The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-24
1.-THE GLORY" OF THE COMET

The weird aspect Of Hallcy's comet
at the present time gives some idea
of the reason why humanity has at
trlbuted so many misfortunes with its
appearance, and has done so since man
began to associate phenomena and seek
the relation of cause and effect. While
civilized man has lost much of the su-
perstltions attached to the appearance
OF comets, yet large part of the world
has by no means lost its terror asso.
clated with these strange celestial Wis
itors; and really, it would seem, there
is an instructive dread of comets, which
may possibly be inherited from our
ancestors far back In the stone age,
Then may not the human family at
some time in the far past have been put
through some terrible ordeal by the
close approach of comet that caused
some fearful catastrophes as violent
storms, tital waves and earthquakes
These all may be caused by the near
approach of a comet of considerable
mass, as the attraction would cause
great disturbances. This fear seems
not unlike that of young chickens that
have never seen nor heard q hawk;
they will seek shelter at once at the
scream resembling that of hawk or
the flying of kite. May not mankind
have some inherited remembrance
A comet would not have TO bump
heads with the earth to do considerable
damage to life, but il is doubtful if
the earth s passage through tolera bic
dense portion of comet S tail would
he noticed. and Halley's comet seems
to have been accommodating and polite
enough to lift its tail so as TO Just
miss the north pole.
The SANITY Theology
But scientific speculation and calcu-
lations have nothing in common with
Mormon ''theology,' - for the Melchlse.
dician speculatious are in sugar factor
les, in more polygamy1 in more tithing
graft, in various "co-ops ''-polyg,
of these speculations. The Mormon
priesthood has brought forth no sclen-
fists that would add one iota to the
store of knowledge Of the world, At
one time there was a Melcbisedec as
trologer that found worlds without
number for the products of celestial
polygamy as practiced by the Latter.
day Saints on this rusty old planet.
The astro-theology of these Mormon
polygamists assign various glories to
men of this planet, A Gentle might
get the lowest grade of glory by do
ing some good turn To polygamist; as
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get terrestrial glory, for they that have
done valiant service for the Lord or
these lions of the Lord, must have their
rewards, and this political aid must be
accounted as spiritual. A male Nor
mon TO get celestial glory must have
lived his religion in polygamy. and
have been a general outlaw as far as
the American nation is concerned. The
highest glory. the celestial, is re-
served for the polygamous prophets,
the Danltes, and the especially lccher-
Gus bishops, usually found In Mormon
academies
AS will be seen, there is connection
between these glories and the heavenly
bodies. When some saint has paid the
debt of nature, and the cosmfc matter
is to be returned to be mingled with
earth, the MeIchisedec elders will as.
sign some special glory to the departed.
One will get the "glory of the moon -
for his good deeds another will get the
glory of the stars while others are
awarded the "glory of the sum- (Be-
lieved by Gentiles 10 be hot place.
Anyhow, the "glory of the sum- is
what the highest and mighty polyg.
amists get. But never has the writer
ncerd Of any saint claiming the
glory of the comet. Just why this is
so is hard to guess. Possibly these eld-
ers Of "IsraelD have the instructive
dread of the hairy visitor in the heav-
ems, and possibly reckon it is hot
and 80 pass it by in their as
tro-s spirituality. Possibly it is a thing
that Gentiles are not allowed to know,