| Show 1 i 1 i i p i It Is la evident from papers received r from the Ih l t that ot of the Salt l r Inke ministers ore are engaged In tho th ole old t F work vork of oC which for tOI many ninny years ears has baa been periodically car carried cart t ried on for tOr Or eA best boat known to 10 I l i those thOs who Undertake It Among th complaints that have reached ached rt us ua from t 1 our cUP missionaries traveling to 10 o preach h q the there are two which wo WI su will 1111 II briefly notice nutce They may be taken as all a samples of or thu tho kind of ot car var I tied ned on In 11 different places and by dif diC different I Ii if ferent feren persons at ut this juncture The North Side Sido News In Its Inthe r t the Bronx District of OC New OY York con contains thins a u published statement by Hev t J L announced ns OM Superintendent I i 4 1 of t the Utah MISsIon of oC the th I i Methodist Episcopal l pl Church It Is l f ti I 1 chiefly a n repetition of oC old Jd slanders landra re i 4 1 lIm d for tor present ent U many of ot n nI l 4 LI I unworthy of DC notice In a i I blo newspaper I tt a r Tho courtesy which ID III I usually extend extended r ed rJ to 10 strangers on coming to 10 thIs thin Ihl cIt i ij t Is Ia misinterpreted by b this Christian I minister as OJ a 11 deliberate d attempt att on Oh tho the part of The Mormon Hierarchy 1 to catch them thern with a hook and blind I 1 them to 10 the terrible state slate of oC morals 1 i under tho tha thin veneering of at a n so I I called religion of ot which he says a 11 1 Salt Lake U Is tho the center Mormon 1 i i M Urn Irm he says soyA is not Christianity i He lie Indulges In the usual distortions of ot i the polygamy question but cities 1 4 t the following to show ho that the morn age Is hot the te t e worst Ip of oC the Mormon system Here la lB a n i paragraph from Mr Mn state statement 1 1 ment I r F J A Bishop ms op Fowler at the meeting of or I C l Utah Mission Conference In Salt Lake I 4 City August 1900 never neer uttered a 0 I I I i c 1 I truer truism than when he said I do donot 1 not hot believe In polygamy but polygamy pol am j Is the whitest bird In this Infernal S 1 nest luit It U stirred Zion as nil all nil truth i stirs Zion All of ot tho the evils of ot tho Mor Mormon I i mon Church have hae their birth and rest I n i in the power rower of ot the priesthood This 1 is I the Ihl th foulest bird In this Infernal In ih nest nestr r i That Is II a fair specimen of ot the kind of ot f j argument advanced by b this so called b i 4 Christian minister It needs no re IC reply I I ply Tho The refinement exhibited in tho the language Is about on a n par with tho the 11 t reasoning In the tho assertion Here is il another Quotation from Mr fl published statement i t t r Be ne It known and remembered that I revelations have gone forth time and I h again it that the next President of ot these I United States Slates would bo be a n Mormon or ort b t na no acceptable to the tho Mormons cI i i If such a 1 revelation has hall been sent t h forth time and again It ought to be easy for Mr Ir to produce it In 4 j support up port of ot o his hili allegation Strange to lo f say we have hae never seers seen It and anti wo we do donot donot t not know anybody elsa that has hap The Tile I gentleman ought to be requIred to pro produce i t duce uce If or to lo withdraw what chat he has said J He lie cannot find It In any book or V newspaper or other publication or In nay manuscript Issued by the Chulch ti of ot Jesus Christ of ot Saints I I He lie may have heard A J report of ot thin thu p kind but that does not nol justify him in I fl circulating a foolish and malicious I falsehood lint Hut his course Is II similar to Ic F that hat of it many m ny others of his hi cloth who S i j t become talebearers among the peo peON people i I pIe 1 I It tt Is a matter of wonder to fair mind minded 1 l ih ed tol folks folk why so many of ot the sectarian I J preachers who ho come to Utah anti arc are well veil treated by all classes become so tic f t malignant In spirit and so defamatory in speech Mr Ir furnishes un unwittingly unWittingly unWittingly wittingly an answer to this query In ir Inthe Inthe 1 the narration of ot an alleged experience eX I of one oue of ot those preachers It Is ii too I long to reproduce In nut But the tb C 4 gist of ot It is ii I this After Atter hearing the th L LI I t t preaching and singing In tho the Mormon ormon I Tabernacle services the minister ex cx expressed I J t pressed himself favorably toward tho thoI lb S I Saints Saint and tho the Gospel which they thc V 1 1 ii preached but subsequently commenced 1 J to find fad fault tault with affairs here and declared he ho had never heard henri i iso so much sweating swearing ns as had bad greeted LI I his bis ears coming to this town lawn I Ho found that the bottom IMI IlAl I I fallen out of at his congregation Hu nit II is was ns left without an audience wit a aI I I two or three exception and on In io Inquiring quiring the why of ot the th he was as told that he had slandered th the r i people The result Is II thus thul d s td S by Mr Not ot a 1 Mormon came to 10 hear the I minister and today tOOn and for rears ars lid thU brother Ins swung stung ung deer clear round to tI thu i other Ride aide of ot M lila and d dk 4 i stalwart blows the I 1 to t empty te setto ed edThe U UThe The non fB s of oC the sent to this State te from the th varIous sects coett li is I a n matter batter of genuel comment I The anger ng r arou td In their souls souli be because b beau beI I cause eau of ot It II accounts for Cor the I manner In which they tta k the Mor r m mine min n and an ml misrepresent ent th their lr faith wh w whet n to raise funds in the th ih Hast I t to uS aid in th conversion of ot the theof th Pf people I of Utah nah ant particularly of ot th l I children When they har return It is Ia t no not I eur that their is I no net bOt netI I further advanced a Jal cM in tl than nian a before b tote they the went J I The instance to which we hav hs alluded Ii i 1 that fi t of bt a net nn Itt if n II n je It f i of Ot Lake La Creery Cre r city whoM et at t t I J 1 J M 1 have 1 re lUG Mtr paper He r it Is r f o p T reported In the Irwin Republican n W l or larid l Co WV ha a h asserting ds that t tithe tho laws In of ot the Ito United States es w r Ignored lt by tho ho Mormons and In tt lo Church at that thai Ihl ho ht tl a it r lecture against them front from which whirls the following is ni mi nil extract Ono One can 1 lave hV hn M tn ld hl a herO haro in 18 thu till erst of ot the Unscrupulous methods by hy tho the Mormons they nr IU are taught to the tue low law yet c t lurking thiS lil there therl U 11 i r I vindictive and l Intention o 01 striking R 1 blow nt lit tim the federal laws loWA so liD soi i ns nil they the Iho find OM n In Sn a fl a JOT l so to 10 do clo Tho of plural marriage Is l taught the young ax as be bo lag Ing In th tite virtue and Rill so in Cl eni n they the they will risk Ihk ml nil ana nail I ilare nil to 10 accomplish their ends Tim The f t of ot such lIuch statements as nil these is II Voll Wil W II Understood bare hut but Oi this rood good people who nl In eaters e III lh churches and listen to 10 thorn do not Imagine that a 1 Christian would utter u rr them for tor the purpose of ot deceiving the public Wo AVo hwe mad quotations In III order that r of at this city cit may nuy know ot 01 o the att of ot th these e persons 16 th t black en On tho Iho ho character cJ of hisS tIt hinder tile tho work o k which Is being performed by h the Ihl Elders ns nil missionaries in Of Ot course the tho slanderer will w ill eventually foil fall of ot thir Ih lr purpose a nd wll reap Ap p their o 01 tt raIl d Wo WI Wen can Mn eo n do little lit lie olse else than their de d anti And nn 1 proclaim to the of cf that thai como amo unto you ot 01 In III but hut Inwardly they are a rc ravening WO wolves s |
