The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-24
Arne Vileness OF Mormonism as
Pictured by the Rev. J.
Wesley Hill.
st. Paul's Church or Broadway
\ Filled to Overlooking Last
Night.
Church Of Jesus Christ of tho Latter
Day Saints Is Turkey In
America.

|cops, church was filed to OVERLOOKING to
|heaH the lecture of Rev. j. Wesley HILL, on
|tiis ssMonstrosities of Mormonism." After
bone excellent music by n chorus choir,
lprayer was offered, which was followed by
the singing of my Country Ills OF Thee"
lby the choir and congregation. Mir. Hill then
announced that OH next Sunday evening,
The would lecture on -Four Years Among
the Mormons." The INDEPENDENT gives be-
How a synopsis of the lecture which was
l~greatiy appreciated by the congregation
l.Mr. Hill said: Mormonism has attracted
1.-THE consideration Of the civilized world. IL
|ihas been %yRriously stigmatized as "Uncle
Sans abcess," 1.-The beast of the basin,
,"the Utah Bluebeard,'' hell upon earth"
But these epithets fail to express the horria
Hmonstrosities that constitute it. Some sui
),pher shrouded planet may have a vooabul-
airy fiendish enough to fifty describe 1t, but
the English language is as the prntinR OF
a parrot in the presence OF sueh
a gross abomination. 1t ia known AS the
church Of Jesus Christ OF Latter Day
Saints. but there is nothing Christian about
lit; it ia a conglomeration of all the vilest
systems of heathenism that have hourished
on the face of the earth. 1t is made up OF
pagan polytheism, Mohemmedan sensual
lam and India thugism. Notice especially
its doctrine of polytheism, or many gods.
In the key to the Science of Theology"
its author, Farley Z. Pratt, one of the
twelve apostles of the church. declares. 1T
\ will be recollected that the last chapter
recognizes a family of gods, or, in other
words, a species of beings who have physi-
4 cal tabernacles of flesh and bones in the
4 form of man, so constituted es to become
1 capable of eternal life; a general assembly,
quorum, or grand council of the gods with
their president at their head, constitute tho
Y designing or creating power; wisdom in
h spires the gods to multiply their species
4 and to lay the foundations for all the forms
\ of life and for each to enjoy himself in the
4 sphere to which he ia adapted"
\ The Mormons hold that all the saints are
\ to become gods in the celestial world, and
! that the extent of the kingdom over which
I they will rule is dependents upon the mum
/ Der of their wives and progeny here upon
4 earth. Through this vile doctrine the wo-
/ men of the church are compelled to con-
1 sent to polygamy under threat Of losing
/ their souls by refusing to grant their hus-
\ bands the privilege of building up q wide
empire over which to reign in the heavenly
1 world. Notice the animalism of the Nor
! mon religion, and in this reepect 1T Is u
! transcript of Mohammedanism.
] The Mormons frequently boast of their
! purity, but ] tell you it ia the embodiment
i of filth and all uncleanliness. IL is i turkey
! in Anne ica! The harem IS substituted 70,
4 the home. /. is a system of h%arlotry bull,
upon polygamy. 1t is not the church OF
4 Jesus CHI list. but of concubinage. Under
4 the cloak of religion mon have
4 been known to mary theii
h brothers. daughters, brothers have cohabi.
j ted with their sisters and tatheTs have mar
1 ,ied their own daughters. These marriages
] are all performed under the sanction Of the
] priests and within the sacred CD enclosure
! of the Endowment house. Think of a
4 church which stands and appiauds such
| things! Which teaches that the more wives
a man has the higher will be his seat IN
\ heaven. Think OF a religion which COM
4 mends O man for living in marriage with
i threo sisters, a religion which laughs at the
\ dethronenent of w~omanhood. think of a
religion which destroys the happiness OF
every woman who touches it. Some Nor
mon women pretend to be happy. but un-
derneath their smiles there is misery.
Smiles on the lips aud agony in the heart.
One of the saddest spectacles | have ever
Witnessed is the aged women OF
Mormonism: in other parts of the land she
is the gem of the household; grandmother
always has the easy chair and when the
bleak winds drive her closer to the fro, the
children put on her slippers and wrap the
4 shawl about Ler shoulde g; she is the leaf
of autumn: the verdu Q or spring has de-
parted, but the fading leaf hast beauty
that blends with the golden sunset. When
she ia gone the hadows of night fall upon
the home. But how is it in Mormonism
She is provided back and kicked aside to
make room for a younger queen. She is
crushed until she cannot weep. Mormon
ism is thugism. Utah has won the unen-
viabls name of being a land of assassina-
ton and II field of blood" What is TINT
blush upon the Mormon cheek? What that
blot uron her history? The Mountain
Meadow massacre. 1t IS the BanGuo Of the
I~riestly bid iing-"Heuce, horrible shadow
Unreal mockery. heuce!' Think of it! One
hundred and seventy citizens, whose only
crime was that of not being Mormons anG
who desired to pass westward to the Paoifi.
ocean, waylaid, lured into ambush anc
butchered by tho sanity blood atoners o.
Mormondom, and their property taken anc
held i'll the tithing houses Of the church.
Tonight | arraign the spirit which off.
ciated at the Mountain Meadow massacre
and which throughout the entire history o.
the Mo mon church has skulked in the
darkness with the assassin's knife. kindlec
the incendiary's torch, Toasted tho though
of robbery, manRled the heart of woman.
hood, turned the home into a pandemoniun
and trampled upon the emblem of a ma
toms power! And all this In the name OF
religion! | snatch away this mask and ex-
pose the face of lechery! Cowa4 dly traitor
CHASTITY murderer. hero OF Thousand assass,
nations, stand up and answer these charges
Guilty or not guilty? The question arises
Do these things exist now? My answer is
"Yca'-'No." They do exist in the rpra
districts of the territory. In these outel
regions the same domestic hortois. mutila.
tons and social nominations exist tha'
abounded thii ty years ago; the people are
tho same priest riddle serfs. But in the
larger cities, the commercial and ~po!itioa
centers, the power of priesthood has Il
a great extent been demolished
and, consequently the horrible
crimes that have stained the past are rap
idly being abolished. But the spirit OF
treason and incest still presidos in the act
~ivities of the church. The announcement
TINT polygamy has been abolished il simply
TO deceive the nation and pave the way for
statehood. 1t is IA political trick of the
Priesthood, and was designed with the
object of decreasing federal interference
and modifying the preiudlces OF caste II
leople against the social and religious
practices of the Latter Day saints. But
polygamy is still practiced, and those who
are oyertnken by the law and incnrcoi ateu
ten on the roll of martyrs, and at the ex'
p~iration of their sentences are given faastt
anu banquets rs II token of The sympathy
and love of their fellow saints.
These statements are verified by the 70.
cont report of the Utah commission, which
declared that the people nre still fighting
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