms deep or cremated.
There are, doubtless, these who viii
lold there exists parallel between tie J
Church of England and the Mormon
church. If the Mormon priesthood BY !
rirtue Of that priesthood held certain c
,ffices which were the gifts of the State
hen the parallel would hold so far !
f by virtue of a priestly Office a rev
,nue was derived by enforced contribue Z
ions from all classes for the support ( I
II an individual who might be in the !
of an ecclesiastical office, the !
parallel would hold still better; if, by
state enactment the LatteF-day Saints I
Church were the established church OF {
The nation, the parallel would be com
plete IN the superlative degree; If the
Latter-day Saints relegated their relig
on to the sphere of ftful political !
debates, as their opponents would have !
hem to do, then would the parallel be
perfect. But as none OF these things
or as this premises does mott exist, TO t
attempt parallel is SIMPLY rot. The !
talk about union Of church and state
in Utah, is as a matter Of fact, sheer !
.di0cy, and those who, hold 1t IN the {
sense that is a ngibls condition SUBJ
ject to legislative control, are lecesS
Arily sheer idiots.
This seems to have been pretty good
wear for shipwrecks. There are yet r
left eleven weeks in the year and the
RECORD shows the number of shipwrecks 7
to have been $50. the average being 100
a month. This must be cheerful news to
the toiler OF the wave, but for reasons, I
which may or may not be obvious Gust
as IeuOW LOOKS al III the uuIuDeE Oi
lives lost is omitted. Averaging two
lives to the boat Though, the proper ,
ton is undoubtedly larger and taking
the wrecks at the rate of LOO per month,
:, 400 souls are lost each year at sea. ]
have often heard it stated that the
dangers were greater in railroad travel
ing than in journeying by sea; and
while there are probably ten or twenty |,
who travel by rail as against one who
journeys by sea, have serious doubts
If the loss OF lives by rail will amount
to anything like that which occurs at
sea. If these facts were brought prom
inently out in the novels for the young.
it might have the effect of checking the
mad career of many an ambitious
youth for a life on the wild and jocund
wave.
A movement is on fool, and viii prob
ably assume tangible proportions ere
long, looking to an exhibition Of COM
petitive beauties. What details the
inventive, genius who suggested this
thing has in his head, are not vet
known but the plan seems to be to put
up purses amounting in the aggregate
to So 900, to be divided into three purses
or prizes, 50 500 to go to the most beau
tiful woman. 81 500 to the next, and