| Show Nil DANG1111 Two religious papers The United I Presbyterian and the Christian Observer Observ-er tire lnctHrl > exciclsccl nbout the socalled Mormon propaganda They belleio It their duty tn tvnrn their j readers against the riders who havo gone forth among their fellow men with a Gospel message of pence No exception excep-tion can properly bo taken to thin since In this country every one nan a right to hold views of him onn and express them to tho belt 1 > or lili jilillHv Hut It might be expected that those who aMume the resjionrtbltlty of Instructors should at oast p familiar with the uubjects on which they ftsay to speak ol write and that they should be Imbued nltn It desire to state Only the truth even about opponents The publications mentioned meeni tu have neither knowledge knowl-edge about tho Mormons nor too much regard for facts The United Presbyterian flag n story to the effect that Latterday Saints missionaries are Individual who BO about the country with their pockets full or money looking for tamlll largely made l up of young women 11 whom they convert and then at their own the mllonorl expense send tu he western colonies I After this statement It Is I no surprise to hear that Mention doctrine are but 0 miserable jumble of the beliefs of Jens Chris tana and pa Kn MB and that the Saints deny the divinity of Jesus Christ and he personal of the Holy Spirit The Christian Observer takes the position that the manifesto of President llford Woodruff of 190 Is I being evaded evad-ed 1j > tile Saints and that private features tre economic principles and the political policies of MormonIsm Mormon-Ism U entirely Inconsistent with the free Institutions of this country The ihlllpplo closes thus Lt all sensible people utterly Ignore their agents as they go Iwo and two over the Idnl Let no Pat bale building be placed ut their disposal for their meetings It no eon take Ihm into their houses lot 110 uno at Und their meellllg or read I their IItratu Uo assured that they will cunningly set forth what hy Profess to teach In common II lilt m1 Cbrlllon and that they III keep the main things back till the pour dupes are III Utah with nu means 10 Iurn Front the personal and domestic from the religious and national points of view the whole S8 tem und nil Us agents should be so sc vrely let alone that they will soon Find thInnPelvEs left alone ana so leave the place It should be unnecessary to remind our cotemporarles of the fact that they cnnnot 1Iml 1 A Mormonism from the field of discussion simply by retuning to It as a Jumble Representatives ut paganism used to bestow the epithet of babbler upon the great Apostle of the gentiles when he appeared at their lubllc places and declared to them the unknown God and the doc trials of n usuriectlon the whole syi tm or Christianity wa pronounced foolishness but the haughty defenders de-fenders if Paganism won unable to stay Us triumphant progress Moimon Im may uproar to many as unworthy oC serious Investigation but Its fate does not dopend on popular applause fhonnd have found In Its teachings the key to the mysteries of existence of life and death time and eternity they have seen In It the sure founds Uon for that hope which remains unshaken un-shaken as the eternal hills There are settle who In the most beautiful works of art and profound works of learn trip < can sec only a Jumble They ele serve sympathy thy are to be pitied It Is surprising that nt this late day ihen Mormoulsm has been ho ae the uolld for over half a century some re llglous Jouinalu utlll know no little about It as to venture the statement that the system denies the divinity of Christ and the personally of the Holy Spirit The refutation of that li I to be found In the accepted books of the Church Including tin Bible I as well UK In he numerous sermons publl h d and unpublished b > tha Iders It Is I equally surprising to hear the clnrge Iterated of secret practices us regards to plural mairlagrs The fact In I tint the Mormons halo nlwajs fear le slj and honestly mated what they belle and their practlc have beer I In tho open < HijllRht The antecedents of the ChuiTh from the first day of the oclnmatlon uf tie mttiiugo from heaven tind till now are such that no charge of ecLeey ran be Justified There is I no shadow 01 ground for the Iplclon that the manIfesto leffrreel to woo not Issued In good faith or that II No not similarly ncltd UY I the people To state anything to the contrary con-trary without proof Is I unwoithy of Christian Journalism nnd deserves nothing but st ere rebuke The statement that Mormonlsm Is I Inconsistent In-consistent with the free Institutions of this country It l dally demonstiated to lie untrue In the fair Mate ot Utah Let those who doubt come and see It they will ro through our settlements rom One end l of the State to the othoi they will nnd n people full of patriotIsm patriot-Ism IntelllSPnt end Indiistrloui They will nnd schools Find institutions ot learning and a general ao slro fur 1 > mgr mg-r along tho lines Hid out by th founders of the country they will find Utah ahead ot some stales In the Union till behind none In devotion 10 the Institutions ot the country Many BtmnreK have lately come here with eastetn t prejudices In their 1 carts but hao departed prepared to silence Just such slanders as thoso published b > the Christian Obsentr It Is I only to he added that the advice ad-vice oC ilia noluor to let lulmonln I nione will not be followed There tire IIlOwand I home souls relu the spirit 1111 I to offered I by modern systems of Christianity Thy AI o longing to hear tile oleo i ot tho good fKepherd and to follow 11Im fo such Mormonln ap penis as the spring ot Iluiig water In he wlllorn to the Ivory pIlgrim Thy 111I not let It flow They will drink aC the pure Ilfcghlns stream and then co on und proclaim Its virtue > to other In this way multitudes will Atlll bo benefltcd notwithstanding thii false ciy that the spring Iq I poisoned |
