Not a few in this country endeavor to put down heresy by force. Referring to the advocacy of this to suppress Mormonism, The Christian Advocate of Dec. 22, 1898, well says:— “There is but one way to deal with it, and that is by greater energy and devotion on the part of the Christian church. We regret to see certain proposals, which in the end can accomplish no good. “Some attempts are being made in this part of the country to promote a persecution of Mormon elders. The Mormon missionaries are calling at private houses and elsewhere asking people to attend their services, and distributing leaflets containing most plausible arguments in their favor. They have a right in this country to do everything that ordinary tract distributers have a right to do. There is but one way to meet the Mormons, the Spiritualists, the Christian Scientists, and all other crank religions or superstitions—and that is by making Christian churches what they ought to be, and their members active missionaries for the truth—and by pastors guarding their flocks, ascertaining what they are thinking, reading, saying, and doing. “If any religionist or anti-religionist breaks the law, let him be brought before it for judgment; but the man or the woman who endeavors to break up a meeting by noise or disturbance, or to create any kind of a persecution which involves a violation of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, pursues a course which, carried to its last results, would make all civil and religious liberty depend upon the caprice or the consent of mobs. Such persons may have good motives, but they perform bad actions and help the Mormons.” Now, why is not all this true as regards Sunday “desecration”? Why not preach the Word of God, and tell the people to follow that?