| Show FUTILE fijon B many of our readers will remember an amusing exposure of the me methods thodis of rev J D nutting of this city which appeared in these columns last year S resides and his pastoral labors principally lie in a part of the city thickly inhabited inh abated by cormons mormons Mor mona mons and he had always posed and passed as a religious worker who could pursue his calling without animosity towards others tor for serving the lord in a manner different from that taught tat ight by his creed but he obtained the address of a lady residing in an eastern state who had recently become a mormon and with no further introduction to or acquaintance with her wrote to her in a manner intended to convince her that the church she had bad joined was a very reprehensible body of people his letter to the lady and her rejoin rejoinder der were published in the news and placed the meddlesome min minister loter in a very embarrassing position since then he has haa not made himself as an assailant of the mor so far as aa the news to is aware a few days ago when he delivered ab 44 address in cleveland ohio in which 1 be pretended pret ended to tell what the mormons cormons believe e and practice his discourse diB Course was eted reported at some length by the cleveland plain dealer and as so reported U replete with misrepresentation but it to te not worth while to refute his statements the american people are so rapidly becoming correctly informed about the mormons cormons Mor mons and are learning to entertain te profound respect for I 1 them R e m that jaundiced defamers def amers of them meet with vastly less credence and sympathy ahan ban were freely given a 0 few years ago in fact the change of feeling towards luk life mormons cormons throughout the united slates which hach has taken place within a tow aw years la Is wonderful for example in the central part of kentucky a few months ago a minister undertook to deliver to a wholly non mormon audience an anti mormon address but his hearers interrupted him with indignant hisses and he was obliged to desist A gentleman who has recently traveled in that state told the writer that there are large llauge districts in it in which an audience composed of the common people will not listen to a speaker who undertakes to abuse the mormons Mor mons the sentiment here referred to as prevailing in portions of kentucky exists to a greater or less extent in a number of f other states and as as correct information X or concerning the mormons cormons Is spread among the american people this sentiment will spread until at length budh addresses as the one mr nutting woly lately delivered in cleveland will not be listened to patiently by an intelligent audience the efforts of such workers 4 ao mr guttins to keep alive the anti mermon prejudices and asperities asperi ties of the tt past will prove unavailing |
