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Show SCOTS ATTACK i MISSIONARIES I Edinburgh Students Tar I and Feather Trio After Raid on Meeting How Edinburgh students tarred an.' ; irhered two Mormon elders is relat . oi in the Wecklv Scotsman of Juno 24, a copy of which has reached Og- I den The Htory follows mormons TARRED, l flinbuivh Sftidentu' K.soapado. I idlnburrh sUidents on Sunday nlghi . raid- d Mormon meeting and tarred ! and i-alhercd tw o eldrrs and the aec-1 aec-1 1 r.y of the nv ftin;. Pot Close on thirty years Mormons I In Edinburgh have held a weekly SUnday-nlghl meeting in the Free Gardeners' Hnll ul i'leardy Place, und this is the firat occasion on which there has been any trouble of this I kind. The raid bad eidwitly been careful ly planned. Earl) last week a room at Plcardy Pla-t Hall was booked on behalf of what was termed 'The Young Men's Missionary I nlon " , the members of the 'I'nion' assembled as-sembled there wa no indication as to their purpose Quietly they gathered j In twos and threes ;o the number of about .ij,-h:v an 1 a I j' Tl o'clock tho, meeting opened with the singing of a hymn. Meantime the Mormon party had gathered as usual in tnlr hall on the, flat above, and their meeting was' enmmem -d In the customary fashion There was un attendance of about 16, men and women being in about: equal proportion. Assured that the party above had commenced tbelr meetln, the students abandoned thHr meeting and mado ! their way upstairs. So careful had! been the preparations that even at thit I point a ruse was adopted In order to avoid detection. To cover the ad-1 vanee of one parly of students up-ntair., up-ntair., the others remained In the I room and continued singing hymns 1 "THKIll PTiRASANT nwrv" With "scouts' posted in the corridors corri-dors and in the btreets, the "attacking" "attack-ing" force entered the hall and ln-terrupted ln-terrupted the Mormons' meeting When they enten-d three men were sitting at a desk, which was covered with a white cloth, while the other members of the congregation were sested around tho room. To avoid any possibility of mistake the Btudehts asked tho chair party if they were Latter Day Saints from l tah and a reply In the affirmative! was given. When this answer was given, the leader of the students) calmly announced announc-ed It i. our pleasant duty to tar and feather you " Oth( i numbers of the raiding party then stepped forward and deposited on the desk a miscellaneous collection collec-tion Of tins containing green paint, treacle, and honey. The students '.hen proceeded to ex-1 ecutt their "pleasant duty." and sn eared the two missionaries and the secretary of the meeting with the paint and treaMc a queer mixture , No resistance was offered by the three men. The tin Of treacle was i-mptled! oer the head and down the back of one of the missionaries while treacle was rubbed Into his beard. B this time ono girl had escaped i ! from the room and summoned the assistance as-sistance of the po'lee and on their arrival ar-rival four of the students were tak n lntu custody. The Mormon authorities hezt night refused to prefer any charge against the students, und tho four men who had been detained w ere then liberal -ed, No fuithei action will bo taken until the authorities at tho Mormon h id'inarters at Liverpool have been I consulted An editorial in t ho same paper says HOtK or MORMON. Evidences f n t.itai Imposture. Considerable .ntorest has been created in Mormonlsm owing to tho I fact that there is at present a pa-;y 'of that sei carrying on active propa-ganda propa-ganda In this country The attention of Parliament 1ms been drawn to the I matter, but so far nothing has been j done to cope with this danger, for dangerous it i- Mormonlsm Is, in fa t, nothing muv oor less than an Imposture, and .4ic following acooutit of Its origin fully substantiates this s tat ement. As is doubtless well known. tho : Mormons derive their name from a ! work called ' The Booii of Mormon," I believed by them to b tho fruit of divine inspiration and revelation, and regarded by them as their Bible It has been published several times in j America the home of Mormonlsm 'and once, at least In this country in 1841. It originated thus Some time in 1 820. a young man named Josenh Smith, who afterwards became the founder, apostle, arid prophet of ilv-Mormons, ilv-Mormons, followed the profcsiou of "money-digger" i. the Unltpd states, 'ihat is, he pretci.ded by inears of incantations in-cantations to discover tho treasure supposed to have been buried ov the buueanecrs. According to all accounts Smith distinguished himself ?rtatly m this line, and while thus engaged I he received, so the story goes, sevual' divine revelations regarding ihc re-1 liglous sects of the day UAiBGBD IIE I liATIONs jn the first occasion when he VBS thus f.ior..-d in Had gone into a gro m ' to pruy for divine aid as to which of thes denominations Was the irue one a bright light appeared. Into which ho wa srecelved, whereupon two inc.! ols told him that his tdns were fur- j rim ii Ihat l he whole world sus wrong' r,J"" 1 liglous points, mu that in due tim the truth should be mado Know it to him. A second revelation Informed him! t-iai :he American Indians wore a remnant of the lost ten tribes' and I ' - prophets and inspired men oncol ''V ,. ,an;n8 'hem. by whom divine records had been deposited in a saf. place |