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Show cause. You say, ''You do not know, me, or auything about rnr character OllS E reputation, a!~d t 1iat you have no otherilia · way of j11dgin 6 or finding me out 0·1ly 10 by my challeng :'," etc.! You know a that this is a fa1se statement, andi c · simply made to shield your tluplicity.~n , For if you harl read my challenee you 1d 1 would have seen that each di:,putant of was to be officially indorsed as a,ee ''repnsentatiYe of his o~n Church." I eE do not know you personally, neithmbe1 do I care to; but before I would enterb1 r into a l?ublic discussion I must know1eJ !l.. officially that you are a representativ~0I E man of the Church you claim to repre·irr ~ sent. \Vhile I bound myself to fur-nt nish the same official credentials and 1j~ 1E recommendation from the churches I 11n c have the honortorepresent, numbering et some fifty thousand members and five e 1 hundred ministers. But for you to ef plead such purity and modesty and h elf-righteousness, like the old Phariseea1 c ho thanked God he was better than 1r < other men, and at the same time repre· m a 'Church of which the U nitedtt States had to sho@t s:>me of its leaders \ ( for their cold-blooded murder of inno-: ( cent men, women and children at 1 } "Mountain Meadows," and suppress a part of your religious practice of licentiousness, vice and concubinism, is enough to make the ancient ''gods weep." You will pardon me if I assume, ·like the Irishman, that a man did not · need a good mo,r al character to sell liquor or debate with a Mormon,~ and I did not know that virtue was ate such a premium among the Mormons'"' that a minister of an EvangelicarChurch would soil his character or~ contaminate his morals by a pu bli discussion. "0 you lily of the valley!", I think my character and ''cool headedness'' will equal yours any day of 1 the year, while I know my mind is r not clogged with the errors of Mor- a .. a You ant1c1pate "muc J monism. harm might come t0 the cause of re1 Ii ion." "\Vell, sir, ou have reason~ J 1 1 |
