Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-02-17

are the only people in Utah who are
standing by the flag and the purity of
the home" What a falsefier and an
insulter of the manhood and woman
hood of Utah that sentence makes you
out to be! The Ministerial associa-
ton have resolved, etc., that they
were the only people in Utah who |
were loyal to the flag and that the |
Mormons were disloyal to it. To love
country is to be loyal to it. Great |
er love hath no man than this that a
man lay down his life for his friends"
or his country, or his flag. In our late
war with Spain were the Mormons dis
loyal? Brother Wishard, you are
heaping infamy upon Utah's honored
dead. Look at the lives of Lieutenant
Harry A. Young and Corporal John
| Granger Young, who after fulfilling
missions for the Mormon church, were
among the first to respond to the call
for volunteers to fight for the stars
and stripes. These young men laid
down their lives in battle in the Phil
ippine war. There were many other
good Mormons who are now sleeping
in the silent chambers of the death
as result of their loyalty to the
United States flag in that deadly con-
flict. While their fathers and mothers,
RELATIVES and friends are weeping and
lplacing garlands on their graves, you,
Brother Wishard, are proclaiming to
the world that they were traitors to
the flag. How is it you, Brother
Wishard, can go up and down this
beautiful state and look into the faces
of its honest, Industrious and loyal cit
liens after you have so slandered
them and their honored dead? We
will have to go back two and one-half
centuries to Salem, Mass, to the peo-
pie who stood on the Westminster
catechism and hanged Quakers and
burned witches for an answer. This
school or college you are begging for
was named Westminster after the
Westminster catechism and as you
call this school a college you will
teach the larger catechism. Here is
Question 20 and the answer that you
will teach your only loyal students:
Question-What are the punish
ments of sin in the world to come?
Answer-The punshments for sin
, in the world to come are everlasting
separation from the comfortable
, presence of God and most grievous
torments in soul and body without in
, PERMISSION, in hell fire forever
: You will also have a large portrait
| of John Calvin and his institutes or
, sermons in this the only loyal school
, in or within 500 miles of Salt Lake
} City, and as you love to quote what
/ Joseph Smith, Orson Pratt and Brig.
r ham Young said in the beginnings of
, Mormonism l will quote little from
, John Calvin, the father of Presby-
=, teriansm and in fact the greatest
/ Presbyterian of all times. He stood on
r the same catechism that you and your
: school are now standing on. Here is
his favorte text: EVERY plant which
> my Heavenly Father hath not planted
I shall be rooted up" Matth. 1918.
: In his sermon from that text he says:
l There we are plainly told thlt all
3 whom the Heavenly Father hath not
been pleased to plant as sacred trees
, in his garden are doomed and devoted
= to destruction. But if all whom the
4 Lord predestines to death are natural
: " liable to sentence of death CT what
9 injustice, pray, do they complain?
\ lShould all the sons of Adam come to
n dispute and contend with their
0 Creator, because by his eternal prov
S idence they were before their birth
doomed to perpetual destruction
D Again, ask how is it that the fall OF