Deseret Evening News | 1901-11-14 | Page 5 | "Danger of Mormonism"

DANGER DA GER OP Elizabeth Elz beth n B Very ory Much Alarmed Over the tho Matter New York No U The danger of ot Mormonism Is underrated not nt over overrated overrated rated When the public realizes that there are ar two Mormon churches In Brooklyn one In Manhattan one on In Philadelphia a strong and growing gowIng Mormon settlement on 01 the borders ol ot of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and that the tho strongest church In a it section fifty oCy miles l from Jersey City Is Mormon Monon It I may mayb be understood that tho the situation Is menacing m This statement which startled started the executive c of the domestic lons of at the lie Reformed church hurch chur h at Its It eighteenth lh anniversary In Inthis Inthis Inthis this city cly was made mad by Miss Elizabeth B n a member of the commit committee tee in an nn address upon in Inthe tho the East Ent Enl She said further It l was wa predicted predl that in fifty years the Mormons would control a I belt of states cutting the country In two from northeast to southwest The prediction has hns been verified In twenty years in instead instead stead stend of ot fifty own land from the Rocky mountains to the Sierras and nd andare are aro nr spreading aa as a I have have told you They control contro tour four tur mission states and at atthe atthe atthe the present rate of ot progress In Jn others othera will Wi soon have have supremacy If I tho the constitutional amendment making polygamy a 1 crime Is not passed now It I soon will wi be Impossible to pass page passI It I as they need to acquire control only onlIn In twelve states to prevent pre nt legislation legation against them Two thousand Mormon Mamon missionaries are ore pursuing their propaganda sixty of ot them In the state stile of ot New York alone