Show 1 missionaries ABUSED ONE would naturally suppose that the fearlessness and intrepidity of our ur missionaries in the south coupled with their evident sincerity and avoidance of wrongdoing wrong doing would excite so much admiration md respect that the better part of the community there would protest against the outrages to which they ake are often subject they labor without pay they break no law they infringe upon no mans rights they rhey preach nothing but bible doctone patient faithful devoted they ley travel from place to place to promulgate what they belleve believe to be the truth of heaven revealed for the ovation of mankind it in this alleged land of liberty aby y aria are entitled to the protection of the laws arid add the freedom of speech alch which the constitution guarantees ao aone ane is obliged to listen to them of to entertain them no one should be e permitted to interfere with them them with impunity yet public journals not only wink at t but sometimes more or less aly 11 IV advise their maltreatment A expulsion and though no law or dt regulation of the state or city we they abide can be cited them the most brutal treat tent and even assassination of those ase blameless servants of christ is condemned by preachers and edi there them axe are a fow few notable ex sana mons ava they are so rare as to be bat luM elent to prove the rule when the sixth angel shar shall sound his trump and the history of the sixth millennium shall be unfolded to a listening universe there will be no more touching instance heard of christian fortitude and love and bravery than that of the mormon elders who in in the nineteenth century proclaimed the wo word rd of god to an unbelieving world and no more striking proofs of the brutal nature of fallen humanity darkened by tradition and false creeds than the mobbing and cruel ties to which those unoffending workers for the salvation of their race were subjected by fiendish beings in the south and elsewhere encouraged by professedly pious persons through the pulpit and the press |