| Show 0 0 0 BEWARE OF PROPHETS IN CLOTHING 0 0 r EV W A HUNTER of the chist avenue presbyterian church preach 0 ing on mormonism lat night eaid 0 0 whether I 1 consider its method of proselytism or alio extravagant 0 0 or preposterous nature of its claim or the coarse materialism of its 0 0 theology or the immorality of its practices or its life history in utah 0 0 I 1 have no hesitation in mormonism one of hie most vilo 0 0 and infamous systems of im postine which has sprung up during the last 0 0 century and one which ought to be by every follower of christ 0 0 and every lover of his country 0 0 if its missionaries with alie for they arc notorious visited the 0 0 alums and tried to uplift tho fallen and rescue the perishing in places which 0 0 have been overlooked or neglected by the church of christ one might be 0 0 ready to make allowance for much error in the system but they select 0 0 portions of alie city already evangelized zed or at least under the tare of the 0 0 church and endeavor to biake people eliat baptism by immersion is 0 0 necessary to salvation that no bic ia nua lined to teach or adminis 0 0 ordinances of religion but themselves that the christian church has 0 0 apostatized and remained apostate until joseph smith rc the truo 0 0 church one thinks of the warning worda of christ beware kroph 0 0 ets who come to you in clothing but inwardly they arc ravening 0 0 wolves 0 0 claiming to possess exclusively ilie gift of tongues prophesy vision and 0 0 revelation one is amazed to find their missionaries and apostles have to 0 0 learn alie language of the various countries to which they are sent juet 0 0 alie as other men and eliat the prophecies made by their ap ostice and 0 0 bishops arc just as wide of the mark as those made by our weather prophets 0 0 over again it was predicted by them that brigham Brig hau young would 0 0 be president of the united staica that no army could prevail against the 0 0 latter day sainta that would entirely subdue this country in 0 0 ten icare and one epostle so far aa to say in 1838 that if thu 0 0 latter prediction failed they mi sit know that the book of mormon ie not 0 0 true which of course we will not dispute 0 0 one would think that long usa lc human race had outgrown the 0 teria listie conception of god aal bad coin 0 to realize that lie was an infinite 0 0 spirit pervading and sustaining tho whole universe but now we are told by 0 0 the cormons mormons that he is a man like ono of us gaining knowledge as we do 0 0 oure by a system of telegraph ani telephones etc hut as though eliat acro 0 0 not grossly materialistic enough chust is declared to have been poleg 0 0 acht and other equally prof aio falsehoods have been invented concerning 0 0 the founder of the ic ligion 0 0 think of a system which teaches that tho more wives a man hae the 0 0 higher ills lionor in heaven eliat and wrecks alie happiness of 0 0 women and eliat quotes the bible in it favor for not liing DO utterly con 0 0 mcinni the whole system of polygamy as the bible if tho patriarchs did 0 0 practice polygamy in alie early ogea of alie worlds history before alie race 0 0 advanced to hiigli moral conceptions the evils and sufferings of dutli abom 0 0 are very faithfully delineated and the teaching of christ is 0 0 against it and it ie to think eliat we will 0 0 allow at this stage of our history this surge of licentiousness to sweep 0 0 over our nation alio infidel and tho christian may writ stand side by side 0 0 in denouncing Monnon wn na n ipe to the home ne it is covertly a foe to 0 0 free institutions in its claim that their prophet is superior to all 0 0 eions and lawa of this or any other nation 0 0 moreover alie history of ione deik foul blot on the page 0 0 of the lii story of this country who lia not heard of the persecution and 0 0 massacres of parties traveling li rough their territory so violent and ed 0 0 vile that troop biad to be sent t punish alio at that time 0 0 bishop lee swore that brigham ecung had ordered alio ond had 0 0 told the witnesses to hush it up 0 0 thin is the system that compel to go out to propagate in 0 0 other their pernicious doctrines although their fain ilice at honio may 0 0 be r poverty that promises and gardens and luxurious living 0 0 to their converts and that alin once convert are gained taxes them until 0 the blood cocce to support depraved priesthood it is one great and pro 0 longed cruelty turning even the co ocie tice and astorca into so 0 many null to grind out money from the poor 0 wit i |
