| Show IN DEFENSE OF UTAH'S SCHOOLS Teachers Invited to Pass Judgment i on Their r f r One of the most popular of the publications of the Woman's Board of Missions of the church in the United the office of which is New York is a tract entitled Day-Schools Among the Originally published in it has passed through successive is now extensively circulated throughout this and foreign countries in behalf of the Presbyterian schools in this We publish this pamphlet in full in another and we commend a careful reading of it to the teachers in the public schools of this To says the opening sentence of this precious necessity for these Mission one needs to bear in mind that ism is antagonistic to American institutions and that scripture is and given a sinister making the very Bible teach a that there are many towns in Utah with a population from to 1400 where the Truth has never been Not a Question of With the theology of the and whether the Mormons or the Presbyterians it the Independent has little concern and does not even profess to be competent to But as to whether the Truth is taught in the public schools and by the public school teachers of paper is competent and fully able to and is willing to pass its judgment upon this question before every sane man or and especially before that clean-minded and body of public school teachers iu who will assemble next week an Salt Lake City under the auspices of the Utah Teachers A Fair Test Wo ask the Presbyterians of this city to attend the meetings of this great body of progressive and well trained teachers iu the Utah schools to hear the note the high character of the and then judge or not the pamphlet so assiduously circulated by the Presbyterian Woman's Board of Homo Missions is or whether it is not to be classed among the most diabolical infamies that a diseased brain could conceive or that intelligent people could Wo ask every teacher in the State of Utah to pass mental judgment on this statement from page of the Home Mission Monthly for child of the rankest Mormon may take in the whole public school system of and yet be no hotter than his father has Teachers of this can mean only one of two things either that your teaching quality is worthless for or that child of the rankest Is about like the child of any other The latter of the but the inference intended is that the public schools of Utah are worthless as agencies of truth and But Go A Little the above quotation may not seem so bad as it really till we know what precedes it and who is the author of before the paragraph quoted is one has said that with one Mormonism is the most and difficult problem in the May bo All the greater the need for and God-fearing loyalty in order-to expose this awful system fully described in 2 Referring to this New Testament quotation we know also that in the last days perilous times shall For men shall be lovers of their own disobedient to without natural false of them that are lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of Having a form of but denying the power thereof from such turn For of this sort are they which creep into and lead silly women laden with led away with divers Who Is Slandered Having thus described the fathers of Mormon the article quoted from next as we have that the public schools of Utah are powerless to redeem child of the rankest from this condition of hopeless depravity attributed to their This is a not of the but of the magnificent public school system of the State and of the thousands of progressive and educated teachers as to the authorship and authority of the passages here it is Robert M. superintendent of the Presbyterian Mission Schools to Save train the children of Mormons and fit them for American citizenship is the loud call to our Boards says the same on the same Teachers of what do you think of if this statement is On the first page of the same issue we find this are public schools in but the Mormons dominate all appointments in these and have made them both openly and indirectly to the propagation of their The same may be to the State In the Teachers' Association now about to assemble in this are teachers from every county and from almost every school district in the A great many of them are many of whom were appointed by trustees in school districts composed almost exclusively of Every one of them Continued on page IN DEFENSE OF UTAH'S SCHOOLS from page knows how untrue are the statements contained in the paragraph just but we desire to leave entirely to the and in the University of Utah and in the Agricultural the privilege of making any kind of answer that they individually or collectively feel to the following gems from page of the same About the your children to the State I hear some one I know of a sad-hearted father who tried that with his daughter and now she is a Mormon and the wife of a and is dead to A mother said to mie a few days did we ever bring our children to this That mother trembles for her sons and because they are necessarily thrown into association with Mormon young I met a father the other a Presbyterian who told me that every one of his sons had married Mormon There were no other women about for them to A Christian college is an Manifestly Christian education is essential in and as manifestly such institutions should not only be but and to sustain them funds are The Motive For It is the last part of the last sentence only that reveals the meaning of and the motive behind all this diabolical about the public schools of As we said we refrain We propose to let any teacher speak out who may desire to do If words fail the teachers in the face of such monstrous effusions of slanderous then who become somewhat inured to such will say something further about this particular phase of them in the |
