Show A SLANDERER FAIR FAIK YET FOUL elder fred B brook writing from indianapolis december ath states that one miss rose glen webster representing a baptist missionary society to la lecturing about mormonism in eastern cities the correspondent attended one of these lectures held at a private home on fletcher avenue indianapolis the same lecture was delivered it appears at franklin indiana at a baptist church and was reported by a paper of that place which stated that her object is to talk of the labors of the baptist home missionary society and stir up additional interest in the work in her fletcher avenue talk according to elder brook the lecturer prefaced her effort with the statement that she had been laboring in provo and that what she was about to relate was founded upon personal observations it would serve no useful purpose to publish here the entire report of the I 1 lecture but a few extracts may be given in order to show the general tenor of it miss webster said among other things the elders do not know what the bible is and one of them was handed a book on electricity to find a certain passage of scripture and atter after hunting for some time said he could not find fand it but could do so if he had the mormon bible the mormons cormons do not teach from the bible but from poems and books of their own manufacture brigham young was quoted by this lecturer as having said saad 1 I care not tor for the bible or any other book I 1 have just received calved d a revelation from god which is more beneficial to us than any book miss webster has met with several other extraordinary things thing sin in utah Thus she had found a young girl painting the picture of naomi on the wall in the form of a man and afterwards pra praying dying to the picture this girl the lecturer said had just been married to a polygamist she had also found several boys from S to 12 years old who had never heard ot of christ there being no sunday schools in utah outside of salt lake city and ogden concerning the missionaries I 1 in n the field miss webster said they were men ho could not make a living at home and therefore went abroad to live on other people in this connection she is quoted as having given utterance to the following concerning young men and women it is a common thing for young men I 1 and women to congregate sitting and lying on the lawn drunk and smoking cigarettes while young ladies of high society boast of being intoxicated after this it is no surprise to hear that the lecturer closed her oration by saying if it was not for the missionaries of the baptist church utah would today be the most wicked state on the face of the earth within the limits of the same space it to is doubtful doubty ua if ever truth was more cruelly assassinated than in the quotations given it miss webster were a man she would deserve the name of a wholesale liar of the blackest type and yet while not a man she I 1 is surely no lady there are two reasons reason for giving this much notice to her baseness and falsehood one is that she probably expects to return to utah to work and an angel of her sort ought not to be entertained by decent people of any or no creed unawares the other is that her baptist associates may have some faint idea of the company they have been kee keeping and that with a view to maintaining the reputation of that church for trying to hold to a high moral standard they I 1 may purge her out of their fellowship I 1 consigning her to the ignominy and disgrace attaching to those who love and make a lie |