Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-01-08

Henry been, the gr.a. northern
poet anu philosopher,
shows that there is something in the
Northmen which may yet develop
into a parallel to the Normans who
civilized Europe in the tenth
and eleventh centuries, and to
the Mortimer who, under
Gustavus Ado!phus, saved Europe
in the thirty years war. VIII these
Mortimer come n third time to the
rescue, aud will Copenhagen, Stock
holm and Cbristiana send out their |
sturdy sons to help once more to |
save Europe? In our own country
these people are the cream Of our
alien races. In their nature they |
unite progress and spirituality, in
teliect and religion, science and the
ology.
The political and religious situa-
ton is summed pin a very able
manner by the Chicago Daily Neics.
Here is a paragraph which puts the
whole question in a nutshell:
"Ths present situation OF Europe is
full Of symptoms indicating similar
state Of aff:lirs-in the abstract. at
least-to that which preceded the
great upheaval of European society
by the reformation. The discovery Of
a new world, which played so impor-
tani Z part in the era Of the reforma-
tion. corresponds to the discovery or
u ilizSiion in the service OF mankind
OF natural forces which form n new
world in themselves and which are
has,ening social revolution wherever
civilized humanity exists.
: Tho shifting of the points Of politi-
/ GAL gravity have not been more pro-
nOunced and frequent during the last
half century than it was during the
fifty years preceding the birth OF
Professionalism, il the difference in the
extent of the political world four CEN
turtles ago and Of today is taken into
consideration. But the greatest and
most interesting point Of similarity
between now and then is the preva-
lence of strong religious under
current in the social movement
OF today. The struggle of the State
against this underlined and vague
some. hing which is called socialism
in a general way, although it includes
much which socialists profess TO abhor,
is no more intense and bitter than the
effort which the church or religious
power is making to recover and re-
assert its old time supremacy over the
: affairs ofthe old world. Both branches
of the great catholic church-the Rus
sian or Grecian and the Roman-are
s:raining every nerve to obtain recog-
milton as supreme forces, whose human
representatives, should be exempt
from all duty toward human or secu-
lar government and whose spiritual
authority over mankind should have
no Limitations save those of its own
creation"
With this political and religious
panorama Of the world before our
eyes, what are the people OF Utah
doing in the great struggle? Are
they content TO take back seat, to
let themselves be consumed by apa-
thy, petty jealousy or indifference.
Are not all the traditions, teachings
and revelations Of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but
expeditions Of the present perturbed
state Of affairs. Where are the sons
of the men who founded this COM
mOnwealth? Their day is at hand.
IL their mission is to he fulfilled,
now is the time. Will they lie con-
tent to let Roman and Greek domi-
nate the world? Will they stsnd
aside alphabetically while American
ISM is being wiped out, and while
the spirit Of their fathers and of the
fathers Of the republic is being
trampled in the dust?