Show A FE FEELING ELING APPEAL the following circular has been beell handed to us not b by the writers and as it may bo be interesting to our readers we wel give it publication y P GREAT saut SALT LAKE CITY U T e TUESDAY jtb I 1 I 1 deam dear christian Bre lir ethren threw ont out of a 0 strange place we make our appeal to you A strange community we are living among a strange social atmosphere environs us strange doctrines gnostic materi materialistic anthropomorphic orphic I 1 I 1 gain icare aro are being taught U 11 sunday sunda alter alunday sunda hero here ere ero increasing thouds bands of children are growing up in this territory who have never hoard heard of any other religion than the mormon who know absolutely nothing of any other social system than iff rothe ghitl christian church has sent us here to do missionary work the work is needed and we have commenced it on the first bu sunday day in may the regular services ser vices of the chur church were arst first celebrated here and have been uninterruptedly continued already eighteen have nave been baptized eleven confirmed and there are twenty one communicants i on the first ot of july a da day school was waa opened and aud d yesterday es er a the second term erm 0 of t this Is school began degan egan in th this s day school we are teaching and training nin nifty fifty scholars in our sunday school are nao rao more e iban ihan one hundred scholars with gods help and blessing we mean to go right on with just such work woric us we are doing if this laud Is to be saved through gli pil the holy spirit to civilization and christianity the children must be taught and trained in civilized christ christian ian lan ways remember Ke member that without huch such teaching and training the children will wil of course accept mormonism and polygamy in which they nave have been born and bred to which they have become naturalized than which t they e know absolutely nothing else for a religion or for a scheme of 01 social we ille but while we pray god for his help and blessing on us and our work and while we stay here hero at our post humbly resolute to try to do clo our duty we must look to you and ask you for fon your help and prayers largo help and earnest prayers wo we need from you bufler bunner us to mention U n first t that we can not command much help from the people here of course the mormons cormons will not help us A large part of the gentiles 11 if you will pardon the singular expression are e jews these will do very littie liitle for us cherest tho the rest of the gentiles are willingly and liberally contributing trl Irl now to the support of our services and to further whatever we undertake they hep will do what they can we beg to assure you that we will not suffer the kasl kast to be asked for money in any case where the people who ought to give here will do nolI nothing ting for themselves brethren such Is the statement of our case ye we are sent here nere to do a work we are the only oni hristian christian ministers in this Terri terni territory tor we 0 have vib begun gun the work with gods guidance d help and blessing we mean to stay here and try to 10 do the work worm forilla for him nim the great fea ture oi of the work is the teaching and training of the children now for our needs we need first some land a lot for our own to build upon we need second to have a house borse built on that lot we pay now a rent of bogo per annum for our present inadequate school house on the same lot we want to build a house shouse a rectory or ol if you please the bouse lor the Asso associate clate mission the present hired rectory costs wa M per annum for rent we mave make no appeal now for achurch we ara are willi willing dg as yet to worship in the hall 11 which we nave have fitted up in a churchly manner r we have inquired about land laud we have examined lots A suitable one is offered us we have thoughtfully made our estimates we have taken counsel of ones than ourselves and we numbly humbly earnestly tell you how antich wo want we want for it god willing we will buy an nere acre and a quarter quarte of land in the midst of the city and ou on this lot we will build the school house bouse and the house hoube of we will add that time to us as Is of great importance we bg thau that tile the money may be placed in ds this winter in order that in the coming spring P we nye may get to worx upon our buildings kibwe if weare lre ire to stay here if through the holy ghost wa are to permanent work here for god and the church ast for and the ihen then must we have land and house nud aud a tile tiie elements of strong centralized associate work I 1 we hirm siro ply tell you of our b eeds needs we earnestly rray gray pray god itle fhe holy spirit to put it into your hearts ears to help heip us if f you could coula appreciate the strangeness of our position here and of or the cirou instances ot of our present experience and the ghe weakness to all human view of our ifyu influence upon tipon the mighty error enwrapping wrapping en uryon would help us ino iho women of the et kast would help us uk ou all christians would willingly help us to get our footing to establish ourselves on land of our own that bye and bye with gods help and blessing may be our influence against error will not be so weak and puny as now it 16 seems the bishop cannot come east to appeal to you personally he reels feels too strongly thal that it is his daty duty to stay now where he is it is his bis earnest hope therefore that thau hibi ihla appeal may reach the hearts of the breth brethren reirin in the east that thal they may be led through the holy spirit to 10 give liberally and promptly this sum needed budwith and with all your glam great or small dear brethren we beg you to offer up your prayers tor us that the g good 0 0 d nord lord will guide us and strength strengthen en us and b biess bless 1 us in our work for him through gli ati his spirit pir and la in Hi his church for tue loving Sav saviors lors bake sake donations in answer to this appeal should be marked for the building fund sall salt lake nake city associate mission and may be addressed to the rev dr twing 19 nible bible nue noe H hue ae a e new york city alty or to either one of the ned at great t salt lake city U T on the arst of december and after that monthly 1 r the bishop will make a public statement in the church papers of condition of tills building fund DANL danil 8 TUTTLE GEO W FOOTE dues RuEs nu THOS W deacon DECO acon Acox cant la Is described bowe by webster ister as the whining speech of beggars as in asking alms and making complaints of their distresses cant is explained by johnson as a whining pretension to 0 goodness in both these senses our readers will agree ag alree with nath us doubtless inc Inn in calling alling the above appeal scant gant A more wretched string of sophistries sophis tries we wo have lave seldom read the writers knew well what chords to touch to move the hearts of those to whom they have appealed mormonism and polygamy 1 1 land to be saved to civilization and christianity 11 children to bo be trained in civilized christian ways only christian missionaries in the territory what pictures do these words conjure up in the imaginations of the dear christ christian lan iau brethren in the east three devoted self sacrificing creatures forsaking all the comforts and enjoyments enjoy ments df tho the east cast and coming out as missionaries among the uncivilized mor mons struggling alone here among gnostics agnostics materialists Materia lists and polygamists what dear christian brother or sister in the east could refuse help to such a a loving and pathetic appeal as this the perils perlis of a mission to the dejeo islands will be small in their imagination compared with those encountered by this devoted bishop presbyter and deacon As for it required this circular to show us what horrible beings we are out here if they had called us anthropophagi pop hagi hagl 0 1 orman or man mau eaters we would not have been surprised indeed indeed we can not see why they dla dia did not include include this in their list of charges historians tell us that the primitive christ christians lans ians were accused by their slanderers slander ers of being guilty of when they met in secret 1 as they had to d do 0 to partake of the sacrament their enemies charged them with killing children and having cannibal feasts we do not claim to be any better than they were and there is as much foundation for a charge of this kind being made against the people of Utah as there is for many others which are made 41 god and the church civilization and the Gov government emment are all to suffer u idess unless help is extended liberally and promptly to these newly nely fledged missionaries what tremendous interests are dependent on their weak and puny efforts surely christendom in general and the episcopal church in particular will not avert their eyes or refuse to unloose their purse strings to help these struggling martyrs they only want fifteen thousand dollars who can withhold a donat donation lou lon when they are told that the salvation of the children of the entire people of utah hinges on the col action of this sum they say sa y of course the mormons cormons will not help hello us why it should be a matter of course that the community here will not help them they do not say we will pledge our word that this community if appealed to will give more to sustain a moral institution of any character than all the bishops Presbyter presbyters Presby and deacons of the episcopal church did to relieve the distress bistre 3 of the latter day aay saints when thrust out from the midst of so called civilization when the battalion of live five lund bund bundred hundred men ben was raised in 46 in response to time tire call of the government the men left their families in the midst of an indian country an influential gentleman himself and und famil family y were we believe episcopalians Episcopal ians came from Ny washington ashington at that time to visit us and was moved with compassion at th the e destitute condition of these families ho he urged that an appeal be made to the philanthropic for means to relieve their wants his hia suggestion was accepted and a gentleman accompanied him on his return east he did what he could himself but they only raised a very few dollars we asked for bread and they gave us a stone we asked for fish and they gave us as a serpent the signers of this tills appeal have neither asked for bread nor fish of the people but had they needed they would without doubt have been supplied the allusion made to the jews in this circular is a poor attempt at wit and in very bad taste ilisan ibis itis an unmerited fling and the israelites are certainly not to blame for doing very little for them these men seem to guage people by the amount of money they give them and pronounce their opinion on accordingly money is what they want and that they may get it t they bey invoke god godf the bioly spirit 19 to put it into the hearts of their dear christian brethren to give it to them they call the doctrines of this community I 1 gnostic materialistic anthropomorphic and Poly gamie gamio 11 in what sense they call them gnostic wo we cannot tell our opinion is they know very little themselves about the gnos ties if it by materialistic they mean that we believe that matter is isi eternal then they are correct for this is certainly our belief if by anthropomorphic they mean that we believe that god made ician man in his own ima lma image g e 11 and that we are created in his illien likeness ess they are correct again ugin this is our our belief these doctrin doctrines ea are set forth go plainly in tho the scriptures that no person who has any belief in them can entertain doubts of their truth uth but wo do nol not belleve believe in ja praying to dodte e holy spirit and ally any man who does Is in our opinion a heretic it Is a species of idolatry for the scriptures plainly teach that the holy spirit is the fathers minister and that when wo we pray it ip the father whom we should address in the name of jesus the words of jesus to the woman of samaria will apply to them ye worship ye yo know not what when these self styled christian ministers came here we understand they disclaimed all intention of seeking to make proselytes prose lytes among the community they th ey made this statement voluntarily they came they said to look after the members of their own persuasion the circular reveals a adif differ lerent elit plit pur purpose ose and the covert manner in whiz whig which it was printed and sent onn off the people here not being permitted to see a copy indicates that they love darkness rather than light |