| Show written or democrat Demol rat lat evangelizing EVANGEL G elizina IZING I 1 wk S f SST mr crotus Z utan uzan ina in lna a recent issue of pom Pow cros democrat a distinguished doctor of din who has talan belf ralf thy vocation of att addressing the of sect anah godliness at salt bait lake city for a living livine laments over ever erthe ov failure of the christian churchea to make any impression upon adult mor mons add and that thab nearly nil all their attempts to dV evangelize bjore mormonism have been failures I 1 have waited patiently for some potent pen to indicate the reasons ot of this failure but ai as none have yet met my observation I 1 fully ask your indulgence for a few reflections with the view to induce others more thoroughly informed to give the needed explanations As a nonsectarian non sectarian observer during a few years yeara residence here I 1 have become convinced that all the usual attempts to evangelize bof r ohisa may as well be abandoned ati aji as hopeless the cormons mormons Mor mons aa as well as all other enlightened people know that all true adherents adhere ute of the genuine christian church both cherish and manifest an au active regard or a beit belt evidently sincere concern for the physical P hy moral and spiritual welfare of each and every member orthe of the human buman family but what can be lie thought of that preacher regard for frail sinful mortals the tho errors errora of benighted 14 mormons cormons Mor mons when his charil pharisaical sanctity revolts at eating at the same table with adult mormons Mor Alor mons for fear their religious sincerity of faith should contaminate his bis ecclesiastical sancti sanctimoniousness Is it any wonder that such a preacher preachers with such tlona tiona of seif self righteousness should fail fill to impress adult Mor Mormon fc the most casual ob observer gerver server of nu prejudiced mind cannot but see that greed lust of grain actual covetousness is the predominant motive which prompts the christian 1 attempt tem P to mormonism what V hat hav care theme these evangelizing evangel izing mia slon alon aries for the salvation of a mor mons mona duj further than than to 0 o exile him to mexico Bl exico or into the penitentiary so that they can possess themselves and their fedow lib cral beligio political freebooters of the farms arms and dwellings tha the orchards and cattle the grain and the costly public building buildings 8 which have been besin produced by mormon only industry austry economy and often by the most moat pinching frugality they cale tare about aa Rs much aa as cir tAiri military officers 1 from forr fort Canier cam berdn cared for the he civil cich rights ota ofa of a poor man with a large jarg go helpless family springs 98 about a b a u t two years yeara hince since when they robbed hith him bith of six dollars worth of giacin grain and provisions for themselves and IM U 8 military horses and shot and killed his eli ell ickens chickens under the root of his private dwelling house because the chickens cackling 16 bothered their whiskey be oud fud died brains and military commandant of the fort was apprized of the fact he tie virtually sanctioned the robbery on the plea that some bome eother pother military thief had stolen a gun which th theft eftin in military equity constituted au an equitable claim this scrupulous custodian ot lot un uncle cio clo sams guris guns when an honest debt was to be left jef t unpaid was excessively conscientious especially ally bily when its ita nonpayment non payment could bb employed aa as a EL proxy punishment af the theft of an ex soldier thief but bat when a certain new mexico migrant em aaker hini him fo fon for ahad atad received from bi n a government gun with th the thu special especial admani tidd that he need never return it then thennia bis his his bia scrupulous solicitude became apparent As a casual nonsectarian non sectarian student of the mormon falth faith aa as taught by their rell reli religious ious lous tous 9 tea teachers chIrs and religious books of instruction lust luction I 1 have pressed with the assurance an C ll 11 thau that imite intelligent and cons conscientious clen elen tig u s mormons Mor Ator mons have other very consistent and to them all clent dent reasons lor rejecting the tho attempts tempts sor of a popular declaimer of modern to induce them to desert their religious faith the sincere and honest adherents of mormonism affirm that they positively know that their religion is true and that the consequent feigns as defined by marky marki invariably attend all gen adjie de sciples these attendant Lt signs are to the cormons mormons Mor mons 11 positive proof of bf the divine rigin b of their religious faith hence it lt is unreasonable to suppose that intelligent and unpretending mor mons should abandon their own real to them tangible religious faith and blindly grasp at something I 1 exclusively imaginary etherial and vague consider for example the popular churchia niana virtual definition of the god they sato to a bein being without bod body j larts parts or 3 heated on the top of topless t throne rone rono located somewhere lre lle lie lae yond the bounds of time and space sance an immaterial nonentity and an incomprehensible preben sible sibie absurdity like their popular abode for their devil bottomless pit these are a few of the reason as I 1 understand them why christian churches urchea cb fail fall to evange lize ilze mormonism |
