Show GIVES TALK ON MORMONS MORMONS I Ii i Methodist Preacher of of Salt gaIt Lake Gives 1 Impressions Some interesting views on Mor- Mor MorI IorI I monism I were e given e by the Rev I I Frederick rederick I kw J. J eC Cox C Methodist le o mm- I f Iter of Silt Salt Lake In an nn address at the session s' of tr t t-e t Utah Is- Is IsIon Ion lon of or the Methodist t Episcopal lurch t Saturday night The meet meet- ng nJ was held In the community e hou house and the th Rev nl Mr Cox was I called upon to tell of the problems In Salt Sail Lake In connection onnE with homo home missions and church hureh exten exten- extension I sion work i The minister said laid that the Salt SaltI Lake chamber r Of ef t commerce commer had hat I advertised nt that the population of or ort rt t Lake Is II 60 per ISer cent Gentile 11 I but lt h he IP had from a n. survey ni by hy ministers that the Mol Mor- Mormon I mon population of th the city was 60 GO GOper pr per 01 cent ent and the hl he various vario Gentile I churches could claim an active membership m of not more than The chamber hamber of commerce evi evidently vl- vl I dently thought th It was W S a It good thing to 10 advertise the Gentiles in the majority in Salt Sail Lake La ke as a a i. i means means means' of attracting tourists tourist and outside I capitalists who Intended to Invest in the city Ill I'll the th minister said eald I It Is I Impossible to elect a n. Gen- Gen Gentile Gentile tile candidate li it II Utah if the Mor Mor- Mormon mon muon church hurch has decided which shall be elected the minister declared d. d We Ye have ha a. a governor but we have come to b believe lieve that he cannot an not InKe e Independent action and he ho hohas has hns expressed himself that there are times limes when he does not care to take Independent action Referring to the schedule the I minister r said teachers had hart de declared de- de dared no partiality is shown on the th matter of religion The speak speak- speaker er 11 said ald he is a member of or the Ex Ex- Exchange Ex- Ex I change c club of ot which 85 per pcr cent ent of the members me were Mormons Mormons' and he found o them a fine con con- congenial congenial eS r con I genial la set of men RECREATION I The rhe recreational activities of the Mormon Harmon church were praised by byte I t te o minister n he commended o fl I Ian ge very y highly I rth the class la of o dramatics l an-l an motion pictures given In the I Wards He salu ezia he was W S acquainted wih one of the finest attorneys aHorn's In Salt Sail Lake who said sail he was a Mormon and nd although he did not care for the old theology of the church he was attracted to It by Its recreational activities The moral life of Salt Lake Is ns as D good as any other city of Its Us I sire hire He Ite disagreed with ft n friend who declared that Salt Lake Iak was as wicked as Sodom and Gomorrah The Je reason rason morals In Salt Lake are arc areo I so o good the said was be be- because be- be belCI because cause use it is one of the rules of or the Mormon church that children must attend a religious class one lay day da a week tek and that adults must attend classes once in the week In addition to the Sunday S services Saturday night being bring a home night with the Mormons Is also responsible sible 10 for the high conditions in the city ho said Referring to polygamy the min mm- minister ister later said I dont don't believe there the e eIs Is any more polygamy among ansorg the th Mormons than titan there is among the th I Gentiles and I 1 know some Mor Mor- Mormon mon muon and some Gen Gen- Gentile G Gentile n- n tile polygamists OX ON GUTTING G WORK had its mis effect upon the Industrial life of the community ity it the minister said declaring that although men could obtain employment regardless ss of the thet church affiliations during seasons t of unemployment there were In In- Instances In- In Instances Instances stances where Mormons had the preference lie He said it was Im Im- Impossible Impossible im- im impossible possible to establish a a. 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A in Salt Lake because the th Mormon lormon church had Its Us its young mens men's or organizations or- or organizations and the Mormon church could not be bo depended upon for support of organizations not con con- connected connected with Its own church Next ext to the Jesuit society the Mormon church is th the th s best or or- organized organized religious society In the world the minister said He lie as 33 asserted 3 the Mormon church was chiefly materialistic consisting of baptism work for the dead and the authority of pf the tho priesthood lie He declared the Mormon church lacked laced spiritual experience LIKES TITHING The minister told of ot the recent Mutual Jubilee of the Mormon church and wished that It possible for the other churches to Influence the young oung people 1 e as the Mormon church had lie He said salli he would like the tithing system not because It was demanded by bythe b the church but because bause It was needed by the world he lie would like to see the churches working for the the- living with the same zeal that Mormons work for the dead The Rev ne Lester Fagen F min mum- minister ister of the Ogden church told of the tho problems In mining dis dh- lie lie- Ho lie said the church was confronted with many problems due to to a shifting population many of the men were either un sun- unmarried married or separated from their families mUles fa and were attracted by bythe b the grosser evils There is a a. total lack of civic pride there Is religious Indifference a II lack of cultural Institutions he added Bishop H. H Lester Smith D D. D D. D I of Helena Mont commended the tho two ministers for their report Ho lie I said he had learned a very vera er great I I deal from the address of ot the Rev Re Mr Cox and commended him for Co I his fairness and charity charily toward I the tho Mormon church 00 00 |