Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-03-11

| the cost Is virtually prohibitive. A
great church thus placed. as the pres
ent discussion has brought out, would
cost about $4,000 200, a large sum to
invest for the doubtful advantage of
popularity and at the hazard II not
always possessing popular preacher.
Unfinished Work.
[Rev. Frederick Z. Hopkins.]
Great men and women the world
over and turnout the ages have died
leaving their work unfinished. With
in step OF the promised land came
the stern and unexplained command.
Halt. And Aaron takes up the rod
God had given Moses at the burning
bush. and Joshua girds himself with
the revolutionary sword which had cut
4 way thru the wilderness.
Who has ever done all he intended to
dao Who has realized every expectation
and hope: It is said Death ends ALL.
but this Is only half truth. Death
often hands over an unsettled estate,
and forthwith break out family quar-
re!s. Death hands over habite. taints,
memories. grudges. Death sometimes
reaches its skeleton arm out of the
grave in the form OF a trust fund and
bars the door of progress Where in
this world shall we look for perfec-
ton:
Sometimes on a clear night we have
stood gazing into heaven and we have
said: There is the perfect Glory"
But the words had no sooner been
spoken than with ominous silence and
speed, a star fell. A jewel slipped out
Of its getting in the crown OF heaven
gate Of glory was unhinged. A world
wrecked somewhere on the reef OF
darkness A mansion In the heavens
burned up The infinite tear OF an
angel running down the yelled cheek
OF the sky because of another paradise
lost.
The idea we ought 20 keep repeating
70 ourselves is this: mo one in this
world has ever reached perfection.
see no sign that anybody is likely 10
reach il. Therefore I am not going to
act toward my brother as though
expected him to be what no one else
has ever become.
Mornonism Defended and Attacked.
Mormonism has been the object or
so many attacks in recent years that an
answer was recently published by the
first presidency signed by Joseph r.
Smith. Anton H. Lund, and John Henry
Smith. Their documents. Issued about
Christmas, and published in The Des-
eret News, proclaims the adherence OF
| the Latter-Day Saints to the principles
of obedience to governments and their
appointed authorities" As presidents
they disclaim any desire TO use the
power Of the priesthood to coerce the
political views or allegiance OF any
member of the church: neither 90 tney
favor the establishment OF monopo-
lies; but believe in the freedom OF cap
ital within lawful limits" About I'ooo
missionaries. we are told. are kept
| in the field, travelling at their own ex-
pense, and seeking converts TO tne
| Mormon faith. There is a denial OF the
report that the president OF the church
either collects or receives the fittings
| of the people or uses them for his per-
sonal beneft or that OF his family or
associates. Strict accounting Is
made Of every dollar received and the
numerous enterprises Of the church to
which 1t is devoted. To misrepresenta-
| ton they oppose neither retaliation
or counter elimination"
Recently fifteen Mormon elders
| stoned in New York en- route to
Europe on missionary errands, and TO
| the New York Sun one Of these assert
ed that "since the manifesto OF 1890
polyga.ny has ceased to be question
with u.s. He declared that none OF
us here practice 1t any more than you
do and we have no earthly intention
Of preaching It," Mr. Burton J. Hen
rdick. Of McCiure's stan. gives In the
February number Of that magazine q
detailed account OF mis- researches sntn
that yelled question. In the last ten
years, he asserts, the Mormon church
has several times modified its attitude
| on this question. The policy at hrst
was to deny the existence Of the rela-
| ton Six years ago, however. Joseph
r. Smith, In an address to the world"
acknowledged that there were a few
| sporadic cases. but he declared that
the number was utterly insignificant"
Mr. Hendrick proceeds:
| His word sporadic had acquired a
meaning OF its own In Utah, rs It IL
the term now regularly used to desis-
nate each newly discovered pluralast.
The nunnbsr Of polygamists In Utah,
said tho Mormon apolog1sts. would
about correspond to the number OF
Ibigamists in any community. But. az
the number Of these 'sporadics' reached
Into the hundreds, and included many
Of the higher dignitariss in the church.
these excuses no longer sufflced. The
church officials now admit that polyg-
nous marriages have taken place. but
they deny that such marriages have
lecclesiastical sanction"
l. 9vanSslism Then and Now.
/ New York SUM.
!; e. those aava ~ wna Moody and
| eanlkey The horse sheds beside the
white church with green blinds were
crowded with concord bugsies. covered
buSgsss and cafryalls. The ovsrfio,
esibbsd 1t the hitching rail by the "a;
tel the bprying ground. Inside the NEE
ing house the stoop -shouldered tenoi
t0laylng hlo own chords on . melodeoI