Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-10-18
Talmage on Mormonism.

In his sermon Sunday Oct. I'd, Rev.
L. Dewitt Talmage had something. to
say about the lamented Garfield, and
among Other things the following:
Another consideration; from what
you now know Of our departed Presi-
dent, you must know that the paragraph
in his inaugural, which referred to the
extirpation Of Mormonism, was the most
earnest part Of it, That institution is
an insult to every man in America
James A. Garfield, as a husband and a
father, felt ordained of God to destroy
that abomination. He would not have
allowed it to pass one more year without
being struck of the lightning. He would
have, by law passed in Congress, pro-
claimed that polygamy was against the
interests of good government. And
while the polygamist, because of pres
ent complications, might retain his num-
erous wives, he who hereafter took more
martial ompanionship than is allowed
in other States should be denied suffrage.
The United States military encampment
on the hills Just back of Saltlake City,
whose guns could rake that SodOm into
ashes in one forenoon, aided by few
other regiments in Utah and Wyoming,
could enforce the law. You say that
President Buchanan sent forth an army
and failed to do the work. President
Buchanan, in some respects great and
good man, was uot the man to do this
work. He lacked in energy, and, beside
that, was a bachelor, and it wants man
Of Garfleld's domesticity sufficiently to
hate Mormonism. But, perhaps, it
needed that the public be more aroused
against the pandemonium, and the death
OF Garfield ought 10 rouse the whole
land in righteous indignation. DO you
know that, during all these weeks when
all Christendom was praying for our
Presidents recovery, the Mormons in
Utah, in Arizona, in Wyoming, in New
Mexico, were praying for his death p
were either silent in regard to it or con-
gratulative at the prospect Of the decease
of their Presidential adversary. Now,
it has been the determination of
Mormonism that every potent enemy
in some way be destroyed, and thai
they always do in the name of the
Lord. The Mountain Meadow mas
mace by which men, women, children
and babes had their throats cut and their
bodies left unbured for the wolves and
the ravens, was all in the name of the
Lord DR.. Robinson, Almond Babbitt,
and the Parishes were butchered In the
name of the Lord. The assassins,
Hickman and Brigham Young and the
group called destroying angels, set apart
for nothing but assassination, did all In
the name of the Lord. What has Gui.
teau's cry been from the first? He shot
Garfield in the name of the Lord. He
has written it, as well as spoken II.
He never says anything about it, except
when he speaks of il as divine commits
sion IN the name of the Lord. ! will
not say that Guiteau is Mormon: |
dare not say he has not been employed
as an agent. lie has all the theories Of
the Mormons. He belonged TO what il
called the Oneida community, which be-
lieves in profusion Of wivees He has
the uglness of Mormon and the
lasciviousness of Mormon, and the
cruelty of Mormon, and the murderous
spirit Of Mormon and the infernalism
of n Mormon, and sits in the park OPP
posite the Presidents house in the name
of the Lord, and he practiced at mark
in the name ofthc Lord, and he goes into
the Baltimore and Ohio depot in the
name of the Lord and he takes aim at
the heart of the President of the United
States and fires in the name of the Lord.
While | think that he first conceived
this crime in revenge because he could
not get n Consulship. should not
wonder If in the day when all secret
things are revealed It were found that he
were q paid agent Of that hag OF hell
that sits making mouths at high heaven
between the Rocky mountains md the
Sierra NevadOs. She is bad enough to
do this crime. do not know but she
has done It. If through this assassina-
ton of the President new and holier
andtipathy shall be kindlcd against
Mormonism which was his special dis
gust, then another section Of yomprayer
has been answered.