| Show Why the Iliff Methodist Church is a Failure The a little paper published by the Iliff M. E. of this on December 5 published a very weak financial statement of its It comments on it in the same issue as follows are at present in this city six theaters at which performances are given excepting two of they are open seven days in the and in additon there are six moving picture houses that remain open The money that is spent by theater-goers in one month would pay the entire running expenses' of all the churches in the city for one and another column of today's Trumpet will be found the monthly report of the treasurer of Iliff Read the then think about then read it oh will you find such another The Herald-Republican pub the but failed to a sufficient reason for so poor a The following is a por-tion of the Herald-Republican's comment Church and the Trumpet disclaims any desire to attack the but the editor very plainly sets the two assemblies the church and the theater in and is an undercurrent of surprised regret that the church should fare so badly at the hands of the while the people evidently have plenty of funds for the it does seem like a question for the Iliff people That forty dollars for the pastor is little short of amazing when one considers the ability and sincerity of Where is the the Iliff people mean that there is no need for their church organization Is that the logic of the Financial state- menis are pretty convincing They argue a good-deal more than the plain go back to and forward to And the unexpressed declaration of is mission for- Figures Mie especially church no church in the world no no matter what the name can go forward that Bankruptcy or a change is the only door ahead of From some source outside of current revenues funds will have to come for the extinction of And how futile that will be in the face of a future likely or certain to be a repetition of the The David pastor of the Iliff comments on the Herald-Republican editorial as follows Good Liberal church counts among its members some of the most ardent and workers to be found in any institution in the They have for years given liberally of their time and means toward supporting the and by some little help from friends outside have met every obligation and closed the conference years paid in For service to the they deserve much In different of not hav- following must be charged-to the indifferent mem-bers such as are common to all in- s and also to people Ja of the community that have for- the religion of their Not because they no longer be- lieve but rather that they have become so occupied with the affairs of the present as to post- pone the day of their Such of them as have children send to our Sunday which they would not do if they regarded our teachings as being erroneous or i The facts are that the Herald- Republican does not know what the trouble and the Crane does not desire to Here Are the i the name named after T. C. is enough to con- T. C. ex-superintendent and presiding elder of Hie Methodist Missions in was one of the smoothest and oiliest and the i S greatest and pulpit ever came to He Guard's printed one of in the Lake theater palm it off as stated on October 1906 to audience in that hang the flag at half-mast in Salt Lake City every fourth of July to in- suit the government of the United He also stated for in the same city the year the vile crime of polygamy in Utah is and is spreading into the adjacent and defiling the Lt American home and corrupting the American Iliff's falsehoods and slanders regarding Utah and the Mormons have been so glaring and numerous that it would take a whole book to print I Second- the John L. Lei- who succeeded Iliff in led a mob against a I lion candidate in and was sent to Utah to be gotten rid He had not been in Utah long before he wrote letters to the New York Christian Advocate that the Gentile as well as the i Mormon teachers in Utah were antipodean or that they all had to pay Mormon As a representative of the Salt Lake Leilich went to D. and committed wilful perjury by raising his right hand before Almighty God and swearing that Senator Smoot was a the the present superintendent and presiding elder of the Methodist Missions in succeeded like all his is also a The Talbot stated in the Bible Society Record for f that are towns or more with a from and where Hie Bible is never seen or Talbot will go further to fight Mormon than he will to convert a On Thanksgiving Talbot preached in the First Presbyterian church in this but instead of giving thanks to God he railed at the Salt Lake judges because they would not K persecute the Tal- bot is a knocker and a Utah- C look at the record of of the Iliff A. Smith jumped his debts and was compelled to on a very short because the Smith grossly insulted that member's The D. M. Helmich succeeded the Smith in the Iliff The Helmich came here under a cloud from He not have religion enough to keep him so he spent his time writing a ridiculous little book condemning the Book of The Helmich also met with the S. E. Wishard and a few chattering women in the Presbyterian church in this where they succeeded in injuring Utah and slandering the Mormons by publishing some false resolutions that the Mormons had surreptitiously fooled the government of the United and had gotten control of the Uinta Indian The Helmich was a howling the Iliff church is a beggar and regularly receives mission money begged in the eastern the Methodist preachers and missionaries in this state have been guilty of crimes ranging from perjury and embezzlement to petty swindling and debt The percentage of crimes committed by the Methodist preachers in Utah is greater than that of the Salt Lake are eight Methodist churches' in Salt Lake Seven of them are largely supported by money begged from the eastern all of these churches are on a direct street car line to the First Methodist The First Methodist church will hold every Methodist in Salt Lake and then have plenty of room for friends and the First Methodist church is and has the best Methodist preacher in the If Talbot had one spark of business ability he would close up every Methodist church in this city but the the Colored and the he would request all Methodists to attend the First fire all the useless preachers and put the Methodists of this city on an honorable paying and on a begging one as they are A Good Goshen of the First Congregational church stopped the begging of that church in the eastern states for his Today Goshen draws almost double the salary of any other preacher in He has double the number attending his sermons and he does not worry about the shows or |
