Show USE I I GRANTS STUFF I Apostle Says British Editors Refused to Print Contri Contributions Contributions x buttons He Sent Them British editors gave Apostle Heber Hebel J Grants literary contributions scant eon con consideration said Mr Ir Grant when speaking in the th tabernacle yesterday of or his exper experiences experIences lences abroad As an illustration of the cavalier r treatment he got from editors in England he lie said they would not print re replies replies replies plies he had prepared to meet attacks made on Mormonism His contributions were returned with printed slips convey conveying conveying conveying ing the editors polite regret that they could not use the matter In most of these the e cases the editors believed belie oed a polite lie was better than no lie He at all aU said Mr Ir Grant GrantIr Mr Ir Grant was the second speaker of oC the day and occupied only a short time Um tim He lie said it had fallen to his lot to travel much in England and the tIme continent cf d late and that all he had seen heard beard and amid read served to strengthen his belief in the divinity of the work in which he lie had been engaged Of or the thousands of young foung men I who had gone into the world to spread I Ithe the tIme gospel although many were illiterate as compared with preachers of other churches not one had ever ver been convert conert converted ed to another belief he declared al although although although though on the other hand tens of thou thousands thousands thousands sands had received testimony in dreams and visions of the truth of the things taught by b the Mormon church Warned Against Mormons Thousands upon tens of thousands have hac received and accepted the gospel while not one elder has apostatized on his I mission said Mr Grant Ministers of ot other lother creeds abroad warn their flocks against listening to Mormon elders ciders and advise their young ministers not to read Mormon literature On the time other hand I never warned my young men not to read all literature It was not necessary as they had Gods truth with them and I Ionly Ionly only warned them against evil Mr Jr Grant told a story stor of what lie he said I had happened to a young oung Methodist min minister minIster mm ister sent to Utah from the Manchester England conference confEr nce to convert the Mar Mor Mormons mons When he be reached Salt Lake lIes RI Dr Iliff warned him not to listen to Mor Mormons Mormons mons nor to read Mormon literature said Mr lr Grant Gront but after aCter a time the young I man went to Nephi to find that he lie was wall not sufficiently sufficient informed to debate with Mormons So he began to study stud Mormon Jormon Mormonism Mormonism ism with the result that he was convert converted ed to that faith and forsook the Methodist ministry to go o to work as a Mormon Momon field laborer and later returned to England rs 8 a Mormon missionary Mormon Heaven Mat Thomas was tho first speaker of the day He suffered with a severe coM cold colland coMand and was obliged to end his than he had intended He Ho dealt with tin time development nt of religious thought and the tte part Mormonism had Imd in it He said the Mormons see in heaven something more mor than feathered angels anels Happing flappIng around a i throne and worshipping a without sex or parts as the Mormons God Js is in an intelligent being the head of the priest priesthood priesthood priesthood hood and the God of truth Mr Ir Thomas said that instead of the oracles of the Ui past whom he never neer knew he lie preferred to give credence and allegiance alle to the oracles of today toda and that he ho and all young oung Mormons freely freel gave cave ve to so the heads of the church and that with without without out servility H said he was glad the I church had assumed a more militant atti alit attitude attitude tude in spreading the gospel that the church is anxious for more revelation and is preparing for it In closing Mr I Thomas said he lie believed the men who succeeded the prophet Joseph Smith were equally Qually as strong as a he be ani equally I prophets seers Mers and revelators revelator succeed ing to all his powers I II I |