Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-04-24
SALT LAKE CITY. APRIL "a, 1902
CANNOT DRAW THEM IN.

The Catholic Telegraph, published at
cincinnati Ohio, has received copy OF
the same Statement and Appear
that was so vigorously replied to by
Father Lambert, as published last sat.
/ urday In the Deseret Evening News.
1 The Telegraph makes the following edit
/ orial comments under the heading OF
with Clean Hands:
We are In receipt of "A Statement
and Appeal" signed by representatives
Of various Protestant missionary socle-
ties calling attention TO the position,
work and menace Of Morm0nlsm in our
country and appealing to Christian
and patriotic people everywhere to re-
sist wherever II appears. a system hos
tile at once 10 our free institutions and
our Christian faith
I'VE believe that MOrmOnism should
he resisted; but we believe also that,
before Protestante come. into the court
Of public opinion they should wash
themselves thoroughly and come in
with clean hands. As long as the sects
will countenance divorce; as long as
Protestant ministers will continue to
ofiiciate at ceremony providing for
the cohabitation OF divorced persons
they can not consistently oppose poly
gamy We fail to see that tandem
poygamy Is morally better than the
Mormon variety, In fact, we deem Il
worse because II turns the woman
adrift In manv cases unable 20 f~ht
the battle of HE. and eprlves the child |
Of the cooperative training OF both |
parents
The ends of Christian matrim0ny |
are the propagation Of and education |
OF the human race, and the mutual as
sstance OF the man and wife in help |
ing each other to know, love and serve
God and TO be happy with Him forever
in heaven. Therefore, the partnership |
Of man and wife is necessarily life
long"
The criticism contained In the fore
going article Is pertinent and well de-
served The idea that those accusers
Of the "Mormons" should come into
court with clean hands, Is In har-
mony with the demand OF the Savior.
when the hypocrites who demanded
the death Of the woman whom they
accused appeared before Him with "a
statement and appeal" The Protest
ant clergymen who so earnestly desire
TO arouse the whole country against
'Mormonism, should first clean the IN
side of their own platters before un-
dertaklng to clean out the Nor
mons"
That consecutive" polygamy which
Is tolerated and IN some respects en-
outraged by the sanctimonious assail-
ants Of "Momonlsm," Is growing
and fragrant evil, permeatlng whole
While we do not share
The views Of extremists who would per-
nit of no divorce under any circum-
stances but the commission Of one
rhine, we recognize the wrongs that
are perpetrated in the very circles from
which these protests against Nor
nonism" ignorantly and ylclously arise.
The last paragraph Of the article in
he Telegraph we most heartily en-
iorse. II IS fully IN accord with the
plrit and teachings OF "Mormonism.
But our religion takes a step farther
han the life partnership Of man and ,
'lfe. /, reaches into and throughout ,
ternlty. When carried out in the .
pirit in which II was designed. "Mor.
non" marriage, under the sealing au-
hority which binds on earth and II =.
5 bound IN heaven" Is as lasting and .
nduring and sacred as that marriage /,
IN the beginning when God gave Eve
nto Adam pronouncing them zone =
esh, and when they were immortal
eings for there was no death because i.
here Was no sin. Though they be- I,
anne separated through transgressIon "
ct they VIII be redeemed ana united
through the atonement. the eternal Fat
hl prevail, and their union win be- i.
brewer SO with an who, under the .
anne divine authority. become united :.
ply and completely In the order Of -
larriage that is celestial. 2"
From what has already been pub ~
shed, II seems that the Protestant !"
ergymen who can put aside their ~
'ctarian differences. so as to fuse into .,
a opposing though dlscorlant mass ~
be hurled against "Momonisn." ~
VI not succeed very greatly In their "
forts to draw Catholicism into the u,
sired amagamation. The Catholic ~
''horlties. In dissenting from "Mor- ~
on doctrine and discipline take 10
'ound consistent with their own creed W
"a convictions and they are too
rewd ana open-eyed 10 be hoodwlpl, q