| Show BISHOP TUTTLE TALKS An Interesting Address at Denver on Utah and the Mormons The Bishop Holds the Close Attention of a Large Audience Polygamy Education and the 3Iissio Schools of Utah Quite a large audience says the Denve News of Thursday attended the missionary sionary meeting at St Johns cathedral last evening The principal address of the evening was by the Right Rev Daniel S Tuttle D D bishop of Utah who spoke on the subject of Mormonism and the Mormons lie spoke of the material ma-terial of which the present Mormo Church was composed The Mormoi Church could hardly have continued in existence so long and keptup its strong so well had it not been for the large acceSSions ac-cessions made to the church from Europe and especially from England and Wales There are also quite a number of Scotch men and quite a number of the leaden in the church are Scotchmen Their religious re-ligious instincts are appealed to by the Mormon missionaries and also their thrifty habits Religious arguments and the desire to better their condition and accumulate American dollars bring them to Amell ca As to the Irishmen honor to the race be it said no renumber re-number of Irishmen can be found ainonj the Mormons But the emmigration from England Scotland and Wales adds coal year by year to the fire If you could trust only to the younger Mormon people that church could not maintain such strength The young men and the youn women cannot so well be relied on but it is the older Mormons who are more apt to be UNSELFISH IKAYEKFUL AND UNWORLDLY MINDED If you trust therefore only to the new generations Mormonism could not sc flourish but the new coal comes in the neophytes the fresh converts replenish the fold I cant see that Mormonism is the less strong now than it was eighteen years ago when I first went to Utah The strength of Mormonism is a marvel When I first went to Utah I had an idea that Mormonism was destined in time to be destroyed by its own elements oi weakness But I found there was strength where I did not expect to find it Polygamy Polyg-amy I thought especially must be a weakness and in time it would fling the institution to its death When I considered consid-ered polygamy degrading manhood as it i does crucifying womanhood as it does I thought it must stab Mormonism to its death But there is a certain standpoint from which Mormonism is strong The people I who are Mormons feel that THEY ARE OSTRACISED They feel that when they become Mormons Mor-mons that they are from thenceforth a peculiar people and are yet to go through my struggle for their religion even if it be against the United States government Polygamy is not so very common in Jtah There is not more than one Mormon Mor-mon out of live who is a polygamist The polygamists are usually rich storekeepers md merchants or rich farmers How hen can it be you ask that polygamy is such a strength to the Mormon system md that the system has maintained and still maintains its strength since 1847 when it was founded I will tell you why polygamy is such a strength Do you not perceive that even if a man or a woman is an earnest Mormon but not a olygamist that he or she might have A BROTHER A SISTER A NIECE OR AN AUNT In polygamy and that he or she would stand steadily up for polygamy because hey had relatn S who were polygamists polyg-amists The tieS of kinOred are very strong and if we were Mormons we should be very apt to do very much the same thing Be fort I close let me say a few words I do not like to speak too much of myself Still I know papers praise themselves and I think that it is coming to be recognized recog-nized that there are two institutions newspapers and missionaries that have the right to praise themselves Therefore There-fore I will tell you something ABOUT MY WORK IN UTAH I went there in 1867 preaching there two Sundays Nothing had been done thereto there-to any extent by any Christian minister Dr McLeod a Congregational minister had it is true started a small Sunday school He had gathered a few people together and had received help from some prominent Gentiles in Utah including in-cluding the Jews for Jews are called Gentiles there The early antiMormon inhabitants had erected a building in Salt Lake which was called INDEPENDENCE HALL The superintendent of Dr McLeods Sunday Rhool and one of his greatest helpers in the work was Dr Robinson Dr Robins had been dastardly murdered mur-dered about a year before I came there He was called out of his bed one dark niht on the pretense that some popr man needed surgical assistance He was shot dead and the perpetrators of the crime discovered were never In 1867 I arrived in Salt Lake I have always believed that the church of Christ should recognize the powers that be so when I came to Salt Lake I ran up to the1 sacred enclosure and rang Brigham Youngs bell To be sure the United States Government had a Governor in Utah but any one who knows anything about the Territory in 1SGG67 knows that at that time Brigham Young was really the very HEAD AND FRONT OF TIlE POWERS THAT BE I was received by Brigham Young I stated to hint who I was and what I proposed pro-posed to do He was kind enough to say that he was glad to see me and he treated me with considerable courtesy And I want to say that from that day to this I have never been unfairly interfered with by the Mormons Mor-mons Of course they dont like to have me there but I have never been unfairly dealt with and I have there resolved never to deal unfairly with the Mormons and never to say unfair things of them Our church bogan with a school in Salt Lake and we have established other schools in other parts of the Territory attend so that we are having an average ance of 750 pupils or more in these schools We are doing of course regular regu-lar church work besides We have the regular sacraments and services of the church but after all we have found that work must be done our great missionary in the schools The Bishop explaine why it was so hard to convert adult Mormons Mor-mons If a clergyman preaches a good STRONG ARGUMENTATIVE SERMON From the Bible they will say uWe believe be-lieve all that They believe in the Bible but they also believe in the Book of Mormon in the doctrines of the Mormon Mor-mon Church the oral utterances of their inspired prophets and teachers They say All right we believe in the Bible but well giye you added truth which we have received from Qod in these latter days When Mormons leave their church or apostatize they are like the apostatesit is still harder reach them They say We want no more of supernaturalism super-naturalism or superstition we want no more of supernatural no more of reli fyous doctrines Adult Mormons are not easily won but with children it is different I am sustained sus-tained in my work in Utah by many Christians throughout country and by people who are not of our church Presbyterians Pres-byterians and Methodists The Bishop also stated that some of the Jewish people peo-ple in Utah were his helpers in the work He said he had to furnish THE BISCUIT AND TIlE BACON In his missionary work and was forced to ask aid in other dioceses and jurisdictions jurisdic-tions than his own He knew what the hard work of missionaries mis-sionaries here in Colorado was I know the helps you have but I know you cant depend on them always I know what western people are I know you cant depend on them as you can on a stingy Connecticut man Your western man will sustain a church for a year but it will be hard to depend on him for ten I years while YOUR CONNECTICUT MAN Is good for fifteen years and four times fifteen years and he will keep his promise prom-ise to you even time After some further remarks the bishop closed by saying Let us work while the day lrsts till all the kingdoms and nations of the earth have become the nations of God After the bishops address Coronation Coro-nation was sung by the congregation the dean presiding at the organ and an offertory was taken for the benefit of the Utah missions Bishop Tuttles address was closely listened lis-tened to and was very interesting He has an easy familiar style of speaking and some of Ins remarks are presented in a rather witty way He has made a very favorable impression in Colorado After the exercises at the Cathedral last evening even-ing the convocation reception was held at the residence of Hon John C Stallcup No 56 Sherman avenue Large numbers num-bers of the clergy and laity and many ladies attended The beautiful house was crowded and a splendid social time enjoyed en-joyed |
