Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-09-27
GOODWIN HURlS AVALANCHE
OF SARCASM AT DESERT NEWS

Is it not jolly to read in the Des-
eret News that ''the Church. has
never interfered in politics, and,
that all people who make that
charge, and especially the ministers
of the gospel, are lineal descendants
of Ananias, and that it is but in
keeping with the treatment which
the Church has suffered patiently
and without resentment or any de-
sire for revenge for the three
score years and more since the
Church began it's beneficent, but
wearisome occupation, to round up
and put on the right trail, the de-
PRAYED and wicked world The
News puts ''the Church" in the
position of Victor Hugo's gamin,
who, when charged by a man with
having insulted his wife, in tone
of properly mingled indignation and
grief, replied, me! Mel Search
me. - In the eyes of the News
1.-THE Church, is too high and too
holy to ever bend it's majesty to
anything less than the gathering in
of souls, that the world may even
tually be converted, the Lammonites
brought within the fold, and the
world prepared for the second COM
ing of Him who is to rule in peace
through all the rolling ages of
eternity.
1t is true that the President of
the Church is a little too promiscu-
Gus in his marriage relations. 1t
is true that as the head of some
mercantile ventures, some light
and street railway industrials,
some salt manufactures, some beet
sugar enterprises, and manifold
other business affairs, he is some
what active. and to the blinded
eyes of the un-godly gives the inn
preston that he is looking out very
closely for NUMBER one.
1t is true that now and then an
Apostle seems to be somewhat di-
verified from his holy calling, through
chasing business matters and in
whooping TO the people the neces-
sity of seeing to it that their tith-
1t is true that when a special
Apostle seems to have been ''set
aside" for the express purpose OF
handling the politics of Utah, and
certain adjacent states, that the
earthly part of this ecclesiastical
God on earth may be kept in the
hands of the faithful, he overworks
the business little, but, of course,
the Church has nothing to do with
that, and any Baptist minister thai
says it has must necessarily be q
shameless liar and one who would
be worthy of all anathemas of the
Apostle who steers the Deseret
. News, except for the fact that thai
special Apostle is, through his in
nate soft-heartedncss and his con.
| version to the true faith, now Sc
clarified, so to speak, that there i:
{ never a thought of bitterness in hi:
( soul; never a disposition to reprovc
the ungodly; never possessing any
thing like the comprehension need
ed to bear false witness against hi:
neighbor. No wonder in his beauti
, fled vision he can see beyond th'
clouds and the darkness of thi.
world, and in his imagination, a
least, can behold the pearly gate:
! opening, and the glorious hos
} within putting on the stainless
/ robes to accompany the Master
: who is about once more to dcesenC
and assume his peaceful rule OF
this little darkened planet, which
was especially picked out as a prin
cipaliry for Him.
1t is not strange that the inspire,
Apostle in rhapsody forgets tina
. his Church was delivered to man