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Show H From England. H, 1 Elder Mark Aunt in, who is laboring H I in Oldham, England, sends us the I following clipping froru tho Oldham Chronicale. Tho poper has been op- vr , posed to tho Mormons but ho gob them H to publish this article. H 4t Whatever objections one may have H to tho religiouB doctrines and practices H of tbo Mormons, who have some H -emissaries actively engaged in propa- H . gaadist work in Oldham, it must be ad- H anittod that they liaye madd most ex- 1 ' -collent colonists, and have built up a H ' most prosperous community at Salt H ' Lake City. In reply to some inquiries B recently addteeeed to him the Governor H ' t of Idaho hua declared that the "Latter H Day Saints," as these people style them- fl selves, "rank among our best citizens,' 1 and as several Oldham people have just H left for Utah it will be interesting to H give his further testimony as to tho H character of the community. Ho says : H 4The first thing which caused a rejudice H against the Mormon religion was their H belief in plural marriage. At tho time H they first settled what is now Utah they H were a community by themselves, re- H mote from people of different views on H religious matters; but as communication B was established by rati between Utah B and the more thickly settled States of H the Union business intere&ts took a M great many Gentiles of all the various M recds into that cou jto, and businrss m And political rivalry as much as any B thing else impelled the newcomers to H raise a hue and cry against polygamy fl The Mormon peoplo Ptood up for their H Jnith for a long time, until finally ono H of their apostles 1 uelieve, in fact, the H presidentof the church liad a revelation H which was promulgated among the H people, dtclaring thai it was the will of H tho Lord that they should no longer H marry more than one wife. This oo- H curod,oome live or sis eais ago, ind I H ooliov'O that aa a people they are H conscientiously living up to that H revolution. I was raised by North ol H Ireland patents in the old school H Presbyterian Church, consequently I H beliive that I can give the Mormon B peoplo an unprejudiced rocommendat ion H My experience among them, and my H information aa to tho workings of their M church organization, has led me to H believe that for practical Christian k results tl ey have tin. host oigauization |