Show elwe copy the following follow ing from the semiweekly journal printed at galvestor texas I 1 J ane matri 1 A MORMON PREACHER seth N salt La lake keho who holda the distill di distinguished stirl position of united states attorney for I 1 utah arrived in our oar city by the steamer charles morgan reis he is an elder in the mormon church and purposes discoursing to our citizens on the tenets of u thab religion elder blair blai ir resided in texas in revolutionary times i a ud and did our state some service 11 in in I 1 7 he formerly belonged longed Tae Ve 11 tor to the me theodist denomination denominate i on but became donvin 1 1 ced in his mind that Af mormonism Mir formon monism ism was the chaj 1 1 true doctrine and has since as chiq hia talents i entitled him because I 1 one of the ex of that singular faith we may not believe beli eye I 1 but we have no fears in listening to arguments which are novel antly i logi logical cald and to perhaps the ablest theologians unanswerable ans as long as as the literal language lan gaage of the scripture is taken as a guide we IV 1 I 1 I 1 have found but few better biblical scholars than some of these mormon preachers and they ch bring any amount of s scripture crip i ture proof to justify what we cons consider ider themas the most obnoxious feature in their church chur c h relations re la t j on 8 polygamy the ladies of course will not I 1 countenance the doctrine and men are not no t all solomons nowadays now a days but still curiosity will vi many aty to listen elder blair holds forth for th at the lyceum tonight to night |