Show 4 M Mil STOIMUKDS IiECTOUK In ll > liClcur uiiil Siiccc lul I 1 r rulR 1oct15 of ninriiiniiUin rime lecture of Irf 15 Stoddard lit the Federal Courtroom last oxcning was argely attended The room was filled jojond its wealing f capacity and many were obliged to content thcmsehcs with undmg places The meeting was or anzcd by tho nomination by Colonel 0 J Hollister of Mr II W Lawrence as resident Mr Lawrence was unanl oiwly elected and coming forward lifter II few well chosen lemarlts Intro uccd to the audience the speaker of the xcning who was reeeixcd with a round of enthusiastic applause Mr Sloddard began by saying that this was only the fourth time that ho had ad resHod a public audience since tho good uhl IIIS when lie tived to stand up In meting and bear his testimony and ho icreforo did not pretend to bo a public speaker lieforo proceeding with tho ecturo proper tho gentleman answered ocral of tho flings which ho had re coined from tho Mormon press and ho owned them I all with i good common souse reasoning I Ho vindicated himself of 1 every charge which had been made giinst him by proving these charges too to-o false and illogical Ho gao some ox mples of the preaching of tho Mormon iress in favor of blood atonement by uking extracts from very recent publica tions Tho idea from which tho form 01 Mr toddard8 lecture is taken is the arraign nent before tho bir of Justice of on ideal saint whom ho calls Mr Mormonism rime indictment is read tho suppositions supposition-s made that ho pleads not guilty and time lecturer then proceeds to provo that ho is guilty of every oflenso charged lie alls as witnesses Nome of the leading aints Biich as lirigham Young Orson lratt and John Taylor Ho takes their I sayings and xvritings as printed in the organ of their church for their testimony nil shows it to bo so convincing that noun no-un could fail to convict upon it Tho charge in tho indictment agains Mi Mormonism is that ho has united church and state hero in Utah and while his guilt in this case is perfectly well cnown to every one in tho Territory Mr Stoddatds proofs were such as would convince native of tho Fiji Islands who had never heard of Utah lie quoted from one of tho leaders of the church who says with perfect calmness and apparent ap-parent sincerity that tho United States jovernment is good enough for its time jut that it is only preparatory to the establishment of tins kingdom In speaking of blood atonement ho read a portion of one of Brigham Young old sermons in which tho prophet says mmf say rather than that apostates should nourish hero I ouldunshciitlimyboi knife and slay them Let us call upoi tho Lord to assist in tills and every other good work Ho I then snoke at some length on tho school question told how tho Iculeis of tho Church feared education told of his personal expel curt in getting acertil cite as a schoolteacher lie said tha he had to pass a certain examination but before ho could pass it he had to get re biptied Ho told how polygamy Is taught to day in tho Mormon schools and made tho statement that polygamy is nourishing and growing moro today than it over has in tho history of Utah Tho charge of perjury was fully estab hshcd by evidence given by tho churcl leadois themselves The lecturer told of instances that hall como under his own notice of girls being brought ovci from England for tho ox press I 11 purpose of entering l iJ pohgimou households Ho I I told how his own fathc had sent 223 to a married womin and her two daughters to bring them to this country on the condition that tho girls should marry him when they arrived hero Mr Stoddirds lectuio was made entei taming bj tho introduction of many funny little incidents and as a wholo It must bo heard to bo appreciated Ito spoke in tho kindest terms of the Mo mon people attacking only their moi strolls political and religious system and its attendant infamies anil practices It 1 was an address which i should lie l iI1 neIJ to by every joung Mormon in tho Terr tory mince is independent enough to oxer ciso such freedom of thought as wns designed 1 tho Almighty when He en doncd the human rico with mtelhgen above the brute Mr Htoddud is oi deiitly a itural orator and with exiled enco is likely to attain a position amoi the foiomost of the public lecturers of time I countn lie has n prolific tliomo for his oratory and a wide iield for its practice |