The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-27
A Voice from the Past.

In perusng the dull pages of the Congressional
Record the scribe has found something that has re-
NAMED buried in the oblivion of that official publica-
ton since the goth of February, 1907 The discovery
will prove of interest the Christian readers of The
Scimtar and it is therefore worth while to drag
it from its place of conceament and start it on its
course.
The Record of that date states that the presiding
officer of the senate of the United States presented
to that body resolution submitted to his by
the Presbyterian Intersynodical Foreign Mission
airy convention, in session at Omaha the 10Th of
February of that year 1t was signed by the presi-
dent of the convention, Rev Ora Landrith, and
officially transmitted to the senate 1t reads:
TO the President of the United States senate The
Presbyterian Inter-synodical Foreign Missionary
convention, Omaha Nebraska February IS, 1907,
representing fifteen synods of fifteen states with 100
elected delegates from each synod also 100 delegates
from the church at large unanimously adopt the
following resolution, with the request that it be read
in the senate of the United States before vote on
case of Reed Smoot is taken:
Fully understanding the present teachings and
practices Of the Mormon organization, WHICH IN
NOWISE DIFFER FROM THEIR PAST
TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES we most
esty request the senate of the United States to
exclude Reed Smoot an apostle OF the Mormon
organization from the senate of the United States
We make this appeal in the interest of morality, the
American home and American citizenship Further
more, we expect all senator's to stand for high
standard of morals and against the poygamous
gime of the Mormon hierarchy, which Smoot is in
the senate to represent and to stand tor his exclusion
bv their votes when his case is disposed Of"
The Presbyterian church has so long and so faith
fully pursued its evangelical work in the Mormon
states that the Omaha convention of its synods knew
the full truthful force of its words when it said that
the present teachings and practices of Mormonism
'in nowise differ from their past teachings and prac-
tees"
This was vouched for by 1000 delegates from the
Presbyterian churches of fifteen states. Against
this conscientious utterance of the representatives
of a real Christian religion is placed the denial of
few Jack Mormon politicians and they creating
great disturbance because the people of Idaho pre-
fer believe the evidence of their senses, backed
by the judgment of Presbyterian convention.
The Goth of February, 1907, was quite an anti
Smoot day in the senate, joint resolution from the
legislature of the state of Delaware showing in the
Record of that date The Delaware legislature re-
quested its senator's ito every honorable means
to prevent the seating of Hon. Reed Smoot as a
United States senator from the state of Utah"
The senate paid little attention to these appeals,
being bound by bargain with the hierarchy But
the Christian people of the land know that it ought
to have given heed and its failure to do the right
thing does not weaken the of the public against
the Mormon church.