Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-27
BISHOP poAS- OF ALBANY.

Wi liam Creswtll Dlauo Is an officer
In the Episcopal church at Albany ,
New YORK. His ecclesias,icel position
is designated bishop OF Albany. it is
said that ho has Travelled TX teusivsly
and is highly cultured; that locally
he ia much admired and respected;
that he is a decidedly high church.
man; that in the street, Ut well as else.
where, he wears knee breeches and
black Jersey cloth legglugs, buttoned
to the kneee, low cut shoes, with big
silver buckles, and fat, wide-brl mined
hahn fact, the costume Of an Eng
lish bishop; that pack Of dogs Of
assorted sizss f1llDw him In the street;
that he is an antiquarian OF some re-
pute; that when he registers Ia out. Of.
town places he writes civilian Of
Albany" and that he moves in the
best social ciTcleR. And II he DO all
THE, thee when he speaks OF re.
ligious organization with which he is
not personally associated, he should at
least speak the truth as 1t can he
learned from the authentic recor DIS
eRsily available. But II the New York
Journal is correct In its report OF MIR.
Danes speech before u legislative
committee in Albany last week, the
reverend gentleman does not do this,
In his speech MT. Diane said that
there was In New York very com.
mon disregard OF the marriage vow;
that the act OF adultery Is really not
regarded as particularly serious
oflense; that very many divorces were
occurred by COLLISION and hence were
invalld,and the commoner marriages OF
the parties were illegal; that the unions
secured oy this RbominAble practice ate
regarded by society as quite regular,
and are recognized by the civil law,
but he regarded them as unhOly, and
no believed severe law against
adultery would tend 10 reIuce this
class or ofienses. Then he said:
For those reasons / made tho remark
that tho Mormon Elder who went to New
York to preach tho doctrines of Mormon
ism had no necessity for such a mission,
as there are there already many active
exemplts of that faith, although pro-
tessedly Christians. New York has an
extremely large share OF these illeral
marriages.
The very reasons cited by Rev. Mr..
Doane as showing that there lie no
need oil preaching Mormonism In New
York are imperative reasons In favor
of euch preaching; for Mormon.
lem Is opposed TO all the condi.
lions he describes and laments,
Hence Mr.. DOane's allegation that
the persons he refers to are active eX-
emplars of the Mormon faith is as un.
truthful statement as can DO uttered.
Mormon plural marriage, when 1t did
exist, was the very Rntlthesis OF the
New York polygamy described by the
Eplscopal bishop of Albany--a fact
that he cannot be- ignorant OF; and the
Mormon faith condemns Us crime
next in ils awful nature to tina, 81
murder the acts which Mr.. Donne says
New Workers. do not regard as serious.
When the bishop OF Albany was
maligning the Mormons, ne prcbn,
bly forgot the command, in
the good Book no is sup.
posed to esteem so highly,
which says: "Thou shalt not bear
false Witness" and also that rule Of
the Master which iaiorms ut: "By
their fruits ye shall know them." For
II the fruits Mr., Doaue describes as
existing in New York arc those OF any
religious organization, 1t m ust be such
10 have prevailed there-his own, for
instance. They certainly are not the
products of MoTmonism, which has
not bad controlling influence in the
Empire state; though 1t would be die
pensation OF Providence should 1t be-
come such. And when suoh learned
mon as Rev. Mr.. Doane, posing ns
guides to the people, can forget their
Bible lessonB as he seems 10 have done
in this instance, and be admitted to
the bcD. social oiroles, no wonder the
denominations he describes are con-
doned and regarded as quite regular,
by soClsty, as he asserts they are ia the
ate: whore he makes his home.