The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-20 00:00:00

MOVEMENTS OF THE MORMONS.

The following details are furnished by a writer
who devotes special attention to the matter, and
from whom we learn that—

After two years of inaction, the Mormons have
decided to recommence aggressive operations. In
December last a body of elders arrived from Utah,
to stir up the " Saints" to a remembrance of the
work they had to do. Early in the present year
preparations were made throughout the Mormon
Church for active work. A season of" ingathering"
to the church had succeeded the period when, sud-
denly deprived of nearly all the Utah elders, the
Mormons were compelled to turn their attention
mainly to the perfecting of their organisation. A
missionary spirit reigned too in the " mountains of
Ephraim ;" its fruits were the establishment of the
Union Academy, Great Salt Lake city, for the in-
struction of the elders in science and the modern
languages, and a determination to send a large
number of missionaries to Europe.
Meantime, the educational movements whieh
were some time before commenced in Utah and
England worked vigorously on. The "Deverel
University" appointed a superintendent of com-
mon schools; schools were erected in all parts of
the territory; scientific and literary societies
sprang up under the fostering care of the terri-
torial Legislature; lectures on scientific subjects
were regularly delivered in the " social hall"—the
seat of Mormon festivity, and inventive genius and
scholastic ability were nurtured and encouraged by
every possible means. The English training classes
for the priesthood and the conference choirs were
well supported, and have had, in many districts,
manifest results. _ _

On the 27th of July, landed in Liverpool, from
the Edinburgh, Amasa Lyman and Charles C.Rich
(of the 12 apostles), Jos. F. Smith, and Samuel H.
B. Smith (nephew of the late "prophet" Smith),
and nine other elders. Three arrived by the Glas-
gow, on the 3d of August; 12 by the Middlesex,
Aug. 26; one by the Edinburgh, Sept. 7th; three
by the Antarche, Sept. 17th ; eight by the Lady
Franklin, and four by the Washington, Sept. 18th ;
and three by the James Foster, jun., Sept. 21st.
"Apostle" Lyman immediately took the editorship
of the illillenial Star; "Apostle" Rich began
travelling among the conferences; and the elders
were appointed to various districts, with the view
of learning the character of their work and fami-
liarising themselves with it, six being sent to Lon-
don. A third "Apostle," George Q. Cannon
(successor to Parley Parker Pratt, who was shot in
May, 1857, by Hector M'Lean for seducing his
wife), is expected from Utah with another
body of missionaries in a few weeks'; and on his
arrival he is to take charge of the publishing and
emigration departments.
The emigration for 1859 and 1860 is not so large
as would appear from the newspapers. By the
William Tapscott, sailed from Liverpool, April 11,
1859, 725 " Saints ;" by the Antarehe, July 10, 30;
by the Emerald Isle, Aug. 20, 54 ; by the Under-
writer, March 30, 1860, 594 ; by the William Taps-
cott, May 11, 731; by miscellaneous ships, 233 ;
giving a total of 2,327 within 14 months.
Open-air preaching has been largely carried out
by the elders during the summer. Regular services
in the South Pastorate are said to have been
attended by hundreds of attentive people. Marked
attention and an investigating spirit are reported of
the hearers at open-air meetings in the Southampton
Pastorate. Elder Wm. Jefferies commenced open-
air services in Norwich in the month of June, with
1,000 persons present at each of the two opening.
services. Elder Benjamin Evans, in one of his re-
ports from Wales, says—" The brethren holding the
priesthood are unexceptionably full of life and spirit
with the work of preaching in the open air, and
the attention paid to them is better than I have seen
it for some years." Regular services have also 'been
held at several places in London. This is not the
only Christian agency-copied by the Mormons; for
an elder, Daniel Matheson, has been labouring in
and around Dundee as a missionary to the Gentile
population.
In some parts of the British Mission the in-door
meetings are reported as prosperous. The meetings
of the South Pastorate, in particular, are said to be
well attended; an inquiring spirit is attributed to
the British nation ; and many of the meeting rooms
are already too small for the congregations. The
proprietors of respectable halls seem ignorant of the
real character of Mormonism—the great Free-trade
Half,- Manchester, and the Trongate Hall, Glasgow,
having been let for Mormon conferences.
The baptisms during the summer are said far to
exceed the emigrations for the year—a sure indica-
tion of our advancement. Care has been taken to
secure the .return of the " straying" sheep—those
who have received Mormon notions, but have apos-
tatised in flaws of difficulty, or been excommuni-
cated for slight offences. This effort has been very
successful ; and in Wales many rich persons have
been induced to open their houses as meeting
rooms.

Let the present aspect of Mormonism be well
understood. The system has been undergoing a
change in that time wherein the people have thought
it dying out. It is no longer an outpost of the
Mormon Church, as it exists in England ; nor is its
great object the gathering of all the " honest in
heart to Zion, that they may escape the plagues of
Babylon." The British Mormon Mission is intended
to be permanent. The " northern sea" is not to be
rolled back, that the modern Israelites may pass
over dryshod to the " promised land." The gather-
ing to Utah continues, but it is not intended to
cease; and the " hour of God's judgments" is no
longer looked for by the Mormons of Europe. As
for escaping from "Babylon" en masse, and leaving
it to the " vials of wrath" they have so long and so
often predicted, the Mormons " never look for such
a time to come, nor expect the breaking up or the
taking home en masse of such Missions as the
British and Scandinavian Missions." It renders
the Mormon Church a permanent thing in England.
Many of its features have been softened down. The
daring blasphemy which years ago shocked every
stranger entering a Mormon meeting is not now
generally met with. Discourses from scriptural
texts, framed almost like Christian discourses, are
the models which the elders are required to cops'.
The grosser features of Mormonism are kept in the
background, and the system is represented as a
massive one, of a liberal and universal meaning.
Courtesy to opponents has taken the place before
occupied by curses and denunciations, and love and
a desire to do good to all men are set forth as the ,
spirit and aim animating the elders.
It is not difficult to discover the chief object the
Mormon leaders now have in view. Such prepara-
tions as they have made are not intended to con-
vert (? pervert) the lower orders of society. Mor-
monism's new dress is put on for other eyes than
those of the vulgar crowd to behold; the great
object of its principal advocates is to strike at the
middle classes—to tell upon " the liberal and ad-
vanced minds of England"—to " establish in the
public mind a juster and higher appreciation of
Mormonism." In the new work they have thus
decided to inaugurate, the Mormons confidently
look for success : " there are those who believe that
the period has opened when the Latter-day
Church in these lands, as well as in America, will
rise in the scale of its destiny, and draw from the
middle classes of society some of its best
men, and some of its most liberal and advanced
minds." The means of frustrating this new Mor-
mon move are simple, and will prove efficacious. A
knowledge of Mormon first principles will enable
the teachers of the gospel to expose the perversions
of Scripture on which they are founded; while the
reproduction of those blasphemous notions held and
propagated by the Mormons some years since will
serve to blacken and vilify Mormonism and its
leaders more effectually than the reports which fill
anti-Mormons works.

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