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Show MORMON ELDER IS QUICKLY EJECTED Xatter-Day Saint of Salt Lake, Who Wanted to Speak to Philadelphia Women, Turned Down. PHILADELPHIA, March 19. One of the meetings incidental to the annual session of the Philadelphia M. E. church conference yesterday was disturbed by the appearance of a Mormon elder, who asked the privilege of speaking, but who was ejected amid a storm of hisses. The meeting was the annual gathering of the Women's Home Missionary society so-ciety In the Thirteenth Street church. Dr. Sarah J. Elliott, formerly a medical medi-cal missionary among the Mormons was in the act of delivering an address denouncing Mormonism and polygamy when a middle-aged man edged his way to ths front and handed Dr. Elliott a card hearing the Inscription, "N P Simpson. Salt Lake, Utah." The re-' verse side bore the Mormon declaration of principles. The card was passed to Mrs. E W Bickley. president of the society, who announced the presence of a Mormon elder and who desired to speak." Immediately Im-mediately the church was In an uproar and there were cries of "Put him out " "I only want to say a word." shouted Simpson, but the sexton was called and he escorted the intruder to the street. |