Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-09-19
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cause snd Enset Of the Anti-normon
Proceedings ttsre.
Audusi, ash 1870

paper iOf lew items from the Notuug.
ham Conference as have not seen any.
thing 10 your paper from this part for
some time past and our experience iof
two months has been Of an exciting and
interesting nature During the pleasant
summer evenings We have made good
use 0f the market place and the high
ways Ia disseminating ihclGospcl truths.
We met with very good success, hav.
ing large crowds to speak to almost
every evening. This seemed TO cnfaRc
the ministers aud preachers OF the toNn
20 they protested against us lcauing
away their flock and teaching them such
trash" as baptism Tor the remission Of
sins when Christ odd Il ALI" They
said our way was a difficult one to travel
il was like going over the tops Of the
houses when we could walk smoothly
along the street. Il did not take long
10 convince them that we had more
scripture to sustain our belief than they
had. 80 they lcit Us but only TO return
again at our next meeting, armed, not
only with the weapons OF ialschood
anti Mormon book, but with a host of
their followers 10 help execute their un
Chustan.likc plans. However We sue
cecdcd in holding our meeting, but we're
interrupted time aud time Jgan, by
these preachers wanting 10 ask questions
and tie yelling of The crowd Thing
kept getting worse 20 We closed our
meeting and started to make our way
home, out they began playing football
with cur hats. This did not seem 10
satisfy them SO they would occasionally
strike US We made our way 10 some
officers aud they started us through a
narrow alley, while they kept back the
crowd. We thought We were now freed
ifum the mob but on reaching the other
opening we found a great many await
INK our arrival. 5 eng they would no.
leave Us above we sought protection At
police headquarters, where We were
freed from our putsurefs.
The following week | went to Guild
hall and asked the officers To give Us
protection at our meetings. They said
We should have the same protection as
Others, but would advise rs not to hold
any open air meetings that week. We
took luis advice and did no hold our
REGULAR Thursday night meeting. But
there was a large crowd gathered nj our
old stand Not finding rs thofc they
made their way TO our abode, where
| they pounded on or door aud window
Gyng to get US to come out. Thing
got so bad that Brother Mctune and
| luqucs went for an officer, who soon
came and dispersed the crowd We
! have held meetings since this, but hlvu
had the strong arm OF the law to protect
Us Ia policeman
| When our pfolcsscd Christian teachers
found that they could rot stop MS by
| mob violence, they tired another way,
| hy inviting larman to their assistance.
| We were notified OF their arrangements
and asked II we would furnish n man 10
debate with him told them we might
do so II Mr.. Jaman would meet as on
our Articles OF Faith They wrote to
find out, and In few days | received a
challenge. The language oi this
Challenge Is unfit for publlcation.l This
not being our Articles OF Faith | de-
clined to have anything to DO with him
The oppo itlon engaged the
Mcchanics' Hall for one week, whcr,
lafman spoke upon the blood cufdlinp
topics so familiar to his tongue Not
tingham and district had been billed
trictrd and preached In Tor two week.
previous 10 the lecture All worked
hard they seemed 10 be making the lasl
great struggle to take ycnEence on a.
Who were teaching a Gospel that thej
were afraid was true. one man said
~ have given up my profession AZ
preacher until find out . YOU are right
/ believe the words Of Paul which say
thcfc Il but one Lord, one faith, AID on
bapusms Jafman arrived on Monda,
the i7th lust, aud In the evening DIS
PLAYED his excellence 10 a well lille,
house. ON Thursday evening there wa
not 20 many IN attendance, but he du
his best to get the sympathy Of tn
people hy telling them what he had sui
tered under the hands OF the Momons
How he lived Jour months In the noun
tains with the lions. tigers bears, etc.
living On the bark OF trees and sucl
other things as the wild animals woull
eat. and Of his final rescue by Genera
Garfield. Al the close Of his lecture
Young man walked 10 the platform am
asked the privilege OF speaking ior
few minutes. Il was granted and "
told them that what larman had bee
telling them was false ~ this III
crowd thought he was u Mormon an
began TO hiss him down. 10 was som
time before he could make them under
stand differently. lie spoke tor SOM
| TINE hlNNNk AlIAA TIC NaN lANAA ~ AAA
eight years, had worked Tor Mormon
most Ut the time, and he never workel
Tor better people Ia his lie. They wer
honest. temperate. yiTtuous and truth
iul. He told the people that there wer
no tigers in the Rocky Mountains am
that people we're as free 90 come an
20 % Utah as they were TO Nottingham
Said he. "larman says he lived IN thi
Hell upon Earth Tor twelve years and
say lived IN the same place for eigh
ears aud | call Il Paradise"
On Thursday afternoon Jarman gav
a private lecture TO the women only AM
iu the evening 20 the men only. Tn
indecent language that he used IN thes
lectures rs too vile TO put IN print
Each night the members decreased az
al Saturday evening not one third OF III
seats were occupied and / am told tina
they did not nearly pay expenses. Dul
ing the week he lued TO incilc III
people TO come TO 80, where he sal
these fourteen latter'day Devils were
and drive Us, not only out OF the tow
but out OF the country, and rid the cit
OF such trash. Inc ministers all sal
amen, but we were not molested.
The excitement Is doing us consider
able good IL IS advertising our caus
! aud thu fruits can be seen m the nun
hefs that flock TO our chapel on a Sun
day to hear US, We say, God move
Ia a mysterious way, His wonders
perform" Two have applied f.
baptism and many are brought to on