| Show J B BATON AND THE MORMONS MONS for some tire time pat past gen john B eaton presbyterian and SIX stoner loner of education has baa been giving a series of articles article in a paper known as ae the he christian stion herald and also ajao has addressed presbyterian assemblies assem blier upon the subject of mormonism we have not net give attention heretofore to his bli utterances for or the reason that they are chiefly a repetition of stale and oft exposed falsehoods about the mor mons mono and we do not care to waste more time than to Is really necessary to give to that dais class of subjects the tb 1 very christian 7 spirit mr eaton d displays lo in his assaults and a standard of judg ing of their character is found in ID this MW declaration which he makes concerning mormonism niem it is the duty ot of the christian church to check its inroads on our people and extinguish the faith in our land of course we do oot not fear say such snob extinguishment although its advocacy once was urged in the paper io in which most of mt mr batons bestons articles appear aas at the cannonie cannon ve mouth mouthy if necessary Deo emary we notice the matter now dow because of a communication from a lady in washington D C who bends a copy of ef the washington times containing a paper by gen eaton her letter is in as follows to the editor I 1 send you by mail a copy of the morning times a daily of this city you will notice a penciled article in the same which I 1 think will be of interest to you in so far as aa the statement therein marked concerns utah perhaps your state slate representatives representative a here at the capital would contradict the gentleman but likely it may escape their notice the writer of this although not a mormon but one who is ii classed as an agnostic loves lovea truth sufficient to call your attention to this libelous belous ll article arl icle and to give you yon an opportunity to contradict the statement of this charitable christian lecturer my residence in utah has ham not been very long several years but as a close observer I 1 discovered that more real charity among theia th dangerous mormons cormons than hero here ia at christian city where so 0 o many poor r poolie fuel pie are in want of food clot clothing tZI and d fuel to keep them from tarring starving aa aadi d freezing and where christian ministers minister of the gospel who draw salaries up to the thousands of dollars dollar sufficient to clothe and food feed many preach charity but why dont they practice it give all but to live on poor and needy as aa christ the master did or do as aa the dangerous mormons cormons do give the poor out of one tenth of all their earnings and not have the terrible suffering which watch exists amongst them I 1 think all these christians could copy conle some good object lessons from those once violent but now only dangerous mor mons mono as mr eaton calls zia them I 1 think the article in question even though written by a christian contains too much malice and ill III will towards people of ft a state and citizens of the united states tates to allow it to go by unchallenged and without contradiction |
