| Show GIRL interviewed GIVES EASTERN PEOPLE AN IDEA OF THE MORMONS her father is not of that faith but she is a missionary in the cause of the latter day saints A dispatch to a new york paper from philadelphia contains the following interview with an ogdan girl now serving as a mormon missionary in the east it is hard to make converts in the east because the people arc prejudiced against miss becraft a mormon missionary bays misi becraft was a school teacher at ogdan utah ten months ago when she was ordered by the church to go and teach tho principals of the latter day saints her field of work has been in this city 1 have been a mormon since I 1 was a little girl said miss becraft my mother was converted to the faith when we lived in buffalo our family has lived in ogden for twenty years but my father is not a mormon he likes tho cormons mormons Mor mons 1 I was called by the president of the church to work in the eastern states mission you know that all mormon arc well to do and no salaries are paid to ministers or missionaries we pay all our own expense I 1 nave been in new york for ten months and am in debt 1 I am not worrying about that when I 1 go home ill school again and pay it all back there are ten mormon ciders in philadelphia now making a house to house canvass all arc paying their own expenses they are away from home for from two to five years when they return to utah alicy will resume their secular work ine people here seem to think cormons mormons as polygamists polygamy not practiced now by cormons mormons Mor mons not more than two per cent mor mons practiced it when it was allowed mv duty has been to visit the various woman s belief societies of our church in the east there are so many organization in our church that eacy woman belongs to at least one that is a part of our great operative cooperative co system a system that makes us all known to each other there are no poor mor mons because we help one another t have been assisting in the organization of relief societies in the different churches in the east the mormon church is braining strength here despite the prejudice some people have told me they avill not listen to me when I 1 talk of our principles because their ministers tell them not to ahten why all cormons mormons are advised to investigate vesti gate the principles of other churches I 1 leave frequently attended services of other denominations and if any one can convince me eliat some other church is liht I 1 will the cause of the that is right miss becraft was educated in n mormon school iribe said eliat she will be glad to return to utah although her work in the east has been pleasant all tuc cormons mormons in utah according to miss becraft devote part of each day to church work that is possible because none of them is jn needy circumstance she said that there are ten young mormon studying medicine at the johns II university baltimore |
