| Show NO IRISH MORMONS THE stupid story is going the rounds of the american press again that it is a remarkable fact that no irish man or woman ever joined the cormons mormons Mor Morn mons ions ly the irish monthly has a paper purporting to be w written ri aten by an irish nun in which it is stated that brigham young sought bought earnestly among irish settlers in england scotland wales and america he be sent his most eloquent apostles into the highways of the world to compel them so to say to come to his banquet but none of them came 21 this is stated to have been a very great grief to him to save our contemporaries from further absurd errors on this point we will state that there are many irish men and women in utah belonging F to the mormon church and others in ireland scotland and bierent Bi Hrent rent parts of the world few upa them however come from the southern part of the emerald isle or from the strongly catholic por eions of erins population many mady I 1 have come from the north from the protestant irish people in scotland and elsewhere no special effort is made to couvert convert people of any particular race the latter day gospel isto is to every nation r tribe and tongue the elders are sent to all people of every country class and creed perhaps the celtic tribes have furnished fewer converts than most other divisions of the human family but the revamped story about no irish mor mons is entirely untrue |
