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Show I A PIOUS l'KEVAUICATIOX. A tJioiJT lime since, at Saratoga Spring, rew York, there was a . meeting of the executive committee ot women' home minion, atw hich twolmudreil jtrtons wens present. Addresses we:e deliered by missionary mis-sionary workers in nlalion to their alors in the .rest, w ith special nf-vrenec nf-vrenec to whit Isallegeo. to be in progress among the "Jlormoss." A gentleman personally unkuon n to us sends a clipping from a parr giving an account of the proceedings. proceed-ings. He directs attention specially toa Siiioptls of an address dilivereU ou the occasion by one frank 1'jcrre. Our corru-poudent iuli-tuates iuli-tuates that the speakir named is a prouounced econouiiz-rof the truth, jkb - f ' ami cxpn-Ks a ish tlit wo should j reply to lib statements. Following -" is a published account of what Mr. r. '- Pierre said at the Sirattga meeting: j V i "I am no: a minister of the gospel, JS, 5mt a simple elder of Silt Lake City. fi: I Hunk Oo-l eery timolliit I nae y word to siy for the bencUt of this ' society. iSalt Lake City has a popula- 'P'-,, io o 6) lOJ people, but has not as "J yet been aWo to hold tlio country " . atralnt the gemiles, and only tno t caumioiin that Sa'e are under the , control of the popular element. In J-1 nearly alt of tho towns of Utah they ,,. carry on tho custom of paying tithes J" io the bUhup. M innonltra ii not . '". quilo as popular a it was in years J, gone by. Outsido Silt Lake, there are few who belong to the church and ihe work that has lcn accomplished has r . :pen done through those ladies that yoal!aosent out from their beautiful beauti-ful homos to labor among those he- nightod people. Tho way to do clli-c- tUe work is through the children. These children out in U:h need some Pjjg latter clianoj of lecoiiiing tslurated i:' ! thin tiiyliae at present. You ueod 10 ' t' "sUWi-h high schools out there. jfw ! Thur parent do nos believe in their ' ' I bring educated, and they discourage . I thelr children from seeking learning, ft -, a do the Uishop of tho Church. Tho fa , Chun-h has teachers npeu every block pf -1 who Msit every house each ock and '.. ' lh'S h the children nothing but cf' thecreed of tho Mormon Choreh." p? 4 TilB foregoing plainly proves that RsH OJT corn-spon Jcnt Is correct regard- Wi'. n Jr- I"--rre'3 aversion to facts jl. lien the opposite better serves lib ggr purjwse. Ho speaks of the payment Kfc " J o tithes by the Latter-day Saints to fc ' tlie ULshops as if it wero a crime for EK ' n rcllgioni-t to contribute a irtIon glr ol llls s'J"tance for rUigious pur- fej,- Is&S such as the support of the Mgff, . I,oor tllD c"wtton of Church K? buiUIugs, and other charitable ' h . and .gl'jus oljects, these W?? U"InS among the leading uses ' . . to w.h,ch the funds contributed . ' " . throhgh the ecclesiastical officers ate put. Had Mr. Pierre lived In Pthe days of Abraham, ho doubtless would have reflected ou the conduct of tho "Father of the faithful" because be-cause he iaid tithes to Mclchisadec, , the great High Priest. One flnancial phase common n ith j , jr r boU,CT ,s n!t ftanJ amongthe yr ' -Mormn" People-selllns church r iwws at auction to the highest bld- derandiosslng ,, theconlribu-' tlau box. --B ThespeaUr kuiI that .jror-l f |
