Show METHODISTS MAKE FIERY r REPORT ON POL I I ti If I f ii BiShop Fowler Denounces Mormonism and Declares J that Utah Must Be Redeemed t j i 1 W Would ul Blow BIOw the Head Hea Off Saints O il i Discuss the Roberts Case case t j upon Mormonism was continued continue in the Methodist mission yes yesterday es esterday The report of the committee on the state of affairs in Utah was de devoted devoted voted largely to a review of the B H Roberts case and to a denunciation of the evils QC pf polygamy The prosecuting attorneys and the church in general carne came in for condemnation condemnation nation and criticism This report was supplemented by an address upon the same subject by Bishop Fowler who w was s not at all sparing in his denunciation elation of the eviL The work of the mission closed with the session of yesterday afternoon with the exception of the announcement of the appointments of ministers for the corning coming year This will be done at the meeting in the lUff Iliff church this even evening evening ing At the morning session the devotional exercises were conducted b by the Rev G E Jayne The mission was called calle to order b by Bishop Fowler and the re reports reports ports of the various committees were presented and acted u upon on A thorough i investigation was made into the edu educational educational work in Utah by Bishop Fowl Fowler er and Dr Carroll the mission join in inn heartily in the discussion that fol followed followed lowed Bishop Fowlers sentiment was for Cor haying having a teacher and a deaconess at every possible poInt with a visiting pastor as often as possible The Re Rev E G Hunt the Re Rev T C Iliff and the Rev A H EL Henry were sion showed increased missionary and 11 t church extension collections The In increase 1 crease in membership was l 16 per cent I I against 10 per cent for the previous I I i year This closed the business ef the If I mIssIon except the announcement of I t the appointment of minIsters for the coming year ear J The report of the committee on tem tam It j perance saId in part I H The lIquor traffic is still a menace i to the American home and to Amen Ameri American can cIvilization Locally we note with alarm that tha the liquor traffic is en i trenching Itself more and more t lY it ii jL The The committee emphasized the desire fl i for the passage of local option laws Jas and n t commended the action or of th the common it t schools in the teaching of the effects f I 1 1 of alcohol on the system Churches and I j Sunda Sunday schools should give instruction h i 1 along the he same ame lines The report closed I J i j f b by sa saying In g it I The saloon power in Utah Is a pow j i i iii 1 1 er that we must meet and we ask from j I our temperance organizations and from fi I 1 the league and from aU all f i citizens heart hearty i to I I tion in the eternal and I J ing warfare against the evil j Church Extension i I I IThe I IThe The committee on church extension I reported that by br the aid or of the board of church extension one church churches es had been established In Utah and I 1 1 t had been paid in fees These 1 churches had received from the board ri i in loans and donations f i and it was thought that In the coming cominS i n year all the churches in debt to the 1 l board of church extension could by the aId of oC the Twentieth century fund pay payoff Ii off aU all their indebtedness This commit committee tee adopted a resolution thanking Dr I ot J M lf King for his address on thiB th sub 2 1 r II II i iThe The committee on Sabbath observance ance reported that with great regret they found the Sabbath in Utah sunk 1 I Ito to the level of the ordinary week da days s They thought the blame for this con i ii could properly be laid upon the I I dominant church because it has the majority of the voting yoting population and M 4 has the power because of this to enact laws Jaws The other churches are n not t MId hd i entirely blameless in this matter by the t H committee The committee recommend i ird I rd that all church members work fO fei i ird 4 i ithe the enactment and enforcement of cor correct f laws and ordinances for the proper n I f seM of t the e tt Polygamy in Utah t r r The re report Ort of thi the co committee on ert Ute the 1 state of affairs in Utah was as devoted t largely to a discussion of the Roberts fl case and J polygamy After setting forth orth J the condItIons under which the minis tern were called to labor their povertY t J their anxiety to get aWay to save sae their jf i children from th h influences around them the difficulty to stem the 1 i tide the strongest orga Iza II I f tion on this continent and the j l culty of oC keeping the people spiritual j I after they are brought into the church t the report goes on to say f t I Since our last annual meeting the case of B H Roberts the polygamous I I from Utah has been n J i I prominently before the whole country l land and was effectively disposed of by the i body to which he Was elected The Ii i superintendent of this mission alon along Hi with leaders of sister denominations i iare are to he be congratulated on the success l attending their labors in behalf of the true Christian home borne It is safe to pre tj t dict that no polygamist will soon again seek to dev defy the Christian sentiment JI j 1 of this wh whole le republic Iii f nIt It has been constantly affirmed In tl t Utah and elsewhere that our tl I 11 and other workers opposed the fi t seating of Mr Roberts on the ground i of his reli religious faith or because he q l I I Iwas was as a Mormon We continue to affirm i that nothing is farther Carther from the truth i The sole ground of our opposition was i i i the practice of polygamy and we shall i t continue to oppose the teaching pre J railing so un universally in this region i J 1 viz that polygamy consists alone in inthe inthe the taking of tie new wives that a man t may live with an any number of wives sealed to him before the manifesto and I t i Continued on page 7 i i a committee to look toward a summer assembly for educational and religious ous purposes Bishop Fowlers Vigorous Langu ge Bishop Fowler spoke briefly in de of conditions in Utah If I had the means to conduct the work in Utah he said I would put a mis missionary a school and a deaconess in every town in the state Ye We must re deem Utah It If we get these Mormon children to think we can blow the top off their organza uon ti on Weve got to stir sUr up this ants nest kick the top off and capture some of the ants before they get housed again An awful crime has settled down upon this it was conce conceived ed in sin I dont believe In po Iy amy but polygamy is the whitest bird in the infernal nest All the other thin are so much blacker that amy looks white Continuing Bishop Fowler said The Mormons get most of theIr converts from the lower Class classes es of England and Wales The They go to the stables and the kitchens and preach faith repentance baptism antI the he laying on of hands The They tell their VIctims that the church churchwill will h r ay to Utah and provide them with when they get there If af after er they get here they walk so as not to offend the ward spy or the lit little littie tie tle bishop the debt incurred in bring Ing them over is forgiven but If a kick is madea made against the the money is demanded uC of nem together with ma many otier tl things The he statistIcs i tit to the mis I I MAKE FIERY fR POL GAM page 1 1 yet be t of the law against adultery 5 Docte Doctrine Still Lives We see no evidence about us that the doctrine of polygamy has ceased tat to be taught and lived as an artcle article of faith in fact the evidences about about us rather point to resuming of the old relations and to those relations honorable courts of record show that within te the past year many have been tried for with plural wives but always on the charge of unlawful coh which is a and not for adultery whIch is a crime No case for adultery has been prole and a cOnviction secured so far faras faras as we can learn We give the names of a few prominent cases which have been up fr for trial since our last meet Ing Apostle Heber J 1 Grant for l li wih with Emily Wels Wells Pleaded guilty fined 00 Angus M Cann Cannon n president Sal Salt Lake Stake of Zion for or living with wih Matte Mattie Hughes Hugh s i senator plead pleaded ed guilty fIned i The fine was paid by public JOseph E TaYlor first counselor to Angus Cannon for living wit with Clara Bailey alas alias Green alas alias Taylor Tay lor br refused to obey law found guilty and fined 50 S Brigham H Roberts one of the first seven ts of seventies ber of congress for living with Mag gie Shipp Pleaded Plead d not guilty but found gity guilty by jury on his own re request request quest and fined Appeal said to be pending but not yet perfected John C Graham elder in Mormon church federal postmaster at Provo Prove edior editor etc for living wih with Sarah Pot ter Pleaded not guilty jurY trial rial verdict guilty fined 50 Charles Kele Kelley president Box Elder lder Stake pleaded gui guilty c fined 5 50 I i iCharles Charles Merri Merrill sn son of Apostle Mer Merrl rl nh Cache county pJ gi guilty 50 Pau F Richfield guilty and many other cases Blames Prosecuting Attorneys Tese These are not obscure p people pt living j jin in obscure places b but apostles dents of president presidents ol of stakes and their counselors editors and corn com common mon bishops Thee These are not rumors or idle tales but from our court records And it if this is what the l lead leaders ers are doing what abut about the rank and fe We cal call your attention to another significant fact that the initiative In Inal al all these cases was not ot taken by the several attorneys in the distrIcts Prue rue enough some of them dId l of these eases i but the evidence was collected b by an outsider and placed in the prosecuting attorneys hands and the complaint to and al all the cases pushed by an another lher tan than resident authorities In many cases the prosecuting at attorneys torne s have refused to act on the evi ei dence d nce of the complaInt complaints They them themselves s selves become judges or of the evidence As soon as thIs outside force is re re removed moved tere there is absolutely nothing done to o punish this cass class of law brek break breakers ers Those who ar holding offices art are placed there by the suffrage of te thc people who belev believe arid and teach that te thE breaking of the laws has divine sane sanc tion Of course the law must and I remain inoperative unless some power wi outside of Uth Utah is Invoked for is its en Amendment Amendment We are urgent in recommending the membership of our church and al al 1 others to help forward in every way wa r the adoption and to the flu S constitution of te the United States de defining fining and and prohibiting polygamy in al al I our domain Wre We beleve believe i it to be the th only method to reach the seat of this crime and furnish an effective remedy r for It It Some former teachings of the dom dominant dominant church in Utah are undergoing radical changes One of these is that tha t of the gathering to Zion Since the th beginning of the church the teaching has been to gather the elect together This it is that has brought converts to Utah from nearly every naton nation In Europe as wel well as s from the isles of f the sea and the various various states of our Union You Wi will discover however of late the increased tendency to a systematic scattering of Zion Colonies are being sent out Into other states I and territories of our Union as weIl well as Mexico and Canada These colonies j are carefully looked after and the lead leaders leaders ers are selected b by the head of the church in Sal Salt Lake City We uWe do well el to keep in mind that these not only for Cor beter better bettering ing the financial ial condition of the mem bers of the colony but for political prestige and power as wel well That pres prestige Uge tige and power wi wIll be directed and be made effective by the center I of stake ZIon Zinn of Zion and for the center stake I We need to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves we need to pray mighty mightily to God and lve live powerfully pry for God and the saving of souls The weapons of our w rare are not car carnal carnal nal but mighty through God to the pulling Satan down of strongholds of sin and Session The afternoon session wa was given over to the Womans Foreign Missi nar nary s so society It It was presided over by Mrs L M 1 Gilan and Mrs rs Anna Angier led in the devotional exercises After singing Mrs Joel A Smith explained the machinery of the society ing it ingeniously to the bal ball bearings in a bicycle wheel Miss Mary Mary Lyons Lons a native of Arabia from Port Said In the Bedouin cos costume costume tume spoke forcibly of her experiences In the missionary field The burden of her theme was vas tithing and she laid great stress on the necessity of giving freely for the work among the heathen She made some goo good point points and told many interesting things of the people among hom she ha had ben been working Mrs Gillilan then told of the work of the society I It was five years she s said id since the work wa ivan begun in Utah it had grown gron gradually until now it has ninety ninety m members in the state it Is keeping woman in the mis mission mission sion feld field In it is supporting one famine lamine chiq child there and wH will take charge of another The collections last year were The has not 1837 society one salaried officer and ever every cent eon con goes for the work workS S SElection of Officers In the electon election of officers that fol loved Mrs L M Gillilan s vas hosen president Mr Mrs Joel A Smith vice president ls Mrs T E Carter and Mrs Anna Angler Angier treasurer Dr Iff wa is net next introduced and spoke Ver Very briefly but in the te highest terms of the work that the women were doing in th the for foreign ign feld field He e made way for lor Bishop Fowler with his usual force for half half an hour on wih the work wor of the and the value of g gA A large part of the work of the Wo Womans Womans mans Foreign Missionary society he said wa was In for the men This began in the Garden of Eden when Eve told Adam about the apple tree and started him on a foreign mission From this point the bishop branched out and t tOld Jd of the import importance importance ance of womans part in the work He gave a description of f the sacrifice made by Chrit when tie came to the sa save e how he gave up greater tan than those or of Call Cal fornia the and Australia how h came down inta he sewer ewer of abom to save men men and make them rich and in return t the her c came eup up with is 48 cent cents apr apiece e for for lg ns I of Bishop BishO thought that the best tat that Gould could be done for a man ant a hir h was to br break eaK their f Dd D I make U them m se see that I ther there wa was so se In t word World besides themselves To Five of th the apos tIes went to hel hell becu because of Geed greed and not one went there for any other sin in He compared the minister ministers of Utah to the men out on the picket line Une In front fronI ofa ofa geat great ary army they would be lonesome but for the fact that they had back ot of tem them the geat great ar army five deep The Methodist ministers in Utah had back of them the geat great Methodist church ad and it would not be belong belong long until there woud would be a half a ansi ansilion mi lon lion Utah in uta The bishop closed a reference to the Crimean war in which he said Protestant England united with Cath Catholic olic France to whip Christan Christian Russia for Mohammedan Turkey The names of the gat great secretaries who took took part partin in the drama were forgotten nO one could nae name the geat great generals who led the armies and only the name of one I Ite Florence 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