George Q Cannon: A Biography by Bitton Davis

Author:Bitton, Davis [Bitton, Davis]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Church History
Publisher: Deseret Book Co
Published: 1998-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

Unknown were prostitution, illegitimacy, and venereal disease.

Then came “civilization.” The doctrine of the “two ways,” with its distant biblical and patristic roots, appears in Cannon’s description of polar opposites:

[Civilization’s] advocates have not been content to meet us upon equal terms. Forgetting the past wrongs inflicted upon us, forgetting what we had endured in leaving and sacrificing all for peace, forgetting that we had done all that people could do to remove every cause of offence by seeking homes in the savage and remote wilderness, they have brought the strong arm of the Government to bear upon us. They have called vice to their aid. Drinking saloons, gambling saloons, and brothels have been introduced into our cities. . . . They have aimed to break up existing harmony, to destroy order, to overthrow union, to stifle conscience, to crush religion, to stamp out virtue, and to make vice popular and supreme. While truth and reason were untrammeled and had a fair field in which to operate, this condition of affairs might be endured, but Congress threw its weight in the scale against us. Closing its ears to our appeals, disregarding our protestations, it has, with impious presumption, pointed out to us a command of our Creator, which it commands us not to obey. And now, because of its high authority, comes the crowning outrage of all, the DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, justifying the action of Congress; its prejudiced reasoning, and partial quotations of history, endeavor to prove that we are outside of the protection of the Constitution and have only such rights of conscience as the Legislature shall see fit to grant unto us!48

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