Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-22

in kershaw county South Caro-
lima.
Here are the remarks of the Mont
tor:
Did the Christian Advocate ever
hear OF the Mormons? The Mormons
are Just as good Professionals as the
Methodists. That there was the slight
est difference In personal character
between John Wesley and Joseph
Smith we do not believe. Both founded
new religions and on the Protestant
theory the Book Of Mormon Is every
whit as good as the Book of Discipline
Yet the Aiormous have been driven
across this country as dust before the
| hurricane and every stage in their
journey is marked with blood Who
Numbered against them, who raised
the worst passions OF the mob against
them. who destroyed their property
couiiscated the fruits Of their labor
slew their leaders and sent them oNt to
take refuge in the more tender mercy
Of the savage and the desert? Was it
the nquisition? Was II the Catholic
church? No. Thank God, not even
the insanity OF bigotry can lay that
crime to our charge. 1t was the evan
gclical churches Of this country. and
as usual the most bloodthirsty of all
the prosecutors We're the Methodist
preachers When did the Methodist
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the Methodist elders. speak for equal
religious privileges for the Mormons?
We hypocrites. that build the sepul
cheers of the prophets and are the sons
Of them that slew the prophetsl
The Methodists are in favor of
equal privileges to all men everywhere!
They are! Win the editor of the Meth
odst Christian Advocate please read
the following dispatch to the Baltimore
sun; The situation between Mormons
and Gentiles in Kershaw county is
becoming daily more strained. The
burning Of two Mormon churches and
the shooting into the home OF one of
the Mormons. woundlng his daughter,
having failed to run the Elders out of
the county, more vigorous measures
are being resorted to. A band of
White Caps, wearing white clothing
and masks, last night visited the
home Of II. NJ. Bradham. an adherent
OF Mormonlsm, where several mission
aries We're visiting After making
| threatening demonstration the White
Caps ordered the Mormons to leave the
county by March LIST. -Four Elders who
We're run out Of Fairfield last week.
have returned with four others, and
with the declared resolve OF maintain
ing their position by force. a CON
| tractor who went to Fairfield to rebuild
the burned churches has been made to
leave the country While the Meth
/ OulNl bishops ana tine MelnuNlSt eluefS
We're straining their eyes to the noun
tains of Peru why did they overlook
Kershaw county? The hypocrite1 pre-
ferred to lie about Catholic countries
| that are far away rather than to do
justice in Methodist counties that are
within our borders. a long bow needs
n long range. Kershaw county Is in
South Carolina. South Carolina is one
Of the most illiterate states in the
Union and therefore a stronghold OF
Methodism. There are over ten thous-
and church members in the district
and two-thirds of them are Metho-
| dists.
eff the Methodist church fnvors
equal rights to all men on the foot
stool why does II not speak for the
prosecuted Mormons of Kcrshaw coun-
ty? The fact Of the matter IL that the
machinery Of the Methodist church is
behind those prosecutions and there is
no church In the world which lodges
such irresponsible power in its heads,
no church in the world which treats
it's individual members with such con-
tempt. Nay, more, the old Protestant
device of prosecuting Frotestants
nourishes in its fold Did the editor of
the Christian Advocate ever hear of
the Tonga islands? Let him read the
second last number of the American
| Sentinel and he will find there sworn
/ statements rs 10 lne Carvings on pl
| his liberty-loving Methodists. The
| church has split up into two factions
! and one faction Ia engaged In the
pleasant diversion of hogging the MEM
| hers of the other faction. trcing them
! up by the thumbs. throwing them into
/ prison, and all for the glory Of John
| Wesley and the advancement of re-
| ligious freedom. Our readers must par
don us for threshing old straw. They
| know all about the Methodists and this
must be a WEAKNESS to their flesh. But
they win please bear with us n little
| longer. We are about half through
| with the Christian Advocate. When
| we take up a task, we like to stay with
] II to the end. OF course we have no
| hope that our exposure will make the
| preachers a whit more tolerant. But
| it will put a mass of facts within
/ handy reach of those who may be
pestered by the preachers vauntings OF
| their liberality and tolerance. While
/ men like the editor of the Christian
| Advocate and his Methodist bishops
| and his Methodist elders pose as
] champions of equal rights, or even Of
common honesty, these facts viii bring
| to the mind Of the judiciuus observer
| the words that were spoken Of the
| spiritual ancestors of the preachers:
! Woe unto you, SCrbes and Pharisees,
| hypocrites, because we are like unto
whlted sepulchers, which outwardly
appear to men beautiful. but within
are full of dead mems bones and of all
! nlthiness,h