Show FOR MY NAMES FAMES SAKE unde UNDER X the above heading the new york yoris world of sept publishes the following fol foi lowing especial dispatch Brool ml le ind sept 24 for beveral several weeks past a ra farot r of mormon elders have been preaching pres ching in this county whenever uhan fiver they could EO cure the use of a church or school housa house they spent much maeh timo time in the vicinity of the town of laurel laurei and were given accommodations by bv mr D W adams they left there for other fields and on last mibs annie an eighteen year old daughter ot of mr adams adama disappeared from home bearch search was instituted and ands ehe bhe he w was aa found conceal concealed ed I 1 in 11 a house at berdar gr grove ove ova where the eldero eiders were visiting she had been converted and baptized into the church of ezry christ ohi obi 11 b by y one ol of SG dge S G dei eel Jers er anol anci had been ila in baing deveral several days before she was discovered baher by her parents pi renis rents it was with the utmost difficulty she was wab a 3 persuaded rd to toni tori return turn to her home as she sho was thoro thoroughly convinced that tho the cC hurch church of jesus christ was waa the only true faith and she wished to g ga to utah last night tho the elders were vere found at the house of mr billion Elli bon gon in the hills a 8 few miles from laurel there theres about midnight they received calls from about able bodied brutes who escorted them to the woods and made them strip an and d submit to a coating of tar and feathers th they ey were th then en threatened with lyn ay ching if they did not leave the county speedily able bodied brutes is an appropriate prop term to bo be used in reference to the robbers who are ere bald baid bal bai d to havo have maltreated mal treated two missionaries for no other offense offence than preaching the gospel and nd administering ministerIng the ordinance of christian baptism to a young lady of age ngo to act on her own judgment and responsibility 4 the elders were performing their labors within thell theil the dimits mits mita of the law and were entitled to t 0 its protection the young lady had a perfect right to chooro her own religion bhe she bl lbs lieveld and desired to be baptized no ono one had lawful authority to prevent her exercise ot of that free fres agency which god has li as given to all nil his children hermar her parents had the right to forbid her ne taking any stee step which they considered wrong if ft she was under the age at which the law places majority and to ube use proper influence to induce her not to do boj BO oven even if she had hwd attained her majority but eat no p 0 one can plead law jaw scripture a drip crip ture or good reason for using violence either to her or the tho elders who administered a sacred ordin ordinance aneo anee according to her request tho the public mind Is ia much rauch inflamed by unfounded re reports orta and wicked misrepresentations misri of tho the faith and practices of the thel latten latter atter day saints 7 which sectarian preachers preachers and sensational sat ional papers have circulated with evil intent the tha deeds of violence that have bean been the thel are traceable to thank they areas are as much emch or more to blame for them thae 4 the rabble that have perpetrated those outrage quite recently a paper papan published in georgia the state in which elderton elder elden jos job joseph lit standing anding was fonley r murdered and elder john alexander was brutally assaulted and shot at had the following paragraph there are two men calling themselves elders in the mormon church stopping in the western portion of our county they hall troa from utah and their presence here bodes bodea no good to tolerate their nefarious preaching la Is a reflection on the intelligence or our out people and unless the law jaw can be made to reach them common decency demands that they bo be notified to go I 1 and stand not upon the order of their going yut but Put go at once this is but a sample of newspaper paragraphs written in this land of civil and religious liberty to incite lawless people to deeds of ruff lanis in and intolerance that would be a disgrace to savages eay bay ages agea hero here is intolerance against preaching advocated as a virtue and that tolerance which is alike a feature of true religion and the civil coda of every state in the union denounced as a reflection upon the intelli intelligence V ence enca of the people measures are advocated outside the tha lines of the law in other words is advised and incited and against whom peaceable men attending to thel rown bulnes business Qs which is simply preaching the he pure gospel of the new vew testament and administering its ordinances to believers they force themselves into no conw ones a they tc to none who 00 ao do 00 not choose to listen they baptize no one who does not believe in jesus christ and their authority to administer the rite they interfere with no ones frea free dom dow civil or religious nor do they iame invade any pers persons onla rights why then this advocacy and EX es ercile of force against them 1 Is 19 9 jt it not because they preach a doctrine that hat cannot bo be refuted related and car carry ry an influence which cannot be explain ed adaway away they are made tob toa to bunner uffer for christs bake sake and are persecuted because of tho the truth which hey bear the worlds heading to the dispatch which ve have copied la t and significant oar out elders laboi in the tho spirit of that expression rhose those who receive their testimony and by obedience obtain tho the assurance ance of divine civi ne acceptance and approbation jaure contumely in the same samu fp ep rt ri really bel bei believing feving lovIng acting upon lipon the saviors saying blessed are yo ye when men revile you and persecute you and shall bay say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake rejoice and exceeding be glad for great is your reward in heaven for eo persecuted they the prophets which were before for eyou esou you sou and it JA is for this reason that the assassinations tarring tanning and feathering la in indiana and the cowardly violence vIol vio lenca erica of jn in other places entirely fall fail of their object the in which they occur form the most fruitful fielde fields tor ton missionary work when the pub mind haa hab had time to reflect all the one ene enemies niles of mormonism can count as the result of their un american unchristian and unman ly teich teachings ings and doings is the suffering endured in the spirit of sacrifice and martyrdom for the Mas master teris terIg saxe bauce by the objects of 01 their violence it does not noi stop atop the thu spread of our principles it does not deter the elders eiders from performing that which they deem to bo be their duty it does not prevent in quiring minds from believing the creed that is thus thua assailed it does not prove that the cause caute represent ed by tar feathers bludgeons revolvers vol vers ninnes rifles and howling cursing run nun ruffian niane fiane is better than the cause against which uch arguments aro are projected the he preachers and papers that advocate the policy of force make nothing against thia work but they iet let themselves down to the level of the savage and rank the tho themselves elves with the bigots and persecutors of all ages who have fought rought progress rejected light killed the prophets tortured the martere martyre mar man lyre tyre and acted as tools for the devil if people peo do not want to hear mormonism preached they are not compelled to listen if they think it erroneous they have full tuli liberty and plenty of lawful means to oppose it if they do not nov like ilke the men who advocate it they can kepp keep out of their comp comy company and advise others to do the same but they degrade and debase themselves by advis inz inc brute force and in the end they will accomplish nothing in thu tho direction sought but will provoke sympathy for the per executed and raibe raise inquiry amo among n g many who might otherwise be I 1 indifferent n and t the h e sure result will be converts to the beetem against which buch euch unfair and brutal brn tai tal pona lions are directed and for 3 X faithful 69 mor mormon moimoi Mor Moi mow mon 11 1 1 ed or disabled by such buch davs bmat dozen will be inspired to put toie moie whole armor of christ christi and DJ go g manfully to do and bunner buffer all r needful for his names at ae |