The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-30

are to be crowned With success.
The worse this notoriety, the bet
ter it will be for the Mormon cause,
by creating so much more interest
and excitement. The Governor, In
his eager ess to perform this
service {, the entire satisr
faction Of the Mormon Chulch
has often allowed himself to be
carried beyond all bound. o. truth,
as in al his statements, interviews
and public papers. When these are
not sufficient for his purposes, ne
takes advantage of the fabrica lions
OF Others. as the Bishop West
sermon. But, We are assured, a
forgiving and Christian people will
overlook all such errors, ascribing
them only to an excess of zeal in
righteous cause. A case so opposite
occurs to US, illustrating what has
gone before. When through the
efforts Of Murray and his colaborers
here. great wave of anti.Mormon
excitement inundated the whole
country from ocean to ocean a mis-
sionary in the Southern States
made in the short space of two
weeks in one small county no less
than sixty converts, where's before
this time, though he had labor ed
months in the same field, he was
unable to get together enc ugh peo-
pie to listen to him. When people
hear the astounding stories of
wickedness, degradation, vice and
crime said to be prevalent here, snd
on closer examination find they are
not so bad after all, their So m nathies
are at once aroused in favor of q |
people go misrepresented and ma
ligned.
In Germany Mormon mission
airy is not allowed to preach, unless
under the severest regulations and
limitations, so that very little prose
lyting has ever been done in that
part of the world, but seeing the
predicament in which the church
was placed, Secretary Evarts, of
this Government, comes nobly
to the relief. He sends a circular to
the German government, not laud-
Ing TO the skies the good qualities
of tho Mormon people, for what
would the German people care for
thst? Would they even take the
least notice of it? No, Mr.. Evarts
is too good apolitician fer that. He
pursnes the opposite course, know.
ing the love Of mankind for scandal
and how much more they delight in
The bad qualities Of their fellow-be-|
ngs than in their good. He takes
occasion to berate the Mormons ;
'oundly, and brand them as felons.
Just as his keen foresight anticipa-
ted, these circulars were printed and /,
posted up in every public place of
5he Empire. Now all that the mis-
'ionary has to do, is to inform any.
me he meets that he is a Mormon
md Immediately he is piled with q
thousand questions on his religion
md the people he represents; be
makes converts whether he tries or {
TO-. How much gratitude is due
or such disinterested and unselfsh
service! All the "Mormon gold"
in the past ten years in the
haps of tithing, however judici- :
,usly expended, could never have
one tenth SO much h
Though we are assured that MIR. T
1varts was actuated by the best of C
motives, and that he was without t
he least hope Of receiving a re.
yard in the form Of worldly goods,
till We are at q loss to know
Fhy the Tribune did not sound
he alarm mormon gold" Bot,
hough In a somewhat more limited
phere, We must bear in mind that
ournal is working to the same un.
elfish end.
During the past four years Cover
or Murray has performed this mis-. 7,
ionary work with more success
nan any of his predecessors, and i'll
ne powers that be see fit to renew his
appointment, 30 that eashall have In
le horrible incubus to bear" for
mother period of four years, surely
le Mormon people will have little Or
'ason to complain, for no one, judg-
g from the past, will be more will.
ng or eager to serve them, though,
eourse,it must besdone in his own n
ocular way. In conclusion, Il.