| Show 1 1 nm C A X VISIT TO THE MORMONS alk ate AI SALT LAKE lare 11 elder willian william eastwood has baa courteously 6 furnished us a leeds eng england england land papers synopsis of a lecture delivered in tilt city by the rev nev J sheepshanks Sheep shanks from which the following is extracted having reached the salt lake city on his route to the eastern coast he determined to spend two or three weeks there he soon observed that the people were industrious hardworking hard working and ial pai painstaking ns taking in appearance they them were like ilke ak healthy ruddy english people eople the men wearing hats which had rather broad brims and the women poke 01 e or rather sun bonnets with a long iong curtain behind descending waist they were well dressed quiet orderly and decidedly well to do nearly all ail allithea ithem being from the old country knelt including md ng many welsh and a few from th al wands elands of Sed scotland uland fland the mormons cormons were fond ford of aluie amusements corf coif concerts cert cent balls and theatres theartres the atres and as there was no withstanding the eloquence of the female tongue many wives went to those amusements brigham young the ruler over the mormons cormons Mor mons had told him that if he went to their theatre he would not need to leave his religion at the door the most favorable thing he mr sheepshanks Sheep shanks noticed was the importance attached to innocent recreation even when the theatre was opened it was looked upon so much as the right thing to do that they opened it with prayer to god all the plays were of a moral tendency and such only as contained true and noble sentiments everything of the kind being under rigid censorship and the players being ama amateurs teura who acted for the advantage and amusement of their fellow citizens mr sheepshanks Sheep shanks went on to describe a visit he paid to president brigham young he asked him mr sheep shanks to preach to them it was a s singular invitation but the mormons cormons h had a very liberal notions about those things and probably the president knew that the forty or fifty gentiles Gen tiles tilea residing there would be glad to hear him the president asked him if he would take his service at the tabernacle on the following sunday where all the people were expected to meet at least in the mor morning ning ging he told the president he should like him to explain what ho invited him to for if he was to preach after a mormon with another mormon to follow him it would not be consistent with his principles oh no 11 the president said you may ll 11 have ve the whole morning to yourself youir self seif 11 accordingly on the following sunday he preached to as remarkable a congregation as christian minister ever addressed A wonderful ond erful sight it was there were between and people there he told them he wasa vasa was a clergyman of the church of england but he felt that the service of that church would be wholly out of place ethere there as they would not know how to follow it he then read a passage of scripture offered a few prayers and then addressed them on the word of god he mr sheepshanks Sheep shanks knew perfectly well that it ift would not be wise to preach polemically there would be no human probability of it effecting any good and it would show a want of of good taste and as he was preaching there by subbie sufferance rance it would not do to attack mormonism he knew likewise that it was the first and last I 1 opportunity lie would have of and that they could put up other speakers in the afternoon to controvert what he had said in the morning so he attempted to oppose what be he believed to be terrible errors by preaching and setting forth the attractions of the glorious gospel of christ t he preached from 2 corinthians v c 20 21 v now then we are embassy dors for christ etc and he endeavored to state the falness ful ness beauty and glory of the gospel as the only means whereby man can be saved etwas it was a mistake to suppose that a mans first wife opposed any more marriages A man might be disinclined inclined dis to have more than one wife but his wife pressed him to have more there was the idea among them that the first wife was only an ordinary one bec because e in any n y country a man may have one on muse luse zus aus W wife ife niev fe a NE BUREAU A kentucky gentlemen offers the following as the best Freed mens bureau re all ail 1 every fa freedman shall hall have a bureau for himself with a looking 9 glass lass on tile the 2 every freedman shall have 1 a secretary 3 ayery freed boy or girl shall have lave have r a Wai wap wardrobe wardrobe drobe t 4 every freed child shall have whatever wh t it cries for 5 white people whether free or nou not not noi I 1 must behave themselves 6 all people of every color except red must vote 7 every free white male citizen of the aad age of twenty one years or under and of sound mind or otherwise may vote if he will take the oath that he would be a negro if he lip could when the new constitution ia Is settled I 1 want a new now flag let us have hive the next one with stripes of red white and bidek black and instead of the stars letus iet let us put on moonshine I 1 would prefer stripes of white and black alone but the re red will never come out of our ilag flag A western paper complains complainEr of I 1 he inefficiency and want of spirit of the congressman from its district he had not made a single long speech and has not even proposed an amendment to the constitution |
