Show MOItMOMSVI IN 1OIITLXMI About the opening of this year Elder W C Parkinson Illsliop ot Ireeton Idaho and his brother Elder Samuel C Parkinson went to the city uf Portland Oregon on a short winter mission to which they had been duly appointed Intending to labor In that city and vicinity for two or three months They encountei ed much difficult dif-ficult In making an opening and felt us If they were laboring under a cloud Th 6 ymet with sn IlItns avtIM craters prejudice and In tact found tho city about twenty years behind the times In the views of Its people rtEardlng the Mormon One or the flllt ratives the nilwiionailes made was to visit tho editorial edi-torial rooms of the Tribune and OregonIan Oregon-Ian The former paper promised to treat them fairly but soon afterwards published a vicious article In relation to them The cdltorlnchlcf of the Oregonian assured them that It was the policy of his paper to vivo everybody air Play and that they would be nails fled with the treatment It would extend ex-tend to them The city editor was even more friendly In his assurances Several I times the Elders rented a hall and advertised a meeting but the attendance was Very Allen and sometimes some-times no audience at all appeared They were Informed I ot a Methodist church which was frequently used by other denominations ant thinking thy might have more listeners In It they applied 10 the minister for It He refused re-fused to let them use It wan very bitter bit-ter In his conversation with them and refused to listen to their explanations or to read the literature they offered him A few days later these appeared lathe Oregonian an Interview with this rittil minister In which he denounced the Mormons gave garbled quotations from sermon of some of their leaders and A Sk grossly misrepresented their theology The Elders wrote a reply to what the preacher sid and It was published In the name paper At about this time eoiernl other articles relating to the Mormons also appeared In that paper This newspaper ngltatlon though mostlv hoslllo to the Indent resulted In creating nn Interest In their work A meeting announced by them soon otter ot-ter the publication In the Oregonian ot the Interview with the Methodist minister minis-ter waft attended by a large audience and a fair report ot It was printed In that paper The Ice wa now broken tn an extent that convlnml the riders I tint Portland offered a promising Held but July required them to I leave for San rrunclscd on the day after the meeting Pending the devilopmenli In Portland above narrated the lllders visited vis-ited and held meetings In a number of towns In the vlclnltj making many rrlcmli and finding several old time member of the Church who still retain re-tain I tome faith and will probably renew re-new their covenants The mlsslonurlia left Portland by Ioamer nn March 25 need on Humbly the 2ith by Invitation preached to the Passengers After a brief stay In the coast metrololls thy came home and arc now attending Conference In this city The large meeting they held 1 just before leaving Portland occurred on the evening or March 21th On the following 1 day the Oregonian sent reporters re-porters 10 Interview n number of Olin tiers of tho city In regard to Mormonism Mor-monism and the next morning the JGtli devoted two and a halt columns to the sentiments upon the subject said ty have been expressed by ten expounders ex-pounders of salvation who talked for publication Much all advertising as those ministers minis-ters gave or llormonlm and or theIr own Ignorance respecting the real nature na-ture and teachings of the religion they were assailing vias something wonderful won-derful The series of Interviews with them to prefaced hy the following Paragraph News that two Mormon Elders tire holding missionary meetings on the IAst Side has aroused Intense Indlg nllllon writing local ministers and others Th Idea that Mormonism should be I taught In Portland with 0 view to proelytlng members or the varlou churches ts dnunce1 its outrageous out-rageous The Mormons arc charged with I Mm traitors und blasphemers unit VIth attacking the fundamental principle of American society From Overy quarr corn earnest iLntlIgor ous protests nnd there are Indications that mot are to follow or the min sters Who were Interviewed by Ore Ionian reporters on the subject yesterday yester-day there wo not ono mho Iva not emphutlcally opposed to the methods or the Mormons nnd who had not very decided opinions on their teachings With one or two exceptions tho ten preachers Interviewed expressed them elvei In line with this Introduction to their remark and according to on old Mormon missionary tradition where he adUisarj gifts up such a fuss there will bo found some honest souls wailing for the truth According to his tlun I so often verified 1 a flourishing flourish-Ing blanch of the Mormon Churcvi nay be expected to arise In Portland In tile ncor future |