| Show AND OTHER PESTS incidental to a bouthern missionary Exper leev WATERLOO union co N C I 1 april 1887 editor deseret deseret news if anything merits the appellation of being a nuisance it certainly is the ane tiny red cheaper cheager the writer has baa made several unsuccessful dt attempts tempts to ascertain its relative value to the h human aman fava family ily manner of incubation etc last summer when reclining under a clump of 0 trees in south carolina carolia he received his first introduction TO THU PEST these annoy annoying luF insects generally attack a man mans a pedal extremities if the sensation which they cause is anything of a cri criterion terian it would not be lar far wrong ito assert that something less than a million can be amply accommodated on every square cincu these troublesome little insects are scarcely incubated before the southern religious monomania to is in lull full blast the combined efforts of these potent factors of t human annoyance turns to a high pitch the elastic laith faith instrument of an elder with a host of hungry cheager growing at his bis lower extremities and a seething throng of religious monomaniacs mono maniacs at his cost coat tall tail an elder is involuntarily constrained to believe himself a martyr to conscience and but for the elasticity of his bis faith apparatus he be would undoubtedly suppose eternal night was setting in when only surrounded by the gloom which precedes the dawn 0 occasionally C casio nally people become cured cared of RELIGIOUS MONOMANIA very suddenly as in the case ol 01 f two preachers of the baptist persuasion residing within live five miles of this place A week since these pious venders benders of salvation eager tor for notoriety let y commenced an aa on the t he mormons cormons Mor mons with a view to prejudice the people against their doctrine the vituperation which these sectarian propagandists hurl burl from their ros arums at the creed originated in joseph smith effects affects the people but little the honest heart ot of the people ever sides with the oppressed suffering becomes a virtue in their eyes and they are right for cruelty in whatever form or upon whomsoever exercised is the very spirit of the lower region A friend to mormonism approached these venerable blanket caera rei requesting quest them to meet the writer riter aud and his companion public in discussion but as was previously anticipated they declined to meet us on any terms nothing is more common with I 1 the be enemies of truth to suppose when the champion of a great principle is struck down than that the principle itself is dead this opinion was held by the assassins of joseph smith should any ol of his bis assassins still survive their astonishment must be great when they discover that the principle which they intended to exterminate by his assassination has in ia accordance with the decree of jehovah been permanently established in the earth vituperation hatched and hurled burled against the mor moris mons by christian divines will not stay the upward and onward progress of gods kingdom As well might the enemies of truth attempt to oll top stop the revolution of the earth as to ottay A the progress of the kingdom of G god by resorting to that desperate recourse of cowards the refuge of lies when the people to their hearts co content n have shouted and stirred their seething religious pot they return home and resume their wonted occupations on the farm and elsewhere cold weather having commenced the elders cup cap snip pursue ursee the even tenor of their way wit with comparative para tive safety the annoying leang ers like the religious relle ious monomaniacs mono maniacs betaken betoken themselves to more au arters to prevent spoiling of of the enormous religious tock stock acquired during the summer season the people occasionally gather at the house bouse of some influential n neighbor where the exhortation of some som big gun Is attentively listened to according to an old north state tar heel stale religion can only be preserved till the sap rises when preparations to acquire a new supply must be made while sniffing the balmy breezes of blustery march the writer received intelligence ol of his brothers brother 1 incarceration in tun uncle sams academy of correction mormon elders must be greatly in sam can afford to employ a horde of emissaries to select its recruits ond and mercilessly wrench them from their wives and they are the their tar main su support p ort when thoroughly initiated futo into the rudiments of 01 the institution he be will doubtless soon become proficient at gardening wa which h itch occupation it has fallen his lot to pursue so when he be emerges from durance cl urance vile he be will be an adept in that line hue of business he undoubtedly e enjoys 0 a serenity of mind I 1 with the ho hope pe t that at the same may be vouchsafed th the e ansti instigators tors of his incarceration fro from m the heavenly source that succors kim 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