The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-03-21
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the Christian religion: The man who brings this
Bible home to the people Of nation is a patriot
Too often the soldier is regarded the only patriot
He is patriot, but the man who carries the Bible
to the people is also one, and he is doing for
his country than the victors on all the battlehelds
1t is said that once when a person who was more
noted for his self-esteem than for his learning, was
speaking against the Christian religion in terms of
severest scorn and derision, man asked him if he
had found a religion that was better The scoffer
obliged to acknowledge that thus far he had not.
WELL" responded the questioner, when you have,
let me know, and [ will join you in adopting it."
Who is there who can make success of deridng the
the achievements of Christianity? The facts make
the accomplishments of such task impossible, and
the Bible teaches that these plain facts will always
be in evidence (Isaiah SIS 1O-13 and Matthew Z IS
2O).
Comparisons have to be made in religious, as well
as in other matters especially when chal-
lenged to do SO, in this instance. The result Of
comparing Mormonism with Christianity (whether
briefly or extensively is necessarily disparagng
the former This shows that as the two systems
are opposites Mormons are going away from God
instead of towards him. and that the experiment is
certain to have a fatal termination. They are being
told that "they are the most moral people in the
world" Beware of the hatterer "a living tongue
haeth those that afflicted with it. and fattering
mouth worketh ruin" proverbs 26-2S) It is
unnecessary to investigate the moral conditions Of
Mormons except in general way, in order to learn
the facts in the case. Are the people more moral
than their church leaders? Have not Joseph Smith
and Francis M. Lyman (the President and prom
inent apostle" respectively in the Mormon church)
both admitted in their late testimonies at Washing
ton, D. C. proceedings in the Smoot investiga-
tion Volume l. pages %, 1877, and 4sS to 1907, that
they had broken what they regarded as the law of
God (the manifesto of 1900 and the law of the
land? Did not of these openly admit also
that he expected to continue in this course of
knowledged wickedness although he belonged to
church which had promised Congress that it would
do the opposite of this? Did not the other of these
two men Joseph F. Smth) afterwards show, by
the record of birth in of his families, that it
was also his evident intention to disregard all laws
which were intended to prevent to him and others
of his class from living in the manner pre-
vious to the giving of those pledges to Congress?
Did not apostle" John Henry Smith also inform
Prof Walter M Wolfe that there had been no
real intention of keeping the manifesto's promises
to abandon po1ygamy in every sense of the word?
Is there any danger of tnsinterpretng John Henrys
language on this OCCASION? Brother Wolfe, don't
you know that the manifesto is only trick to beat
the devil at his own gamer" (See Prof. Wolfe's
in the Snoot proceedings) Is not 'the
devils own game" lying? Was not this lying, and are
we not told that "A liars shall have their part in
he lake which burneth with fire and birthstone"
(John IA and Revelation 81 ~? Is any one
hardened in sin to say that such men these
moral? Are those who call these "our leaders"
my more moral than they are? Impossible.
Let the case be given to the jury of public opinion
md may the Holy Spirit convince of the truth.
1t may be that Brigham Young performed few