The herald., 1898-10-21
MORMON MISSIONARIES
brzr AIR PRoPAaAToRs OF
1nIoHAM YoUNa's CREED
4 JosEPHITE's OBJECTIONS
Ruptuxual Exhortations at Broadway
oornsrs-The Mission Meets With
Fair Success


missionaries have been propagatlng their
creed in this city. Their open-alr exhorta-
tions INDUCED in night after night at the
broadway street corners by these persistent
exbonents of the first principles OF the
Mormon church have attracted some toier-
ant attention. g
In publicly advocating the advantages OF
their church, its superiority to all other
churches. the everlasting peace ana comfort
which can be attained through Mormon
channels only, the earthly emoluments
which will fall like mamma upon the door
steps of the faithful, the practical commun-
ism which they profess exists among %n5 ,hG
they hold out for the ignorant and unWnry
thew display great cleverness and tact. They
call upon their hearers to repent ana be
baptised," and to come into their fold,
whore and when the carmine hue OF their
callous souls will be Transformed INTO a
dazzling whiteness, compared Win wiien ..il
snow or ice or the fleecy clouds would be dull
and tame.
They do not, for the edification, informa-
ton and guidance of hearers and nibblers,
explain to them that the tenets OF the Nor
mon church embrace the, following IN, IN;
portant points, viz: Adam Is God;
EJesus had three wives" "a Dominant
Priesthood" Baptism for the Dead;"
"Plural Marriage" "Sin Necessity IN
doctrines and Covenant" Sec. l32:4-6.
it is laid down that plurality of wives is es
sential. and in Brigham Youngs Journal OF
Discourses, III, page 266, it reads thus: III
any of you deny the plurality Of wives, and
continue to do SO, promise that you will be
damned
Such important principles as these are
kept in the background until the convert
has been roped in, and then, like the jackal
that fell into the indigo pit, having got into
this dilemma, rather than own up and ex-
pose his own gullibiljty and lack of investi-
cation, in turn tries to trip up others, that
they also may waiver and stumble and roll
into the gaping pit, which Is deep and wide
and ready to receive them.
The other evening at the corner OF Second
and Broadway the Mormon team had been
getting in some of their finest and most tell
ing oratorical arguments, and two Of the
great army of the unwashed, who had been
hitently listening to the honeyed words of
fnllacy, were balancing on the fine pivot OF
repentance which leadeth to conviction,
resulting in conversion, when the fervent
leader Of the band, in most devout prayer,
closed the evenings exercises. In the front
row of the seekers after knowledge and
truth, areheaded, reverently and patiently
stood large-framed man OF about 90 sum
mcrs, with bald head and bnshy whiskers.
He had more the appearance of well-to-do
farmer than Mormon missionary. All the
Mormon missionaries-there were four OF
them at the corner on this occasion, some
times there are six-were adorned with long
tailed black coats, high collars, white ties,
scrupulously clean billed linen and boots
that were radiant from the well-directed
brush of the bootblack, while "the other fell
low" rejoiced in an ordinary, homely, every
day go-as-you-please suit.
The amen had scarcely left the lips of the
elders, ere the party of the second'part held
up his brave right arm and commenced to
harangue. MEN countrymans and fellow
citizens, l must speaks nit. lch bin
Mormon and believes in Gott in Hlmmel.
but | comes here this nights to expose the
humbug of this gentlemans. This gentlemans
Is not Mormons; this gentlemans follows
Brigham Young; Brigham Young was one
humbug and teaches polygamy. Mein goot
friends, you know what polygamy means.
five. twenty, fifty wives. The young mems
laugh It's fine fun for the mems, but Gott
in Himmel likes not such fun. 1ch bin a
Josephite"
The long-tailed Mormons glared at him.
"Mein church is the true church. Brig
Gott sends me here to tell the peoples. 10
seph Smith was the Lords prophet; He
sevet stsrted 9as tbat Somebody not far from the
long-tailed exhorters pulled out gun.
glared at the speaker and then put it back
In his pocket.
'You cannot frightens me-" continued
the Josephte "Gott is nit Gott in Him
mel laugh NIT scorn. tells you mein
friends the Josephte has the only true re-
ligions."
And so he went on, but this representative
of the Josephite faction also was disseminat
ing a false doctrine, for the Salt Lake Her
aid report of the. conference at Castle Gate
June Is, 1898, says:
at was impressed upon the minds of the
young people that they could not deny this
part of the Mormon belief tpolygamy) with |
out at the same time. denying the. Prophet
Joseph Smith, on whose advice ii was first
practiced
From casual conversation overheard in
the streets it was cleaned that even here, in
this enlightened city, these Austlers are
meeting with fair success, their theory
being that if they can only get the sympathy
in their house to house visits the bubbles
will soon fall in line.