Show SHOULD BEGIN AT HOME THE JSueiralcd London Xcict tales that It is not generally known that that great city of palaces and slums has an nntlilorn league which was organized in JSS1 Borne time since the organization organiza-tion held a meeting at which it was inserted that although last year many thousandsof people emigrated t to Utah numbers of young folks had rescued by being pcrlUaded not to sail at the last moment This announcement ought to be taken with a few grains of salt Throughout the proceedings the idea was conveyed that the Elders were specially engaged en-gaged In Inducing young women to leave England to engage in marital relations in Utah which S statement is without an clement of truth The mission of the Elders sent into the world is similar to that of the messengers that represented the primitive Chrittiau Church from which then bo been a universal poatacy They simply preach the fulness of the Gospel as restored through a Prophet in this age clUIng clU-Ing upon all people without regard to age or sexto believe in God the Eternal Father in His Son Jesus Christ and in the Holy Ghoet to repent of their sins and be baptized by immersion in water by one holding divine authority for the remission of sin and have hands laid upon their heads that they might receive the baptism of the Spirit Obedience to these scriptural requirements inspires the receiver of the message with a desire to gather with the main body cf the Church It matters not whether the believers be young or old so long as they have reached the age of accountability male or female the blessing of the Gospel being free to nIl through obedience to Its behests Those who contend that any eflurt is being put forth to make proselytes young women in preference to any other class are either misinformed or wilfully untruthful un-truthful The main point discujsed at the mtttlsg was the advisability of making an effort to procure government govern-ment aid to stop the stream of emigration emi-gration to Utah based on the false idea that the missionaries were specially proselyting among young women Allusion was made to the fact that when Mr Gladstone waii Prime Minister he was appealed to on the subject but says the report he regretted his inability to interfere Our recollection of the incident is to the effect that he came close to the edge of enubbing the delegation that waited upon him on the subject his expression of regret being simply in relation to what he considered to be the causes which led people to leave Great Britain for Utah It was the Impoverished and otherwise unsatisfactory unsat-isfactory condition in which they were placed in the United King dom and be thought the best way to prevent the exodus of English people to tills Territory was to take steps to improve their surroundings As they emigrated of their own choice the Grand Old Man said he did not see that the government could interfere It appears that this league formed form-ed in London impede the labors ot a people concerning whose character and genius its members appear to ben a state of ignorance intend to renew the application for government interference It is hoped by the misguided leaguers that Lord Salisbury will be more pliant tbau was the doughty champion cham-pion of human rights IIon William E Gladstone The eflorts of these pious wouldbe reformers remlud one of the words of the Poet Burns O tnati xe power the sift widtfec To ice OBnelt u llhen tee SB If they would but turn their eyes upon their own surroundings they would find abundant work for their Eclfrighteous soul without giving any attention to the much abused and appallingly belied Mormons Let them seize themoral broom with a long handle and begin to sweep the filth out of the horrible Cleveland Cleve-land Street sink of horrors of name leas pollutions that cause the souls of decent people to be filled with inexpressible in-expressible detestation of the grovel ing depravity existing in high social I circles of the modern Babylon i When will people learn consistency cy and when will their eyes be opened to the plain fact that the religion re-ligion of the Latterday Saint inculcates in-culcates and demands sexual and social purity When will they see that a universal application of its principles would regenerate the t I t world |