Show FROM THE OTHER SIDE 10 Es views Express Ex preasA Jb by a son kon nor mor mon editor doshit news sir if I 1 you yoh will permit me an entire stranger in ia your city and territory to use your go columns lamps I 1 would like to give your readers and the general public my impressions concerning mormonism or the religion of latter day saints ai flits I 1 wi will 11 say at the outset that I 1 am what the saints call a gentile and I 1 hope this fact will bespeak for me an indulgence from the faithful if through ignorance I 1 should fail to do justlee justice to their creed I 1 was from earliest childhood taught to re regard ard mormonism as one of the most degrading and aad ridiculous sects in fact the most objectionable into which christians christiana are unhappily di wed that their moral social and the theological logical standards were far beneath others ethers and to cap the climax that they were not patriotic americans all this I 1 have heard and been led to believe in common with thousands aye hundreds of thousands of others who will not perhaps have an opportunity of seeing an aad judging tor for themselves and for the information of all such iwhite I 1 write I 1 lar ar rived in this city about two weeks ago just in time to be present at the sermon in the tabernacle by bishop whitney and from froin that moment all my prejudice welted melted away I 1 have otard sermons lectures and abid discourses on all subjects by men of the greatest evain eminence ence burke beecher froude manning talmage etc I 1 and I 1 say candidly that I 1 was never biever more impressed in my life than when I 1 listened to bishop whitney Loag may he live and aad be as able as now aw to show cause for the faith that is in him I 1 would respectfully suggest that millions mill ioas of copies of this discourse be printed and distributed if not for the purpose of making converts at least with the in of disabusing abusing dis the minds of people who like myself have heard of your vices but virtues now I 1 come to the american or patriotic martof part of the subject in what do the cormons mormons Mor mons I lack patriotism are they not as anxious as their gentile neighbors to have the territory which their strong arms have converted convente con verte d from a state of worthless waste into a f fertile er prosperous and aad progressive country federated and incorporated as it should be among the states of this great union why certainly they are in fact though I 1 blush to say it it is we and not the mormons cormons Mor mons who are trying aur ur little best to deprive our own country of its just right to statehood but it is satisfactory to know that all the puny efforts in this direction will only retard but cannot stay the progress of a great free people to have what our glorious constitution confers I 1 could say a great deal more on this subject tat k ut prefer to wait till hlll I 1 see how this will be received I 1 AUTHENTIC A salt lake city april eth 1888 |