Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-28
naturalisln. and they are IosIng noIa %.

IsnaturaIistn, and they are losing hold | 5iof
their young folks. 33s33i
We, beg to differ With The Monitor
on this. The fact is that the great ma
! jortty of the Latter-day Saints are fer
pently devoted to religion. They attend
their meetings. study the. word o. God.
pray. fast. give of their means for mi g: s.
5sionary. and other, purposes. and many an
OF them spend years in the missionary
field without financial renune 4
large portion of the young folks are en-
gagged In Sunday school and other
Church work. and even Afose who seem
to be Indifferent are generally S8wi HUG
to defend The faith Of their fathers u;
il. is assailed in their presence
But even ! ( 1t were true that .ha5
.NNornans' have little rel gior now and N,
that they are losing hold of theii Young
folks. that would not prove that the
principles enunciated by the Prophet
Joseph are about to cease to sbeioi q
power in the world, or that the Church
lis in danger Of defeat Those rrintcis
pies are eternal The principles of
judaism, were not rendered ireff 4! s.;
by the transgression and apost sS.; OF
the Jews The dispensation Itself was VA
not discontinued until it had served its
divine mission. 1t is so now. i ne
Church willnever again be stlest roye 2 .5s
For the sake OF iliustratlonSleft US re-
snint; The Monitor of the we'll known
fact that in the early centuries spP q out
era it aid not. to the superficial obs.
server. look as it8cut& Of the then ex-5
&tsting churches should grow up a
Cathol,c church, world power g '1es
Through persecution the leaders we're
sacrificed and their followers we're lett
10 The care Of inferior men, often neo-
spl,ytes. who may have been learned
men. but sometimes only imperfectly
enlightened on questions or theeoios "
There could not have been apparently,
much religion left when = ertullian ex ~
claimed; THE bishop OF bishops has
become the patron of adul terer Or
when another father, in agony cried
but. % God, to what days hast thouF
reserved me- The heatienism taught
In the school Of Alexandria was entire
Nv foreign TO Christianity, That age,
too. seemed to have lost hold Of the
Young folks, for thousands aposta-$
tizad whenever the flames OF persecu-g
ton were kindled, If the Catholic
church survived persecution, and apos-
.tasy and corruption. there is no logical
ground for the conclusion or the Mon-
itoi as to the Mormon Church:
& The fact is that the Church has
been re-established in this age. never
again to be destroyed. 1t matters not
what men may do. II matters not il
hundreds fall by the wayside. Others
will BE- raised up to take their place,
The principles are even now pene-.
tratins the thought OF the world and
when the proper time comes millions
will gather to the church that enun-
ciated those principies. 1t will take
time The work now being done is
1t is ploughing and SOW
ing. and irriga ting, and cultivatlng.
The harvesting will come in due time.
The Church that in Its infancy, stood
the apostasy, the persecution, and
lnartsrdom OF Missouri and Illinois,
has staodysa test chat sufficiently shows
the sen,iineness Of its faith. 1t will
grow aIsds sirong and fully
equipped forathe final combat, no mat
ter what nature 1t may assume.