Show MORMON ISM IN WALES from copies of welsh papers that we cavese have seen en we learn that some mormon meetings recently held in swai sea Wales became a subject of gon considerable sid erable public interest and newspaper comment A meeting was held in ofle albert minor hall swansea on monday evening eveningS sept pt letb at which the attendance was large but many persons in tile the audience abe were very noisy and disorderly and the services were in consequence nin dered and interrupted on the f ol lowing evening another meeting was held in the same hall a lengthy account of chichis chica chis is given in the cambria daily leader jot tile next day apostle george teasdale president david Willig williams ms of the welsh conference elder B R S campbell and other missionaries were present at both meetings meeting 8 it seems that the disorder at the meeting on monday evening was caused by an interruption and remarks made lay by a person 0 of f local notoriety named adolphus D bolitho the leader beadi ays aph i i monday woul Gin all pro probability babi lity have ended in peace and quietness but for the intervention of mr adolphus Adolphu sD D Boll bolitho tho tile self sef constituted censor in swansea of religion and morality again on tuesday night mr bolitho was at the meeting betimes in a prominent seat p repard prepared to fight toot tooth and nal nail against all forms of error mr boll too whatever his orthodox friends may think or do must at all hazards and single handed banded champion the cause of truth in the liast midst of this evil eva and untoward generation faithful among the faithless faithful only he before toe opening of the meeting apostle teasdale addressed the si assembly urging that good order ie e observed while president williams was delivering a discourse he was interrupted by cries for Boil tho the halt hall was crowded and prior to this juncture a good deal of noise and contusion confusion had been created bya by a lotof mischievous young fellows calling for bolitho the noise and anacon con fusion increased to such aa extent as to break up the meeting an unusual feature of the affair is the tone of the local papers paper a in treating upon it the leader con condemns demas the treatment extended to the missionaries aries praises aises them for their dignified and sa patient pra tie t cie demeanor meanor and ur urges gesin in their r bell behalf if the right of the herald of wales has an editorial article in a similar strain speaks of the missionaries as grave rave eg earnest rnest pious minded men and says the strangers within our gates are entitled to a fair hearing on friday evening following the meetings above referred to mr bolitho held one in the same hall for the purpose of replying to the mor or mons he had sowed bowed to the wind and reaped the whirlwind the class of roughs boughs who under his ingue influence nce and leadership had disturbed tae ake meetings held by the mormon mis sion aries attended his in fore force and transformed it into a pandemonium according to accounts of it given by the leader he struggled bravely against the efforts of a roy roistering roysten ng mob to drown his voice by the singing 01 comic songs jeering and guying aim etc his effort t to oppose the teachings of tile the elders was received with boisterous derision and he was prevented from finishing his address themert the meeting closed sed while a shower of peas wits was rained upon him the public ridicule and coli contempt teMPt which this anti mor mont champion has brought upon himself are excessive as is indicated by editorial and communicated arti articles cles which have appeared in the swansea Swans ts papers the herald of refers to him so POP popular r has S mr adolphus D bolitho the the anti 0 timora tiMor 1 become as the advocate of one man for one wife ife that the ladies of the town are about to present him with wita a 9 xora spoon having a whis stif tiet at the gad 10 aid him in supping sopping his 84 1 ingenious and thong it t re for the ithe tlde tide of public an accuser of the latter day Sain inta tsi as it has ions iong been a favorite road oad t to cheap popularity pu larity to taale a e them this i s agitation pi swansea aa es can scarcely fail to hb lt good it will create an interest in tiie the labors of the missionaries in that field and will stimulate investigation ti into their teachings alm almost oat any cause that will produce these results may be taken as providential as the stimulating of a spi spirit it of inquiry always adds to the success of latter day clay saint missionaries |