Show Methodist Home Adopts Devil for Primary Sunday School gnat houw in and anil Inquired for the and anti-Mormon tracts and I was told at each place that the Methodist boards of ing or sending out all such lit since it did much more than Methodist publication societies have changed their mind on the subject or else the Methodist teachers and missionaries of Utah have surreptitiously gotten them to publish some very scurrilous anti-Utah The Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal nth New publishes the Home ti little S-pago magazine for the primary departments of Sunday This little magazine is only 10 cents per year when 10 copies are sent to one presumably to the teachers of the primary and infant classes of the Sunday Schools throughout the United This little magazine Is to teach small children and It also instructs the teachers how to Impart knowledge to The number of thin little magazine Is devoted entirely to Utah and the For low-down depravity it excels the October number of the Assembly and Presbyterian Homo Mission because it deceives and lies to innocent little while the Presbyterian magazines arc for older Any little child who wishes to sec it name in print can send 10 rents to the Home and it will print It on the last page for small or the child can become n life member by sending By sending children can have their photographs exhibited in that magazine There are many little tots only two and one-half years of ngo who are life The July number above referred to has much to say the Utah or devil fish which I shall I have here one before It is a map of the United States with Utah painted black in the shape of a devil-fish with hideous eyes and nasty snake-like The latter extends into the adjoining states and One tentacle runs across the map to D. grasping the Utah is painted black and the remainder of the states It pictures Utah in a most and monstrous A little child once looking at a picture so horrible and unshapely can never forget Thenceforth the child will look upon Utah and her people with fear and One great writer is the time for In youth wc most and longest retain what we hard Facts early lessons early impressions early scenes early live on in memory through a and retain all their vivid freshness and reality when things of intervening years are The following from page G are verbatim instructions given in this contemptible PROGRAM Bible Select verses showing God's plan for home life the commands given the Israelites about teaching the about honoring Explain contrast between Christian and Mormon L Map By means of black give the the idea of octopus Starting with the lines into ColW and New Mexico and the country to long line across the capitol at These represent the sections where Mormonism has numerous adherents and in many the of the arm extended to Washington indicates the influence exerted on Congress and the government black threads extending into New the and the northern indicate the Mormon missionary that reaches every part of the Have some member describe the and follow this by a general discussion that will bring out the reasons for the Lesson Picture Fourth of July on Ellis immigrants having a good time on i the Poof roof garden while a detained at the Immigrant Seed-Sowing in 1 Mormon and one for the f the Mormon Again A lowing TAttle Mormons and little It is true that children are not the only who are being influenced by great Many Gentiles in Utah and in other where the dark octopus of monism is stretching out ia vile The children go P school and play and how natural that the Gentile children think that their dear little plc mates cannot be so much Do not forget that fc is exactly F is impossible for a nE to be a live a true dreadful for children brought under such conditio but these are not the If it meant only fort people who are already xe be hope of the children into in and of teaching so that in a on while would crowded out by the Mormons try means in their power our government make Sn that will help They when the territory of was made a that here should be no mor rolv-tamy that the than one But they fare broken this promise over J Little children are like lumps soft clay and are sent to Sunday School so that trained poachers can mould them into upright and lov-gig men and They are sent to Sunday School to be love and to pur stars and honor the union of to admire the good in Especially they are be taught to look upon the nap of the United States as a stainless picture of a great and nation without la blot But in the Metho-list Sunday according the forgoing map and lessons he little children Idols hearts and of these angels of Cod in dis are taught to look upon map of the United States jh horror and that a at devil fish has this country its that Utah is a blot on and is send- ont snake-like suckers to IP all the other states and laps the homes of these dear and he horrible hair is red are are long and sharp and white he goes prowling at children who are ht- this diabolical nonsense Sunday School Tare given A stone pf a serpent a question Who in sent all pf the forego-Jh and false witness to be Home The H. J. living at 1325 East South Temple Salt Lake is the superintendent and presiding elder of the Methodist Missions in He and the Methodist Mission teacher in Utah are the responsible The Talbott is a notorious slanderer and has been so advertised He stated in Bible Society for that are towns or more in Utah a population from and up where the Bible is never seen or and like Frank Cannon Talbott in Paden's pulpit and advocated the putting of the leaders of the Mormon church into Bessie Ross of Ida R. Jennie C. of Spring and Mabel L. Dud-leston of Spring have their pictures in the above Home The following is what one of them sent to that and it was published on the last do you young patriots think of this true told by a Home Mission teacher in had just been talking of national affairs and events of the war to my and proceeded to ask 1 Who is the president of the United One band was instantly uplift ed and a voice piped Thereupon another hand flew up and in a tone of contempt this correction was offered Woodruff is It's Lorenzo This is religion and my hand in Suppose that some Mormon wanted to show how ignorant little Meth were and would tell the following time-worn A Methodist teacher told her little class of boys that Good Friday commemorated the death of when one little boy stated that he did not know he hadn't even heard that Christ was Another Methodist teacher asked her little tots one Sunday who was president of the United and one little boy The Methodist Mission teachers may be able to make the kindergarten children in the Methodist Sun day School believe these silly little kid but to intelligent people they are On page three of the July Home is a picture of Rock a long low dilapidated stone house on the corner of Sixth East and Sixth South Salt It has ten apartments and front It was built by Bill a Mormon It was built for a tenement and has been used as such for nearly forty Under this picture of Rock Row is the following old time Mormon Count the front Just above the picture is front doors indicate the number of wives its owner The old time house that M. Paden occupies at East Second South has five front which plainly according to the Home that Paden has five Will the or Bessie E. or Ida R. or Jennie C. or Mabel L. Dudleston tell the readers of Utah in a letter no longer than I what good can possibly come from exhibiting-the nasty Utah Devil Fish to little or even to older Will they please tell what they expect to gain by telling the following scurrilous is impossible for a man to be a and yet live a true Will they please tell who the Mormons are that are marrying plural Will they please tell what they expect to gain by exhibiting old Rock and stating that every front door indicated a plural Will they please tell what school it is in Utah where G entile children are injured by coming in contact with Mormon Will the Talbott please give The Utah Independent a list of the names of the towns even the name of one in Utah with a population of and where the Bible is never seen or A copy of this Utah Independent will be sent to each of the above Methodist teachers and to the Talbott for a which we shall gladly Next week we will a lesson study from the Home |