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Show ' V ' ? "f 1 TRUTH. I Her purpose I giving these lectures is to place be-- f jn true facts of this i(fte the public the great musicians life, and thereby place do ; fL public in a better position toMrs. instice to this great master. I modes will be the guest of the Home and Education and Music sections of I the Ladies Literary club while in this &lB ! works is far spread. 1 - 1 .'I i.S club will meet Mon-- i will be in day next. The programme Charles M. Woodruff, oharge of Mrs. e the paper for the day will be a by Fireside Sphinx, D. Moore. C. ,s. The Reviewers re-th- ! I jt j t Browning section of the L. L. Gor-- $ will be the guests of Mrs. will be ham Saturday. The programme Miss Dukes n charge of Miss Dukes. "Autobiographithe subject jas for her of Browning. cal Poems jt Jit section The Home and Educational after- i of the L. L. C. will meet Monday oclock. The main topic for of the Clark the day will be a report a of election an ecture, after which will be deers for the ensuing year noon at 4 of--.- ji Tourists The regular meeting of the morning, at jrill be held Tuesday will give hich time Mrs. E.D. Miller and the Mount Blanc t paper on The chairman, Valley Chamorix. a full atdesires irs W. E. Whitney, chair- tendance of all members as the electbe man for the ensuing year will ed at this meeting. , JH JH Current The regular meeting of the sec- Events and Current Literature tions will hold their regular meeting Mrs. next Friday. At this meeting brie! review of the Teyser will give a be works of congress, which will Norris by a paper on Frank attendbook, The Pit. A full Miss ance is desired by the chairman, officers for t Paul, as the election of held. nsuing year will then be s .echo back the sound of his voice as he meaning old gentleman had a record calls sinners to repentance and in- behind him in Ohio where he was vites the ransomed to drop something charged in the public prints with bein the basket when it passes 'them. ing immoral; with being a gay old Where he can walk up and down on boy himself with an eye to the plumpthe platform erected under the shade est of the lady members of his flock of the grand old trees and invoke and that he had not denied it, and the power from on high and by the could not. shaking of his mane and the thunders Prior to the coming of this great of his enunciation; by the awful de- and good man we had the Rev. W. scriptions of the land where they dont D. Mabry, another chap who fired volhave any use for snow shovels, can leys constantly at the social evil and scare folks on to the anxious seat. deprecated the conditions that perThat is the only way Leilich can ever mitted a maison de joie to exist within achieve success. For with him God a block of his pulpit. This healthy, is not a Being of Love, but a terrible well-fed- , educated keeper of the lambs creature who spouts wrath, fire, blood, was arrested for violating the statute with a notorious woman right in his brimstone, hell, damnation, burning study in the church, where he was lake, worm dieth not, sheep and goats, caught en flagrante delicto. world without end. Leilich doesnt Hermanns, Francis Hermanns, the believe in leading sinners to the foot seducer of the two girls he ravished of the cross; he wants to chase them and, when he had tired of them, he killed, and cremated their bodies in there at the point of a pike. the furnace in his church, was also a The Methodist church has been un- Methodist. He was ust about the fortunate in its pastors here. Just dearest ever, too. He was attractive; witness his and popular. He before Leilich came with his wasnt a hellsuccess, fire minister, either, so bludgeon, with which he knocked out they say, but one of these many a good and well meaning minboys who to come coaxed and be people just man Albritton had told us ister, this. When redeemed. them saved he had what a wicked mess we were and how at least the female portion he took we would doubtless dance forever and them to the basement, outraged them forever on the red hot fiery fur- and then burned their bodies. Iliff, the brigadier general of all the nace beyond. He raged and mission forces here was never detectranted, and ripped and tore, and shook ed in any overt acts, except when he his raven locks at us for permitting stole an address bodily and palmed it the scarlet women to live on the face off as his ownest own in pamphlet of the earth and for allowing the high- form and in the papers, but, oh, wasnt a storm starter? How the old man ball dispenser to eat or sleep, and he could declaim against unholy alliances then came the sudden shock to our to be sure. He was without doubt nerves that this gocd, pious, well the greatest Mormon eater who ever METHODIST MINISTERS. t It seems too bad, but nevertheless 1 : is a fact that the Methodist Episco-y church has had a run of hard luck e this state, since it first began its r n orts to establish its missions in s of Utah. Leilich is the last of a chain it arsons who have come here to snatch is .rands from the burning and even he 28 'ill: doubtless be sent away from If know nong us and the places that lg ' .m this date will know him no more 3B a irever. Reverend Leilich was such LS. h- ,ice man, too. He had such a rich, et resonant voice; such a ponderous VISIT OUR NEW AND MAGNIFICENT e I " ID) .y-Light- 90 tie in- - such R.eady-to-We- ar of-- .. ri- ib- - th la es. IW ise do' alt Garment Department y; a manner of com-n- g into your office on his pastoral alls; such a all - wool - and - a - ay' ed ; way of opening conversation; such a bluff and hear-- t method of telling you just what you thould do and' that he expected you do it; such an unctious, oily, smooth ibit of talking to you, until you were If convinced he was about right; Hetimes. But it is written that he xuld go, and go he doubtless will. Vis too good a fellow for this betted, land. His field Is in a camp can meeting district, where the rocks artificial light here, but a con- stant stream of daylight making mistakes in the selection of colors and materials impossibla ... We will celebrate the advent of thtg new acquisition by special y y No ' f J i I n g Congre-gationalis- ts o I 4 PRICE MAKING THAT WILL ASTONISH YOU. fTTTTTTTTTTTTTITfTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTlTTTTTfTTTTnTTTTyTTTffTTTTTTyiTTTTTTffTTyTTTTfTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT to Has Valuable Biblical Curios. The Rev. J. W. McGarvey, president of the Kentucky university; has one of the largest and most valuable collections of biblical curios possessed by any one person in this country. ra. ind ind , Hi 1 im-Dress- ed God-fearin- - per-onalit- anti-Mormo- vl -- S . came down the pike. To defeat a Mormon for office; to do something to cause a Mormon political or religious discomfort was lliffs long suit. He didnt stop short at the means employed either. He doubtless believed the end justified everything and that the Divinity which shapes our ends had left them for his especial use, for he would strike hands with a faro dealer, shake with a stud game booster or join paddies and circle to the left with the keeper of the lowest dive in town, so long as he was sure they, too, were engaged in the work of the Master, I. e., would vote the ticket. Then there were others in the country districts who had a poor idea of meum and teum and left In disgrace with goodly sums of other peoples money. With the record made by some of the ministers, is it little wonder that the Methodists here have reason to feel discouraged? Because, though established here for the purpose of reclaiming the lost meaning those who have united with the Mormon church instances of Mormons being .with the doctrines peculiar to Methodism are rare, indeed. By reason of the methods which have been employed and the men sent to it is. no wonder that successespreach have been few. The church has not thriven; it could not with' such men as have been mentioned to carry the glad tidings. Instead of trying to win converts with kind words, they have declaimed against the as being the scum of the earth people and the elected victims of the Prince of Darkness. In lieu of endeavoring to correct errors, in the creed taught by the dominant church here, members thereof have been told their religion was diabolical. No wonder the Methodist church has had but little success; that .the Mormons have declined to listen to the teachers sent here. Let those who have the Interest of this religious society which thrives in other places say to those In We want no more Leilichs;'authority: we want no more Iliffs; we want no more Mabry s. Send us some good men; men who will preach the Gospel of Christ and Him crucified; some men who will endeavor to win souls instead of catching them in bear traps and then scourging them Into coming to the mourners bench. Then, perhaps, the Methodist church will hold its own here. It seems as if the heads of the Methodist church in the east used Utah as a dumping ground for preach- ers whom they wanted to get rid of. Any kind of a scrub they thought was good enough to send out among the benighted Mormons. If the authorities would send decent men, with sense and some religion, could do good here. In fairness tothey the many pious. men and women in Utah, who belong to the Methodist church, they should stop sending their outcasts into this corner of the vineyard ; preachers who constantly and continually bring disgrace on the church to which they belong and whose sole I idea seems to be to make records as Mormon baiters. The other churches have shown much more discrimination in the quality of their nfinisters than the Methodists. The Presbyterian preachers, as a rule, have been men of high character and good motives. The same may be said of the and the Baptists and particularly so of the Episcopalians and the Catholics. The latter two denominations also possess that excellent trait of minding their own business and not speaking ill of their neighbors. jf i! f -- |