Show mormonism somo some thirty years ago a small band of mormons cormons Mor mons driven away from nauvoo illinois sought refuge in the valley of tilo tile great salt lake then thein an unexplored wilderness across the mountains and the desert enduring privation and hardship these devotees ofa of a strang 3 e religion sought shelter in the v valleys a aleys and canyons of the mountains that they trusted their leaders believed in their prophets and had confidence in the do dogmas domm mm of their new faith falth was illustrate J by blindly follow following them to the promised land TU this h valley of the thie great salt lake was a grassy waste over which tile bhe indian roamed and wild game found its haunts the mormons cormons took up their abode therein from the mountains they brought the clear sparkling waters to irrigate and make fruitful the tho soil they plowed and planted and rich har bar vests rewarded their toil toll from the bhe hills they quarried granite for their bhear homes and temple uneducated and gathered from the ney ner neglected and 1 ignorant borant of the earth they hey huilt built schoolhouses school houses I 1 n by immigration and rom natural causes they laid ho foundation of a great c community gal galther althey they grew rich their nocks flocks and herds extended to the moun mountains ta ins heln heir homes pushed themselves to the he neighboring valley valleys there here grow grew up a goodly city and in 1 it are order and law no city in america affords so soi great a degree of protection to life and property no its size in the world where there here is better police regulation lation where there is less prostitution less poverty and want less intemperance less gambling no city eity or country that so steadily furnishes labor to the unemployed A railroad of their own construction connects them with the great overland route and a system of rail rall and wagon roads radiates through ligh tigh all the neighboring valleys and through I 1 the he canyons reaching to the mountain aln summits they are an indus arious prosperous and frugal people there chore are no gigantic and tind overshadowing fortunes growing out of heir their system there are no poor boor poor men starving for employment and for bread in their midst there are no women driven to prostitution and crime through poverty is no class of hoodlums growing in idleness to a life of vice and crime these mormons cormons have not selfishly set themselves down to the enjoyment of their own caso ease and luxury but have an 0 organized rg anizel immigration system which is is a part of their church polity to bring from the poor of E europe cropo their relations and friends friend sr to en enjoy joy with them the tho freedom and aban abundance of their new homes we purposely abstain from enumerating the ho criminal acts which their enemies charge upon them we do not in this article undertake to reconcile the discovery of the book of mormon translated from the brazen tablets with probabilities but we do ask other denominations to mark the practical results from mormon teaching and ask themselves if they cannot draw lessons for imitation wo have seen in our own and other lands splendid monuments of christ christian ian lan zeal grand architectural structures cathedral mosque arnd arid temple with dome minaret and spire costliest cost liest carvings of oak and marble richest ornaments of glass and gilding and under the shadows of these gorgeous palaces of the christians Christi christl anys anas god and within sound of the solemn worship we have seen crime poverty oppression inequality and misery in every form in ih england we see gau gaunt nt and ghastly poverty in america broad uncultivated acres from england hungry eyes s look greedily to our hell rich soil and ad our land would welcome their immigrants Ini grants yet while both nation are rich and abound in ships neither church nor government aids tho the matrimony of gods children to gods soil in all christian lands we observe women abandoned of society and abandoned of godana god and men in san francisco where are so many elegant and costly chur chesso many intellectual and well paid di divines vints so much of sabbath observance and pomp of worship and so little of aid to the struggling and care for the poor and encouragement coura gement ement to the fallen we some sometimes times wonder how it itt can bo be that from so questionable a religion as mormonism there should flow so much of good I 1 X if so much good can grow out of a false system what wonderful results might not bo be accomplished under the inspiration of a higher civilization tand land and a purer morality if there thero could be brought drou brou ht to their aid the tile same zeal and energy that tha have character characterized the followers of this absurd rell reli religions gion glon 9 F h chron chronicle acle se sept lp t 7 |