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Show YOUNG LOVERS DISOWNED BY FAMILIES, EMBRACE c MORMONISM; TO WED 00O RICH HARVEST IN . CONVERTS IS REAPED. ' BY MORMON ELDERS. . It Is stated that Mormon elders have been reaping rich harvests in ffl the way of converts In Cincinnati. Young Weidner and his' bride, who have been disowned, are expected to ( (!) reach Salt Lake next week. $ "I lore my father and mother, but I love Jlormonism, my religion, more. I lore my sweetheart and. promised husband, but greater than my Iotsj for him is my lore for the Mormon faith." i Very Quietly Barbara Abinger, a , beautiful dark-eyed Cincinnati girl ot 22. spoke these two remarkable sentences. sen-tences. Behind them lie a romance dramatic In its every particular, with the Mormon Mor-mon church as central figure, and the actors two Cincinnati lovers. Mormon believers, whose love is to culminate in a Mormon wedding:, and as a result Barbara Ablnger. the bride to-be, has been disowned by her parents par-ents because she has accepted the Mor-' Mor-' xnon faith. The entire scene of the story is in the heart of Cincinnati, and the lovers and . their relatives are residents of that city. Joseph Weidner, son of well-to-do people, is the groom-to-be. That Bait Lake City has been deter mined on by the lovers for their city of residence after their wedding: seems a fitting finale for the remarkable romance. ro-mance. Both the disrupted families are strict Catholics. |