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Show ' ( ; ft ( L,' J - 1 2 L- -' t get ever11 VOL. II. an hue Ifis ontj gife, anti get every $gotnan havener own gusbaitd. I or. 7: 2. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY, 1881. NO. 2. PEICE 10 CENTS. many intelligent people is simply as- Mormon missionaries, who were then broken-hearte- d parents who loved her in He audience. said he It knew seems so almost She said she should pray my tounding! impossible dearly? enwere is He real they to make them see that there was so for them, and she believed that they, good men. BY JANE G. AUSTIN. I thusiastic the and in was to vehement nation Mormonism. that danger, too, would soon embrace the Mormon . First is a box- of Eastern wood, relifor astonisha from in h'ave time of read faith. Later, when in a room alone speechless They may history Most rare and quaintly wrought, I asked him how, he knew they with her, I said: gious fanaticism, and the bloody wars ment. 'With all the rich and strange device it has caused, but they do not realize were good men? Gertrude, what reason do you Of wild, barbaric thought. He said, By the way they talk. that Mormonism contains all the elethink I have for talking to you as I I told him that hypocrites and fana- am doing? Do I not seem sincere and ments for producing such a conflict. An arabesque of bird and beast, tics may talk well that he must not truthful; and to you not feel that what And tropic leaves and flowers, They know that the issue of a contest for a the Presidency may depend upon judge people by what they say alone. I have said comes from my heart? With inlaid work whose every inch She replied: Has cost the toil of hours. single vote, but they seem not to re- I also said to him that I was born and Yes, you, do seem member that with Utah admitted as a reared in Mormonism, and had had sincere ; but you know hovv I. have Enshrined within this casket rare, State the Mormon Church may hold full opportunity to see its baneful re- been taught by the Mormons to regard And bathed in its perfume, the decisive vote, and may demand and sults; that my knowledge came through you. They told me that you were an Guarded with jealous, tender care, obtain , as the price of that vote, privi- terrible suffering, while he had but the ambitious, dissatisfied woman, who The treasures that I love find room. leges which would add tenfold to its word of those men from which to form was only seeking notoriety. imI it He conclusions. for mischief.' said be would I asked; am that Do you still bewood sacred power glad Well, whose A little cross, for me his to of has so Governor the Utah I taken faith, lieve that do look or act like such a possible destroy Upon the Mount of Olives grew and he his that and and all a the Governor that brave stand, family were woman and will you not have faith That holy ground where Jesus stood, of Idaho has sounded the note of soon going to Utah. in my sincerity, at least? And left a glory ever new. I We the and fears know about are that their alarm. She put her arms around my neck, matter, inquired A pretty toy from far Ceylon, not groundless. Besides the Territories found that his statements were true. I and said: I will, Mrs. Young. I am and of land uniThe gems in which the Mormons already hold was told that the family had been pearls sure you are a true woman, and have flowers, the balance of political power, accord- versally respected before their conver- spoken only for my good ; but if an is thrown waste as sands whose Upon ing to present appearances, it will not sion to Mormonism, and that the peo- angel from Heaven should come and of own. our What make the treasures be long before Colorado, Nevada, and ple of Canton felt great regret at their tell me that .Mormonism was not true, perhaps Oregon will be in like condi- course. This lad was as bright, intel- I could not believe him until I had A heart enwove of silken hair You cannot repeat these facts ligent and handsome a boy as any gone there and tried it for myself. tion. Beneath a brighter sky than ours ; too often, nor with too great emphasis. mother ever need wish for, and it made I said: Yours is a hopeless case, For while I kiss it, lingers there future his ache of do heart who to those think And for the not care I fear and my nothing but the sorrow that The perflume of the tropic flowers. balance of political power may be under Mormon influences. is in store for you will open your I found an intelligent and well eduaroused by calling attention to the fact Some letters with a ribbon bound, eyei. Whose meaning tender, sweet and that the fairest and richest valleys and cated lady, a teacher in a public school These instances show that it is not firm ..belief her avowed best townsites the .are taken from true, up inIojwa, whp being among the ignorant.and degraded It often hap- in the Mormon doctrines. alone that Mormon converts are made' by Mormon colonies. May not by alien eye be found, But lies between the lines, perdu ! But the case which touched me most as is the prevailing belief in the Genpens that the Mormons control the in all the of not at interests schools, of all was that of a young girl in B , tile world, but that cultured, intelligent And this the perfumed box enfolds She was sent to Utah by people can be deluded. It would seem Colorado. good education, as we all know. A treasure prized all these above Morfact The that a family will have her parents for the benefit of her health, that belief in any false doctrine does Above all blessings, for it holds be will mon no in the summer of 1 879- She spent but not necessarily depend upon ignorance, neighbors, certainly The subtle proof and sign of love. inducement toward their Settling in two weeks in Salt Lake City, but was but rather on peculiar organizations unfortunate enough to be taken to which are easily fascinated by the idea And when I die let that and these any place. is it in But not only the Far West board at the house of Claudius Spencer, of direct communication with Heaven. Within my grave be buried deep, is at work, where she met Elder Penrose. What Their readiness to life Mormonism that in I That what loved Polygamic may please accept everything And sooth me in my endless sleep. and at work successfully. It is not too black arts they used to pervert and marvellous make them willing to remuch to say that no place, no home is fascinate her young mind, I cannot ceive as a Divine revelation and a safe from its attack. conceive, but she returned to her home modern miracle the story of the Golden Letter From Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, It should not be forgotten that Mor- not only a baptized convert, but deter- Plates, and to believe in the prophetic monism originated in Central New mined to go back to Utah and there power, of Joseph Smith, Brigham 1 Battle Creek, Mich York, among people whose religious spend her life. Her parents were hor- Young and John Taylor. However dculture was of the highest kind. It is rified to learn the change that had this may be, Mormon missionaries are ) April 3d, 88 For the last seven years all the well known that the Mormon mission- come over their daughter. From being at work and Mormon converts are aries are reaping rich harvests in the an innocent, girl, she had being made all over the country, North, strength which I possess, of mind and Southern In States. alone docof in the come to horrible believe work Georgia the to South, East and West. body, has been devoted of hundreds been have converts In Covington, Ind., where I lectured trines of Mormon polygamy. She cardirecting the attention of the people of many Coland made and to Utah ried on a secret correspondence with not long ago, there are tvVo Mormon dispatched the United States to the evils and danin From one orado. notwithAnd Kentucky the place Penrose, which they missionaries who have been there for' gers of Mormonism. forwarded were to and discovered. encour the all proselytes twenty accidentally sympathy They ascer- two or three years proselyting. They standing is It a short last Utah tained that he had asked her to be are constantly making converts in the spring. only agement I have received though I a since of were time number converts sealed to him as a plural wife, while surrounding country, and have estabhave made many friends, though thouin the of made Oberlin, she was fti Utah, and now was urging lished quite a church about three miles first curious to neighborhood sands who were at only shadow of her by letter to return and make her from the town. They work very quiet see me, have become deeply interested Ohio, almost within the known well influential and that home at his house. The intense grief ly, and until my lecture was advertised widely in the subject of which I speak yet Christian and strong opposition of her parents, there no one knew much about it, or College. there is so much indifference, so much In one caused her to postpone for some had thought of any danger connected Northern are so 'much inertia that converts , Michigan ignorance, often becomes discouraged and heart- being constantly made, and I was told months her departure for Utah, but with what they were doing. Themis sick. only a few weeks ago that polygamy her determination remained unchanged. sionaries, with quite a number of their field so powerful and was practiced by them there, one man This girls father was a lawyer, herself converts were in my audience, but of To see in the having at least six wives. My inform- a teacher, one who had been tenderly course they said my statements were intelligent a force as the Standard, is a source of great gratifi- ant claimed to have boarded in a Mor- nurtured, and whose mental strength untrue and not worthy of attention. The only mon family where the man had two seemed more than the average.- She But in spite of all these discouragecation and encouragement. this of and successful which was a fairly wives. ments there is abundant ground for the people means by writer, At the close of my lecture at Canton, modest and womanly in her demeanor, hope. From year to year, and espe country can be roused from their apathy, is by telling them the truth , 111., a lad of sixteen came behind the I went to the place to lecture last sum- - cially during the last two or three with a clear, emphatic voice. The scenes and introduced himself to me. mer, and the mother, whose health years, I have found a growing interest Standard not only tells the truth, but He was so bright, intelligent and well was utterly broken by her grief, sent in the subject. The questions asked tells it cleary, with no uncertain sound, informed that he seemed much more the young ladys aunt and her father me are more intelligent than formerly, and I feel sure that it will arouse the like a grown man than a young boy. to ask me to call upon her and try to and many ask with sincerity, What I went, and for can we do to rescue the victims of men and women of this country to take He expressed his sorrow at hearing me save their daughter. a decided stand against what is y speak so harshly of Mormonism, and several hours, with most intense feel- Mormonism and destroy its power? If those who are active in the conits greatest shame, and, as I fully be- said he hoped I would see the error of ing, I talked with her, but she seemed influflict will only be united if they will intrenched against every possible lieve, its greatest danger. my way before it was too late. hisMormon-isI her in asked Are you a ence, After telling To those who know what encourage each other and work to- .my own surprise, is what its designs are and what Mormon? tory and of the pain and sorrow I had gether, they must ere long win a deci-see- n He replied that he was, and that his it will soon be able to accomplish the polygamy bring to women, I sive victory. Mrs. Ann Eliza Young. indifference to the subject shown, by so parents had recently been converted by asked her how she could leave her A Girl Treasnres. - , ' , i - 1 - pure-minde- d high-minde- d ; j Anti-Polygam- y - ( to-da- m . , |