| Show l > OlISTIIINH IH A I Illl UIFII I niders W AI ixerton and Byron Carter who are laboring In North Carolina Car-olina write to the News from New bern In that state enclosing u dipping from the Journal of January 28 published pub-lished I In I that town The clipping con Inln 1117 questions to the Mormon Elders In this date which were framed and sinned by n Methodist preacher named W Q A Graham of Marshallburi and me precidid by an Introduction Presumably written b > the cal tor of the Journal The prelude says The questions recall events In > the past history of the Mormon I j Church That history Is I unquestlon I to ably damnable They nio I I nn Industrious people and haxe built n great and splendid city beyond the desert des-ert but their Itod have been evil So the Latterday Saints who sacil tlced everything In embracing what they regarded as the fullness of the Gospel of Christ and fled from peiBe ration far beyond clxllliatlon Into a great desert where thy tire an Industrious Indus-trious route still have built a great and splendid city are a pvopte whose history Is I damnable and whose deeds are evil The editor of the Journal Is I very inconsistent Tire very least that he must admit Is I that there are portions of the history and works of the Mormons that are highly commendable com-mendable The questions arc not nickel In good faith On the contrary thy are deSigned de-signed to convey In the form of Inter rogatorles false gross still wicked accusations ac-cusations against the MOl man people Mot oC them appear to have en drn Cram l11tlal Contained Some of the most slanderous und malicious oC tire numerous sensational hOok that have been printed about the Mormon while the vlndlctlveness and utter lack at a fair not to my Christian spirit on the part of the Individual who formulated thell1 Is I Apparent In nearly every one of them The Elders 1 who forward the clipping suggest that the News reply to the questions An attempt to answer or to satisfy such an opponent as nev Graham would ba at variants xrlth the fcavlors I Injunction cast not thy pearls before swine lest they turn again nnd rend 1 you When questions that were designedly Insulting or were the vehicles of false accusations were pill pounded to the Savior lie ptescrxcd n peaceful and dignified silence though v less the occasion was 1IIItoprlt He warned and rebuked Ills 1 question crs and a cusrr When nn rider In the rnlstlon field should and when he should not try to satisfy a questioner depends upon the circumstances each f case und the promptings of the Holy fplllt I but ho will Kcnortlly find that there is I little to lo gained by dcxollng I ntUntlon to Such Imtlvlduila as the U < thOr at this questions |
