| Show LYFORD STILL LYING AROUND IS HE ON ANOTHER BEGGING LEGGING expeditions NEW nem YORK march 14 at the central methodist episcopal church on seventh avenue today rev 0 P lyford pastor of the methodist Methe dist church in provo utah delivered a very eloquent and interesting sermon sermons being a description and exposition of mormonism and its doctrines he eulogized tho country of utah stating that it was one of the most interesting portions of this country with its rich and fertile valleys and delightful scenery and climate the people of utah however were the most oppressed and degraded in the world he characterized brigham young as the greatest despot and monster living the spirit of mormonism is in intense hostility to all huiatt government or law he claimed that brigham ighani Br young possesses more power than the pope because the latter governs by legislation while brigham controls the territorial legislature holds a hundred thousand people in the worst bondage and holds the lowest vices as the first principles of religion he gave a description of the spy system adopted in every village in the territory by which all private family matters were reported A by spies to brigham in this way brigham controlled oled elections he also gave a vivid picture of the horrible her nible condition of society in consequence of the practice of polygamy it is a general thing ald sald said aid the speaker to see a mormon with a family of five live or six wives and twenty or more children living ia in a hut containing only two or three rooms under such circumstances the children of such pa rents could not possibly grow up with the slightest sense of morality he related numerous instances and descriptions of the condition of the mormon church and in conclusion said the founders of the methodist church at provo had resolved to remain in that godforsaken territory notwithstanding the opposition of the Mormon sand to solve the mormon problem by establishing christian schools and churches and disseminating christian literature for where these influences fluen ces exist mormonism must perish S JP chronicle Chr onide |
