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Show u AN EXCHANGE OF COMPLIMENTS Rev. D. J. McMillan, a Presbyterian minister from New York, formerly stationed in Utah, stopped over Sunday Sun-day in Salt Lake City on his way to the conference at Los Angeles. He is the man who has been telling people peo-ple back east that In Utah he had to preach with a Bible in one hand and a revolver in the other. Sunday morning morn-ing he gave an overflow congregation at the Collegiate institute a few more sensations to ponder over. He said: "Tliey tell you in the Tabernacle of the spirit of brotherly love and the kindly feeling which animated them in their treatment of their Gentile friends, and that they were willing to let every one worship according to the dictates of his own conscience. That is what they preach now. I can remember the time in this state when it was hardly safe for any person to admit that he was not a Mormon, and it is not so many years ago, either. When I was preaching in Sanpete they said: 'We will make a Mormon of him, or we will teach him a lesson.' They did not say this once, but a good many times, and some of their threats were even stronger. It was a common com-mon remark down there that they would never allow the feet of a Gentile Gen-tile to tread the sacred soil of Sanpete San-pete county; They would not sell a Gentile anything to eat if they could get out of It If a Mormon did sell us anything he lived in mortal dread of the consequences." At the afternoon meeting in the Tabernacle, Elder Penrose got back at his old time antagonist and handled hand-led him without gloves. He positively denied the Sanpete story and the proofs of the minister's unreliability furnished by him and the Deseret News are worthy of serious consideration. considera-tion. It is up to the man from New York to furnish a little evidence of the truth of his charges. There is enough to be said on the Mormon question Vltncrat Tesorting to : - ,,,1, , abuse, which changes no one's opinion, opin-ion, but only breeds discord and strife in the community. Surely it would be better to try to convince the Mormons Mor-mons of the errors of their form of belief without hardening their hearts by slandering them. Converts are not made in that way. By the way, that gun-in-the-pulpit story is a bit too wild and woolly for the twentieth century. |