Show vie decay of mormonism A rumor is in in circulation that great num 1 bers of the mormons cormons Mor mons having become dissatisfied with mith the practical workings of the I 1 system terns are preparing to take advantage of t the ze protection secured them by the presence pre arese prese ice of 0 t the protection e army and decamp aiom aiom salt lake city beteri ing to the disaffection existing among amonette amo nethe the mormons cormons Mor mons a correspondent of the new york lork ller herald td writing fi aiom om great salt lale lake city says bays alie chuich is is in making king strenuous efforts to to throw lirow its arras arms around its vv wavering averin in members and draw the them m onci once more to its bosom osom in that fatal embrace with which it has so long lone and fearfully bound them its apos apostles ties elders bishops and teachers are busy bolstering up the faltering faith of their followers by preaching primary mary p principles r inci ples non intercourse with gi gentiles e n tiles a and n d exhorting them to ren renew evv tb their air coven covenants ants the tabernacle closed since the move last spring has I 1 leen been reopened and service beivide resumed pratt faylor hyde and others of the dial s have bave held forth respectively the claims claim 0 of the book of mormon the principles ot of the church of jesus jesua christ of latter day sa saints ants ill and a castigation upon the gentile por portion tion tt t the community yes notwithstanding abar efforts apostasy apo stacy is 13 fast spreading drough ou gh the folds ot of the church and stalking ciol coldly to the very fi resides of its leaders busig aming their own children to rise u up and T renounce them and their dogmas an and vow to leave the land let come what hat will we kil know 0 w not t how far the above statement I 1 may I 1 I 1 be r relied elleo on but N ve e are disposed to t think b the there re is much truth in it athas it has ever teen been a matter of astonishment to us that so many could be deluded by the transparent deceptions of mormonism A cheat and a trundle from I 1 its ts inceptions inception and 8 so 0 known to be acly bythe the leaders of the sect who wh 0 have used it tor lr the tbt ad advancement van cement of their ambition avarice arid and sensual pleasures it has always s teen to us ua surprising that in in this enlightened ed y 0 men could be found ignorant an and d c redu gemen ilous enough u to be duped by it alam me was established at an era ahen the world was wrapped in moral amoral darkness and it is an acknowledged fact abat under the blaze of light shed filled by modern civilization mohammedanism is ia fast ina away and yet mohammedanism NN was as far r more exalted and less immoral in its tenets jenets than mormonism A delusion it yet appealed led to religious fanaticism to the ly to tile the heroism of mankind to inaki aake the success of the deception complete IVI kiib alf little knowledge of di divine VI ne revelation the followers of the cresent were not difficult to convince of the authenticity of tile the koran an which aich did not purport to conflict with the revealed bev will of god as contained in the bible and which possessed many passages leplate with beautiful tuli i an morality and PJ pro ro human wisdom recognizing pa poleg ag yg amy mohammedanism could not be on that account repugnant to a people to whom the system was already alre adya a familiar one but as we have said does not flourish in the nineteenth century the day 1 is daiv dawning in the last east evan there with the mists misad of 0 ages lili hanging nging ro adit the crescent is ia pali paling before the rising stina in the pursuit of n mir their own selfish ends england france ance and russia have contributed to the ssi pation of civil and religious error the hash flash from their muskets was as the first ray of light that penetrated the moral darkness of the east and its sudden glare has revealed to the benighted followers follow era of islam the bondage dage e in which they are enthralled if mohammedanism pales before the 1 light I lit of civilization how la is it possible that mormonism or can go on augmenting tile the number of its fo followers lowe re if tile the mosque totters and t trembles before the batteries of truth tru t h how shall the temple of the latter day saints stand I 1 it in the th e moral twill twilight lit of the th e fast east the moslem begins to throw off ff tile hie reli religious I 1 on despotism that has haa for ages shackled him how is tt it possible that a religious despotism despot IBM still more blighting and far more degrading shall continue to flourish in the noontide of light andray and daya we may well viell believe that the days of mormonism are numbered we can imagine that we v e see the hand band writing on the wall mene ane e were not the fact of its existence staring us jn the face we might well ask how he is it possible sible that mormon mormonism dam could exist for a day possible Sos ay could ever have exist existed ed under th the circumstances cum stances surrounding it ita though it may prove difficult to account for so extraordinary nar a phenomenon if indeed it can be accounted accounted for at all it is easy to see that unless some extraordinary change occurs in in the moral atmosphere of the age mormon alor ism must perish the tabernacles may be opened pratt taylors taylor I hyde and the brigham young himself may preach up the boulo ut a mormon arid and inveigh against the gentiles till they grow hoarse and missionaries ma may y be sent out over the world to recruit but a all I 1 will not we are convinced perpetuate so abominable and odious a here heresy as lex mo E ex post tor |