Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-09-30

The following appeared In the West.
n.yru' M1HaY Chrunutypc OF July -.
For som, 'Wo years tho Mormon
church has bad aH missionaries 10 Wor.
eehtnr, two young men. who have
llenls ln WeHib1fu. and who have ok.
tended their lAbua % Narthb0ro and
Marlboro. Sow that Mormons have
abandoned pulyrumy ana % is believed
tn bg uu astonishing innovation. pruc-
uced 90 any time only hy o. very TOW.
lhhi GOO fUW were conspicuous lrulrrHl,
aud Do now gradually dying out they
have o. ihir field. They may not md
Fellowship lu our churches. We may not
want o. Join them. and Tow can give
ime 90 study new system even "
Joseph Smith was born Boz Vermont. aud
orHaniz,l DIS church n Sew York
State.
These young men lre about IN return
Co Utah Co. Do succeeded hy others. 10 IL
proper o. say that they have personally
Impressed ua nvUrably We have no
desire tu Huy thH worst we can Of tho
Saints ln Utah. Fry years ugo New
~ HiIus people Joined Joseph Smith.
AMI Wr ufo Interested 60 learn Uf their
descendants boz Utah today. They hnye
made thn desert into garden aud claim
that God blessed their llburs because
they desired tu serve Him. They say
that ila Mormon church was dis
Timothy opposed tu slavery years before
Hon. james e.. lilruoy wrote his famous
pamphlet The American church the
hulWurk ~ slavery and % prophecy II
Ju.rph Smith 100 1852 forrtuld the Be.
hrIl.Hu and thU abolition ~ slavery.
They tull uH they are preaching without
hire aud urgu upon their hearers to
make uUuDHHhlU settlement uf diner.
ylaHH without going tudaw.
'lt' Mormon church has displayed
great UurrEy boo making converts ln
Great britain ami uu the continent ~
Elrlpr % docs not hide itH uFht under
uuahIi and if % " really guided az
o. claims. by sterling New England ylr-
SUES. Iit doctrine will lu duo time re-
cHlNv respectful attention"
Nv u later Issue Of the same puhlira-
ton appeared another article of which
toe HUh.niued D. AN extract
Joseph Smith WIS born la Vermont
iu less. organised his church lu Ncw
luih iu l10. was married ln pennayl-
NaulH. had 10 church Boz Kirkland. ohio,
ara lutDr moved 90 Missouri aud was
ass1Hslnutud lu Carthage. 10. loyrioy
var Maine man who went 30 Missouri
after compromise uf 1890 had made IL
o. slave state. when my nrat wifo.H
grandfather. Gen. James Miller of Sew
Hampshire, was governor % AfkanHnH,
previously 20 part OF Missouri Turfi-
tory. LuNrluy attacked the institution VI
slavery, ua ala Joseph Smith. and Lost
bis life loo attempting 90 publish an
unu.slnNgry paper In Illinois Abraham
Lincoln was born ln Kentucky but
liy,-i most VI his NE in this same state
OF Illinois. Whether Joseph Smith was
Inspired los God or not In is12 he made
The most remarkable antl-alayery
prophecy. and was AN nnti-HluNury
martyr quite nH much M i.ovciuy or
lincoln
"CitIzsns N Wertboro cannot f1fHet
that Ell Whitnoya cotton gin made
slavery "a source " prInt 90 the slave
holders % the South. and really caused
the civil War, though doubtless Whit
nry us well uH Joseph Smith. favored
"a fulrrr and more Christian mode of
securing the abolition OF slavery, ~
member hearing, too, ~ Hon. Horace
Maynard. NJ e., frUm Tennessee. who
went from WvHtburo. but ] think ne
was not an anti-alaycry man Tho Nor
mons may not ho perfect. but I think
an honest and dulgrnt search viii ZEE
veal much that o. good iu their record.
Faithfully you're.
CHARLES W FELT
Marlboro. Sept. o. 1888