| Show MORMON statistics r A M dawson recently decu an address before an wt presbyterian ministers in aln an the subject the abuses of inisha 1 according to a brief efort of his discourse which appeared the enquirer of that city he made otoe very erroneous statements and absurd statistics re 42 some very the mormons cormons Mor mons among other n b he said that out of it es of mormons cormons are salaried ay of the church it t were true that the mormon C g jve to had places for 2800 salaried what a scramble there would A fc membership in it if it were art an tation having that amount of to distribute among its M 9 it would soon cease to be aw lar body 1 it has been ever feets fM ets first organization A legion f persons esons having pelf in view be singing its praises and its aarlea in seeking to increase its would not at have to sleep and go hungry f they would be the we welcome leorne jf I 1 61 9 guests of f candidates innumerable for or ecclesiastical honors with incidental emoluments if the mormon church required names to fill up its salary roll roil the waters of baptism would soon lose loae their terror tor for multitudes of men in various parts of the world and candidates for immersion would fall over each other in ih their eagerness to embrace mormonism they could endure with the resignation of martyrs even the odium arising out of t the he former marriage system of the mormons cormons Mor mons for the chance each early convert conver t would think he had to secure one of the 28 places would be a broader mantle for his big scruples than charity to is for sin if what rev dawson is reported to have said were true the mormon church would quickly become a regular spiritual klondike its chilcoot pass of repentance of sin would be esteemed a small obstacle by the rushing hordes that would cope come pell mell to gain admission to it ija short rev dawsons lawsons Daw sons statement suggests any number of funny features and consequences quen ces how strange that an anti mormon crusader can cut the most ludicrous figure in the world without seeming to realize that he has in the least departed from consistency the almost universal rule is for officers of the mormon church to serve without salary and to bear their own expenses the exceptions to this rule are very few usually their tenure of office is long and thousands of them have spent much of their time during the best years of their lives in unselfish and unsalaried devotion to church work he spoke of the mormon church being a moneymaking money making scheme developing ve avarice and passion says the enquirer of rev dawsons lawsons Daw sons address adding that the speaker had spent several months among the mormons cormons Mor mons but his capacity for bearing false witness has been sufficiently shown without further proof here at this tune time |
