| Show IN NORTH I 1 bider J I 1 D krupack jr writes from Ort oriental fa county north carolina under tate ta te of the inal inart enclosing a clipping from the christian sun evidently a published im inaleigh t of the stae aute bawd ader report that the missionaries in that state meeting with excellent success I 1 3 F ing last year nearly baptisms W burred 14 sunday schools were ora arkan iced and about 5 church structures tum were built it was the most moat sue successful year in the history of the COn conter ferend enoSe but this one promises even better elder killpack says we have a zealous crowd of boys enrolled in this conference some sj ai holding 12 and 15 meetings per week and selling from 20 to 30 copies of the voice of warning in this county alone we have held over meetings and disposed of about books organized gan iced two sunday schools erected one church and baptized 15 since december truly do we find the lord preparing the way since the visit of the apostles to thie the south a wonderful change has taken place both among the people and the elders especially the latter the clipping which elder encloses is an article over a column ifa length bo bearing raring the caption mormon activity or the devil at work tire the first paragraph is as follows perhaps at no time in the history of our country have the home society and soul wrecking mormons cormons been more active in their efforts to extend and establish themselves than at pree ent tnt seldom do we pick up a newspaper ve without seeing an account ot of their og ie gress gres lons for several years they hava been quietly and gradually working their way into north carolina a add virginia and Christ christian laft people hav thought very little of it but recent recently the re sent out in these states have been so ao numerous ad e cause ause some alarm for the welfare 9 at those who are more ignorant super and easily deceived theft purpose seems seema to be to place at laba two in each county id these and other states and in carolina at least they seem to hii hava succeeded pretty well in their e as aa it is estimated that there are itow two hundred of these false pi within our borders the article article quotes with a strong eno ea dor a communication written Vr itten by A pastor and printed in tho north carolina presbyterian in watch the numbers and labors of mormon missionaries in the south are draft upon and in which the following sentences occur it is useless to deny that we are confronted in these facts by a crisis crial there must be an active anti monaco work done or these sly and cunning proselyte rs will have it largely their own way with the very classes we are trying to reach the neglected who are not affiliated with any other church already they have made startling gains and it Is success ahat has emboldened them to undertake to storm the very centers of christian culture in our state in franklin Frankl tn es flurry burry and randolph and per haps in other counties in our state they have organized strong churche and have erected substantial church buildings they have come to stay they are actuated by a seal thab tha Is as genuine and as sincere as treat of our own missionaries to the heatham heat haa it Is part of their religious belief MAW the OIL salvation batton of all souls under two abia dispensation depends upon their uw so cep tance of the new revelation claim to is corita contained ined in the boolen book of mormon there must be a concerted effort to turn on the light and it 10 this we cannot hope to be amboh successful the mere whisper aba there is to in the mormon faith a hanst bellof la ju polygamy be of to attract act to their standard some BOC fello of the baker baber sort OW talk of anew new 06 vol NUM fau am WS of the ignorant it Is one of the of the pear future that afteme will be as many mormons cormons as they are working and day while our church is neglecting the sections off the railroads and our preachers are selecting fields of labor with reference to school advantages and railroad conveniences the zealous missionaries of a false creed are walking like genuine apostle ties and are visiting from house to bouse going out into the highways and hedgel hed gea which alas no other church is in successfully doing we must awake out of our sleep and meet them by using their own tactics our ministers must also canvass from bouse sonae to house and wherever the mormon missionaries have left their uter and wherever they have failed to leave it we must leave anti mormon literature the rhe presbyterian committee of publication li at philadelphia publishes a ar valuable ol umble list of anti mormon tracts dmd ml any pastor in our As bly can obtain five dollars wath of these publications simply by writing to dr hazen for them I 1 would recommend especially six tracts tile mormon god not the god of the ae and mormon articles of faith facts on mormonism A story of utah A mother in mora nd c I 1 and A utah sketch all of P uan h will will be helpful the writer broke iane mormon appointment at a place bere they were getting a favorable arlig g simply by sending to the man oe house the mormon elders fe being entertained a batch of these ctr tm he read them and announced I 1 intention to have nothing more to with mormons cormons Mor mons ere can be no valid objection to op fig the spread of Mormon mormonism tsin by the of honest exegetical literature III do neither the people nor the ati any harm to have the scriptures toughly hughly discussed but if the lit iture tv t fre recommended by A pastor false and slanderous matter ere e might be serious objections to it ever the time seems to have come when slander and falsehood have to extent lost their power in op the spread of the gospel JW by a curious coincidence on the reverse gode ade of tire the clipping clip pine containing A rasters communication as re by the Christ christaan aln sun is part ot f an a article headed the sin of sep kra lon tion the latter portion of which scissors lost but a perusal of the tion on that remains just after read the remarks of the christian sun A pastor about mormonism produce a peculiar effect upon the la p of persons familiar with the I 1 teachings 1 I of that religion in regard to tho 6 unity of the faith we quote t ane schisms and separations ex shw among the people of god are tural and sinful to the cor brethren the apostle paul fote now I 1 beseech you brethren hie e name of our lord jesus christ aft ye all speak the same thing and act there be no divisions among you that ye te be perfectly joined to er in the same mind and in the s judgment I 1 cor 1 I 10 and b right t have Christil christians Lne to diere tats to solemn appeal and differ disagree 11 magree and divide what the demands is in possible and I 1 and profitable it follows that at all these sectarian tre e wrong for true christians apostle declares that those who 7 1 I am of Paul mid and I 1 ot of apollus Apoi Apoll loat cs of cephas W are caf carnal taLl even q 1 IF I cw cor 8 1 I ah in corinth ta or 1 n J ar aw skid aha other ke awl W M contrary to artor ot OC f christ who desired I 1 hat his people all might be bb one but it has come to be afie the settled opinion of many every christian man Is bound to countenance one or another of these divisions and to array himself under the banner of some unscriptural sect he must take sides in some ancient quarrel which he did not start which he has not participated in and in which he has no interest whatever had he lived some hundreds of years ago he might have been involved in some of their strafes fes but he was not born then why should he be compelled to maintain a conflict in which he has hap not the slightest interest or concern why should he be i required to denounce certain errors which he never heard of and certain false teachers who have been dead and buried a thousand years why should he accept certain propositions which he cannot understand and failing to I 1 do this be considered as an outsider I 1 and be deprived of his right as a christian and his privileges in the fellowship of the people of god I 1 why should this state of things be perpetuated why should men not only continue it where it has haa been established but also be on the watch for every opportunity to extend and establish these same divisions in other regions where the name of christ is unknown 1 for example no sooner Is EL a settlement made in the great west than the sectarian spirit rushes in and the people of god weak in the beginning beg nning few and and feeble are told off into hostile clans and camps and obliged to separate themselves from each other here as an instance is a village known to the writer of 1400 people who axe are struggling to earn their bread to build their homes to educate their children to surround themselves with the coma com forts of life in this village there are nine churches and one or two more are sprouting two thirds of the people do not attend either of these churches these numerous meeting houses are largely built by missionary money here the clipping to is cut evidently without knowing what it is in doing the christian sun prints in one column an unusually strong argument in favor of a cardinal doctrine of mormonism the necessity of unity among all believers while assailing that system and its iti workers in another column an ex cellena example is here given of the inconsistencies that professing christians must commit when they oppose what is known as mormonism but la Is in reality the system taught by jesus and his apostles restored in this age by revelation |
