Show GIVES ATTENTION TO CLEMENSON GLEMENSON Nephi L. L Morris Replies to Attack Atack on Mormon Church RELIGION IS SPIRITUAL Declares It I Is Applied to tu Life on un mth n as us Well el ns m to Ono One I Hereafter nCI cm Tho he attack atack on Mormonism made by Rev flex N. N 1 I E. E Clemenson last week during the tle meeting of Presbyterian ministers minis minis- tel tel-s held hold In Salt Sni Lake was the subject of oC the address delivered in tho the Tabernacle Tabernacle Tabernacle Tab Tab- yesterday afternoon h by Nephi r. r L. L Morris Mr Morris quoted as his text Lext however hoe the question asked of or StPaul St St. St Paul in Rome nom when whon he was arrested for COl doing doIng things contrary to Lo tho the es established es- es customs of the tho times tho-times when some Memo o of the Romans Homans said ld But Ut we desire to hear of oC thee what thou thomi est for COl or concerning this sect we wc know that hat everywhere It is spoken a against There was enough among mon the Jews Jeys of Home Rome In those thoc dark days dUs to tn give Ie St St. St Paul a hearing said 1 Mr r. r Morris In the week past has been jeen discussed In iii meetings s hel held b by a abod bod jody hotly of oC Christian ChrIstan ministers In this cH city Mr Morris continued and an Monday one of these gentlemen thought bought he was called cled upon to deliver himself of a lon long discourse on th the tho Mormon Problem He lt then read reada a part of the address delivered by 1 Mr Clemenson paying special alien alien- aten- aten lon tion ton to the nine mime statements made by bythe bythe the he Presbyterian minister an and rea reading read read- Ing ng the statement In which AIm Mr Clemn- Clemn said one OIO of the serious phases DC C f the Mormon problem was tho the fact that hat the they came from flom all al parts of oC the tIme world as r well wel ell as from flom every even art o of the ho United States an and were really kith and nd kin to everyone e PIO Progress I S Toward Sufferance Mr Mm I Morris Moris said Mill the Presbyterian church hurch ot om Q man many of or its ls members had always been particularly antagonistic towards s l Mormonism but he lie I knew new that hat the Presbyterian church was making progress towards sufferance other denominations for or a minister of or that Ion tion on said In the car early days das of the of or Utah that the Mormons were ere a u common enemy of oC mankind ln n mad nd mu must t be he destroyed Another Pres- Pres b minister In California Caloria had said ald can not be he edu- edu can not be le reformed it I must be e destroyed Mr Morris then lien read again the tho extract from flom Mr Clemenson's a address saying lying the Mormons were kith and kIn tin to tho thie rest ret o of the world and citing the ic statement as an nn evidence that the representatives of the tho Presbyterian hurch had to some extent broadened their views regarding the Mormon faith alth Ho lie le said the Mormons glad to o be leco recognized as kith and kin to the ic re rest t of humanity for or It was with that lint the Mormon religion hoped to do Us its Is he best t work The speaker speak speak- or er r referred to tho time statement that th the Mormon lormon religion was mysterious and anI Inscrutable saying the Mormons gave a thanks lanks to God Gol for confirming their work ork which was truly great groat nail ami mar mar- clous The Thin Mormons he said ald were wre to the lie early carbo Christians Christans In that thc they icy were ere a peculiar people and Mel Mel- i from the lie rest of oC the world woth Protests ts J Against Char Charge e Mr irr Morris said sail re regarding tho the statement statement statement state state- ment that MormonIsm was waH a clear and veil wel defined philosophy o of a material material- character that ho wished to protest protest pro- pro test cst against the charge that there was wasa wac n a lack of spirituality Anyone who would maJ make e that statement the speak speak- I r t said made mad a it I through h ignorance of the he Mormon religion He lIe le cle cited the building of or the great temple as one of f the lie fh first t acts of lr Brigham ham Young and nd his followers here as evidence of the he spirituality of oC their religion for or there here was sas a temple constructed at a acost acost acost cost of to be he used USel for em spiritual spiritual spirit spirit- ual ministration only H Tin Ito said tim Mormons however hoo he hele believed d I Ir In a CIHi Christianity Chris Chrls- as applied to life on this earth and said ald tho the Christianity of or Mormon Mormon- ism sm showed people how to live Jve this life Ife as well as the one hereafter Answering to the char charge e that Mor- Mor m was contrary to the best conception conception con con- of Delt Deity Mr Morris said there here were two conceptions generally held one personal and antI the other impersonal Ho lie 10 said sid the conception of oC his religion was waR essentially per per- pPl- pPl The They believed In a God with sith witha sitha a heart and hod body and ant he had been unable to find In the Bible an any statement statement state state- ment denying the existence of a personal per per- 01 sonai God Goc He Regarding the charge that lint the church was controlled b by a hierarchy hIerarch and tho the power powel was placed with a few fei he contended that the form Corm of church government was waN similar to that established by hy Christ In tho the early church and Ind as us to the charge that the Mormons Mormons Mor Mor- I mons hoped to supplant the tho governments govern govern- go erl meats ments ment of or earth h hA said that would I only come with wih tho the complete establishment of the Kingdom dom of God Goe that had been so long prophesied I For Jor Honor of Pla hug Flag In answering the chargo charge that Mormonism Mor Mor- monism was tenson treason Mr Mi- h Morris approached approached ap ap- preached the tho point of or anger for the only time in his a address He lie said wald Id the Mormons occupied this valley when It Jt was claimed by ly Mexico and planted tho Stars and Stripes on Ensign peak peak From that time on on he said the they had been working for fOl the honor o of that flag Clag and what It I represented Ho He cited what tho the Mormons had done In Inthe Inthe inthe the wn way o of famishing volunteers from Crom the time of ot Nauvoo oo to tho the Spanish war tar Shame hame on tho the man mann who would call cal such a people treasonable and hostile hostle to the Government GO he said Tho Thu charge o of treason Is incompatible with wih ith the statement in the same tamo address ad nd- dress that tho ho Mormon people are arc sober and anti Industrious I In c cOnclusion Mr Ir Morris summed up tho the trouble between Mr Ir Clemen- Clemen son Kon eon and those o of hl his stripe b by quotIn quoting In lag ing Why VII h should the heathen rn rage p and the people Imagine lne vain things Hu lie le said paid it I was wan wat because God was workIng working working work work- ing for Cor the establishment of or Ills His kingdom kingdom king king- dom on t earth art and tho the pert persecution culon o of the Mormon church was to them a R sign o of Its Itu success At the conclusion of the address Mrs Lizzie Thomas E Edwards wards with wih tho the choir sang the anthem When hen Thou to the Judgment S |