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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 4, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 5.

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Gospel and Government.

A “latter-day saint” writer in the Independent, in writing up the progress of that people for the year, says that “the principal event of 1896 was the transition of Utah from a territorial to a state government.” What we would like to know is, What has this to do with the progress or work of a church which regards “the Gospel of Jesus Christ” as an absolute panacea for all the “ills of mankind”? What has that Gospel to do with territorial or state government? Why should the change from one to the other affect a Gospel church?