Show WHY woy noi NOT amon AMONG awon ca all the plans of fighting mormonism niam why is there no mention made of moral suasion why do no not noi t all the religious denom denominations lna ina make it a point to keep a strong missionary lorce force in that field it might be ba more effective than coercion 11 the above paragraph appears in the grand michigan times tho the questions propounded are eany eacy answered every effort of the kind hind proposed has been a miserable failure true such measures have not been bean tried to any great extent but missionaries of the various denominations who have tried their hands bands a at t tho the mormons cormons Mor mons have dico ered that reason and scripture have no effect in the direction sought because they mey harmonize har with the system assailed but it is seldom that a minister of any of the sects with great ability has haa attempted fairly to overturn the doctrines of tho the latter day baat lia hia ints the arguments of anti auti mormon preachers prea chema chera are usually based upon false premises the common method is to assume som gom something ething ridiculous as aa the creed ortho of the tho cormons mormons Mor mons and then proceed to deride and r refute 0 athis pleases persons persona opposed to but caly conti confirms its ita adherents the class clasa of men detailed to missionary work in utah Is ia of an inferno in ferio ferlo arade rade it is rare that a man of Once sincerity rity and und talent figures here as a representative of any of the leading sect it if he is honest hearted he Is ia not brilliant if ho he is capable he be is not true so bo he usually s t oties otles e ties down aa a teacher of juveniles with a sunday bermon sermon for his fellow sectarians sect arians and nu an occasional cas ens onal ional F spiteful attack on tho the mor mons which hab hns no more effect tuan than the snappish bark of on an nil nii natured cur cut a lot of stupid bud but sensational stories com eom composed of gossip slander and exaggerated ag incidents in early western Illi hl history story atory and aad mixing them with a few pious platitudes and appeals for aid to savo bavo the rising generation from alleged Is mormon horrors he makes a tour of the baat and gath era cash from the credulous and benevolent ne there is not a book that we have seen akermon a erman ermon or lecture that we have heard or a strong article that we have read attempting to refute mormonism that has haa truthfully defined oun our creed or correctly stated the case and we have waded through volumes and columns enough on the opposite side of this question onto to make a good sized library anu nna heard more i ublia speeches about it Is than we care ever to waste valuable time upon again those who assail I 1 9 desiring to overthrow it by logic and moral suasion do not under stand it to begin with and those thole who berate and abuse and make fun fan of it do not net attempt to be accurate but only try to be bitter and smart ii it surp burp surprising then that euch luch ma missionary efforts as have beon been dl di erected tais way have accomplished nothing it Is ia a standing axiom with the lile represented here that it la Is hopeless to expect to do anything with the adult mor mons and the only chance of success lles lies with the little ones onea who may be entrapped entrap pud pod into sectarian rec terlan tarlan in fluen fluentes ces under the predence pretence pre tence of scholastic education and it is ba cause the preachers sent bent hero herons as school teachers 4 at the expense of orthodox denominations in the east have for their object the seduction of our children from the faith of their father fathe rew that objection la Is made to pending rending the youth of the latter litter day rd kamta to schoola conducted by persons of that character this is falsely depre dented as hostility on the part ol of the mormon leaders to education while it is simply opposition to the specious ua influence of 0 pretended secular precept preceptor oth ote oi a who are only auti antl mormon in die dib disguise guite gulbe but the queries of the times Tz messie are aie pertinent especially when thesus the supposed sed bed nature and object of the religious relous denominations are considered how I 1 inconsistent n has been their courso courtain cou reain in relation to this matter professing to be followers of the loving and pitying came to geen geek and tosane to save that which was lost and whose mission was to redeem souls from error and turn the wicked to righteousness thom surface christians and lip worship church mem members bers bere incited by the hirelings of the cupit have howled for the liberties and lives of a people about whom they know but little although they have heard a g cat deal the policy pursued by the ortho orthe orthodox dox religionists of the nineteenth century towards the latter day saints Is the same as that which directed the assaults upon the jewish prophets and the early christians and which nailed the sinless one to the ac coreed tree the very leopla who cry out against the intolerance of komish raft fall into ine ibe the same spirit in their course toward the mormons cormons Mor mons they do not provide means for the enlightenment int ent of a community supposed t to 0 ba in the darkness of moral and spiritual error enor hut iut demand for their conversion prisons chains disfranchisement chi and death yes some cf the professed servants of the merc merciful ohr ht callor call cali or bayonets and cannon to destroy mormonism root and branch by exterminating its ite adherents and especially its leading men why do they not try moral suasion why do they not unite in a mis missionary jontry effort because they can cannot not noh aall aali with t truth rrth or refute it with the bible bibie Z 7 but every of that kind thoy hurl against it becomes a boomerang and the professional dospel monger of the various conflicting sects are filled with wrath against a who have come out from their thair jarring ja jarring TrIng systems and know kenow of their utter laek laate of cf divine authority and of definite knowledge concerning the things they preach about and they raise raile the old cry again and for the same reason away with them they are not inot fit nit to live and if we let these mormons cormons Mor mons alone they will spread so that they will ta take konway kenway awby away our place and nation hell is in the hearts of such advocates of violence such sach ministers of the gospel of force and they have no stomach for moz moral a suasion however wo we endorse the conjecture deec of the times that a new now departure in the treatment of chemor the mormon question might have some bome effect coercion has not yet succeeded we believe that it ift never will succeed and it is worth while for tor or those who really desire tho the extinction of mormonism to try what fair means will do towards overturning a system which has survived derision misrepresentation mobbing special legislation suffering driving armies bloodshed and martyrdom let them profit by the lessons of history and turn over a new hat leaf |