Show MORMON AND CHRISTIAN THE dr newman who went forth from washington to salt lake city to take mormonism by storm by flourishing his bis orthodox bible in its face has had to come away after a pretty severe tilt with one of the leading elders leaving his bible behind him it must have been extremely humiliating elder pratt took his bible out of his hands bands and opened it again and again to pages that taught and upheld the polygamy doctrine reading off whole vol voi volleys leys of historical texts that went to establish the leading bible characters esteemed saints by orthodoxy as regular mor mons dr newman craw fished amazingly on this part of the argument and was at last rather glad to abandon it to his mormon opponent nor did the latter leave his visible advantage un improved he charged home vigorously on the reverend doctor and pointed him triumphantly to the practices of such cities as new york where it was an acknowledged part of civilization to hold bold one wife but bat debauch as many others as possible in the open dens of iniquity the people committed sin enough every twenty four faur hours according to elder pratt to vo sink them in hell heli permanently and be h e likewise points and slid justly too I 1 to the pollution and infanticide of the nation at large while a handful of people practicing bible marriage in the mountains beyond the plains plain sare are threatened with extermination he declares himself quite ready to compare the piety and pollution of one side with the t he same qualities of the other somebody carrying crying more guns than dr newman will have hage to be bo bent sent out missionary ing among the mormons cormons Mor mons banner oj of light sept 14 |