Show unchristian AND CHRISTIAN A missionary writing from flom flem ings hingsburg burg kentucky calls our cur attention to ft a letter recently published in ID the Flem ingeburg Gazette and wit written itten by a person pereen who signs bamsel galen wood postal christian utah from which the following paragraph pare graph in r taker mormon jam is an aggregation of romanism judaism Juda ista mohammedanism Mohammedan iBm heathenism and despotism it is ia asseri bially foreign to american as well as an christian institutions in spirit and character its adherents are predominantly foreign imported directly from the flold of conquest to utah american converts particularly find the institution a wonderfully different thing upon reaching utah from that they have been taught to anticipate even from its ito books one cannot get a true idea of the character of the institution this must be gained by contact with its spirit in zion where it to is fully and normally developed it is destitute of spirituality of questionable morality emphasizes the material and the sensuous the hand of the botch and the dauber are everywhere appa apparent fent though in some ways consummate skill is manifested mani tested this is especially true of the arrangement of the system to keep the people inthe in the most abject bub subjection to their th leaders thin la Is from an alleged christian it la Is a decidedly un cherip tian utterance that la is counting that christianity enjoins enjoined speaking the tb truth all persons who have actual knowledge of mormonism will recognize at once that in every sentence een tenc uttered by mr wood be bears false witness against gabnet the latter day baiato his hia ingratitude toward the people of at ogden especially where be has baa been the recipient of many will not inspire increased for him banic hla his statements are so glaringly and manifestly untrue throughout that IRO will not waste in a further reu rea tation but will call our rea re adera dertil attention to the contrast presented ed in the more pleasing and honorable course pursued by a kentuck kentucky y paper the casey county tribune which suggests eug gesta that it Is ia a christian oblige obliga t ion to love the cormons mormons a makes the following comment on a 2 recent valt of mormon missionaries there elders canfield ipsen bipeen pond and martin latter day sainte sainta ended up their labors with us oa on sunday night last and left us ua on monday following alter atter spending near a week in servio ee according to 10 their faith and order and the people were well pleased with them generally speaking they were nice alo gentlemen and conducted themselves in a way that made many friends for then theft in the best circles of society and as to the doctrine they presented removed some of the prejudice that had formerly existed against mormonism niam yet they made no mormons cormons in our midst but they hey will find many warm friends should they return they are our own nations nation people and found their existence in ono one of our own states that ranks second jim in education and we truly believe that our people everywhere should give them a cordial welcome and exchange ideas with them in a friendly manner that we may be bene fitted by them and them by us likewise ike wise we surely gain nothing by discarding our follow fellow men who are well up with modern time tim ea aa we might gain some ut useful information by their association for fe the sake of courtesy and civility and true christianity we should treat them aa 88 human and let them not shake oft the dust of their feet as a testimonial against us we see from some of our exchanges exchange that some ot our journalistic brethren also ISO some of our people are ake onto the cormons cormons mormons with both feet yet we feel sure th there re is no religion in that kind ot at ft SPUR spirit on reading both these excerpts from kentucky papers there here la IS so no difficulty in debei mining which possesses the more christie n spirit of the two the ofden preacher cher or ibbe kentucky editor we the gentleman of the pen pan and sel esore ball in no wise lose his reward for fairness |