The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-01
MORMONISM GROWING
MORE AGGRESSIVE
Declares the Missionaries Are
Preaching a Yelled Doctrine.
Teachings Being Pushed All Over the
Country With Prodigious Energy
Makes Serious and Sensational
Accusations-Baptist Convention
Adopts Resolutions Against Con-
gresham Roberts-Ask That a
Seat In Congress Be Refused Him.

San Francisco, May S1.-At the second
session of the sixty-seventh anniver-
sary of the American Baptist Homa
Mission society today the Rev. II. b
Steelman, pastor of the First ReptiSt
church of Salt Lake, Utah. delivered am
address on The Aggressive Attitude
of MOrmonism." He was primed and
told his story in a way that carried to
the minds of his listeners the strongest
conviction of the truth of what he said.
He spoke in part as follows:
''At no time has NOrmonism been in
the prosperous condition it is today.
and il is growing more and more as-
gressiVe. Word has been sent out by
the heads of the perniciOus faith I'M
Utah that the Mormon church is about
to put two travelling missionaries i'm
country. There are at present 460 mis-
sionaries in the field, and during the
past year they held 1000 meetings:
gave away 157 600 tracts and $4,000
books. In that time they have bap-
tised !, ,225 people. They are everywhere:
In our colleges. in our universities-au
over the country.
They are preaching a yelled doctrine,
and when the veil is lifted then it is
found that it is not God, but Adam
they are preaching. What man is. God
once was. Adam is the only father
with which the world will have any
thing to do. Jesus Christ was a polyg-
amist and what men ought to be. That
is the teaching that they are pushing
with prodisious energy. They make
claims of great progress. but no more
evidence of it can be found anywhere
than in the states adjoining Utah
predict that if 1t makes the same pro-
press in the next five years that il has
in the past five years MormOniSm will
1,or hal of y
these states and become controlling
factor in congress.
Is Not a Local Question.
Congress tells us that MormOnism is
only a local question. 1t IS not. 1t IS
a question that concerns the entire ma
tion. 1t is of vital Importance to our
political foundation and the basic prin-
ciples of our constitution
You ask if pOlygamy is being
taught2 Yes. pOlygamy is being taught
today with as much aggresSiveneSS as
it was before the manifesto of 1890 As
it was when Utah begged to be admit
ted as a state.
The president of one If the leading
Mormon societies made the statement
a few months ago in Logan temple that
the women of Utah, as the result OF
polygamy. were out Heroding Herod in
order to keep out of prison l would
not make this statement did not be-
lieve il to be true. But | must add, and
I thank God 1 am able to do so, that
there are pure and noble women among
them. Women living in polygamy are
carried away and swayed by their feel
ings and the hidden poison in their
false beliefs.
..As TO the fight against B. H. Rob-
erts to prevent him from being seated
in congress, | want TO say that IT IS
not a religious fight. No. 1t is not
fight. 1t is a fight against
man who is living publicly as polyga-
mist; living in open violation or tns
law of the country. He has no right 10
debauch women; TO Seduce women: 10
ruin the queens of our homes. All the
people of this country should arise as
one and insist upon his being turned
ont
The question is asked if the Chris
tians in Utah have ever succeeded in
converting members of the Mormon be-
lief. L want to say to the American
people in answer: No: the gospel has
never been taken to the MOrmons.
Here is a work for missionaries.
Send them out; help them TO stamp out
this poisonous belief from our coun-
try"
Fight Against Roberts.
The committee on resolutions intro
duced the following resolutions, which.
with suitable preambles, were adopted-
Resolved, That we, the representa-
tives of million BaptiSts of the north,
assembled in annual convention in san
Francisco. do earnestly porteSt against
B. H. Roberts becoming or remaining
member of the house of representa-
tiVes because he stands convicted be-
fore the nation as a law-breaker and
a covenant breaker; guilty Of crimes
which shock the moral sense of the
election, h<lVir
taken place on such an issue, to permit
him to hold his seat in the house OF
might be understood Dy
The Mormon community as an endorse
nent of polygamy by that body, and
would give to il such an impetus as 1t
mas never had before in all the history
If the Mormon church. 1t might seem
10 establish pOlygamy as legitimate
system of marriage, and make it a
menace to the American home, which
5 the cornerstone of our Christian civil
iZation.
Resolved. That we will use our in
1uence with our respective representa-
ives in congress to induce them 10
stand uncompromisingly for the funda-
mental principles of morality and vlr-
.ue. for the Christian home and for the
purity of our free Institutions by not
allowing the said Il. H. Roberts to have
, voice in our national legislation for a
single day or a single hour
Resolved That a certified copy OF
hese resolutions be forwarded to the
Jerk of the house of representatives To
De presented by him to that honorable
,ody.'
United Presbyterians Too.
Philadelphia. May s1.-At today's ses-
ion of the general assembly of the United
church, a memorial was