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Show BJBJ .j. .j. ,. B The Poor Things BB A few days ago a clipping from an eastern pa- HI per was handed to us, and after reading the same BK we mndo the above remark. Wo wero also ready Bb to ask "How long Oh Lord Holy and True" will Bb minds living In a twentieth century civilization ro- BJ main so dark, and at regular Intervals belch forth HJ such rot. Well might tho great author hand down HJ to 110 tho edict "What Fools Theso Mortals Ho." BJ Hero Is tho clipping: HJ Of tho converts thnt the Mormon elders nnd HJ workers mako hero in Hoston, tho good looking, HJ bright nnd mora Intelligent young women may HJ become tho wives of some Mormon elder. Those HJ who arc not sufficiently good looking or other- HJ ' wise attractivo will not ho married, hut will bo HJ placed In tho Mormon templo tq do service and HJ becomo there In Utah what the temple girls of HJ India are in that far away land. HJ This was the statement mado Inst night at HJ Park Btrect Congregational Church by Mrs. E. HJv I W. Vnrnoy, of Newton Center, before an audi- Hf I enco of Invited guests who wero present for tho HK) f purpose of meeting tho presidents of vnrlous Hoa- HJ I ton women's clubs. j I Mrs. Varney was one of several speakers HJ and her topic was "Present Day Mormonlsm," HJ which was to have been discussed by Mrs. Oeo. HJ '1 W. Coleman, president of tho Massachusetts HJ Council Patriotic Service. Mrs. Coleman was do- HJ talned by Illness, HJ "From 8 o'clock In the morning until mid- HJ ' night," was another statement ot Mrs, Varney 'i, HJ ' "theso Proselyting Uormons aro to be found in HJ ' Tremont street, the Public Garden and along the HJ mall, always 01 the watch U make converts. B They have lsslnuatsd thomselves Into the Y. W. HJ C. A. where we night b expected to send our HJ daughters for protection against this and other HJ evils; they have gains access in various ways HJ1 1 to social fuictloat where they cbsld come In touch K ! with young weme; tey are to he found la BJr schools about Boctoa sarrylsg 01 ttslr proselyt- j H 10Bwmm i w in 1 1 iw-w iwwcfff ,i .,., HsT' ' HjLHbB lng among tho girls nnd young women. It is tho girls and young women that they aro seeking. "Tlicro wero 70 converts to Mormonlsm in Hoston in 1911. Only ono wns a man. Of tho other G9, ono was a Jewess, one wns a Roman Catholic, the others mostly professing Christians and members of Sunday schools and churches In this city and Its suberbB. Docs that prove to what ends thpy are working? In Watcrtown there was a girl Florence I forget her last name, who told her friend that she was to marry a man who was going Into the ministry. Her chum asked her what denomination, and who he was.. 'Ho's a Latter-Day Saint,' was tho reply. It was ono of theso attractive young men that have been sent out, npt only to various parts of fhls country, coun-try, but to all countries to seek converts and Incidentally In-cidentally wives. "Those Mormons," continued Mrs. Varney, "quote the Bible; they acknowledge tho Trinity, but the Interpretation that they put upon tho Scriptures is a materialistic one, which despite their denial, approves of polygamy. They havo perverted Christianity nnd their Interpretation Is nwny from the idealistic toward the materialistic." j. j. ju |