Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-02-18

OF faith and it was the subject of a
paper at the Salt Lake Ministerial as
soclatlon not long ago. 1t has been
the subject of every Presbyterian as
sembly for the last twenty years or
more. In 1902 in your assembly al
Los Angeles, instead of throwing it
out of your confession of faith, you
tried to plaster it over with an eX-
PLANTATION or a better understanding
of it and yet you claim that preachers
never preach it; if they did they
would be guilty of heresy. Brother
Wishard, you know as well as | that
if you circulated the Presbyterian ar
ticles of faith among your people as
freely as the Mormons do their ar
ticles of faith, you would soon be as
short of church members as you are
of preachers. 1t is no wonder you
have it copyrighted. do not believe
that one Presbyterian in 25 ever read
1t; | Will call your attention to the
institutes" published by John Cal
vim, the great Presbyterian reformer.
You will find in them that the very
foundation of all his logic is forord-
nation, predestination Gods eternal
uStltt, llldHJ anu cJcIHul udIllUdllOu.
You also make the false statement
that | have failed in real estate. If
you will go with me to Bear River
Valley next month ! will show you
a party of newcomers from Pennyl-
yania that your slanderous articles
could not stop from coming and there
is more to follow.
Nln trl
ing to something that makes every
decent man and woman boil with in
dignation. | have seen a hen in her
beastly instinct kill all the little chick
ems that she could that were not
Matched by her. / have seen great
big bully in school and at play abuse
and cuff children that were smaller
than himself, but when it comes to a
preacher who will take advantage Of
a PERSONS poverty and their humble
calling, it is infinitely worse. While
in Nanticoke, Pa, on Jan. %, had the
pleasure of being entertained by q
good Presbyterian lady of that city
who placed before me the Assembly
Herald of October, 1904, the Official
publication of the Presby terian church
of the United States. In that maya
zine was a picture of one of the poor
est country schools of Utah, and un
derneath it was inscribed Public
School in Utah. All Mormon Chill
dren. What an Opportunity for 6
Missionary" in this picture are many
barefoot boys in overalls, others witt
calico shirts and ragged clothes. Many
of the girls have on coarse shoes ant
homemade dresses and aprons of al
styles. The teacher in the rear of tho
picture looks like a bright, conscien
tious woman. This picture Is an at
tempt to slur the public schools o
Utah, and make the people in thu
East believe the only good that comes
to Utah is through the orthodox mis-
sionaries. Any preacher or publica
ton that will hold up the children o
a country school to derision and rid
icule because of their clothes or re
|ligion before the whole world will dc
anything that is low, or mean. Broth
er Wislfard, don't you know that II
the little group of children your pape
is trying to ridicule may be future
president of the United States? Have
you forgotten that Abraham LincolI
did not have an opportunity to go u
a school even as good as the one yol
picture? That his clothes were home
spun and he had no shoes for his feet
Have you forgotten that Presiden
Grant worked in a lanyard, an,
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