Show NOT GRANTED A HEARING while you you are formulating an answer to these questions let me call your attention to a few other things thinas the presidency of the IN church generously refused to take note of the slight put upon them and the organization they preside pres ide over by your neglect to notify them of your parliament or to invite them or their depret to participate in it but remembering in that the church had been falsely accused of working only amon among g the poor and degraded could only succeed with the ignorant were afraid to come to the light etc they thought to correct the error by seeking an opportunity for an exposition of its doctrines on the platform of the worlds parliament of religions where its positions and principles could be compared by thu the enlightened 0 religious thought of the age age 0 accordingly they wrote you president bonney asking that an opportunity port unity be granted their representative senta tive to make a statement of the mormon Ll ormon faith its distinguishing characteristics and its achievements shortly after the letter was sent T was appointed to represent sent tile the church at the parliament on arri arriving vinz at chicago I 1 secured an acceptable introduction to you president bonney and you generously accorded me an all interview of five minutes in which to present plesent my case in that hat interview I 1 learned that it had been decided not to grant the cormons mormons Mor Alor mons application for a li earing cariner 0 in the parliament on oil account accorn t of the deep prejudice existing c against tle the church because 0 of f its mairi marriage age system my friend who I iad had ad introduced trod mo me to you whose influence the interview was obtained urged the injustice there would be in not giving AD the church I 1 represented an opportunity to make a statement of her faith and showed you some letters of intro I 1 had bad presented to him showing my my standing 0 in the community where I 1 livo live OUGHT NOT TO DE br CONSI considered DURED you finally asked what my f answer would be to those who he raised objections to our admission based upon the prejudice existing against my people because of our ma marriage ariage system my afy reply renly in substance as I 1 remember ic it was 1 that in such a gathering where non chris tian and christians ping going to meet and where people who not only in the past but now ju jus lined stilled and tolerated plural marriages it was a question that ought not to be considered 2 that plural marriages marriages 17 in in our church hall had been discontinued by tho the official action odthe of the church and therefore it was not a matter that should bo be considered when the question fuestion IT was as discussed as to whether we should be admitted to the parliament as reference to it need form no part of our paper further than an announcement no of its abandonment as a historic fact you asked mo me to set let forth the reasons in writing why we should be admitted and also an outline of what we wanted to say if admitted and you would have the question reconsidered re on si I 1 did as you desired and after waiting a week or ten days and receiving 0 no reply I 1 returned homo acquainting you with the fact and asking you to send t to 0 me there the f final decision respecting 0 our application on the an and 2nd dinst I 1 received a letter from you saying that rev dr john henry barrows would receive from rom our church the statement of its faith and achievements as propos proposed cd in your first communication and will make such use of it as under all the circumstances may seem wisest and best bes tap |