The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-18
Missionaries Talk In the Taber-
nacle.
SERVICE IN COLORADO
MANY INFIDELs WERE FOUND
THERE.
As a Rule, However, Because of the
Storm Bureau Agitation, the God
less Were Kinder to the Elders
Than the So-called Christians
Sunday School Jubilee Exercises.

Interesting features of the tabernacle
services yesterday afternoon were the
remarks of three returned mission
Y. Taylor, just home from Colorado,
and Elder Albert p Mathesop, who
recently returned from Georgia.
Mr.. Badger said it was surprising
that the people of the Colorado mis-
sion knew so little of the Mormon
people and understood them so imper-
fectly. This mission includes Colorado,
Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico.
1t is young. being three years old; there
are forty missionaries at work, and
they are meeting with success. The
orthodox people, he said, were very
severe on the missionaries, especially
since the start of the recent agitation.
Because of one mans bitterness in
Center, Colo, he and his company
were refused the use of school house,
a lodge hall and a union church. The
infidels were more friendly, he said.
than the Christians.
Met Many Infidels.
Mr.. Taylor spoke of the Colorado
people as a predetermined class There
are many infideis; in fact, Colorado is
known as the '.Infidel state" THE in
HOSis, ldyiOT, are
most liberal; they are not priest-ridden
as the Christian world usually is. Many
of them accept the Bible after ii has
been explained TO them by the mis-
Sionaries.'
Continuing, Mr.. Taylor said that in
difference was worse enemy of the
missionary than persecution. 1t was
hard to arouse an interest in an IN
popular doctrine where people join the
church simply to get into the upper
class of society. But" he said in con-
clusion, our work has been blessed;
angels of heaven have visited the elders
in their missions; we almost raised the
dead, and sick We're healed Immediately
in many instances by our ministra-
tions.''
Matheson's Experience.
Mr.. Matheson spoke of the spirit that
bore up the missionary and made him
able to cope successfully with the peo-
pie of the world who knew far more
than he did on matters in general. He
succeeded, not because of his own
strength. but because of the spirit of
God within him. Mr.. Matheson found
that people of the world think there is
something radically wrong with the
Latter-day Saints that they are a cor
rupt people, unfit to mingle with ortho-
dox people. On the contrary, he said.
if the Mormons live up to their profess
sions, they are the best people on
earth.
The chief address of the day was by
Apostle Brigham Young. He spoke of
the resurrection as set forth in the
Book of Mormon and of the manifes-
tations of Gods power in the career
of the Mormon people.
If the battle were to the strong, he
said. the church would have disappear
ed in Illinois. God stood by the Nor
mon people and helped them and
brought them here. The temple, the
tabernacle, the fine streets, the i'm
provements-all were the works of God.
No man could have done this work ex-
cept he were inspired by God.
The meeting was well attended as
usual. The announcements were made
by Apostle Angus NJ. Cannon, and the
music was of the usual high order.