Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-01

~ ridIculed by atheists and irrational
scotfers, but Il Is a part Of the Chria-
tlan's faith and Is usually respected by
sensible persons, eyes though they DO
not fully entertain It. Some people fail
to see the harmony of the idea with the
fact Of free human agency That, how.
ever, Is because they do not look close.
" into the subject.
The perfect freedom OF mankind to
| think and act to the extent OF their
powers, mental and physical. is not In
terfered with in the least by the oyerrul-
ing hand OF God The issues OF ali
things are with Him. Men plan and
| perform without hindrance from the
Lord, but lie overrules the results. The
mind that cannot grasp this truth is
defective and abnormal the skeptic
who ridlcues II simply exposes his own
folly.
We make these remarks because Of
some comments, made by a paper that
Is becoming edItorially lmpoteDt, on a
letter written by Elder Reed Smoot to
The President OF the European mission
and published in the Mllennial Star.
Reference is made In the letter to the
falsehoods circulated concerning the
writer, during the campaign against
him on his election as United States
Senator from Utah, and he then says.
There is no question In the world
but that the Lord oyerruled all things
during the campaign, and also the out
come at the Senate chamber"
That sentence is picked out by the
anti-"Mormon" morning paper in this
city, and among other editorial exhibit
lions Of stiffness is the following:
1T thus appears that 1t was not
political campaign, but the Lords
overrullnB;' not mere scramble
among men for political preferment.
but that a decree from high heaven
settled the matter, and that the OPP
position was vainly fighting against the
Lord This IL n view which, II fully
established. settles the whole question,
and hereafter In a like case II will only
be needful TO ascertain the Lords Will
and quit striving for any other result
II Is noteworthy, however, that the
Democrats are wholly wrong In their
claim that II was the Church that de-
tented them; It wasn't the church, but
the Lord,
Our readers will observe the perycr-
sion and distortion OF the language and
meaning Of the writer OF the letter
lie said nothing about "a decree from
high heaven" nor about lighting
against the Lord" He merely ac-
knowledged "the hand OF the Lord" In
overruling for good that which was
designed for evil He said, Every lie
that has been told against me has only
strengthened my position" We be-
lieve II Will be so IN the entire crusade
OF falsehood and villlhcaton now in
augurated Ministers and editors viii
be perfectly free TO lie, and utter abuse.
and mallgn the "Mormons" and they
viii not be hindered In their voluntary
will oyerrule their evil doings and
evolve good therefrom, as he brought
order out of chaos and light out OF
darkness "in the beginning
In the affairs of this world 1t often
happens that the vile and the vicious
the false and the ferocious, the tyrant
and the oppressor, flourish for "a time
and appear to prevail. But He who
Is Eternal, leaving them to work out
their own condemnation, watches over
their victims and eventually overturns
truth and the right, To have conf
dence In Him is rational as well AS
religious, and in the sequel Of human
history 1t will be found that there is
no myth In the pleasing legend PROV.
idence is over ALL"