Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-11-11
SUNDAY READING.

like to get sifted of their chaff and dust and
dross and ashes, and to be estimated at what
they are worth and not altogether for what
they may have been labeled by old pre- udices
or old blind liking. There is general sense
of Indignation and respectable loathing all
over Christendom against Mormonlsm. 1t is
treated by all church going and church maui
ing people ike an outlaw, wholly bad, wholly
given DER to the Devil of unrighteousness, de-
faint of the Faith and of the faithful, and the
most emphatic expression of depravity ever
emanating from human lips or lived in human
lives Yet this preacher, sitting in his unsec-
tartan pulpit and dealing impartialy with all
sorts and kinds of professions and creeds, has
discovered in the Mormon system of orderly
work and clean, well-kept thrift, and in their
discipline and admirable organization, some
plain virtues which might with profit be
coupled with the daily walk of other and more
pretentious religionists. Something of this
subject is brought to our attention by an
Eastern paper as follows During the pres
ent week about $50 Mormon imm:g grants have
arrived from Europe in this city, the way
to Utah. This years immigrations for Utah
amounts to about 1900, all told-not very
large number, to be sure, but not despicable
one, either, considering the zeal with which
the Latter Day Saints obey tle injunction to
multiply and replenish the earth With the
great natural or forced, growth of the Utah
population, any immigration becomes lmpor
tant. The recruits arriving this week seemed
to be mostly sturdy working people, including
many farmers. 1t may be suspected that a
good part of the secret of the success which
Mormonism has had, is that it makes itself a
great organized immigration agency, not run
by fleeing agents, land sharks, or ticket scalp
ers, but by men who are responsible, who, n
fact, are part of the very community which
they thus seek to replenish, In this respect
it will be seen, on reflection, that Mormonism
stands alone; and it may be readily conceived
how kindly ear will be lent to novel religious
doctrines by ignorant people who know that
at least it would be great boon % them 70 be
transferred, without thought or trouble, from
hard life in Europe to sympaShizing commu-
nifty of fellow workers in the Yves ern world.
$500 Something which is not at all encour
aging to those of us who Ike to regard the
Nineteenth Century as the vehicle of free
thought, and the Great Republic as the sacred
soil of It's expression, is conveyed in the fol- |
lowing statement of the lynching OF ''an inf |
del in Bell county, Texas, lately. The suf- |
ferer, it seems, was DR.. S. j. Russell, an old |
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tells US that he was bitter opponent of
Christianity, and his browning ofense against
the prevailing religious sentiment was lee
ture denying the divinity Of Christ. mob
of believers took him from his bed at night,
dragged him into the woods, tied him to tree,
and gave him hundred lashes with a rawhide
Previous to the whipping the spokesman said:
we know you are an honest man and good
physician, but we will tolerate no infdels in
Bell county; So by the help of God, We will
stop your career of infdehty. A written no.
tice was posted on the tree that infdelity in
Bell county would in the future be punished
by hanging There is no in5imation of any
charge against Dr. Russell except thai of an
tayonism to Christianity. The lynchers were I;
in part composed of roughs, but the leaders
were members of a Baptist church. ..
Bob Ingersoll, on the other hand, has not been I
lynched. Rather, he has been belaboring GER
tain self-righteeus folk who have so far forgot
their Christian charity as to say some harsh Y
things about Tom Paine. In an open letter
to the New York Observer the Colonel makes '
public his discovery that that paper has been '
playing fast and loose with his challenge to its I
conductors to prove their accusations against c
Paine. He is reported in the New York q
World as follows: 'NIr. Ingersoll then takes c
up the subject of Paines recantation, and b
gives the statement of two clergymen who Wis O
ted him on his death bed, Messrs. Middle '
lollar and Cunningham, to whom Paine said f
Let me have none of your Popish stuff. He il
prints letter from Thomas Nixon and Daniel i
Pelton to the same effect; also letter from W
hilbert Vale and Philip Graves, who were il
10Th acquainted with Amasa Woodwork, a k
nan who sat up with Paine the night before e.
lis death. Mr.. Woodwork says that he died e
s he had taught. He had sore upon his Fl
ide, and when he turned it was very painful Of
nd he would cry out, 20 God = or something T
Ike that The nex5 witness is Willett Hicks, Of
h,,o1 -op, Oh l. Id e