Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-25

OF over sixty million souls in Russia.
But how are the conditions In that
country? The Greek church has not
saved the Russians from dense ignor-
ance and superstition, or from the heel
OF the tyrant. The millions of that
country are struggling for light and
freedom. but they have to fight u
church in alliance with the oppressors.
And the bearers of light, like Tolseoi,
are marked as enemies OF mankind and
accommodated.
To the Roman Catholic church the
world Is indebted for many blessings.
To the scholars of the Vatican is due
the preservation of nestimable treas
ures of literature and art. Sculpture,
painting, music, owe to Rome an
eternal debt of gratitude. Cardinal
Mazarin, Boccaccio. villon. Rabelais,
are names incribed in the history OF
music and literature. The arts OF
horticulture were improved by Roman
monks. In the days of Shakespeare,
Europe turned for literary skill. for
taste in art, for knowledge of the cul-
| tivation of the SOIL for statesmanship
| to the Roman educated priesthood
Notwithstanding the failures, weak
nesses, and sins of Rome, the world
| has been blessed through the measure
of truth, culture and civilization that
church had and disseminated.
But the Roman Catholic religion has
not brought salvation to the world 1t
has not brought peace to nations. OF
good will between man and man.
Spain. once a vast powerful empire,
has dwindled in Importance and in
huence. Portugal has shrunk still
more. France today cannot hold its
own as compared to Germany or Eng
land. Illiteracy and immortality are
prevalent all over the Roman Catho- |
lie world. Reports from Paris say |
that wave of crime is sweeping the |
country. Catholic Belgium brought to |
the Congo state a regime of cruelty |
that has made the world shudder. So |
far from bringing peace and good will.
Catholic countries are extorting from
starving millions the money needed
for guns and warships, and the ranks
of their citizens are torn with strife
and dissension and thus furnishing a
soil for the growth of anarchism.
Catholicism has not brought salvation.
Nor has any of the numerous Prot
estant scots. Professionalism offered
the blessings of human liberty to the
world 1t taught Individual respon-
sibility. And under its banners ma
tions have flourished. The sciences
and arts have been fostered, and dis
coveries and inventions have multi
Piled. By Professionalism the human
race has advanced to a marvellous de-
gree of education, But mono OF the
Protestant sects has brought to the
world, or any part of it, that salvation
of which the angels sang at Bethlehem.
that peace and good will for the estab-
lishment OF which our Savior came.
The Protestant world is slipping away
from the Scriptures, and the Scripture
plolts. 1t is torn by class wars, and
1t is n great question whether another
French revolution is not among the
near possibilities-not in Franco but
nearer home. There is no peace
on earth. And how can the Christian
world expect to save the non-C Christian
part of the human family, unless it is
saved first itself?
There Is need of some direct inter-
ference by the Almighty in the affairs
Of man. There is need of more rove
ation. This need "Mormonism"
claims. tho Lord supplied, when he
called the Prophet Joseph to proclaim
the Gospel of this dlspensation to the
world. 1t is this Gospel that Is given
to bring peace to the human heart;
10 elevate the homo and the family;
to establish justice between man and
man, and. finally, between nations; to
prepare the world. for the acceptance
Of the Lord Jesus as the Ruler of one
great human brotherhood. That is
the aim of "Mormonism" That is
Gods plan of salvation