Show AN INDEPENDENT ENGLISH PREACHER OF THE ELMER I. GOSHEN A pamphlet has just been issued by the W. E. M. of Park Green Congregational England We reproduce below some of the more passages in the some and perhaps a little genuine alarm have been aroused recently on account of the presence of Mormon missionaries among and in some quarters these feelings have found violent expression While it may not be possible to extinguish or even to allay the the general discussion may be made to serve a useful public warning against the Mormon propaganda has been issued by our Watch and all ministers of religion are urged to bring the matters before their is glad to and I ask you particularly to note in issuing the the mayor dissociates himself personally from vehement denunciation of the and therein he has acted with great He complying with that request I offer no opinion respecting the teachings of the Mormon must be plainly stated that it is not the business of the Watch Committee to discuss such For years the Mormons have had nearly a hundred legally registered Places of worship in this They have a constitutional to their If worship among and to preach commit be punished in a lawful any crime they can Wan short of it is the duty of the authorities to Protect them in the exercise of their is recorded in Nonconformity in that about the year 1792 members of the church and con-Nation at Street were often in peril of their life as it was taken for granted at did they they were revolutionists and to no purpose avow their attachment to the throne and person e nt They were outrageously insulted as they passed the streets on their lawful they were and th i of derision as and S worship were liable to fr a W they were the lest damage and to return 3 be authorities not to SZ dUty f the against public disorder dissenters' but guaranteed the liberty of r those liberties D hW might seem an authorities M and practice g. to preach that there is room desman on f L us' a wise Empire Polygamous marriages- are Son CUrtS f There are venty of m iD India alone was tely as interesting and significant that our Mohammedan fellow-subjects will soon have a beautiful and costly mosque erected in the capital city of the Empire Will righteously indignant Londoners join in wrecking that mosque with stones out of consideration for London's Perhaps they will have sense to reflect that those morals cannot be much worse than they it is alleged that the aim of the Mormons is to allure young women into a life of slavery and virtual It it be no one would regard such influences without serious though probably very few young women will actually be attracted by the prospect of becoming the wile of an unknown man in still less of becoming one j wife among several unknown wives or an unknown There may be such a There is danger that young women should be attracted by announcements in English newspapers that wives are wanted in some Young women cannot be too y urged to use sufficient self-respect as well as common sense to treat such announcements with these instances the I is but I would refer to it as part of a larger and much more serious This of popular not unstained by should set us Whatever Mormons may do in at home and by womanhood is thrust down in trampled upon in and flung aside in contempt as the very mire of the are not in a position to cast-stones at even if the worst be You will find in Queen's by Kate and the by Laura evidence for the following British army in India sees that each regiment is provided with so many native women for the use of in soldiers are offered the inducement of cheap with government protection against the unpleasant consequences of A military order was once sent to all the cantonments that in the regimental bazaars it was necessary to have a certain number of care must be taken that they were sufficiently and that young soldiers must be advised of the advantages provided by the government for the safe practice of Bramwell writing on the victimizing at instances which had come under of young gave her notice A girl of twelve wronged by her sister's husband father A child of ten wronged by her A-well-to-do tradesman wrongs his little daughter the child becomes a mother while the mother lies brought to was never the man nt fifteen and men might have been snaring hares and magistrates as well as to warning to our We need public the most celebrated maternity hospitals in London their women are admitted for young unmarried Continued on Page 4 AN INDEPENDENT ENGLISH PREACHER Continued from page 3 confinement I was told by one of the nurses that vast majority are domestic servants wronged by their Warn our young But let if in be warned against their if clerks and against managers and if against the men and women infesting every railway station and every steamer whom no one on the prowl to entrap any lonely us warn mill-girls against and against the most dangerous class of the and indolent sons of our moneyed A very forcible and pointed warning of this kind might be drawn Would the Watch Committee publish young girls against There are women in Glasgow alone earning their bread by their and is anyone so foolish as to think they follow that calling because they like There are bright-eyed and pure-hearted Irish girls coming here for service or other who are trapped as soon as they land at our ports and lured into places they never leave Let the Birkenhead mob wreck fuch and then let the vicar of Hey wood order the keepers of such houses to leave the But it is con- in some town councillors own the property and their rents are drawn from these women's we not among us blind like those of who- choke distressingly at a gnat and swallow complacently a |