Show nis HIS SPEECH sidetracked it was finally decided however that an opportunity would be given me to read my paper so said eaid your note of sept 14 but yo you could not then fix the date I 1 waited day after day and at last received your your note of sept 20 with just this in it will you read your paper in in hall ball 3 next monday morning sept 25 to this I 1 replied it would give me pleasure to do so eo provided such presentation fresen i tation shall not debar me from presenting the paper pa per also before the parliament of Religion ain the hall of columbus I 1 suge suggested ested however that I 1 would prefer to prepare another paper for the meeting in hall ball 3 that would be more in keeping with the character of those me meetings when I 1 banded that to you in the columbus hall you gave me to understand that the reading in hall 3 was vas to be all the hearie hearing the church I 1 rc represent present was to have whereupon pon I 1 told you that I 1 could not consent to that arrangement and that same day I 1 wrote you a letter which I 1 placed in the hands of your your secretary thursday night 0 from which I 1 quote you ask me if I 1 will read it my paper in liall 3 designated as the scientific section of the parliament in what I 1 am going to say ay I 1 do not cast any reflection on tle the character and importance of the meetings held field in that hall aro are both interesting and important in their line and 0 the presiding officer is both broadminded broad minded and courteous but now I 1 submit that in view of all the facts as here stated state d the hesitation about admitting mormonism to the parliament etc etc I 1 may be pardoned for sayi saying ng that to ask me to read my paper there and let that be the only li hearing carin that mormonism has looks very like an attempt to sidetrack the church I 1 represent while the parliament preserves a reputation for broadminded broad minded toleration that could not exclude even a mormon while as a matter of fact it hears of him either not at all or else only as in a corner you will see at once how impossible it is for me to accede to your request hall 3 whatever may be said in praise of the meetings held there is not the hall of the parliament of religions nor tho the platform from which the great religious sects and faiths have bave A hearing bearing such as could be obtained in hall ball 3 is not the kind of hearing bearing the mormon church asks for or can accept she asks to speak through her rep representative in ill the full parliament before bedfor e all the world having full time balfan half an hour allotted to her her in which to proclaim to it what to her are the great truths of religion ir if that cannot be accorded she will be content with the dib distinction of being the one voice in all the world that could not be heard in such an assembly sc |