| Show GOOD OUT OF INTENDED EVIL WE learn from an elder just returned from the southern states mission that by a revulsion of popular sentiment in that section a large number of people have lately been added to the church by anti mormon instrumentality for years past it has been the custom of rabid mormon eaters who had political and religious axes to grind to send pamphlets and papers from utah to parts of the country where they learned the elders were laboring A few years ago the effect produced by this class of literature filled with the most abominable lies about and wis misrepresentations representations of the mormon people was to arouse the spirit in same some instances as is now a matte notoriety it resulted in the murder of a number of missionaries and other innocent persons whose blood cries from f rom the ground not only for retribution upon the heads of the actual assassins but also upon those diabolism was the first cause of the murders they being morally speaking accessories before the fact p the reception of such papers and pamphlets by people in many sections of the south is now having baving an effice in many instances 1 directly direct fy opposite the recipients and those whose attention is drawn to the scandalous and foul fabricatore fabric atory productions in numbers of cases write letters of inquiry to the elders leading to their being brought in contact with the brethren explanations follow openings for preaching are made and numbers of converts are thus secured while much good is being done in this way by the disseminators of anti mormon falsehoods no credit is due to them this be being ing the antipodes of the result at which thy aim |
