The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-07
SOLU ION OF
NJ @ r M @ N
PROBLEM
SUBJECT OF EDITORIAL READ BY
REV MR.. ELOERklN.
He Urges Dominant Church to Use
Its Power to Make Utah "Ory,"
Clean State.

Preceding the regular sermon last
evening at the Congregational church
Mr. ElderkIn read the following edi-
torial, which had for its heading:
1.-The Solution Of the Mormon Prob
lem:
There is always a problem where
power Is abused. Nearly 800 years
ago New England had the present
Utah problem sitting on Its front
porch Only we Congregationalists
were the offending parties We ran
the whole shop to suit ourselves. Other
religious personages were off the track
and entitled to no consideration or re-
spect We possessed the keys OF the
Kingdom They had to beat us on the
head before 1t dawned upon us that the
Congregational church wasn't Identical
with the kingdom OF God on earth
But 1t was worth learning.
II came up from Salt Lake last Fri
day with two good Mormons. Both
raid tithes and one swore unmerciful-
ly The one who paid tithes and used
picturesque language so lavishly did
most of the talking. Perhaps | ought
not to call him a good Mormon, even
if his name is upon the Lords books
In Zion as he put IT. For he was any
thing but loyal to the established or
der of things.
Both confessed-I thought frankly
that there was a Mormon problem.
One had no solution to offer He
guessed he'd keep in line. The other
had a solution. 1t was a hope that a
worthy antagonist to the present re-
gime would arise among the apostle
late and out of the resultant conflict
n new order would be wrought Al
the basis his argument was the Hege-
Ian philosophy Of advance by thesis
and antithesis.
Underneath the hours converse.
tion / thought / saw an earnest long
ing for a new Ideal
There are Protestant churches with
petty interests. They quarrel over
rites or perishable creeds OF forms
of church government They have no
exhilarating message for the Mormon
church And there are Protestant
churches with high ideals In their
own rites OF creeds or forms they see
nothing of worth save as these help
TO bring in Gods glorious kingdom of
righteousness. justice and brotherly
love. These have message. not only
for the Mormon church, but also for
every institution which identifies
Gods kingdom with the supremacy or
its own man-made hopes
ut is that ideal / wish to emphasize
tonight as solution for the Mormon
problem and for every problem like it,
Once the church was looked upon
as an ultimate. The Reformation as
sail that thesis AS it saw victory in
sight 1t began to cast about for new
ultimate. and finally decided upon the
Bible. II the Bible were everywhere
recognized as supreme then, they said,
Gods kingdom would be mere upon
earth The conclusion does not follow.
A studied statement regarding the di-
vinity of the Bible and the establish
ment of Gods kingdom are two diff
ferent and unrelated things
Out Of that realm Of unreality we
Protesants are moving, and we plead
with you Of the great Mormon church
to move with us.
IF the Deseret News IS good enough
to give this editorial the wide circula-
ton it has given the others. ] should
Ike TO say one thing TO my Mormon
friends. Only the narroweSt kind of
an individual or organization Will per-
sist in nagging at you for your pecu-