| Show AN OHIOAN IN UTAH A few words before I 1 return home to my family in the great and distant state of ohio I 1 feel fedj as if I 1 want to say something about the Mor mons having lived nearl nearly five months among them when I 1 I 1 was eighteen years of age ru running a paper machine at watertown now new york I 1 went up into the paper sorting room and f cund the book of mormon anil and reao read it I 1 also alao remember the mormon missionaries at little eaton england forty years ago and the converts they made I 1 have road read Bead lerf book of mormonism have it in my library most of its contents I 1 now know to be woe false I 1 have heard ann eliza young talk so that I 1 have known something for and against mormonism for a long time my conclusions now are based op on facto not theories oh jerusalem the prophets and them that have come unto youl you 11 the murdering of joseph and hyrum smith was barbarous they had a right to live if their doctrine was false the crescent ore scent floats oer ober the hills and vales of judea today Althou although ib a million souls perished to drive out the followers of f the fa fase se prophet mahomet joseph smith did not say that he was the christ or the ibe one who was to come to redeem israel nay only that he be had bad a revelation in 1871 1873 while my wife two daughters and I 1 were on our way to watertown new york our youthful home an old gentleman boarded the train at palmyra and I 1 asked him to show me the mountain the book of mormon plates were lund found in he did so and I 1 inquired if he was a mormon and if he believed the plates were found there from which the book of mormon was written he said he be was as not a mormon but that hp hn did believe joseph smiths statement as to the finding of the plates now mow as to revelation has there not always been such euch I 1 will not weary you with a long article but say eay we life cormons mormons Mor mons onVY area are a remarkable peoples people and if the providence of god glou to ie not their ion I 1 am puzzled to know what is your valley blossoms as ae the rose roe and you have everlasting streams of water you have gathered in from all langsand laud land sand god has bag blessed you surely because he mabeth the sun BUD to shine rhine on the hill top and in the valley fallt y and he clothes the smiling fields with corn when the cormons mormons came here through emigration canyon they came to escape persecution and to be enabled to worship god according to their own ideas did not the pilgrim fathers father do the same but they burned at the stake their supposed witches jinn calvin of revered memory had his bis servant burned to death I 1 see no such spirit in the mormon 10 church they hav havea good and correct way of maintaining the church of the living god they that honor me I 1 will honor saith the lord and bring your tithes and offerings into the fiur house ouse of the lord and see if I 1 will not pour out a blessing upon you the unfortunate are taken care of among the Mo Moll imone nom and mormonism 11 Is one of the three great lams of the world I 1 see no more wrong dolog here than in puritan massachusetts where the boys and girls are not allowed to sit together in meetings meeting now another question why should the government of the united states take the church property from the cormons mormons Mor mons i I 1 cannot comprehend rho different diffene nt sects have their valuable property and enjoy it unmolested well all I 1 say eay to is it is unjust now a word about your beautiful temple david could not build the first brat because he shed too abich blood on Gil bots boas top fell noble saul who spared t the e women and children ob ildron and choice oxen oh the son of kial kiall ill now you have a beautiful timpie timple and the angel with his bis trumpet in hand standing on its high pinnacle calling forth the saints saint is in a beant lul lial emblem chronicles ath chapter and i you jou dedicate your temple to jehovah no doubt from the chapter named and verses you will proclaim moreover concerning the stranger which is not of thy people israel but is come from a far country for thy great names sake and thy mighty hand and thy stretched out arms if they come to pray in this house then hear thou from the heavens heaven even from thy dwelling llave and do according to all the stranger calleta to thee for that all people of the earth may know thy name and fear thee as doth thy people israel and may know that this house which I 1 have built la Is called by thy name jj in n conclusion I 1 wish to say I 1 attended the service of the granite ward last sunday and was greatly pleased with the preaching ot the truth as I 1 there heard it it wai wag the first brat mormon sermon I 1 bad ever heard I 1 wish ome of my methodist presbyterian and baptist friends could have heard it the abe line of thought was to elevate man and lead him to love goj goi end and his bis neighbor jonn JOHN W BARBER |
