Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-21
CHICAGO LETTER.
The Assailants Of Mormouism.-
The ApOstacy from Primitive
Christianity.-A Striking Paral-
lei in the Treatment OF Former.
day and Latter-day Saints.

IN 'nc Aicatihcut Vi FORMER
. day and Latter-day Saints.
CHICAGO, March IL, 1890. Especial
Correspondence OF the DEsEREI
NEWS. IA few moments ago /
read an editorial from the London
tEnglandl Daily Telegraph on the
Utah question. Before me now lies
an editorial from the Irish World Of
New York, on the same subject.
Here are two papers wide apart as
the poles on religion, politics and
economics, yet harmonious on the
subject OF ''Mormonism." The
Telegraph article Is one characters
tic Of the London daily. 1t is pom
derous, prosaic and platitudenarian.
Sentence after sentence is moulded
as If cut out by steam hammer. 1t
contains nothing new, simply a IT.
hash of what has been said these
thirty years hack. The editor and
owner of this paper is Jew, but far
re it from me to malign the whole
race because one of its members is a
recreant, a knave, a snob, a mercen-
airy creature who would speak thus
ofhis own people if paid for it.
Nor would IT be good taste to re-
gard the London Telegraph as fair
type Of English journalism and Of
English political thought. Itistrue
the Telegraph processes to be a lib
eral, yet it opposes Gladstone, La
bouchere and Morley. That is
enough, political turpitude can 20
no lower than by calling Gladstone
a knave.
The Irish World is edited and
owned by on Irishman named Pat
Ford. 1t used to be the organ Of
dynamite advocates. 1t kept n
column specially for instruction in
the Use OF dynamite. / said Pat
Ford was or is an Irishman. This
statement requires an explanation.
He is n native of Mage County in
ireland. This county forms large
section Of the province Of COnnaught.
This province is exclusively COM
posed OF the worst and most de-
graded elements Of the old Irish
clans. The bravest and boldest Of the
other provinces fell fighting or were
exi!ed 70 other countries. The weak
and cowarily sought the mountains
and recesses of COnnaught, and par
ticularly Mayo. In famine times
Mayo sent shiploads Of people TO this
country, and even here these Mayo
people would not smalgamate with
the people FROM other provinces Of
Ireland. This one Irish county has
furnished nine-tenths of the GRIM
inals in this country denominated
Irish. 1t was this county that fur
nished nearly every person con-
nected with the murder OF DIR. Gro
min. Camp % was with a few ex-
eeptions formed OF County Mayo
people or the sons OF such. So in
chasing Pat Ford rs an Irishman ]
am guilty Of libel on the Irish OF
Leinster, Munster and ulster. /
will class him as Mayo and as an
affinity Of the Cronin murderers, so !
that in one sense Pat Ford Of the |
Irish World and Levi Lawson Of the |
London Telegraph are agents which |
Americans ought TO be ashamed of |
as instructors and teachers.
The fact that Mormonism should |
be opposed 10y such heterogeneous
elements and by almost all existing
races and creeds, set me thinking
seriously of Christianity in general.
Pat FOrd's paper is full of fulsOme
adulatiOn Of Cardinal Gibbons and
Cardinal Manning, and claims for
these prelltes direct successorship
FROM the Apostles. Lewis paper
has the same tune about the Bishops
Of London and Canterbury. The
truth is, there is no more connec-
ton between the Christianity Of
Gibbons and Manning and that Of
the Apostles than there Is between
and astronomy. The
same might he said Of the other
alleged Christians. The departure
from Apostolic Christianity is so far
back that its inception can hardly
be set definitely. Bat that such de-
parture has taken place no unbiased
reader can deny. In 1857 the Rev.
j. J. Blunt, q professor Of divinity in
the University OF Cambridge pub
lishei history Of primitive Chris
Three are better works on
this subject published, but Mr..
Blunt shows such a knowledge of the
early Church and its principal
writers, that n consideration Of his
writings is we'll worth sxPendtng a
little tine Oh.
In discussing the attitude Of
the Roman Emperor to-
wards the Christians, Mr.. Blunt
dwells particularly on the Church
in Jerusalem. 1t was in his reign
that BarchOcab, the false Messiah
fiourishej. And though the Jews
themselves were utterly routed out
Of Jerusalem and trampled and per-
secuted by the Romans, yet these
same Jews were the most venomOus
and deadly enemies Of the Chris
tians, The Jews acted rs spies and
and strange to say Mr..
Blunt says that I'm this way they
propagated Christianity. Jerusalem
was utterly wiped out, and a temple
Of Jupiter projected for the site of
the Temple of Jehovah. To show
that departure began to take
place, here is what Mr.. Blunt says:
"Nor was this all; tho entire revolu-
lion which this political convulsion
wrought IN the condition Of Jerusalem,
had its effect on the cause Of the Chris [
,ians. Hadrian. not content with hav-
ing demolished the old city and re-
placed It by another totally different
in the charas:ef OF It's architecture and
deriving its very name Of Ella Capt.
tolina from that Of its heather found
pr, forbade the Jews not only 20 4
inhabit it, but even 10 set foot upon its !
precinct. But this harsh and vindie- !
i've proceeding was the means Of
that fusion IL I may so speak,
Dfthe Jew with the Christian, VIII ch
bad so long corrupted the Christian I
'aith, and debased the Christian char {
ter in the eyes Of the heather. For
The Church of Jerusalem, still subsist- (
ng in that neighborhOOd, and still I
anxious to occupy the capital as before, 1
Eas prohibited from so doing, while !
Is members were regarded as Jews;
md accordingly nothing would suffice
o qualify them for residence in that
'iiy, hut to renounce. as 81. Paul
lad so long bhfore prescribed to the
;alaiians % 40, the observance Of the
Jaw of NJ ses. This, therefore, they Z
lid, and the better to make the distinc-
ion, hitherto but imperfecily perceiy- a
u. between Christian and Jew, under ]
soOd. they elected Marcus. probably .
Roman. certainly not Jew, for their
3ishop, and under these circumstances
we're permitted to dwell in Jerusalem.
By this proceeding therefore, Hadrian
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