The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-03-15
MORMONIsM IN NORTH CAROLINA.

WOtlWOIttSW Nv ~
LAST SUNDAYS News and Observer
contained Il thoughtful communication
from the pen of Rev. j. Il. Underwood
showing the evils Of Mormonism.
From many counties in the State
comes the news that Mormon mission
aries are actively at work to ~cyanSeIlze
the State for the Church of the Latter
Day Saints. 1t is also said that they
are meeting with some success among
those not we'll informed. This week :
North Carolina Presbyterian contained
two statements that will surprise and
shock all our readers. y correspondent,
writing from Reidsyille, says:
I'VE learned that there were two
Mormon churches i'll Rockingham
county. the county in which Itcids-
Vile is situated, and that one Of
them was built by Il politician. See?
We do not know or care what this
gentleman's politics are, but he is Il
good man for the people to leave at
home when he next tries for Office
Another correspondent, writing from
Marshall, Madison county, says in a re-
view of the difficulties in mission work
i'll that section:
with reference to MOrmoniSm III
the State: ID The Mormons have
Il fertile field for their miscellaneous
sowing. 60 There are fifty more
Mormon missionaries i'll the State
then there are Presbyterian minis
tcrS all told. CD There is Il posi-
bility that there shall at an early
day be as many Mormons i'll North
Carolina as Prcsbyterians.'
If there was so much danger from Nor
mon;sm in the State as these two eN
tracts imply, it would be Il cause fol
genuine alarm. We are inclined to be
lievc that the Prcsbytcrian's correspond
of what Mormon missionaries are doing
in North Carolina. They may have or
ganized two churches in Rockingham
county under the guidance of Il politi
denied. If not. they may last through
one campaign. but not longer.
We Very, MUCH. doubt the statcmen
~ - "a
that there are fifty more Mormon mis-
Presbyterian ministers all told Nor
mon missionaries are Il peripctetic lot
goin" from place to place, generally be
cause they. cant find entertainment Ion:
i'll any one ncighborhood. Two of then
cultivated Wake county very actively
but meeting with no response,
They foIled their tent like the Arab
And as silently stole away
Iflcy have doubtless been counted il
Il dozen counties in the above estimate
In very few sections have they obtaine,
Il foothold. Because III people Civ
Them something 10 cat and Il place Il
sleep, ONE good people like the Prc>by
tcrian's correspondent, are Harmed les
they will make converts by the whole
sale. North Carolinians are provcrblall.
hCSpitablc, and few people would turI
away Il Mormon or Il Mohamlncdan q
an iniidcl asking a nights lodging. |
does not follow that the hosts accept In
ridiculous creed because they do no
scalp the missionaries. If there is
Mormon church in Rockingham, it is til
only county in the State that is so cur>
ed. There have not been two hundrc
progressed conversions in the past year !
the State, and they have been anon
the most ignorant and unstable.
1t is very wcll-it is right and proper
for the pulpit and press to expose the pr
tensions of M~ormonism. but let us hay
no panic for fear the good people Of tn
State will be sWaycI from their religion
mornings to follow such quick apostl,
as Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.