Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-31
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not the bishops and officiating priests.
bow before those images. in alteration
ana with the crucihX and strings OF
beads, make mysterious signs and
significant tokens IN their peculiar
forms 81 wofshlp2 DO they not kneel
before The Virgin Mary and implore
her 10 intercede with Christ and tho
Father in their behalf?"
Earring human sacrifice. In the an
cent Hawaiian worship, Il must be adj
mitted, that there was a great similar
ity between Il and that " ancient
Israel, In theory. at least. Then. when
we consider the sacrifice Father Abra-
ham attempted 10 make and that
greatest Of all sacrifices when God the
Eternal Father forordaiued that his
only BegOtten Son should be offered "A
sacrifice as an atonement for sin, II we
are not reconcled 10 the theory Of the
human sacrifice Of the heather Ha-
waiian, we viii be forced 20 the con-
cluslon, at least, that a traditional
knowledge Of the principle and law Of
sacrifice, as understood by Adam and
ancient Israel has been handed down
70 them, through their forefathers.
Again az a mitigation or extenuating
excuse for the excuses to which the
Hawaiians carried human sacrifices,
during the wars Of conquest by which
Kamehameha / united all the ISL
ands Of the group under one govern
ment; we must bear IN mind that the
sacriiicial altar was substituted by
them In lieu of the many other meth
DDS available to more civilized nations
in disposing Of the great generals and
rulers when yanquished and captured
In war When II came 10 the ordinary
warriors taken prisoners I'm battle, haY-
ing no prisons I'm which to crowd them
10 die Of hunger and waste away by
disease. they were quite as humanely
disposed Of as sacrifices to their gods Of
war, Contrast the fate Of the prison
ers taken In Kamehamehas wars, who
from the time Of capture were fed and
Toasted like princes up to the hour OF
sacrifice, III was the law that no man
should be offered a sacrifice until
feasted on the best Of food a certain
number Of days.l with the miserable
wretches who, as soon as captured In
the civil war were hurried OFF and cast
into the crowded, uncomfortable and
filthy Libby Prison, to starve, and by
lingering torture Of disease and yermin;
prayed for death TO come, as q happy
relief,
In the first case the unfortunate ones.
looked upon II as an honor TO be con-
secrated to the god Of war, while In the
other II was humiliation, inhuman tor
ture and a disgrace 10 civilization. Let
the impartial reader judge Of which
method, under the circumstances was
the more humane?
If you cannot decide In this case, ceil
TO mind the pathetic, heart-stirring ac-
counts given recently of men, women
and children who, while being besleged
in the British consulate" by the saw
age heather Boxers within the walled
city Of Pekin When husbands and
fathers; nay, even mothers declared
20 the world most solemnly that they
had provided themselves with weapons
and were fully resolved when there was
no longer hope of deliyerance that
rather than see their wives and dear
children fall into the HANDS OF those
merciless boxers, where a fate worse
than death awaited them. they would
themselves take the lives Of their dear
ones. Consecrate them 10 Christian
God rather than become the victims OF
those cruel pagan fiends TO be tortured.
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