Show THE POST NOT POSTED THE article from the new york post which appears an another column of this paper is written in a spirit of fairness and with no apparent purpose of misrepresenting facts yet it contains some errors which ought to be pointed p hinted out it is a mistake to say that the swiss mission has been largely devoted to exporting children between the ages of four and fourteen often without their parents and in charge of 01 an agent sometimes as ma many ay iy as twenty at a time no such business has ever been engaged aged in b by M mormon 0 rmon missionaries their their W work A is io to preach the go gospel and assist the latter day saints abroad by advice and coun iel gel when they wish to gather with their co religionists to this country it is possible that some parents abroad gh oad b zd n L elih large families I 1 2 10 alies have sent ahead a child or two with relatives or intimate friends so that they tiley might be able more readily to acquire means for their own emigration grat ios sometimes relatives in utah have agreed to take ebare of children of such parents until such time agthe as the latter could phy pay for their own passage but no such business as that intimated by the post is part oart of the missionary system of the latter day saints the swiss government may have the right of suppressing or expelling any religious community that is dangerous to the state but if a fair investigation is conducted it cannot be made to appear that tae mormon church in any part ol 01 the federation is dangerous to anybody but hireling preachers or inimical to anything but religious error no charge of immorality is brought against the elders neither can it be against their teachings they do not preach the marriage tenets which so much disturb the righteous souls of people who pant in theory to go to abrahams abraham bosom they do not interfere with the freedom of any other religious body nor promulgate anything that is not inculcated in the scriptures which all the christian sects profess to believe in as the only guide to salvation at first it was charged against the swiss elders that they taught polygamy but when this was found to be untrue they were blamed for not preaching it seeing that it was be ildved in by the people in utah it itis is hard to 0 please anti cormons mormons Mor mons I 1 ac e pid ing to the their ir logic it is a sin in a mormon to preach polygamy but a worse siu sin not to preach it As to the 1 process against emig emigration emigrate rati on 1 agencies it cannot be shown that on oil elders have acted unlawfully nor thit that the united states is legally closed to mormon immigrants they are on the same footing as others who are neither criminals nor pau pers the swiss government cannot lawfully expel the elders on either of these grounds the post is much mistakes mistaken in baying that the mormons cormons have owed a very large part of their success to the offer of greater sexual freedom without social discredit it has been claimed by other papers and with wilh much greater show of reason that the greatest blow mormon proselytism ever received was the announcement of the revelation on polygamy Andt And the heoffer offer of greater sexual freedom to is all in the minds eye of the post and 0 other papers not better acquainted with I 1 mormon sentiment and doctrine there is more restriction on the indulgence of tte tt e passions in mormonism than 2 any other religious system in clar car st endom self government self denial the legitimate and temperate use of all the faculties of ef mans manig nature is an integral part of mormon doctrine and he who i gratifies himself inordinately and to excess erces is is not guided by the spirit of mormonism but is ander the dominion of the flesh a and d to is led by the influence of the world A true latter day saint is master of himself and all who are striving to be saints in very deed keel up lip a warfare with their lower natorp that they mif ma be numbered among those who have overcome all thing thina 3 11 and will be counted worthy to inherit all ail things it is a common mistake to suppose that mormonism abroad appeals to a low class and that desire for a lax morality tv which is prevalent in the world it does no such tiling glnn but takes an exactly contrary course and that is why it does not take with the rich and the luxurious the poor received the gospel in the lays clays of ef jesus of nazareth not because he appealed to their passions but because he be made plain to them the truth the tas elder eldea do the same today to day and as the proud and the worldly wise rejected the simple gospel with its strict requirements of life then so they do now for similar reasons there are unwise preachers and un righteous members in the mormon church and many things are said and done that are improper but they are not accordini accor acco eding dins to the teachings of mormonism W which requires truth honesty justice fuir fairness ness chastity and honess holiness ard those who do not practice rhesa hese vir tues bues are not fully entitled to be called genuine mormons cormons Mor mons or true latter latter day saints |