| Show DE WITT TALMAGE AGAIN THE people of utah are somewhat at acquainted with the vagaries of de witt talmage the brooklyn preacher who has paid two visits to utah after his bis first visit he returned home and advocated heroic treatment of mormonism P that is he be sugg etitel tei that 4 the leaders of the church be gathered into the tabernacle and united states artillery be turned upon them to thunder into them the seventh commandment man dment 1 he also wrote a book in which he be gave a description of the women of salt bait lake city portraying them in vigorous style as ugly crabbed sour and decrepit specimens of feminine humanity and sup supposing 9 that in doing so he was picturing mormon women oblivious of the fact that the population here is mixed on this occasion he has changed his manner of dealing with the mormon question and the mormon people at his hie friday evening talk immediately after his return to the east he gave his experience in mo bondom in the chapel of the new tabernacle in brooklyn a lengthy length v rm re port of which appears in the eacle IT said bald we had hadano no sooner been switch switched ed off at 4 z the railroad station than the chiefs of or 0 the mormon church called on us as well as a delegation of those who are in dis dia from the others named Gentil gentiles eZ there are no more beautiful courtesies in america than those extended by bv the tharis dis caples of joseph smith that night the lecture was in a mormon temple a oal commodious and cheerful some two hundred building young men and women with hymn books under tinder their arms ascended an elevation back of the j and with platform strong and accordant voices sang a hymn the sentiments of oh which no christian man could the mayor of the city who was also aso a mormon bishop presided and made mada then the choir 4 prayer sang sane again after 1 that and at about at night n lehel began my lecture A more genial audi i ence I 1 never confronted this was 9 t more remarkable as some one had found fennal in print what I 1 had said eaid many years vears ago Sl about polygamy and scattered it that dw day aa all through tb the e city there are several statements her yra that are as amusing as they are inalou 1 I rate we will pass by the call of the chiefs of the mormon church alff come to the 41 mormon te temple mple T ehte is a singular name for the salt bait lako laka theatre in which mr talmage deli ered his lecture but the statement that the mayor of the city is a acm mo mon bishop and that he be opened the tha ceremonies by prayer will be news to that gentleman and to the cali liberal rals ral s party of which he is a member blahon to 1 scott will be a new title for him which we trust he be will wear W with ith be coming modesty we hope a also I 1 so that he be will appreciate the accuracy y of the pious lecturer and take it as an incubi cation of his reliability I 1 in it other matters it was not no what mr talmage bad said about polygamy ahat that was scattered all through the city but the tee DESERET NEWS simply quoted his lang language bage about the ladies indies of this city verbatim from his book and the proposition he made as to the artil artillery leTy method of arguing with mormonism the lecturer informed his brooklyn audience that mormonism hafti chan appears that he be hsc ha changed also he now thinks that when mormonism shall also adm its antagonism toward the constitution ofal the united states it will be treated tar any other form oy of religion and utah frobby being a territory will become a state and 1 its star will beam in the constellation ati our national banner 0 0 th theft 4 the long war on that religion which waa 1 I begun when president james buchaman Bucha oan J sent an army under general jo johnston John n stoB to command obedience in the v valley lie sf utah and the denunciatory ae legislation on which has been continued under all abo succeeding presidents against the of tenses of that religion will cease and ther the multitudes of gentiles in utah in many of their cities now far outnumbering tho th mormons cormons Mor mons will have the advant ad vantage sige ot of living in a state regularly constituted instead of dwelling under the disadvantage of a territory when that day cornea mormonism mus be treated as any other religion is treated freedom to worship god in any way they wh was purchased for the people at too dear be surrendered our way to lb W price drive a avar ever out false religion is in to preach the arne religion dependent upon the ac F tf if nil all this is ia that Mormonism 2 has it ir w I 1 e 19 toward the conati fe y sf v united states we are of the te K sa aution on id that it will take a long time to but he be abssi his rosy ropy predictions tuffil did dia not mean exactly what aba that t and we are will I 1 on in view v bew of the liberality t it go lahs ciment ments concerning religious his e n true american aich which every I 1 si 3 ree and which exhibit even IS a ter change of heart in the brook that he perceives in t 11 or organism far better way than the that is a antl artillery even with a jbea ader lison of we W are willing willida to religion our nur creed with his at any BS pare waffer how false one nt no conmay 0 appear to the devotees of ion may cannon and ball gunpowder ther blod obed are not the weapons of issel to bring against it ac 16 As christianity hev compa compatible ti his with tue the sen im arethay in the nine ants of bolna solna peo people pie edth century after ter dealing B with th lecturers sedon to croiss P and paid asla o 1 of joppa top a on the me le harbor barbor go kept in t the same dan dangerous 9 erous itala is anfin sea of hundreds it etwas was years as effs because Je couse mohammedanism 32 jv WL ly vessels to land there want not december december it 1 1889 we entered sa oa floated in among the SS baroor have we wrecked and drowned iss which than tan any rocks in any her har ass vea alo world moha mohammedan mmegan remd and S of would the arl rather have the boats wrecked decked safely landed irinea ii inea fam to hove have them bell believe eve that either mo not or its advocates can be S charged with any such senti sent desires above all mt the lecturer san air his wonderful travels to of bravery an n appearance bot S and followers in brooklyn haj foular whether it is the Is not particular sk west mormonism or or nr the which he that he can make it a topic for so discourses and startling starting edans fi anta if gant ant vesse sels is to land in certain itaw they could ver very y easily prevent it they had known pm and A perhaps a personage ge as de ariae so talmage wanted to put in at K without faoa floating in among the bey would have expended the amounts necessary to remove W amounts ewe obstruct obstructions IODIS so that he might KS ve no noeT excuse cuse for saying that they coald id rather have him wrecked than eaffy but bu mr TaI niage predicts a wonder bhang ishan it is ia to be brought about gc he athe the ni oderin inventions says gildren f darkness are terrified with II I 11 sound emdund of a steam w whistle by inference that he the its leavea ava no both cormons mormons Mor mons 1 1 and idane no and nd railroads and telegraphs thinks will be the means of reform K them fear seems still to be a part bit I 1 copel policy after all force lofie says the a bible which is now a flat page EU be I 1 put it on phonographic cylinder and offin t the go eye refuses to read the ear will compelled to listen hail then all e modern inventions and appliances tee religions reli irions cannot bear the sight eight oi or af pf them first terrify them with the sound of the steam whistle then grind out and thunder into them the bible by monster phonograph and compel them to hear it whether they will or no funny ion it it for a christian preacher but then it is only Talma geian gelan oratory and mean anything but sound to tickle the itching ears of the fashionable brook ly lynster niter he tells of what the railroads have done for salt lake and ogden by way of reforming these cities and this he connects with the notion that false religious one of which which he considers con sidera to be cannot bear the sight or the sound I of railroads railroad telegraphs the phonograph etc well some ove one should inform the superficial lecturer that the mormons cormons Mor mons helped to build the first railroad across the continent that they have built a number of other railroads in utah that they built the first telegraph line here that they introduced the first phonograph in this city that they patronize the telephone the electric light and all other modern improvements and therefore his argument amounts to nothing or rather flies back in his teeth when he calls mormonism a false religion 11 but it is useless to follow bi him m further mr talmage is a florid and fervid orator somewhat spasmodic in manner and sensational in matter he draws large crowds as a circus will do but he be is very superficial in his investigations and reckless in his statements often utterly unreliable as to facts and entirely unsafe in his deductions but we are pleased to see that he is somewhat changed in his views as to the treatment of what he considers false religions and hope that he will continue to improve so that hem be may a y one day make some approach to the character of a christian |
