Show taff MORMON orl ORf lony foNy missionaries ff twe TAE THEl jondon randon daily news of a recent date date kate has hns a very lengthy article from a who ha waa visited this city and obtained most of his views of the people here from persons opposed to their faith and interests the gent lomans lemans hoW however every eyers atten attended ded the conference in the tab and was greatly impressed with the missionary system of the church being present at the calling of a R number of elders to go into the tra velling ministry he says this thia part of the proceedings was summet bummed summed I 1 up in the gentile local paper the following day days by the statement that 81 mormon tramps are to be let loose next week on the united states and europe 1 but a gre great at fact is not to be ignored by a flippant R adversary dver sary and it struck me that this brief announcement larmeu ulu moat most striking part of the proceed ed ings inge the men who were thus nominated to go 90 forth to the ends of the earth and labor among hostile populations were of various ages and occupying diverse positions there were old and youngs young married and single but all snaring in common the necessity of earning their living ag if the command laid up on them had also al so involved the appropriation of a more or lom ibba snug salary alary with expenses paid I 1 it might in bome home cases have assumed a lerent different dlf aspect bat but when men in the mormon camp are suddenly called upon to leave father and mothers mother wife and child I 1 ren business and home they not only go forth without any provision in the way of monthly or yearly pay but they pay their own passage money to the scene of their labors and there live as they calof courses course they may decline to go goy and there are no means of active comp compulsion ulala the most common omm response to the command is an as that the newly nominated missionary will be ready to start within a week or sooner booner if desired most churches have missionaries but I 1 do not know any church that exclusively has missionaries on these terms and one that can command a constant supply will always be a power in the world it seems to us that thai the willingness exhibited by our brethren to labor in this way to promulgate an unpopular ular nian creed and their faith and zeal zesil in the cause would lead thinking people generally to investigate with some degree of fairness the toe principles of a system which creates such devotion and anoh fidelity to its in te rests there is nothing to compare with it in the creeds that are alleged to be so ED vastly superior to 66 mormonism and reason would show that there must be a power behind it that is worthy the atten ion of the wise wine |