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Show taj1 "ira Jf EDITORIALS. "Jj MORMONISM SPREADING. I Thn Xolli)wln nillrli- under the heading: "Mornionlsin niirenilliig rnp- lilly In Chicago," recently uppeaiod In tho Ohlcagii Trlmni: ".Mornionlsin l spreading rupldly In Chicago. Within tho Inst three yearn. 'or since tho church wnH o&tabllMii'd 1 In Its pcriniinont homo nt Paulina and IWcHt Monroi strootH, Us nctlvi' mora- horshlp linn Incivnseil Bt) per cent j This Increase, gloat as It Is, doe not represent the growing strength of the church, for tho retimni that luuidivdH 'mill evon thousands of those who listen to the Mormon teachings wlU- lngly nccept some. If not nil. of t'-ie doctrines of tho cliuirh To openly announce conversion to thn liellpfs of the rliurrh Involves thn tlsk of mtni- clsm by former friends and nelghboi , and' for tlint reason the majority of thote v.U lean to the tcur-hlng of the Mnimott eldem mill mlsblounrleH prefer to lmo their rliango of rellgl- 'oils sentiment i-emaln u secret until they enn moo Into n new community or perhaps to Utah. "Thi1 .Mormons In Chicago rnrry on ,a continual and nggrosslvo campnlgti .of edneatlon Tholr elders nnd nils- IkIoiiihIoh never nro Idle, and as n roil- cit)te result of their activities It may be pointed out that 1,131 copies of the Hook of Mormon wore sold from tho Chicago mission during tho month of I Juno of this year. It Is saTo to wiy that no church or denomination In thn state, Protestant or Catholic, saw that many new billies distributed among Its members In tho same length of tlmo. Within the Inst two ycniu the Chicago mission of the Mormon I church has sold 47,000 copies of tho i Book of Mormon. Tho book Is printed on vxnenslvo nnner nnd contains 010 lunges of reading matter. Besides , these books thoro linvo been sold 70.-! ,000 other books treating of Mormon-, lam. More than a million booklets 'nvernglng thirty-two pages one It, nnd twice that number of pamphlets nnd tracts have been distributed. "In the same length of tlmo 11.87G Chicago families linvo been visited by the Mormon missionaries Of these, (0,733 families were revisited. Tho tnlsslonnrles spout 22,131 hours In Htreot pronrhlng nnd gospel conversation, conversa-tion, und ns u rosult of this they had ' 151,000 earnest Inquiries nbout the (hurch and their work In the Chicago Chi-cago church there wero 1,102 meetings Inst yenr. nnd soveral hundred chll-j dren were baptized In tho faith All of these figures wore supplied by ho! Mormon elder In Chicago nnd may be; accepted, therefore, ns an accurate statistical extent of Mormontsm In this city. "The Mormons, to the average mind, are Indelibly associated with polygamy, polyg-amy, and tho Ilrst questions asked of them always nro with reference lo this subject. And tho astonishing fact Is that tho Mormons of Chicago, llko the Mormons of Utah, bellovo In polygamy. po-lygamy. They do not practlco It, and they do not prench It and they1 do not sanction It, but they do believe In It nnd thoy nlwuys nro ready to defend tholr polygamous beliefs be-liefs with arguments." |