Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-01
DEFINES RELIGION,

wv lNliE hIIltl'Nt
Al Of those expenditures are ncccs-
sury I'm order that thuy may spread ua
they claim, the true religion 10 the
world, Hence they have their mission.
aries I'm many quarters of the globe
but II rs an for church purposes That
W. not am institution for business II
cannot be- degraded, according to their
views, down io making salt ana mnk-
INK sugar ana running mines. Thoro iS
not religion IN that II is material
II Is not % putnurshsip this asso.
citation, II h. am association for certain
purposes, This church was once "a
CORPORATION. il was am association
once they associated together az u re-.
lgIuuR organization Then they la.
corpoUtod undertook lo incorporate
under the state of DpsJrot ! suppose
they never had any rcgumr existence,
but they passed foWo laws ana organ.
ilod undor what wore called the laws
Of the state of DcgClut AiturWWd they
ro.ruaDtod tholr charter ml 'u 1881
the Congress of the United states re-.
uculpl the uhulor so Tar 40 II had ANY
existence ana diNucorporlod the
church aWoriuliuu INT llg purposes
are Just uH plain ana just us binding
upon the trustee N they would have
boon had they been put IN "a charter
Ion ID court of equity the purposes are
expressed IN the professions Of the
members cooperating ana they ave
religious, thcy are not temporal, they
are not secular
Now here We have In this ease an As.
ISOLATION organized for religious pur'
pogoH Counsel du not deny, counsel
have not denied that II " q religious
associations though ! believe he has
not said that II iN Another difference
between a corporation ana An aHsoclt'
ton IN that u corporation IL authorized
10 take property ana to hold the tide
To n, but that corporation holds II I'm
trust for the stockholders, and whore
There are no gtuokhulorA and where
hrrg. IN this ease there are no stock
holders, thrru are No stockholders mn
the Church, they hold II for the mom'
berg, but IN this ease tholo being no
corporation n ls held by "a SuHtrc
If Mr. Richards f. correct lhl1
church may engage IN all KINDS Vt
business, N may engage iu All these
classes " hueInoys that are mentioned
IA the complaints II may Oo u mining
institution II you please n may oWn
farm and run farm, II may own
commercial houses, mercantile osiuh.
lshmcnts, II may do an these ANA "
ID does ain those ana has nv religion
mixed up with the temporal matters,
when n ,omos 10 competing with nat
ura persons ana other corporations for
pronls. insist that these corporations
do not compete ON equal forms with II
m state whore there ls No large u
population consisting of members ~
This church
FORMER CASE CITED.
IN the United Stnlcs w. Church Of
Jesus christ N Utah. =, 3l3) the court
said IN iiR opinion that the property
m question be vested IN the head of
said church ana his comscorH ana
lhpr mccossorg In onlco In trust 10 In.
yow the pumo and apply the proccode
thereof 10 the relief and assistance "
the poor ana distressed members of
said church and their families, ana 20
the building aud repairing OF necessary
plaros Of worship Tor the members Of
pnld Church uhnt the proportion Of the
income " said fund 10 be devoted 10
each Of those usos Dc determined by
the master and embodied In tho rec
porO, and thnt said trustees be re-
uuirod 10 report Ia The court Annually
nu nrcouut NJ their administration of
such trust ana We asked The master "