Show Mission Day Schools Among the Mormons Published by the Woman's Board of Home Missions of Presbyterian Church in U. S. Fifth New York I It has already been insinuated that the Independent is really helping the Mormon church by its exposure of certain infamous slanders against Utah and its people published by Presbyterian assemblies or To disprove this miserable we now propose to do for the Presbyterians precisely what they falsely accuse us of doing for the We have published no Mormon no doctrine or sermon in these but we herewith publish free of all charge a Presbyterian tract one of their most valuable ones' and lay it before tens of thousands of readers in who might not otherwise see Will not the Presbyterians who are circulating this tract now come forward aud thank the Independent for making known in every town in Utah this gospel message which they complain in this very tract has never been heard before several hundred towns and of this If they do not thank us for this free publication of their then where is their gratitude and sincerity as spreaders of gospel To realize the necessity for these Hussion one needs to bear in mind that Mormon-ism is antagonistic to American institutions and to that Scripture is perverted and given a sinister making the very Bible teach a that there are many towns in Utah with a population from to where th e th has never b een taught S. E. our veteran are touching only ai few important and leaving untouched several hundred towns and villages that have never heard the gospel We must maintain mission schools among the Mormons because ice are The aim of the Church is to obtain the balance of power in order to secure politically what the church influence alone cannot Mormons are loyal to government only so far as it serves their and it is not unusual to hear Mormon leaders urge the young to prepare themselves mentally and physically for the fulfillment of their destiny in respect to getting hold of the reins of the United States A missionary teacher says is not particularly in the out-of-the-way to hear them refer to the time when they will hold the government in their and that she in a Fourth of July a Mormon assert that in a few years there would be no that the Mormon Church would be the head of the It is a well known fact that Mormons vote according to the of their religious and thus they can be made to practically vote as a unit on any The whole system is non and if the people of our land were only fully informed concerning with its governmental there would he an overwhelming conviction as to its menace and which controls the conscience of its voters and enforces its orders with threats of eternal damnation and promises of substantial is as dangerous as it is The mission schools must be maintained that the Mormon youths man have the opportunity to learn must maintain mission schools among the Mormons because ine are The Mormons believe have the only true church the Z true religion and and the the only only way to In a recent address Apostle Woodruff know that we are the the rock hewn out of the that is to cover the Every people on the earth will eventually come der the power of the Mormon close of liis he those to rise who had the testimony that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and that the Mormon Church was tha true church nearly everyone Fifteen hundred missionaries are promulgating their blasphemous doctrines in the States east of one thinks of it exclaims President of the Woman's Board of Home of the apathy of Christian people while this Satanic faith is spreading all over our country and in other it is lurd to remain Think of its evil origin of its history of its covert practice of polygamy where Mormons are found more pronounced now than ever its doctrine of blood which has never been repudiated and which can be enforced when considered its debasing conception of a polygamous G-od and Savior the Holy Spirit a kind of mesmeric fluid imparted by the laying on of its lying and unequaled its schools of deception where the missionaries are trained before going out to and its treasonable The mission schools must be loyally supported hi this hardest mission field in the where our missionaries are honoring the flag of our Republic and up-holding the banner of the Kingdom of Lord and Jesus Wc must maintain mission schools among the Mormons because we are Regard it as we the question at issue is the purity of the and whatever destroys the of the American home blight to our Only a short time ago a Mormon told told the the people people that that simply because they did n pay their tithing that God taken from for a the greatest glory and of their Church is often preached and they claim it will be fully restored get the political which they are in Utah been in Utah but I have heard five speeches in Mormon ting-houses that were colling but exhortations to plural A married belonging to one of the most prominent families in the State said it would my heart to have my husband take another yet if laws allowed him to do bo i should for it is a sacred command and my future welfare in the next world upon Polygamy is an essential doctrine of and no Mormon can be true la his church and not be willing to practice if so To the what lie thought of a Met mon missionary is a Divine it vas practiced when Christ was on the earth and nowhere in the life of Christ does He say anything against it is an ideal and the world does not yet The mission schools must be to teach the beauty and sanctity of the Christian Do mission The following from the of a consecrated mission teacher is an answer often wonder what become of me if the had never come to I am the child of third for my rather km Do I not something about My heart goes out in to God and His co-laho when I think from what I been and not only but some of my loved I I well remember when I heard there was a Presbyter and great was my prise to know that there people who were not My who desired his dren to have the of the best took us from the Mormon school and placed us in the Presbyterian As I was' daily carefully taught by the missionary teachers in the and saw their I began to think that they bad something better than the Until I was sixteen years old I thought I was a strong believer in the Mormon I was a member of that attended all meetings and took part in But God's Spirit its work of convincing me that is not and I united with the Presbyterian Church some twelve years If there was any one thing convinced me more than another that is not it was in comparing the lives of the mission teachers with the lives of the I hear much about the work in Utah being There may he cause for being yet I doubt whether there is a mission field in Utah where there have not been some Am I I may yet I cannot help feeling that the salvation of my soul was worth all the money spent at and the sacrifices of the when I consider what I have been saved from with all its satanic teachings and As patriotic Christian hi us put forth every effort for increasing and maintaining the Mission Day-Schools j |