The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1854-08-12
From the New York Evangelist July q
Recent PrOgres, of the MOImons,


Among the news brought by the Pacific
steamers, was the eleventh General Epistlc
Of the Saints, Young, kimball, ana Grant
Presidents Of the Latter Day Church to the
SAINTS on the Earth'-thC encyclical bull of
the apostolic college at the head Of that
strange and formidable delusion, Mormon
ism.
The cpi,tlc has that character Of cOmbin-
cd shrewdntss, impicty and boastfulness
which has distinguished the proceedings Of
this body since ita first appearance upon the
stage, in Hancock county, Illinois. |, con
graduates the saints on their abundant
crops, the rapid augmentation of their mum.
bcrs, and the progress Of the iortihcatio,
by whicn they are fast rendering them
solves imprcgnabc from future assault.
IL aso specifies new enlarged missionary
operations, TO be conducted under the auspi.
ces OF their great apostle, Farley Pratt, who
has been very Francis Naucr or Christian
Schwarts tD the MormOus Twenty Young
elders are about 10 be despatched TO the
Pacific Islands and at the conference from
which this cpisue clnanates not less than
siAty.iiye missionaries were cOmmis s.oncd.
The missionary feature Of Mornonism Is not
From the beginning, it has constituted a
steady and most profitable department Of
their undertakings, and has been more sue
ccssiul than is generally supposed. The fact
that their poJuIatiUn has 'Ifi,i vdsv'. ''' rO'."
wears from four thousand to thirty thousand,
some active neeniHtg' 'RTatenYv slnWfoIR %
keep such a steady supply.
An article in the last Edinburgh Review,
I'll. thu. lnar, ~. r,ppn.pll m
grafton fund, amounting last year to $3i 900
10 pay the outfit and passage Of those con
ycrts in foreign lands who may be unable to
pay their own expenses. The additions to
the community have hot been less than 5000
year from this source; which, with the
increase ofpopulation among themselves, and
the results Of proselytism IN the |. ;. bid
fair to crca'e a power and dangerous ele-
mont among US.
/ At the rate Of increase realised during the
last five years, in five years more, they VIII
reach 10000 inhabitants, the number re
/ Quircd to entitle them TO admission to the
Union, d to the inmuRi,ics in reference to
/ local laws and institutes, of a sovereign state.
The extent of their missionary operations, as
represented in the article referred to, is as.
tonishingly great,
/ They have churches in England, Scotland,
Wales, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland,
France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Malta
Gibraltar, Hindostan, Australia and the
Sandwich Islands; and they have recently
sent missionaries to Siam, Ceylon,, China
the West Indies, Guinea and Chill. The
Book Of Mormon has been published II
French, German, Italian, Danish, Polynesi
an and Welsh with not few of their tracts
With this vigor abroad, equal conccntra
ton and growth are kept up al home. Mos
OF the emigrant converts are from ths mid
ding classes-artisans, mechanics, and pco
pie posse Ssed ofconsilcrable property. The!
are organized, as soon as they arrive, int
one of the most compact and efficient des
potismS ever known-complctely subject L
the central power, and imbucd with tn
spirit of enthusiastic obedience.
Every man capable Of bearing arms is en-
rolled in the militia, and the apostles, proph
cts, patriarchcs, bishops and elders OF tr
church mingle military offices with thei
saccrdotal. They are understood to hav
now on foot thoroughly drilled army Q
s,OO0-but little short of the entire rcgu
lar army af the United States.
While becoming thus formidable without
their inward corruption and rottenness ar
rapidly on the increase. Like all evil me
they have waxcd worse and worse since tn
time the blasphemons lies of Joseph Smit
commenced their flow. Doctrines and praC
tees once concealed from general know
edge, and restricted to the elders and readers
have now bee me corncr-stones Of their cd
fees aud il is difficult to foresee where thci
shameless protiigacy and blasphemy wi
end
five do not yet find trouble from th
source, it will be very strange, Such pl
trd sore cannot exist upon the extremes
part of the body polite without peril. Tn
depth of their crime but few readers under
stand. Polygamy is prime article Of the
creed, and is carried to an extent that woul
put Mohamnedan people to the blush.
,. President Young is said to be the hu
band of sixty wives and this example ever
man follows to the extent of his inclinatio
or ability, The confusion, scnsuality an
degradation which this is creating, have a
ready become too offensive to he told al
!, as,hc system testers on, it will create nu
isancc that will necessarily renew the sccn'
DISCRIMINATION and violence Of former yea
on larger scale.