| Show j THAT PISTOL AND AD BIBLE STORY EyeWitness Says Thoro Thero Was No Such uch an Occurrence V WAS Ni AT Ar MEETING And Amid ld i There n No ro inn Gun anti nuil nUl antiN fin rl N for fur One Cite Mormon Uner L D B IS Office Salt Lake Lako Le City CI Utah May Ma IM lL To the Editor V Being noil In retaining the tho fair which tho thu m sO II county count have suo mc a aits MS its Ill u a most moet mot II KB ts k w Wed u u toe 1 and antI i c in taco anuj 1111 habits habis and i t a n aSK K for fur spa 81 o I t iii II your our paper rut fur time tho absolutely tU statements re ru rl sard gard to La tile the hav Lr tir r McMillan a mm I ex CS In i z II t us ma I i 1 sitting Hiding at the when whan Rc IC to te toIls 11 Ils his rous reports ro urte h ho he tl in ma II BU sO 81 a 1 great greal danger that he had lu to ra ta liI t e a In m one Cne hand hald While ut at ih lh time lime he hi held the in I the uther r as all ashe ashe he h was wait Ut preaching to the ui 1 vh iii 1 burgh i a was Hot there utIca hen he lie held livId Ills his hIl meeting m In time the Ile wai wa 1 was wat Mormon property amid Is eu so s yet jet HK lie J had hul time the tie use UI of vt t tho time house free of charge by courtesy of ot lI ld 1 Canute lIter l who at lt that time was MI Bl ho o of oe Ephraim Bishop 1 was wa alto also present nt ot lt that meeting m to tt sether gether with wih a n somali small number of ot other othu members of at the Church nearly oil ail Scandinavians No pistol OI was vas IS on liana hand handor haMor or l liy y the reverend be bo bohe hero liero he and ha ho hl was oven even there and then gutting get some of ot our to turn lOin In singing from Crom his own hymn books which he distributed amoni tIme the audi ence once Not a I word of ot a opposition or 01 any ally al thing thins else el e that could no ae IO construed ns as lS asa a b mark of at towards loard him personally was wal exhibited by bt b any In one but a submission to his hil sermon characterized that flint meeting like many mau other meeting of a similar nature that have Stave been bon held since sinco that time The Tho he people recognized In his sermon ormon the tho tie old I Lutheran way wa of tt preaching which they thoy ta I had heard heald In II I nativo nathe lands and from I which they turned ture to accept the true hue under tho ho Priesthood ot of Cr Got Curiosity more than nay any other motive had no doubt brought this audience together especially for the benefit ot of orl the oung joung people who had hit not nOI been trained In tho the sectarian ways of re religious worship and preaching and anti for this reason realon preachers of sectarian de tie denominations nominations have always been cour courteously courteously courteously treated and ad our houses houle of ot wor worship ship tendered theta them nearly always free freo of ot charge t There Thero is another reverend slanderer who ho may at lt this Ihli time come In iii for or a ashare share In the glory glor attending exposed and hypocrites for Cor It Is I not the Presbyterian clergy alone who pro produce pr produce duce those who love loe and make a nie lie Other sectarian clergymen have done donl their share pharo as al well velI and among amonI that class the Methodists are In the front ranks Last J t Saturday May a 16 a Norwegian gentleman called at nt this office being directed by Elder J lder Joseph Jo eph H I Felt Fel The he visitor Mr J 1 was vas on his way wn to 10 California from Chicago where Is his homo home and family CamlY and he ho came Caine to this office to learn If possible of or the where whereabouts whereabouts oIce relative who of some More or had hM left lett his native nalo Iy In Norway many yours years I ugo Not being able ablo to furnish him the tho desired Information Lion tion he soon noon turned the conversation upon lon other matters maters In connection r with ami the Mormons ant particularly was WIS he desirous to learn lear some gome of ot the tho dangers supposed to exist In Utah to pal and Ind others suet such as he hall hail heart of ot In the east cast Thus ThuR was brought to light the tIme existence In our midst t of another hypocritical vil ner and 0 n Norwegian minister at that thai viz vi Franklin the th I Reverend Dr Peter Peler Hoel hod My ly gentleman g visitor told me that he lint hal heard Mr Ir Franklin Frankln state to a n Methodist t audience in 10 which this Ihl gentleman belonged that h he Franklin genteman had himself heard n a leading speaker Raker In Ind the Tabernacle In Salt Sal Luke Lake city say soy that no one of ot the Saints needed CI to take any In notice or be Alarmed If It they should happen to hear screams outside their houses house or they some ome day might come across acrON n a dog 1101 carrying a 1 limb or COle the head of n a human being for that was the th way vay the Mormons Mormon oron got cot wal rid of apostates and their enemies I asked the If he hc really rallY cou coull could d Ihl believe such Burh n a stork and antI how ho he could account belee for Mr Ir escape at nt atu suet such u h a time lime and yet be present here In Utah Ut h 1 traveling and doing business un unmolested unmolested molested with the very people that P he hehns has hns so maliciously wih slandered el Mv My h vl vIlt t tor or said sId that was vas no I doubt because beau Mr Franklin was vas not a n Mormon In this 1 for cor mistaken sold said I you ou ar a are greatly gretY Mr Franklin 1 had ben a Mormon It Is s said ld he hail even been a n Ind Mormon I missionary II In Scandinavia while the late hate Canute Peter win mon hil presided ls This was waR Indeed Inde a surprise to my I antI and brought him to think eon con cn lor about the reliability nt of r such sueh clr cir hostile reports co so hostie shout bout this Mormons by the ti ministers of ot the hosei who are united upon u n this on onE one thing thin on only unie that ar of fighting denting Is only si a misnomer ml for the true HUe tol l of I tAnd doing so o 0 by the most mOt nil wil wilful U ful tul misrepresentations th that t could tul be b hatched botched out In the t abode of ot tb con cn condemned un under own awn elan alon C C 7 A P I S Peter Hoel Hol M I hap bap bp Used In s Norway Aug AUP It 9 1 tM 1170 tle tt by 11 Nih late lale of ot Ix Logan n Utah C CC C A C |
