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• OtttliS'fiAN HkftAtB.
' where rebuke was deserved it was
administered; and when it pro­
duced repentance, repentance was
never rejected. As to fidelity to
the church, Bro. Williams has given
I vou a striking instance, and I
might ad dm any more “did- time
| permit. The place she has ever
held in the unspeakable love of her
husband and children attest her
fidelity ft) them, and I will not in-
' vade the sanctities of home and my
I "i ntima te knowle d ge
private.
" life by dwelling upon this theme.
* Hers is the realization of the prom-
[ ise, “ Be thou faithful unto death,’
i I life.
and ” I will give
thee the
crown of
"
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and showing up ‘The Mistakes of territories, Mormons are said to hold
Moses,’ at about two hundred dol­ the balance of power, and the
Extract from lecture of H. L. Hastings, bofore
lars a night. It is easy work to Church has a large and thriving
the annual convention of Y. M. C. A'.,
Spencer, Mass.
abuse Moses at two hundred dollars colony in the State of Colorado,
“ The Bible is a book which has a night, especially as Moses is dead, where the so-called Apostles of Salt
been refuted, demolished, over­ and cannot talk back. It would be Lake City are now buying more
of converts
-after
thrown^ anid ex plocicJ
than any other book you have ever infidel on ‘The mistakes of Moses,’ their way to the West.
The Mormon question becomes
heard of. Every Httle while some­ to hear Moses on the mistakes of
body starts up and upsets the the infidel. When Moses could daily more difficult of solution, but
book; and it is like upseting a talk back he was rather a difficult unless something is done, and that
solid cube of granite. It is just as man to deal with. Pharaoh tried speedily, it is safe to predict that
b iff -one w a y as L L a...jQ .the.r^„. fltn, d. it and sank like lead beneath the at some not far distant day the
when you have upset it it is right waves. Jannes and Jambres with­ great West Witt be the sceire"“of a—■-------
side up,.and when you overturn it stood Moses, and it is said were conflict more cruel than any that
again it is right side upjstill. Every 'buried in the Red Sea. Korab, has ever stained the records of our
little while somebody blows up the Dathan and Abirarn tried it, and country.— Ex.
thaLlhfiy.. hazs.
Bible; but when it CdftlM down it
Diversities of Gifts’
not
yet
got
back.
But
now Moses
always lights on its feet, and runs
faster than ever through the world. is dead, and it js easy to abuse him.
Suppose that God had made all
They overthrew the Bible a century It does not take a very brave beast the trees alike, and bearing only
ago, in Voltaire’s time—entirely de­ to kick a dead lion.
one kind of fruit; or that he had
It would be interesting to hear a made all the animals alike; how dull
molished the whole thing. ‘ In less
than a hundred years,’ said Vol- military leader and legislator, like and monotonons the world would be.
taire, r Christianity will be swept ‘Moses Che man of God,’ who, after Suppose that he had made ah the---------
from existence, and have passed he was eighty years old, command­ people the same size and color, and
into history.’ Infidelity ran riot ed for forty years an army of six with features so similar that you
through France, red handed and hundred thousand men, emancipat- could not tell one from another;
impious. A century* has passed ihgTbrganfzlng, and giving- laws to what would we. doT We would
away.—Voltaire’s old printing press, a natidn which has maintained its not know ourselves from anybody
it is said, has since been used to existence for more than thirty else. The millions of our race
print the word of God; and the stormy centuries, give his candid would be like so many pins. The*
very house where he lived has been opinion concerning ‘ the mistakes law of creation is unity in diversity,
packed with Bibles from the garret of a Colonel ’ of cavalry7, whose and we see in it the wisdom of the
to the cellar, as a depot for the military career is said to have in­
Creator. There are certain things
Bible Society. Thomas Paine de­ cluded one single engagement, in
common to all trees, so that we can
molished the Bible, and finished it which ‘he was chased into a hog
classify them as trees, distinguish­
off, finally; but after he had crawled yard, and surrendered to a boy of
ing them from vegetables on one
despairingly into a drunkard’s sixteen;’ after which, as soon as
side and animal on the other; and
grave in 1809, the book took a leap exchanged, heroically resigned big
yet there are a thousand
varieties
fi-
that since that time more than commission in the face of the enemy, **
of trees. God made of one blood
twenty times as many Bibbs have subsequently turning his attention
all nations of men. You take that
been made and scattered through to a whisky swindling ring, dis­
life fluid from the veins of an
the world as ever were made before, cussing theology, blaspheming God,
Esquimaux or an Ethiopion, of a.
since the creation of man.
and criticising dead men who can
prince or a pauper, and it is the:
Up to the year 1880, from four not answer him.”— Ex.
same; yet how unlike are races
to six million copies of the Scrip­
and the individuals of each race in
tures, in some thirty different lan­
Mormonism.
form, complexion, features, capacity,
guages, comprised all that had been
Probably no two men in the world
produced since the world began.
Some time ago we’ noticed in
are exact counterparts in body and
Eighty years later, 1880, the statis­ in these columns the departure for
mind. Each has something that
tics of eighty different Bible Europe of a large number of Mor­
distinguishes him from all the rest.
societies which are now in exist­ mon missionaries. They are now
Unity without any diversity would
ence with their unnumbered agen­ beginning to return,“ bringing their
give us- an oppressive sameness;
cies and auxiliaries report more sheaves with them ” in the persons
than 105,000,000 Bibles, »Testa- | of hundreds of poor ignorant and diversity without unity would
lead to chaos and confusion. We
ments, and portions of Scripture, ; foreigners, who are hastily hustled
with two hundred and six new off across the plains. The question rejoice in the medium between
All our
translations, distributed by Bible of how and whore homes can be these two extremes.
sciences
are
built
upon
this
unity
societies alone since 1804; to say found for so many is answered by
nothing of the unknown millions the appealing statement that not on­ in diversity, A great deal of our
of Bibles and Testaments which [ ly is Utah being thickly settled, happiness flows from it.— Occidents
The Bible Demolished.
|' 3. Her kindness of heart was
| proverbial, and of this little remains
to be said after what you have so
i attentively heard from my dear
i brother who has just spoken. I
n ay, however, add, that hers was
| not a kindness that expended itself
I alone in almsgiving ; it was seen in
I all her acts and words. Her coun-
.sel was always for peace; she al-
| ways had a kind word for the de
||serving, one of pity for the unfor-
| tunate, one of sympathy and hope
| for the contrite. She was merciful
yfts her Father in heaven is merciful.
•Such is u>y «nthnate of “ Aunt
I Mary
and surely it can bo no
¿foffense to God to speak in this
Kplace of her excellences of heart and
'■ life, for all she was to you, to me,
»and to the sinful, sad and lost, she
5was by the grace of Him who made
■her a bright example to her family,
■ the church, and the world, to in-
? spire us all with greater faith, more
¿constant fidelity, and a broader
^charity. God help you, my be-
Jreaved brother, and you, her sur­
viving children here present, and
the dear ones across the sea, to
emulate her example, that with her
you may enter into rebt, “ no
wanderer lost, a family in heaven.”
Her grand and busy life has been
| rounded*out in beautiful symmetry,
” closing without much suffering, and
with only a week’s illness. She
| died with nearly all her household
around her. And now, in tears
I mingling with undying hopes, with
the benedictions of the poor, and
Ithe love of her brethren and sisters
in Christ, we commit all that is
mortal of Mary T. Bishop to the
I grave, and her pure spirit to the have been issued and circulated by
God who gave it.
private publishers throughout the
world. For a book that has been
God’s sweet dews and the show- exploded so many times, this book
l ers of grace slide off the mountain
lot pride and fall on low valleys ot yet shows signs of considerable life.
I hear of a man traveling around
. humble hearts, making them pleas-
the country exploding this book
ant and fertile.
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but also they are spreading out into
neighboring territories, where their
power to day is great. In the last
Legislatuse of Idaho, half of the
members of the House and half of
the members of the Senate were
Mormons. In one or two other.
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Times of general calamity and
confu&ion have ever been productive
of the greatest minds; The purest,
oie is produced from the hottest
furnace and the brightest thunder­
bolt is elicited from the darkest
storm.— Colton.