Show AT m m REPLYING TO NEWMAN two thousand students enrolled at the school correspondence ot the ann arbor has been favored with two lectures on mormonism one by a miss boand in tho congregational gat ional church the other last evening by mrs angle newman of the comans womans christian home in the methodist church both were well attended by students and citizens appears to be a woman of judgment and fairness and treated the subject accordingly she indeed made several grave mistakes but they were rather of the mind than of the heart to account for the origin of the book of mormon she brought up the old thrice worn out spaulding story forgetting or not thinking the fact worth mentioning that the spaulding manuscript has been found and that it bears about as much resemblance to the book of mormon as moores utopia does to the history of the united states but her remarks were free from that fanaticism and disregard for truth usual to speakers on this subject and so prominent in mrs newmans talk mrs newman was at once an insult to the mormon people and tho intelligence of her hearers regard for her sex forbids my denouncing her remarks in stronger terms here are some quotations taken down on the spot the mormon people are not allowed by their leaders to use any other books but those published by the church king james translation of the bible is not the one used by the cormons mormons Mor mons but a translation by joseph smith here the speaker exhibited what purported to be such a if a first wife does not content for eer husband to take is the unpardonable sin and she the mor mons soon find a way of destroying her too among the cormons mormons brothers marry their own sisters and fathers their own daughters here the lady related an account of a visit she made to the utah penitentiary where she found a 16 year old girl the wife of her own father incarcerated for contempt of court for not acknowledging the father of her child intemperance among the cormons mormons is wide spread and children from the cradle up are taught to drink whisky such was the run of her remarks I 1 will not burden your columns with more quotations how can we blame the eastern people for despising even the name of mormon when such falsehoods are sown broadcast over the land of men and women calling themselves christians some of the students from utah have taken the trouble to answer th lecturer through one of the local papers the article wll appear in the next the university has a greater attendance this year than at any previous time the enrollment now exceeds two thousand the visit of the pan american delegates was an event long to be remembered Escorted by the students marching according to classes the delegates came to university hall where speeches and songs were indulged in in the evening a reception wis given them in the library by the faculty they expressed unbounded pleasure at visiting the greatest university in america the health of the students from utah is generally good some not wishing to cultivate their minds alono are taking dancing lessons the dancers are confined however mostly to tho laws Y |