Show BIN BERTS arraigned Arra ignes the religious b congress for its slight 0 HE challenges ALL who had a hand in him from speaking after he was invited to do so A I 1 coni ri ud two years later the church beilic C continually harassed anil and persecuted scores of saints goubes and stacks slacks of grain havin having 0 been burned and a number more of them killed still more of them kidnapped and whipped comme commenced neLd that thai wonderful exodus aaros s wilderness and desert which pioneered the efty py into our greater west where their history lias has been no less thrilling or dramatic than it was in missouri and illinois one item gitein being the confiscation of over it a million dollars worth of church property pro mo peaty cont con of real estate and personal property which had been donated to the church by its it 4 members for charitable and educational purposes were you afraid that I 1 would speak of these things in your parliament if admitted to your platform look at the pap paper er which I 1 propose to read if admitted a copy of which is in dr darrows barrows hands bands you will find but the very slig slightest haest reference made to these things there for we were more anxious to tell you about the great truths of our religion than to relate our suffering ering which if told would put christians to shame before the heathen you have invited to your palli parliament ament the 1 mormon church occupies a striking position in i the christian religious world |