The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-23
ROBERTS.
His Election to Be a
Test Case.
A UTAH MISSIONARY
Who Knows Mrs. Roberts
No. 3-What He Says.

Rev. w. S. Hawkes. occupied the pull
pit of Pilgrim Church last evening in
the absence of Rev. Alexander Lewis,
who is taking brief rest on the coast
of Florida. Mr.. Hawkes. theme was:
THE crisis of Mormonism, or Utahs
new congressman"
The speaker gave a history of the
Mormons, their faiths and their unholy
and ungodly mode of living.
The church was comfortably we'll
filled, and Mr.. Hawkes. address was de-
oidedly interesting at a time when the
entire country from Maine to Califor-
mia is agitated over the election to con-
gress of Brigham Roberts.
The speaker for nearly IL years has
worked as a missionary in the large
cities of the Mormon state and saw, as
he expressed it last evening, Sights
that could not be described from the
pulpit
He said in opening that he had been
requested by Rev. Mr.. Lewis to talk
upon Mormonism and as it was custom
airy for preachers to select a text, he
had selected Romans 1, 25-"Ye have
changed truth into lie" He said that
Mormonism has always had a crisis on
its hands and that the people were bat
tMng With the external forces-the
United States government; and the in
ternal forces-the dissatisfied members
OF the faith, many who long to
snake off the chains, which have for so
many years bound them to the church.
The speaker told of the eleven years of
life spent among the Mormons. He
said that he visited their homes, ate
at their tables, read their books and
listened to their doctrines, and had
many times stood at the scene of the
Mountain meadow massacre, where 1876
innocent immigrants from Nebraska
had been slaughtered by the Mormons
because they came from a state which
had dealt harshly with bishop of their
church. He had read the accounts of
that tragedy, but the account told to
MIN by son of man who had par
ticipated was the one that he believed
true.
He said that since slavery was abol-
ished. Mormonism is the only remain
ing relic of barbarism; that he could
not tell all he knew about it; and that
the people of the east would not be-
1eVe 1t unless they had spent several
years in the Mormons midst
Mr.. Hawkes. narrated the trials of the
Christian people after the United States
government passed the existing strin-
gent laws against polygamy A wife
would be summoned into court and the
husband would command the woman to
perJure herself. Time and again. wives
OF the bishops stood upon the witness
stand holding in their arms the young
est offspring of the accused, and would
swear that she did not know who was
the father of the child.
'hTha Mnrv1orf,
speaker, are willing and ready to give
up the practice of polygamy, but the
women have been kept in ignorance
ana frmly believe today that if they
wish to go to heaven they must obey
the church, as it is one of the Mormon
doctrines No woman will get there
unless man accompanies her.
The women are firm believers that
unless they obey their husbands they
VIII lay in their graves forever. A man
gets the consent of his first wife to a
second marriage, which is necessary
by threatening to compel her to lie
forever in her grave.
Mrs. Margaret Roberts, the last
Wi1e OF the congressman elected from
Utah, lived very near me-" said the
speaker. She bore another name I'M
III she was made Roberts third wife.
She is a doctor of medicine and when
SIG pCCtlle mFS. hODeftS haQ her signs
all repainted
'Mormonism is horrible. 1t holds the
women Of the land in slavery. They
can never be recognized by the Chris
tlan church. as they believe in many
gods in polygamy and all their doc
trines are sacrilegious.
Roberts was elected in my opinion.
to test the feeling of the country. If
ne is. allowed to take his seat, it will
prove that the sentiment of the coun-
try is not against Mormonism, and
every senator and congressman from
Utah hereafter will be Mormon.
THE crisis has come. Mormonism is
the worst kind of an octopus The peo-
pie believe that in rs years the whole
country will be converted to their
faith. The supreme court will be
asked to settle this trouble Utah has
violated its contract. 1t became a
state law with the express stipulation
that polygamy be abolished. 1t has not
kept it's agreement
"Polygamy is not the chief danger.
1t is the one man power in the Mormon
church, and the country will rise UP in
righteous indignation.
THE day is coming when there will
be rebellion in Utah. A Martin Luz
ther will arise and straighten out
matters"