Show Till trill riuoM 11 mi vinrtt In arint1jrrolunin applinrot it com munlcntlon l vthtch was accompanied fly a 1 clipping ut a sermon preached by tr T 1 c Illff fit this city In Quincy ilL on BUd la > evening the 20th Inst reported by the Herald l of that cm I Ifili nn Introductory paruKraph the Jlerald sAys that Ir Stiff Is known lW In alt over the country t as the Utah cy lone preacher that he occupied tr Molts pUIIU morning and evening that I he had h crowded audience at I each service ami that In the evening him subject was The Mounons and hll observations of the sect made during dur-ing hli tnrntyscven Jems icsldence In pall Lake City ns n pioneer preach tr Wo quote frcm the Ifertilds I le pott Ing I h A e lfiir to old the Millman that their tenoti I religion re-ligion was Void of thn spiritual quality qual-ity not to pay anything nbout that ether quality which their rtnum alone should dictate was I VMOIK Its organization I consider muloifjr or equal to Ally other Religious Indy I from Us socalled < school of dlvlnn 1iophels > up to the resident of the Chuich of Jeun sh1litof I I t da Y silnts Thy u I 0 m lIOno aUlhlt As tile Holi nf ind possessed Dr lllff e nU1 Joseph Smith and Mr Jlrd volunsitluto a shrewd bod of Yankees and what plans And PCII01110A the couia not think of It I Mel Ila unit for an Itlshlnnn like bin > rlt ill t ron Idr Both the spiritual nUll tempr nl wfnle nt the Mormon eolo IN I I sled in the 1resldent Next 1 In the I resident In rank are two tOlunsillors thn tm tile bildnips will hV charge 01 IndIVIdUll counties And the Zsiats the wutd A corps of trained 410cra tire kept constantly nt Nvoik V PRIng nn quilre ward ot Isinxt once Is u sell to nee whether all lite livins Ill to the lehlnIU of the Church From the Pr Idenls omre lelenrnph v6lrev reach every ward In the entire State here an order fionst the head of Ihe Church can reach every Priest In short onlr The speaker then described the character of the people l which mud up this sect He said that many of the early converts Came from ling Inj OmII Hlllller111 and Den mark And those from this Country from the mountain district of the Houlh principally the class I known ns the poor whites The preacher spoke of the early In trndiletlnn of Christianity Into Utah The Jletholl t Presbyterian Congre Rational and nplscopal churches fed lowed each other In ciulck succession Tile mark of lllshop Tattle Itev Mc C l Jeod Dr Sheldon Jackson find other mltlnrl uns reforretl to In pralse worthy manner The Vroliqlter told nhollt hi own expellener how In company tith two other 1lholIot preahorm they rented n hayloft which was used as Ihplr first plnfc if worship Later the I 1 speaker boticht out n saloonkeeper and turned tli place lIft meeting house which was followed later hy a 1 fine church built on the same spot Dr I1IIT dwll nt some length on the uprising of the Clulstlan people Against the practice 01 polygamy and the pass Ing of the iJmumli law and Us en forcemeat ly Jilllng n number of the high oltlclrtli In tile Mormon church on the charge of pritticing nlur1 marriage 10 A time much of the 11It trill prestige Of the Ntormonx as tnken train thenle lolt still the nin troll uctlaTr t at stnteh1 the Speaker grett1 10 tnte t that Ihe era It roil umln Ihlr ohhllni t hold on the governnlient The speaker ammerteil that notlth standing all IhliiRS said to the contrary polygamy vvasaion being practiced In all purls of the 8nte In conclusion he uplealed to I him hearers lo use their pe < wer lo completely overthrow I title Brent evil The Christian chuich was tfrnvxInK stronger every day In Utah I Wt they heieled the help of evely Christian In the 1 land The hay Jon referred to by Dr Itirf was the second story of f a large lne > flruclure which at the time It I wit built was one of the laritst And cnktllest lu lnesi bulldlmrs In the City The Kloelnel lloe > r wan vised ns a hlBh clap livery stablil111t l the Sam Apart meat rented liy the Methodist preicheri WON for year Used as n United flute court loom It may lit nM time have hn usrd for storinghay but this I doubt fill At all events It was n public hall of Very respectable size finish anl general chirncter for the times So much fir this Attenuated attempt nt hownt that the preachers who rented It were martjrs to poverty Similar explanations ex-planations nilaht bo mad of the color lnscmpo liy the speaker In other orltons l of his dlcourse 1 The speaker tfSTcttid to state tint they the llorinonn wtie fast lesum Ing their oldtime hold on tile govern men The control of tile stale Is Idlt evidently I meinl lr DIM often t bmsts ot Ills Aractleanbirn In Mon And out or coon he pro0alml It On A ht groifnd 1hencan he consistently object to majority rer iieuni ne like 10 seethe see-the State ef Iftah turned over to the control of tt minority of its poopler Hut I vvhylhould Dr Illff create n fns > 1m I pnsslon Why did 1 < 1 he not explain that no iljttnctlons arc known In polities In thhSlate Imtweirn Iormon und non Mormon Why did ho not add that elections are conducted on part lines lielnefen Democrats and l Itei uhllcnr piuej aiVucli Dud not on religious linen at all Why did he not ud1 1 fur HIT that the tension of inity lines is its strong t In Utah as any hro ill In tile tnlon Instead < 1 ut traveling to Quincy III to Inform the people these that polg I my wan now being practiced In all parts of the State that U I Utah wh > did ho not lay I nn Information Le fine a court or grand Jury having Jurisdiction j Ju-risdiction J of the I offense The key to all the problem lalseel In the minds of H 1lihn by Dr Illff s address Is I given In tile 1 losing f cei tenep of the teport of It The Christian chuich that l < the t Methodists 1 etc In Utah need the luIp or every Christian In the land The packets Of the Christians of the Solid must be reached that salaries ma tjo forthcoming for the mlstlon nrle s who ate laboring to convert the Mormons And stories must be told thai will reach those pockets What woiilel bo silil 011 n flotilla of Hottentot canoes that would mil to Illiraltar for the purpose I pur-pose of capturing that fortress by bum 1 1 balding H 1 with rotten I siiuaph s And jet the IloltMitolH t Vrniiid I I have quite as much giound on which to Iame I nc pcctatlnnn ut success na Have the Fee lorlan Iho come to Hlah to convert th Iormdno There Is I n limited field among the nonMormon population of Utah for missionary work by sectarian preach oral but tiny pretense that those trvachera are making any heody union mmbo of the Iormon Church In good taidlng Is utterly false And absurd Now and them a person who has been eeorninunlcatee from that church for cause will Join some other And tile eucccos of salaried puachers In converting Mormons li I confined almost exclusivity to cases of this sort Hut most excommunicated excommuni-cated Mormons know too much or cafe too little teiioiit 1I1110n to hecom nmbers 01 tiny other church Jt eantern inoplo wish to donate Inone for religious work In Utah all I right let them donate to their hearts ion lent but their gcnetoslt ought hot to bo Imposed upon by misrepresentation And they t ought to know the fuels t before i be-fore 7yo open thtlr ol purse All this U I salt Without unkind fecl Inc towards the cyclone preacher forsldcrlng that It was he und that he had so good an portunlty sn fat Away from home Rod dldllt expect his sermon would be published In Utah he might have stormed worse than he did n |