| Show x 1I101lUI I JttUIIT r To the Methodist conference which openeel In thll t clly > eslerday was pre r sentedthe report ofilllshop T C lllff The document deals with the history nnd progress of the Methodist church In Utahnnd contains considerable historical r his-torical data relating lo this subject The first building occupied by It In I 1 Utah I Is tlmi leferrcd to = ttiusts hull art unfinished hay lofteiver ft liver stable On Fen South ttrel Was rrfnlrd May 101870 for one Year at JOOO All t U may be I Unit I this hall had at Onto time been used for storing hay but It j l wos for many Seals regarded as v re f I fpeclable hall well Bulled for pub lln gatherings anti for ft lime prior lo f t IS 1870 was occupied I an a Iedernl courtroom j court-room The nllftlMl quarters of the MtthodK church In this 1 city ns Indicated 1It nl dlcnled b 1 the rent paid for them 1 4 were much morel respectable than any ordinary Ilay loft This much Is said for the sake of historical accu racy The report speaks ot the rapid j il growth I rr the Intermountain region and pays thai among Ihe agencies that 1 have contrIbuted to It have been the 1 benediction uf the Almighty and the American splilt U then pill I ceeds I I regret Ihe necesslly that compels j any modification ef this general stale ment concerning the true Ameilcan Phil and Win I am ttvvnic that ana an-a brief und guarded review of some of Utahs history by I whomso wilt ten will probably provoke discussion If not dissent I hope thiel those who = d differ with HIM may be I Influenced by that feeling ef charity which I lira ay lead 1 me to speak eMiislderalelj of a people among whom I have lived 4 and shared for n quarter oC n gra tny but elmse f faith I 1111111 nept i UI ChIlIolI and thosci fertile rphit A In some rePpecto I must C111120 am III1AmololI JjOvev r kellIg 11 III mind and hearing avIl 114 1110101 1 that there are IlIelhleluIII rand many oC them In the Momun Church whose anlly lives and deeds 00 as Upright and omlllndobl no tlloi oC any c qurch You rnnol speak or Ulah without pnklng ot rite Mormons You cannot speak or 1lhnlIm In Utah I 1IAht pklng ot lot anIsm In 1 ttnh These thoughlo 1110 as InpralJo ft the mountulnrt ftom Ihe valleys 3 are old us The Mormons reached areat Halt Lake val bor711alir r4lacioej This was bcfole the Argonauts round d Cape 110m or ero1 Ihe plains 10 Clllllnrnin 1n search or gold Their first camp was on the very ground occupied by the First Methodist 111 copal chinch In Halt 1 lAke City It was fitting that the fiftieth conniver nary of their arrival In Utah hnuh I bo appropriately and InlhuhIIlIlIy observed by all classes 1 of people 01 the great Jubilee held In Malt Lake 1 City July Q1 1S9T Why did ho I Mormons leave I Illinois anti the gI allli onoluo the hardships hard-ships and dangers of the long journey owr liimn I plains and trackless moulI tains A volume could hi I writte In answering that eiuostlon V brief san tenco must sulllee They did It fort for-t tension or for the ptlvlltg at practlelorit their religion J fril It g I mentlicrEd I 31nirmorthom IN u rell Iat Oo Iko Ihe I InN ur nhwe woo fully iinieaninulle unStlptural I and unsplrittal It may be The report further on oNpressirm the fareviell sentiments of In lIullr In ciulttlng its field of labor ONt uinlgns reasons for life leslgnatlon U thus appears that he leaves his mock In lilah wlh the foiegolng oplnons if peeling the Mormon people Hero3 their I former plrlt was unAmcrl inn but an Hill expresslm tax reference c refer-ence to old lollllcal rnrdltlunn lint disappeared ono jean ago we will notice It no further lilt when ho ppenks of the faith ot the Latteldiy Sabots nn romelhlnE that lakes the place of n relight und of its being woefully unreasonable andu able luiScrlptnral 1 und tin plllIal ve deem II Jiroper to leitivv n amliii nutlci upon his lemntka If It Illrf has not Investigated the religion of tho people among > mhom bit has labored long he lim no right to characterize U it In the terms he has employed If he has InvMtlentcd 1 It anti by that term i Me Imply u comparison with the Christian I Chris-tian Kcrlptures he must know Unit 0 Iomonlm In Its thtulogy pracilcul I und Mmract doctrines anti philosophy I I and church I illfclplln anti wglnlintldn to In BO perfect u counterpart of the iS t tern taught I In the Bible that ho can 7tr lint point out wherein he two differ He cannot accept as Christian the I faith of the latterday hulnts but can ho show that they teach anything Ii that Christ did not or that lie taught anything that they do not Can he point out a nllc us communlly I In the world who how I tlw practical and no j tual Cult of n living sentient Christianity Christi-anity more perfectly than do 1 the people peo-ple whom lid Ilion excludes from the Christian fId These Interrogatories must be I by I him und all the world un serctl In the negative The Nems ho non but kindly wlsMB for Dr Illtr welfare itherever tils lot mOl I ho cast and while we thinkeornerh think some things In his report would better Ionia remained unsaid If he can afford to make the record of them we cn afford to perinit that record lu be preserved |
