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Show 185 community building, with establishing the Kingdom of God, and mastery of the a sense of elements) provided mission, with Utah and Mormon inequities, "reform") society to build and to subdue. had its economic, (in political, the usual and social of sense much less apparent than in mid-western and eastern urban In fact, some evidence suggests that certain influential strands of Mormonism questioned the value of palliative social of the sort which for dom in example, reform--but on th 1ormon educators and leaders with but the need to reform them was centers.28 plan a wi a undergird progressive education. editorial an reform earth than a more a as early as reform George Q. Cannon, 1896 alludes to social part of the establishment of God's King product of man's specific altruism: Under the system which God has revealed, a better order of things will be established, by which all classes of our people will be benefited, and all will receive and share in the benefits of those grand discoveries which God is causing to be brought to light. The prospect may not appear very bright to many for class distinctions to be obliterated; but sooner or later they must disappear; for God has founded Zion, and he will build up Zion, and in building up Zion equality among his children will have to be observed and maintained.29 In response to a Catholic reader's identification of Mormonism and the Socialistic Labor Party, an Imorovement Era editorial emphatically disassociates the church with this then describes current (1899) attempts or at social rather any other reform as party and largely 28Some Mormons liked to think of themselves as reformers, and, But the experiment wih in a sense they were. th pralsed various economic orders, irrigation, the Rellef Socet 11 di bu were ti nq Ol ented. than me) as mode 1 s of re form from ti me to m?re of Soclety, te Relef they were reconstructionist. With the exceptlon and tnmed i a te as was these reform measures were not really palliative commnitarianism, (thogh much of the reform in Social Gospel. Instructor 29Georqe Q. Cannon, "Purpose of Education," Juvenile 31 (Narch 1896): 134. |
