Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-04-19
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FATHER LAMBERT's REJoINDER


the State
FATHER LAMBERT'S REJOINDER
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We publish today an article that APP
peared In the Freemans Journal, from
the caustlc pen Of Father Lambert Of
the Catholic church. In refusing to
Join with the sectarian preachers who
have scattered q leanet calling for the
suppression of "Mormonism,' the
learned and capable priest is entirely
consistent with the spirit and discipline
Of the great ecclesiastical organization
to which he belongs, and of which ne
Is mastery exponent and defender
The preachers who have thus solicited
his aid, and that Of all the ministers Of
an the churches In Chrstendom viii
not derive much comfort from his re-
Spouse to their appeal.
II IL perfectly correct that many OF
the same charges that those preachers
make against "Mormonlsm - are iden-
tical with old and musty libels against
Catholicism. We have had occasion
to call attention to the same fact.
Catholic doctrines have been misrepre-
sented. distorted and exaggerated IN
the same fashion as that resorted to
by preachers Of the different Protestant
sects throughout Christendom, and It Is
amusing 10 see with what unanimity
these janglng. contcndng controyer-
sialists. who sometimes even come to
physical blows among themselves, VIII
pull together in an onslaught upon
either "Mormonlsm' or Catholicism y
The reminder to those ministers who
are to terribly hostile to the very
shadow of passing polygamy that some
OF their yeneratod reformers including
Martlp Luther and Melancthon favored
ANA Supported polygamy during ne
reformation. Is In the sharp ana
pointed style Of The polemical Lam
bert. And so is his vigorous thrust
against that consecutive polygamy'
that Is winked at and condoned, II not
encouraged and supported by the very
Protestant ministers who combine
against the "Mormons.' and wave their
Weapons in the air against something
that has almost become merely a
memory.
One statement made by Father Lam
bert needs some explanation II Is this:
Mormollsm is an offshoot Of Protest
antlsm. They read the Bible and
Judge for themselves. defending their
polygamy from IT," "Mornonism' is
not an offshoot Of Professionalism or OF
any other ism II is spI generis 1t
has not derived It's doctrine, ordinances.
authority, organization, spirit or innu-
enee from any religious body or assoc
citation on earth 1t Is Independent or
them ALL II has not taken It's position
from the Bible or from any lnterpre-
tation thereof. When reference Is
made to that book by It's ministers or
adherents, It is simply TO show that the
principles II embodes and the work It
is engaged In, are similar to those of the
Church which Jesus Christ and His
Apostles established IN times past. Il
Is not to be numbered among the yar-
Gus Protestant sects. They are an OPP
posed TO " They dght It with greater
vim and closer unity than they have
displayed In their war upon Catholic
ism They hate "Molmonlsm" with a
bitterness That Is dlabollcal. It has no
part nor lot with them, either collec-
lively or individually
The system called Mormonism" IL
not Of human origin. 1t has all been
revealed IN the latter days. We pro-
claim It as Divine. We know il is not
" man. Its opponents may claim that
It is from the Evil one. Those who
have studied il most, see the clearest
that il IL supernatural 1t VIII be
found that earthly power cannot over.
come il. Neither BY physical nor IN
tellecmul force can 1t be conquered nor
will It be assmiated to other religious
systems. II win stand alone II IS
no "ofshoot' Of anything under the
sun. II is Gods truth embodied II
Is living. growing vigorous, original
plant from the divine hand, and Il can
not be plucked up by the roots nor
Killed by adverse influences or forces,
but will spread out until It's branches
extend over all the earth like the tree
from the mustard seed IN the Sayior's
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