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Show jTALMAGE and the mormons. , A Warm Protest From au Ki- Mormon Against Tal mage's I Slanders. j To the Editor of the Sun: S'r In your notice in to-day's Sun, ot the preaching of the Reverend Mr. Talmago, on Friday evening last, in his tabornacle, in Brooklyn, you say: Brother THlmaio wii-hfs to drive out tho Monnmis and put an end to their custom by matins of Uniitd Siutag biyonota. Suppose, boforo resnrt'ng if lhnt sanxiiiuarj and oxpun-ivo method of KeltiiiK t id ot tho Latter. dny iJninU, w should try and convert tin-til to bctusr ways, as the early Chri-iiuns did ihe ).gniiB. Why does Dot Tithiitttrt hint- 1 self go to ylt Lake city ntul thunder at the Mormons the terrors of the law, and aintise tlmm with bis jokes and ttnliu? i Perbnp-i if 1-hoy iw and Heard the Chm-iinn Chm-iinn rcneher tho Mormons would find hi in to far ahond of tboir own bishops tiiid oldure that ihey wou'd turn from ihom in disgint. Mr. Talmage has a right to think about the Mormons what he pleasce, and there la no narticular obieeiion to his saying what he thinks ahoot them either, (or the vaporing ot his wild thoughts and the expression of his ferocious seulimeuts art) not likely at any time to stir up the guvtrnu.t-.ijt to a crusade against them; but when he professes to speak of what he claims to have seen in Salt Lake, io the -Mormon tabernacle, and to represent the hideousneas of a congregational audience there, aod to hold them up to ridicule and contempt, I want to ay that Mr. Talmage allows his nat oral love of hutUo- ery to run away with his sfciise of responsibility, and I think it is worth while that somebody should protect against his misrepre nentatiuiiB about the Mormons. Td aseure yon Umt I am no Mor-I Mor-I nou, permit me to say that I am un ''apostate," au apostate forever from I lh.it faith. Then: is nothing in earth, hell, or heaven that 1 can conceive of to ever change my resolution resolu-tion to absolve mj-eelf from all alle-gieneetoit.- What I therefore write now may be regarded as from the pen o( one who not only hates the Jalae-hood Jalae-hood of Mr. Talmage, but who hates worse the evil tuYcts of his Jocwc tougue on both his Uhns'.i.m auditors and the Mormons in Utah. A Mormon Mor-mon meeting in tliu Salt Lake tabernacle taber-nacle will not compare in appearance o! silks and feathers with a Talmage run. ling in Brooklyn, but I dare eU-iiiL-nge Talmage to take 15,000 persons, taking them from every ;iouse around his tabernacle, as the .Mormon leader can taite lo.OOO persons from houses around histaber-uaclo, histaber-uaclo, and make the comparison between the two congregations, and if the Mormons, in point of honesty of purpose, purity of life, and fair, tquare dealing, do not bear comparison compari-son with the Talmago 15,000, I will aereatosit every Suuday under the alllictiug voice of Talmage as long as , 1 am in the state of New York. The divine seeuiB to forget thai the primitive preachers of Christianity went iuto ttie highways and preached (o the pa-sers by, aud compelled if they could eveu the publicans and tumors and the oiagdaleos of their day tu Jioleo to the beautiful and soul-tilling, soul-tilling, lolly sent moots of the lowly Xszarene; aud there simple preachers were the fishermen of Galilee, the tent makers, the carpenter?, and the labor ors of the towns, and the farmers ol the villages of Judea, who supported themselves by their own industries during the week d.iys, and preached on their day of rtst without hire, without any remuneration beyond the ipproval ot a good conscience toward God and all men. Tivit Mr. Tat mage does not do. Their hearer were the wayfaring men, the nil rati, the oUscounug ol soeiety, and there was said to be more joy iu heaven jver one such sinner that repented than over the adhesion to the faith of uinety and nine just persona like Mr, Talmago, who needed no repentance. repent-ance. Talmage would have spoken of such a congregation of primitive converts precisely aa he now speaks of the Mormons to-dy. He would have add the primitive Christians up to ridicule and contempt for their appearances ap-pearances in dress, figure, and feature, and it ia the folly ot such a man that turns the souls of the Mormons with disgust from anything of the name of Christianity as advocated by such men. Wrong the Mormons may be in their faith in part or altogether, as Mr. Talmage may choose to affirm but, wrong or right, they have given the most convincing evidence I of their honesty in leaving their homes ! in foreign countries, making sacrifices sacri-fices of worldly interests, in order to gather to a new country, and there live a life of toil, to build up a system of religious worship in which they believe. That much, if nothing more, entitles them to fair representation, represen-tation, and when Mr, Talmage holds them up to ridicule and contempt, and speaks ol them in the disgusting way he did the other night, I can assure as-sure him that there are thousands of men in Utah that could put bis bushel in their peck without either pressing it down or running it over. No honest visitor to Salt Lake city ever looked upon the congregations in tho Mormon tabernacle, considering consider-ing the history of that people, and what they had done through "honest toil, who did not ptand and wonder at their success, and wish them God speed, even if they held their faith at a heavy discouut. Five years ago travels across the cuu iuent, and tho picture he then drew of the Mor-j Mor-j mons was bo disgustingly false that I have never listened to him Bince, and iT his representation of ihe Christianity Christiani-ty that is to save tho world is the right thing, I set myself down as irretrievable damned, for if he bad come from heaven direci I could not believe a word he might utter after that. One thing more: I never saw, anywhere, any-where, a mure interesting and better looking race of young people attending attend-ing places of worship than is to be seen iu Utah; and oac f.ict ii worth noticing in conclusion the young Mormons who have come to the east to finish their education have in every case stood high in Ibis clashes, and in , point cf bebavior are without re-pronch. re-pronch. To Mornmn polygamy I havo made no allusion, but I can as sum Mr. Talmaga that professional medical men in Salt Lake city dare cay of the Mormon 15,000 what be dare not even think of about hs 15,000. An kx Mouiion. Nfcw Yoi.K Sept. 30, 1S77. N. Y. Sun. |