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Show SOMETHING TO REFLECT UPON. The Deseret News of a late date says: A few months ago, much boasting was indulged in by the anti-polygamy people of this city over the "rescue" of a young lady from the "toils of Mormonism." The event was heralded by preaching and publication and formed a subject of anti-"Mormon" gossip and congratulation for many days. It was set forth that a Methodist preacher of this city had under the direction of divine providence, been able to discover a young girl who had been taken from her home in her childhood by a "Mormon" grandmother, brought to Utah and raised among the "Mormons," while her father in far off India could find no trace of his child. The reverend minister had found the girl grown in womanhood, in the Southern part of the Territory, and by his persuasions and influence she had been induced to leave those who had been her guardians for many years and place herself under Christian influences. A great deal was said about the good work accomplished by the Methodist, and the contrast between the refinements of civilization which she was enabled to put on, and the supposed rude and uncultivated surroundings of a "Mormon" household was sharply drawn and extensively commented on. The truth is that the young girl's mother had died in her childhood and she had been taken charge of by her grandmother, with the father's consent. She had been reared in comfort; part of the time in this city and under excellent opportunities for developement [development] into all that is desirable in a virtuous, useful, and happy woman. But under the "Christian" influence of the preacher, who dazzled her mind with pictures of fancied pleasure in leaving the plodding, quite life in the mountains and journeying to India, she forsook the friends who had cared for her in her childhood, and went with the pretended man of God. Now for the sequel. On the 5th inst. [of this month], when the non-"Mormon" procession was parading the principal streets of our city, among the invited guests, sandwiched in between the carriages of federal officials and some prominent citizens of Salt Lake, was an open barouche, containing several notorious members of the demi-monde, in broad display, and among them the new convert from "Mormon" placid life to the superiour institutions of "Christian" civilization. Her present home is in a house of ill-fame, under the elevating influence of a woman who has figured many times in local courts, as a leading courtesan. |