Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-01

two hundred of these false prophets
within our borders"
The article quotes with strong en-
dorscment. a communication written
/ by "a Pastor" and printed in the
North Carolina Presbyterian. In which
the numbers and labors OF Mormon
missionaries In the South are dwclt
upon. and In which the following SEN
fences occur:
ut is useless to deny that we are
confronted in these facts by a crisis.
| There must be an active nnti-Mormon
work done, or these sly and cunning
proselyters viii have II largely their
own way with the very classes we are
| trying to reach. the neglected people
| church. Already they have made
startling gains, and II is success that
has emboldcned them to undertake TO
| storm the very centers of Christian
| culture t. our state. In Franklin.
| wilkes. surry and Randolph, and per-
! haps i'm otner counties IN our state
they have organized strong churches,
and have erected substantial church
| buildings. They have come to stay.
"They are nctuated by zeal that
! In as genuine and as sincere as that
of our own missionaries to the heather.
IL III DlTt VI AntfI itiisi'hS NNii'A NAt-'e
| the salvation OF all souls under this
| dispensation depends upon their ac-
| ceptance OF the new revelation which
| " claim is contained in the Book OF
| Mormon. There must he a concerted
| effort to turn on the light. And in
| this we cannot hope to he altogether
successful. The mere whisper that
there is in the Mormon faith belief
| i'm polygnmy will be of itself sufficient
| to attract to their standard some lewd
| fellows of the baser sort. and their
talk of q new revelation will gull null
| titudes of the ignorant. IL Is one OF
the possibilities of the near future that
| there will he as many Mormons ms
| Presbyterinns. They are working
| night and dav While our church Is
! neglecting the sections OFF the rail-
roads, and our preachers are selecting
| fields Of labor with reference to school
| advantages and railroad conveniences.
| the jealous missionaries Of false
creed are walking, like genuine apos-
| ties and are visiting from house TO
| house. going out into the highways ana
hedges, which. alas' no other church
| IL successfully doing. d,
! 1--WE must awake out of our sleep ana
meet them by using their own tactics
| Our ministers must also canvass from
| house to house, and wherever the
| Mormon missionaries have left their
| literature. and wherever they have
| failed to leave II, we must leave anti
Mormon literature.
THE Presbyterian committee OF pub-
| lication, at Philadelphia. publishes a
valuable list of anti Mormon tracts,
and any pastor in our AS
| sembly can obtain five dollars
! worth of these publications simply by
writing to Dr.. Hazen for them; i
would recommend especially SIX tracts;
The Mormon God Not the God OF the
Bible and Mormon Articles of Faith
| Explained' Facts on Mormonism.'
"a story Of Utah. "A Mother in Nor
mondom' and a Utah Sketch all OF
which will he helpful. The writer broke
up one Mormon appointment at place
| where they were getting favorable
hearing, simply by sending 20 the man
| at whose house the Mormon elders
were being entertained q batch OF these
tracts. He read them and announced
his intention to have nothing mere to
do with Mormons."
There can be no valid objection to on
posing the spread of Mormonism by the
spread Of honest exegetical literature
1t will do neither the people nor the
truth any harm to have the Scriptures
thoroughly discussed. But IL the lit
erature recommended by "A Pastor
| contains false and slanderous matter
there might be serious objections to It,
| However the time seems to have come
when Islander and falsehood have &c
a great extent lost their power in OPP
posing the spread of the Gospel.
| BY a curious coincidence on the re.
verse side of the clipping containing
| "a Pastors" communication as re-
| nroduced nv the Christian Sun, is par
| ~, ,,o.aoa .,rho s,, of Sen
OIL an "iue.e 'iea ii,
aration.' the latter portion VI wh'e'
the scissors lost. But perusal OF th'
nortion that remains. lust after read
~, ~, ~, - 80 mo christian sur
me 'ne remains ,,ar,,,s,,,
and "a Pastor about Morhohisni
will produce peculiar effect upon tn
,,,nds Of nersons familiar with thu
a.. .oI,,,,or In reyard Z,
teachings Oh ."a. -
the unity of the faith. we quote'
xa,to,, ox
The schisms anu sepa ~ o,aa an.
isting among t,e peop'e NJ ~, -
unscriptufal anu si .,, s,,n e D.,
inthian DrethTeh my a,,,ra. :,
wrote: now ! pese9en w, W Chr,a,
by the name OIL OUT Lonu .es ,uI G", 10,
that We all SPEAK ny saiie siiis' a,,'
that there ne no uiNisiols anios ~ W
but that ye pc periee,Y Jo,neu ~
gether IN the same hl,hu' my ia .h
same Judgment. Ut. !. ~ AN
what right nave CHRISTIANS y. u iss
gard TINS soieinn appsal, anu uiisi
and disagree, anu uivlue Mnae tn
scripture demahus ~ poss'oie un'