Show THE TRUTH TOLD Experience of a 3Inn Mho Had l Left the Church OUDEV Utah ov 25lh 1SS > Correrpondenco of the DiiiaiCT NEWS Just at this moment when tho encmled of the Mormon people peo-ple aro endeavoring to represent them as murderers and everything that is vile especially with refer cure to apostates or those who for any cause withdraw from Mormonism Mor-monism I beg you will favor mo with a little space to relate my experience ex-perience when out of the Church In September 1554 I resigned my membership by writing a letter to President Taylor to that effect I then left the Territory send was absent ab-sent some three month returning in January lbS uu uuUS S l was wuun tu speak against Mormonism I wits engaged by Rev T C IlifTto deliver deliv-er a number of lectures throughout the Territory After leaving Salt Lake City I went to Ogden where I met Rev Mr Carroll I poke In his church on Sunday evening and lectured In the Opera House on Monday I list been acquainted with a number of Ogden Mormons Mor-mons and wondered how they would treat m > I met most oi them In passing along the streets anti without a single exception I I was not only greeted kindly but even coruialiy ants was so pressed by onea leading Mormon tliat I accepted his invitation to take supper nt his house on the same evening that I delivered my lecture After the lecture I noticed that Mr Carroll seemed very anxious to get away from me not that I had ram anything to offend him on the contrary 1 have now in my possession pos-session a letter of his written to Mr I HOT praising my lecture very high lybut he was a stranger in Utah and believed somewhat In the tales of horror that he had heard Next morning on calling at his house I 1 found that hit wife 1 a pleasant lady had been so tcrrifl l for her hus band simply because he was in my comciny thai she was unable to leave her bed So far as I was concerned I had to walk to my lodgings through the dark streets alonebut I had no fear nnd receIved no molestation of any kind From Ogden I Went to Provo lecturing against Mormonism iu tho Methodist Church there I stayed with Ute minister who however how-ever could not find rao bleeping 2n nccomnSodatlons so 1 had to sleep lu the vestry of the church nil alone The church stood by itself n1 nu n u n uu Co un DOUt IIUt nothing molested me From Irovo I went to Mount Pleasant where I met the ReP T U Franklin In Mount Pleaxiut 1 spoke fourteen times havlnga large number of Mormons U every meetIng I walked about Mount Pleasant al all hours was over and over again acCOted by Mormons singly and in groups who asked men me-n question but 1 never re calved even an unkind ul look 1uringmystaywithMr Franklin we together vi ited several plnce Ivphralm Spring City etc having In some cases to take II lonely Jour ney over the mountains Ve saucer took any precautions nor Jcver any weapons although we were both cx MormonB aud hid heard all tho e talcs of horror got up to tickle the cars of eastern ieopte anti cause them to donate liberally for mIssion iry purposes 1 want to close my letter by cOemy leter gIving myIrenco In Spring City gTlng young ladies teachers In a Preshy brian Khool there having heard me speak In Mount Pleasant were very anxious for me to come Wer and talk In Spring City Jiut there was only ontf hall there suitable for bo tbepurpososand It was used by the us tu Mormons for their meeting house on Sundays and during the week it was used as a court house under the control of the mayor who 1m Mormon ThesetwoyonnEJadics induced yonng Indie Induc the postmaster an ux Mormon to apply to the mayor e for the use cf the lull It was granted readily and Ii FranVlln anu myself duly attended to deliver the lecture but to found It bt our surprise we occupied by Bro B IL Roberts who had been n Invited bv the bishop to come and lecture that rl on evening The I postmasterwas furious and wanted to go to the mayor in a great passion I rea < ne1 with him pion said that not the very know likely anything Usa bishop about did arrangement with the Mayor and that we would go away and circumstance come again tho next evening This crItance made my lecture I widely known and when MrFrank l iii 3dt thehall I againcamo prepared IS and MrFrnk City wo thng In readiness The every buIlding was filled Ly ormol Ildlnl gentile was present except JMr Franklin the Postmaster his wife the two = presbyterian girli s elf I prbyrian girls and roy sl Ispoke for over nlnet minutes Dnd mlnutS X iT the best of attention ota hand orafeotor tot or n sound of any kind marred the fU t lho mt mr harmony of At tng the close I gathered up my books cO made Were ogether for fhm my door companions As we wtre ppeared going out we found wbnt I to us to Ito the whole t ongregation grithiered around thu tl li t t door Ina body As we approached I they respectfully divided and allowed the C lowed us to pass And here again I lowo t gn thcrewas not the slightest movement move-ment or attempt at rudeness Vie accompanied the young ladies to thei home H onestory cottage Abed A-bed had been prepared for Mr Franklin and myself In one of the nJ parlors We slept with the window pwr epednnddurlng the night I got up tdhJ g and found front door openWith tho key on the ouUIde I would not have troubled you with this letterlf the facts contained In I could not be corroborated by other witnesses besides myself and did It not prove beyond all question hat there Is not on the face of the earth another form ofwonhlp besides has Ides Momionisni that cither or could tolerate E many cruel and n also ntmct accusations and show s little As for the statement that Mormons Mor-mons are not loyal to the American Ameri-can Government why In England many of the Elders all of whom have gone thiough the Endowment Hou or Temple give ottcnse because be-cause they are so Intensely American Ameri-can Yours respectfully SCOTT AXPEitisoj |