Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-01-19

mons are loving the PresDyterlans anu
are helping them spread the giao
tidings of great joy"
I visited the Deseret News or the !
Mormon book store the other DAY,
and to my great establishment l saw
large pile of the Confession OF
Faith of the Presbyterian Church.
I saw they were the late 1904 editions
and were published by the Presbyter-
ian Board of Publication, Philadelphia
Pa. | also saw it contained the at
tachments of 1929, 1888, 1887, and the
Los Angeles infant fire escape OF l9o5.
AS | took one of the old, yet new
copies in my hand, | thought OF the
people who stood on 1t when they
banished poor old Roger Williams in
to Rhode Island for being a Bap-
fist, and the people in Salem, Massa-
chusetts, who received their inspira-
ton from this book when they hanged
QuaKers, burned witches, or as a side
dish of their Calvanistic love, some
times buried them alive. | thought
of the mob that burned the Methodist
meeting house in Provincetown,
Mass. in 1895, and the vote OF the
city council there which passed law
that there shall not be a Methedes
meeting house built in this town,
Soom Cook, Moderator" And that
Methodists were outlaws in Province
town from 1895 to 1911.
thought of all the dimpled non
elect babies whose toothless gums
have been snatched from loving
mothers breasts and cast into lit
eral burning hell, there to suffer and
I'D, ,,,A Co. md
ever l opened the book, this Presby-
terrain guide of life that is so sacred
to DR.. Paden, Brother S. e. Wishard
and Elder Weir, and l saw it was the
same old infant roasting, child scar
ing, madhouse dope of the dark ages,
although it bore the date of 1904. The
book has 1873 pages and then two
more. 1t appears that they did not
dare to change the Calvanistic numeri-
cal charm of 1873 to 139 or lao for
fear that two extra cogs in their old
Gods eternal Calvanistic decree"
might not match with the baby re-
demption clause passed in Los Angeles
in 1903 so they added pages 1854 and
1888 to the sacred volume ito keep
the charm wound up"
| had thought in years gone by
lHtI lIe MOTlHOuS ulu not love Tile
Presbyterians, but now | know they
do or they would not sell for 10 cents
the 1873 and two more page book and
spread the beautiful, loving, enchant-
ing, milk of Gods kindness and COM
passion, Presbyterian good stuff"
among the people of Utah. 1t is liable
to break up the hierarchy, for if the
MormOns, who love babys so much,
read it, they are liable to rush to
Mr.. Paden's church and implore for
mercy, have Elder Weir (whom | will
speak of later in this article), pardon
their sins and get rebate for all
infants who died previous to the Los
Angeles Synod in 1903.
| want to call attention to some
of the chapters in this confession of
faith that Presbyterian preachers
love so much Chapter H., verse one,
gives definition of a Presbyterian
God. 1t says he is without body,
parts or passions" l will indicate
that with an o and then it says their
God is invisible and incomprehensible,
and that knocks the rim off of the
cypher." Chapter ILL.,, part of verse
one, God from all eternity did by
the most wise and holy council, of his
own will, freely and unchangeably,
ordain whatever comes to pass:
verse three, by the decree of God
for the manifestation of his glory.
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