The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-22

teal and organic; the other is spiritual
and mystical.
The Interior, published in Chicago,
remarks:
The assertion that "the Sermon on
the Mount is not a sermon at all, but
the most radical political platform ever
laid down." simply mistakes a declara
ton of principles for a form of admin
istration. 1t repeats the old mistake of
the middle ages which exalted the beg
gar to the chief place in the kingdom
of heaven, discouraged industries, peo-
pied the desert and depopuiated the
town. To literally give to every one
that asketh of you and never to turn
from the man that would borrow your
wealth to carry on his own schemes Of
profit, would not only revoluuonize So
ciety, but destroy it. That Lord Who
would not suffer even the temple to
usurp the interests that mans de-
pendent family had in his estate mark
vii, lib, is hardly to be quoted as
substituting a universal and indiscrim-
mate benevolence for a thoughtful and
conscientious distribution of his chart
ties SO as to effect the most good and
the least harm. When men fooliShly
tel us that to deny that these words of
Christ are to be taken literally is to
deny Christianity, we need only reply
that our Lord did not take them liter
ally himsely We find him more than
once refusing requests that were I'M
worthy and charities that were harm
full John vi IS. %.
The annexed is from the New York
Christian Intelligencer:
THE agrarianism of the present is
not the agrarianism of the past. Great
truths of Holy Scripture are in the air.
Men know not where they have learned
them. They do know that God is the
Father and that men ought to be
brothers. They need more instruction,
need to know that they are not pre-
pared to fill a brothers place. BY pa
tient instruction in the whole truth, an
instruction by deeds as well as words,
with the promised blessing of God,
righteousness. mercy, and peace, and
JOY will be established A few weeks
ago it was said in this column that the
church has established social condi-
ton which eXasperates men. The state
ment is now repeated. Through the
church, as never before. industry, in
telligence, integrity, thrift, are hon
ored. Those who have not these viz
tues are angered by a social constltu-
ton which praises and rewards them.
AS the truths of the Word of God run
and are glorified, this condition of af-
fairs will be intensified. An honest,
industrious, intelligent, righteous, and
prosperous class will be hated more
and more for a time, but in due time
patient continuance in well doing will
receive it's reward"
Concerning the detection from the
Baptist fold of DR.. Philip S. Moxom
and his installation as Congregation
al minister, the New England press
has had a great deal of comment, to
which the Boston Waterman responds:
The undertone of implication has
been that, practically, DR.. MoXum has
been driven out of the denomination by
our narrowness and intolerance. Now
it is proper to say, in the first place,
j that the denomination, as such, has
never made any decision as to DR..
MoXom's orthodoxy. On the contrary,
upon the occasions when our represen-
tative men have been brought to the
front he has invariably been honored;
and his two principal pastorates have
been in our choicest pulpits The
churches he has served have not offici-
ally pronounced against his views. In
+ both, we believe. while he did not sue
( coed in winning the support of strong
minority because they did not believe
! that he was in accord with the views
commonly held among BaptistS, he held
the allegiance of a numerical majority,
1t is impossible for the most bitter
critics of the Baptists to make out DR.,
Moxom a martyr. In the second place
DR. Moxom's confession of faith and
examination, the other day at Spring
field, elected the fact that he does not
entertain certain of our distinctive
views-He has simply left u.s. And we
fail to see how we can be accused OF
narrowness for not renouncing what
our critics assert are our essential
| principles"