Show novo I 1 GUARD YOUR OWN on the second of the present 1 month there waa was a large gathering 0 ef of the presbyterians rians in syracuse I 1 new now york the meeting waa was a con I 1 bention of the home missionaries I 1 who had assembled to report ithe the 4 1 results of their labors in tho the vari vari I 1 otis sections where they had been I 1 laboring to turn the people from F the error of their ways their I 1 fields ivere extensive and some of I 1 I 1 them far from the head bead center in this convention of course I 1 utah was represented and formed an important factor in the makeup make up of the aggregate report one of I 1 the speakers in his remarks referred to the great extent and immense i m wealth of texas and seemed 11 4 to pride himself considerably on having a rich field for his operations I 1 tio s but the rev D J macmillan 1 I 1 3 the missionary from utah I 1 soon took the wind out of bis his texas I 1 I 1 I 1 brothers sails in speaking of our I 1 territory the reverend gentleman said 4 the tile section lie represented could COUI d 1 not only furnish more wealth to the 1 1 square mile but could furnish more I 1 0 wives and children to the square man than could be furnished in i n I 1 any other part of their great in mis is fields this declaration it I 1 I 1 would seem startled some of his clerical brethren but nevertheless never theler s 1 e I 1 I 1 that part of eften the report which relates 1 to the square man is absolutely I 1 and undeniably true we do not suppose that macminn fac I 1 lan ian intended to insinuate that outside I 1 of utah the husbands and fathers are net not square men but he stoutly affirmed that tho tile mormon I 1 husbands are square men that being v fact it is no wonder their I 1 enemies find it so difficult to break I 1 1 I 1 up their family institutions 1 7 0 our readers need not suppose I 1 that all ail that U mr r macmillan said of u the cormons mormons Mor mons was good but still 1 r he be said more than is recorded abo above V C in speaking of their inous industry try and thrift he said where one no year was the earth home of the pioneer the next year found a place of two thousand souls and that it is not beyond their power to control that 1 territory will with all its vast wealth for lie says the 1 mormons cormons Mor I mons I 1 are still growing grof ting in power tho tile reverend gentleman further says had our fathers discovered thia this region and it bad been accessible to them the 1 A I 1 east never nevee would have been I 1 settled that is a singular stat I 1 ment which few men meu will indorse this region waa was discovered before I 1 I 1 the cormons mormons Mor mons came here 11 but nobody would settle it they 1 it did not believe it possible sible to raise raise anything to cat in this valley and thought that any attempt to do 10 so 11 woud would prove a fatal failure butas 1 mcmillan says the Mor mons have 1 1 made a success of it he gays BUS the I 1 1 cormons mormons Mor mons are kind and obliging I 1 1 neighbors and the country they inhabit 11 is well worth winning but their religion ie is an evil in his eyes 1 ond and lie asks how arc are we nye to remedy it he ile is puzzled H he e 1 toe think not the government can ea it I 1 but the tile christians here ie is what I 1 belays he says 1 wo we can call strike MO boic e effective blows I as christiana christians titan asa as a government christian women with ca carry r I 1 an effective weapon they win 11 parents through the children wo I 1 establish tab liah churches and schools ech wo but the tile results cannot be tabulated our I 1 need is for teachers to educate tho t lo 10 children and make mako them christians christla ns there are many anany women who are becoming christians there are lire 1 many nomen women and men who are becoming christians tile thero are many to win if we can only reach them but todo to do this the christian the 1 meada 1 anu and mormon missionaries in I 1 utah have baye learned that it ia is useless to try to convert con vert men and women I 1 from to methodism or any other christian religion thom systems have been tried by the mormons cormons Mor mons and proved to I 1 le be sadly wanting in the elements that afford solid sat faction hence I 1 they labor not only assiduously but also to their doe brines into the minds of the children and thereby poison their tender minds against the tile re L I 1 ai I 1 N FT r I 1 t I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 of their fathera fathers and mother mot liers which h has is co coa st them thern so dear now wo we would once more remind the tile parents of the tile rising a generation of latter day saints I 1 of the responsibility risibility they aroun arc under to watch over their offspring oft pring and prevent them from falling into the flaros set for them by the fowlers that they bo be not contaminated by the false doctrines which held them in bondage and from which the tile truth has mado them free send your children to your own institutions to bo be taught whose instructors tors are in sympathy with yourselves youre elves religiously and socially that they may live learn and grow up in an atmosphere that is conno congenial 0 to tho the vast majority of the people who subdued and settled the country du do not interfere with an any y persons in regard to their mode of religious worship nor try to induce their children to adopt yours youn with out the consent of their parents but be sure you guard your own against the intrusions of those parties who like wolves in clothing 11 would insinuate themselves into your confidence enter ter your folds and destroy your flocks your children are your heritage 0 guard them as its you would the apple of your eye |