Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-12
PROSELYTING.
Mormon Missionaries in En-.
gland and Scandinavia.
Over Two Hundred Working In
a Very Quiet Way.

They Hold No Public Meetings. but En-
deavor to Secure Converts by Private
Interviews-Tracts Distributed Among
the Poorer Glasses Outlining the Doe
trtne OF Mormonism.
LONDON, Sept. 12.-The renewed &C.
tivity Of Mormon missionaries In En-
gland and in Scandinavia is attracting
marked attention. AS previously stated,
fully 200 elders from Utah are now do
ing proselyting work in the countries
mentioned. They are sent from Salt
Lake City with commissions to stay one
or two years, when they return, and
their places are taken by fresh recruits,
In Yorkshire there are known to be
eight at work, and more than this num-
Der are laboring in Lancashire.
Two of these missionaries have been
working in a small Lancashire village
for nearly year. They do not hold
public meetings, but endeavor to secure
converts by private interviews. Their
method is to visit the people In their
homes, and, in conversation with them,
to point out the beauty of the system of
the belief Of the Latter-day Saints.
They have supply of tracts setting
forth the Mormon faith, which they
freely distribute. These proselyters are
young men.
A reporter happened to be visiting the
cottage when one of these missionaries
called, The cottage was occupied by
three women weavers, and all single.
The elder said, after pleasant greeting;
II will leave you tLis tract and will call
again to answer any questions you may
desire to ask me about it." The tract
contained an outline of the doctrine and
was entitled, "The Church Of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, Its Faith
and Teachings, by Elder John Morgan"
Not One of That Kind.
A man whom one Of these elders visit
cd says: ~ asked them single ques-
lion and that was enough. said: DO
you believe in plurality of wivesP
He replied in the affirmative. then
told him that that finished the job so
Tar as | was concerned" To another
man one of the elders showed card
containing "The Articles Of Faith" Of
the Latter-day Saints, which asserted
belief in the gift of prophecy; faith in
the visions; power Of healing by prayer,
etc. The man suggested to the elder
that he go with him and cure girl who
had withered hand. To this request
the elder replied that he had seen sight
restored to the blind by prayer, but that
he would not visit the girl referred to,
as faith was necessary on her part in
order to enable him to bring about q
cure.
This elder, in the course of an inter-
view, said that the lives of the poly
gamists were as pure as those of any
one. They lived in accordance with the
laws of Abraham. They were not
prompted by vice, but were simply full
filling Gods will.
"There are no Mormons now living in
polgamy," said he, "but they are obey
ing the decision of the supreme court of
the United States. In Utah it is be-
lieved that the decision Is unjust, and we
fought it until the church decided to
abide by the decision. The church,
however, caused a great amount of suf-
fering In consequence of the enforced
separation Of wives and children from
their husbands and fathers. 1t is not
true that the Mormons opposed educa-
ton. What Brigham Young opposed
was the public schools in the United
States. We believe that education in
cludes religious instruction. We be-
heve that Christ will return to his own
people who will be gathered together in
the United States. Our converts are
still mostly drawn from England, Wales
and Scandinavia"
During the interview the words "mar-
tyr and martyrdum" were frequently
tlead