Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-10-05

patronage or money, these innovstor,
made contrasts, they referred 10 PRO
fessedly accepted standards, they
spenod the books and turned the
leaves and were never ct Ices foi
chapter and verse. SEINE said sophism,
some liberalism, some Yankeeisni.
others cried delusion, false prophets
they wanted miracles and "aIked FOL
sisn;" little dreaming that tue sew.
ing OF seed. aud planting Of the It'll,
lraven. was, in growing anu loaveniug,
a miracle indeed.
AS now converts were made, they
oocanie as jealous and enthusiastic M
the originals. They went Into the
streets, they Invaded tho villages, aud
lnteresIed the citles. They Inter.
viewed ministers, and buttonholed
querisls aud thiukers. Every body be.
gan to talk, some iAvorably and Others
disparngingly. When a professional
wac silenoed In argument, ho became
an enemy. IL incidental demo nstra.
ZION proved tho iDoonsisten cy OF men or
systems, decentralization OF the Innocent
aggresssr became tho rule. The I'M.
welcome critic was su imposlor, an
enemy toeslabllshed instltutions-nay
70 society; and this duty OF society was
70 put down or extlrpate the propa.
Randists ofso searching and unanswer.
able faith.
Locking back over those times OF
warm encounter no wonder need be
experienced at the attitude assumed by
Tho religious world or lie accredited
guNdianE They perchAnce hal hardly
oeen conscious OF their status, OF their
orfors, Inconsistencies or Gins. Thsy
had Inherited these forms and cet,.
monies they had acquired vested I'm.
tefes's' had become the pivots o, re-.
ilgious culture, and all the emolumen,,
OF saored sentiment had cen,ered In n
favored and somowhat aggressive class.
rhey had simulated authority ami
hodged themselves about with that
divinity which doth dedge nbsuta
king" To call in question, even in.
directly, this condition or authority
was saoreligious-some thought bias.
phemous-and bitterness Of spirit was
engendored which cannot be COR.
ceiVed OF today, for II has been softepel
oy education and modified by time,
whlis In Interested circles, reilglonists
nave wrapped themselves 80 PERFECTLY
In the gafb OF sell-complacency anu
omcisi security that the old time
querist, II a"Morn,on" Elder, IL leit
TO the ignominy OF q silent and super.
oii'ous contempt, and where once con.
uovsrsy was easily had, now many an
Elder cut In the world IL, like the
ltshmAn, "spoillng ior n nght.S
Meanwhile In the flight of years.
seelsTiauism has been aoiorblag meu.
tally, and formulating intellectually,
many Of this inspifalional ideas promu;.
gated OF tho Prophet Jcsopa Smith
anu the early Elders of the Church;
ana II hosts Of the rsverei and sainteu
uivines OF years ami ages gone were
now resurrocted and invited into the
puipiis OF their succsssors, their hoin,.
lies would be fouud Ms inucn GU, of
place and out OF harmony with = new
present. AZ would the sff5rt of
an earnest outspoken missionary
o. the Church Of Jesus Christ.
Probably this general assimilation
aceouais, In part at lesst. for the later
recognition OF Christian Characters.
ties among the "Mormon" people by |
the outside world. ami It may anso
The more apparent differences OF year,
gone by when compared with the
present.
In the beginning the Latter.lay
Saints were indeed "peculiar people.~
There was a newness, an originality,
In doctrines, method, OF promGlgallon,
In oIga i1itlon and autlol patio ., W hieh
seemed more striking than 1t does to
day. Familiarity with the system ia
among It's adherenls one thing, certain
changes patent to all are another; but
to the stranger, the outside observer, It
may be now as unique, as Individual.
lied aud as aggressive, rs 1t once ap.
peared to lite most ardent converts.
1t from a nou-Ieoognitioi OF the
essoHtial nature OF living thing or
system, that men look backward as 10
the golden age. They ask for original, |
primitive, cold Mormonlsm," as they |
call 1t, with Its freshness vlgor, OK.
element and enthusiasm; with the
opposition, persecution AMI change
which these implied. But they ovor.
look tbs fact that they were younger
then, and the dreams and experiences
OF youth are never oblitersted
from the human heart. 1t Il
In poetry alone or nader strong
depression, that men pray, 'make me
child again, just for tonight" The
latter clause always nullinos the pos.