| Show I BISHOP LEONARD ON THE MOB I S 3E01TS MON I Rt Rev Abiel Leonard Protestant II I Episcopal bishop of Utah Nevada and Western Colorado is in Baltimore I where he made an address last Sunday j on matters in Utah Among other I things the bishop said Are we making much progress in the conversion of the Mormans I am sorry II to say we are not There is a great school established in Salt Lake City that was erected at a cost of 100000 II all of which sum was ata raised within the borders of the state Here numbers of young men and young women are being educated and are being daily returned to their homes to take up life as trained nurses or to seek livelihoods in other occupations I is true they go back a they came Mormons t they are intelligent in-telligent Mormons I I is owing to educational influences that conditions among the Mormons are different from what they were 30 years I ago I is a fact that the power of the church is just as strong but the Mormons Mor-mons deal kindly gently and generously gener-ously with the Gentiles now And if they are content with their own religion J re-ligion I do not see where we can find any fault with them Of course we I are sorry but with the advance of civilization civi-lization these difficulties and differences I may adjust themselves and all may be wellThis I This is all said in the kindliest of feeling for the mass of the people of this state What Bishop Leonard says I about making converts among the Mormons is probably what the bishops and elders of other churches in Utah I would say on the same subject Convert Con-vert work among the Mormons is a difficult thing it being almost as unpromising un-promising as convert work among Catholics A truly remarkable thing in this regard is the fact that quite a number of Mormons have become Christian Scientists in the last few years and Christian Science is about as nearly opposite to Mormonism as possible Bishop Leonard makes a very philosophical philo-sophical remark when he says that if the Mormons are contented with their religion he does not see how anybody can find fault with them Can religion do more than to make a man contented con-tented It no doubt makes men who have i better and gives them higher spiritual aspirations but after all the great blessing that religion confers I upon men is to make them contented and hopeful |
