Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-30
monMONs IN KENTUCKY.
Generally They are Well Received
some Prejudice Exists.
MT. EDEN, Kentucky,
January I1tb rgn7

MT. EDEN, Kentucky,
January 18th, 1897.
To the Editor
inclose you a clipping from the In
terror journal, published at Stanford,
Lincoln county, Kentucky. The
writer, DIR. ]. /. Bohon, has been
good friend to the Elders laboring in
that county. enjoyed his unbounded
hospitality for two nights during my
recent visit to that county. Following
is the clipping in part:
sElder Charles A. Cobbley and David
]. Blake, Latter-day Saints, more readily
and generally recognized as Mormons,
dropped into our community last
Wednesday with determination to, il
possible. convince this people OF a very
patent fact that even our favored state
is yet field OF great promise to the
''home missionary philanthropists and
doctrinal propagandists. As courteous
and refined gentlemen they show up to
the full measure Of your complimentary
mention few months ago, and as re-
ligious doctrinaires are not amendable
to charge OF heresy by any orthodox
persuasion unless the holier than thou
sects. These gentlemen proclaim
Gospel as found In the accredited King
lanes translation OF the Bible and preach
the salvation taught in Acts 2:3S: ere.
pent and be baptized every one OF you
in the name OF Jesus Christ for the re-
mission of sins and ye shall receive the
gilt OF the Holy Ghost" They insist on
immersion as the proper mode OF bapt-
ism, and yet there are protested follow
ers OF the meek and lowly Nazarine
who evidently feel that 1t would be a
4 ~ tl..s..
init these gentlemen PRONUNCIATION OF
that doctrine from their pulpits. OF
course there is nothing OF denomina-
tional bgotry abroad in this enlightened
age and favored land. Moreover, these
evangelists travel atoot, without purseor
scrip, and preach a salvation without
money and without price, pursuing the
unprecedented practice oil leaving
community without knocking the dust
of their feet, without invectives OF ana
thema maTanatha, and strangest of all,
without passing around hat for material
: tribute 10 the laboreTs in the vineyard
whom all their predecessors have per
suaded us are worthy their hire The
modest Mormon Elder of today deserves
credit OF having rescued the term phil
anthropy from the long list OF empty
sounds as applied to ordinary, every day,
practical phariseeism or Christianity ~
The above part OF this article was lain
aside TO open local paper OF q wealthy.
enlightened blue grass county, which
fosters rich churches OF every popular
denomination in the state. A cores
pondent at apopular and populous border
town reported, the Mormons struck
our town last week but could get no
place to preach in.' In an adjoining
column is a report OF the county's Bible
society's annual meeting, in which their
colporteur, regularly employed and
saaried, reported I,447 families visited
and one out oil every seven found with,
out Bible or Testament l'll bet my
supply OF fresh sausage that that society
has active members who would not re.
sent the charge that their soicitude in
the matter OF raising iuuds for foreign
Missions is responsible Tor their worst
attacks OF insomnia. Was it Bobby
Burns who perpelrated the exclamation.
"Ohl wad sym power the giilie gle u.s.!
etc, etc, etc?'
We encounter great deal OF preiu.
dice and opposition in our labors aud
when we hnd friend Ike the writer OF
this piece We appreciate and wish to
cultivate his friendship
We now have Elders labOring in
several blue grass counties, Generally
they are meeting with success in obtain
ing churches aud school houses to preach