Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-10-17

Va AAAN AAAAAEA-4AN t1AAAAA-s VI " AAtAlltL
it Is because Of other conditions, IL
IL fact Of note that there are many l
here who are affected with a viru-
lent disease that claims it, victims
among the phafisaicai pr0le-sUrs Of
modern Christianity every where. /
This disease is fTeuuently called
''Anti-MoTmon Elbig=, and among
its most certain effects are the sub
stituti0n in the mind Of bigotry for
reason, and in the heart Of hatred
toward instead Of love and SYM
pathy for those whose views are not |
in accord with the ideas Of individ-
uals affected with the disorder.
That class upon which the malady
seems most to thrive are the clergy |
Of the day, whose hypocrisy in de-
PARTING 10y their practice from the
theory Of life which they teach, |
bares them to its malevCliC inilu-
ences. One Of these 'siCk Cngsr
now in London, who thinks lie viii /
"be heard for his much speaking
i Baptist minister, DR.. Duncan. ]
The disease which he has cultivated |
ia his mind has extended g. his |
heart, and in its met1s;atis has inn |
pregnateI his whole being with the |
virus. Thus he bubbles over with a |
desire to make himselffamOus by his |
assaults on the "MOrmOns.' With |
this in view he advertised a series
Of lectures against the Book Of Nor /
mon. His claim was that he would |
condemn II from Its own utteTances,
and upon this proposition lac started /
out and gave two lectures. At :he I
first he made the admission that lie 4
was willing to believe that the book /
contained a truthful record Of a |
people who formerly lived on the |
American continent, and that they |
were what the record said, a part Of /
the house Of Israel. He also Admit |
ted that the historic portion ui the l
book had been authenticated 10y |
the researches OF archUJlOgisis !
among the ruined palaces anu cities
of Central America, and the ancient /
mounds and forts Of North Ameri- |
a. He accepted all this; but lac /
could rot admit the idea that one I
esteemed rs a Prophet ON the West
ern Hemisphere could express the |
.ame truism in almost the |
same language, when Trans
lated into English as did /
one esteemed rs a Prophet on the |
eastern hemisphere. He could not /
believe that a historian in ancient 4
America could refer 20 the grave 4
aS a place whence none returned 70 ]
this sphere. because, forsgylh, a |
father of literature on the eastern /
hemisuhcTe had REFERRED to the |
place Of the dead rs the bourne from |
which no traveller returns. This i
ccteric cassal ola dciuuCtlaith could |
accept ami proclaim As true the |
history Of the Book Of Mormon, hut /
ne could not receive it doctrines /
because they were the same AS those |
of the New Testament, which he I
urof->sei 20 believe in. He COM !
claimed that the Prophet Nrphi /
fDret,ld that the Redee;pgr 81 the |
world would Toe called Jesus Christ. ]
This. said DIR. Duncan, could not I
lie believed 10y him. Jesus I
had been called the Messiah, ami /
had been given many other titles |
by tie Old Testament Prophets, anu 1
the names had been applied 70 Him, /
but II could not hc the truth that a I
Proubet in America could furetell /
that he would be called Jesus Chti-i, /
for the Prophets in Asia had not 70 /
Designated Him. This. the DR.. de-
cIareJ. was only "trick of those
Yankee Few-'' 70 show that they |
were equally favored with those
who dwelt in Palestine. Here was
the point Of his argument, If such Il
may be termed, and with each iea-
ture Of harmony between the Book
OF Mormon and the Bible that he
took up he made the same COM
meut. Of course his reference 10
the ssYankce Jews" took well with
his audience, n does every scorniul
remark made here pertaining 10
4 u,ericaus. The Dr's. sec0nd lecture
was : repetition OF the first, with
the execution that he mainly USED
new quotations from the Book OF
Mormon 10 show that its dOctriral
rart harmonired vith, or As he put
it. twas inteFPOlatei from tue New
testament"
Bvapretense Of being fair, he made
= statement that he believed the
historic part Of the book 70 he true,
hut stultifiei himself 10y rejecting
the strDuFer evidence Of the
authenticity Of the doctrines 1t
nromulgates. There is n reason for
his peculiarly inconsistent position,
and IL probaLly exists in that por-
ton Of the record which was the
chief point Of attack, where Nephi
saws Of the commandments OF the
/ Lord. Gle commander tia. there
! shall lie no pTiestcraft-; for behold,
nrieslcrafts are that men preach and
| set themselves up for a light unto
the world, that they may get gain,
| and praise Of the world; but they
seeI, not the welfare Of Iicn.'
There y sui lect that i now at
! tr,ctiug the attention Of the minis
ters Of the Church OF England. IL
arises from the act Of 4 suicide
Last Sunday Edward East0n,
surveyors clerk, went into. ~. iall. =
| Cathedral, London. and ended ms
life NV putting a pistol tall Into his
head. The shot attracted the At
PENDANTS, AMI they fastened 10 re-
move the dying man from the build-
| I'M, Inst II Is claimed that he expired
Lafore the door wes reached. AT
a,v rate. &c was dead when he was
carried down the steps. lie let
Litter saving that "false Chris
tionity', was the cause Of his nun.
n had changed HE membership
s-,rn onr denomination TO anOtheT,
jlIi in neither did he find the Chris
tianity that was taught being ear
ried into practice. But the matter
tbat l. under discussion is provl-
s;on in the ecclesiastical law, that If
q sricide takes place in a church,
tt,ot act uecessiiates its reconsecra-
ton Itisnot disputed that the shoot
irgr Uas done within the building,
b-I1 Cannon Scott HOLLAND claims
tb,t Faston died Just after he passed
onf-iJe Of the door, and thus re-
Iiav,.I ST. Paul's of the odium OF
snicide having been committed
.t,sra Rut If the other view pre-
,.aiis or II il shown that EastOn died
/ in the building, the national cathe-
dral will have 10 be eonsecrated
again before services can be held
in it. ,ru
This city Is the stronghold Of the
Salvation Army. aad the present Il
caIlei ssSelf Denial Week" when
| the Salvationists deny themselves
/ ~ all the necessarles Of life, and
donate what they thus save for the
accumulation Of their cause. Gen.
Booth, their leader, is now receiy-
ing the praise instead Of the Tidl-
Guile OF the press; and the papers de-
Flare that while fBlshops are elo'
auent, Booth is practical" The