The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-05
THE BOARD
OF MISSIONS
Women Meet at Central
Union Church.
PAPER ON MORMON|SM
Miss Gertrude Whiteman Who Lived
in Salt Lake Tells of Her
Experiences.

Experiences.
"HE regular monthly meeting of
the Woman's Board of Missions
took place yesterday afternoon in
the Central Union Church parlors A
very large number of prominent ladies
were present, comprising the members
and friends, who listened with interest
to the reports and papers read during
the session.
Mrs. c. NJ Hyde opened the meeting
with a prayer and followed with a few
earnest words relating to giving and
having. She referred to the cup of
salvation in the course of her speech
and then asked that member would
favor them with prayer, which was
done, and which proved an earnest
appeal for the continuance of their
work and the welfare of the members
of the board.
Mrs. DIR. Andrews read the minutes
of the November meeting, and Miss
Shelley, the home and foreign CORES
ponding secretary, followed with her
report.
Then Miss Pope, the president of the
Pauahi band of Kamehameha School,
followed with her report and said that
fifty girls had taken part In the meet
ing, and that collection of S14 had
been taken up,
The treasurer, Mrs. B. f. Dillingham;
! then read her report.
Miss Mary Green, at the conclusion
, of the reports, was asked by the presi-
dent to speak few words. 1t appear
ed that, for obvious reasons, she hat
resigned from active work, but ha(
been requested to continue until he1
: sister, Miss Laura Green, who is nov
I in Brookline, Mass, arrived Mrs
\ Hyde paid tribute to Miss Green's en-
2 ergetic work in their cause, and sh
n then arose and addressed the meeting
!, speaking more particularly of he
= work on Maui among the Hawaiians
|, A collection amounting to $29 10 wa
I taken up
t The paper of the meeting was the
# read and was of absorbing interest.
:. Miss Gertrude Whiteman, who ha
= compiled and written the paper, say
her statements are substantially col
l. rect, having been taken from thei
Is own books and documents.
a Il spent twelve years in Salt LAX
ir City and am quite familiar with Mo-
mon life and the tenets of its religion
r- said Miss Whiteman, "and l belieN
my remarks are timely, In view of tt
V. fiftieth anniversary, which the Mo
n mons will hold in Honolulu On Decen
lit Der IL. George @. Cannon, the brai
e power Of Mormonism today, will
ne present. / will tell you what | kno
9 about Mormons. In two years the
re made $4,000 converts, or thirty-thr
Id per cent in one year.
e "Mormons believe in God, the Fat
70 er and the Holy Ghost. They also
ae s lieve in the Bible One of their gre
to sayings Is, What man is God was, al
re what God Is man may be- | board
er. for sixteen months in a Mormon faI
is lily where the first wife had no chill
ISL rem, and one day she said to me:
gave my consent to my husband
take two more wives that he mig
build up his kingdom in heaven
Miss Whiteman also said: "KOha
Of seminary girls and, in fact, all Hawa
an children know of visions. They
know something of the Mormon reli
mt ion. 1t is a dangerous teaching, a
on / have prepared this paper as a time
81 warming"
nc Having been absent from the Mai
ldl land for over two years, and not bel
me able to obtain late Information in I
up time since being requested to speak
Ire this subject, We must cdnhne ourSel'
in to the knowledge of some time past.
,vo Two years ago the Mormons had
~, increase of over 50 100 converts, neal
pie SO per cent, in one year. If this raj
op- growth is owing to the inherent wOr
te- il is for our interest TO know the m
for it's of that system Of faith. But II,
he the contrary, it grows so rapidly
ton cause it makes it's appeal to the sin
ith 80 - 80 a., ordar -, .-,,,
against it's demoralizing influence. Fl
ION can we do this better than to exam
ary the methods used and the doctr
4 taught.
vaii First, If the Mormon missionar
h,a were honest enough to tell the +
Mua M truth to those whom they would pro
age iyte to their faith, they would m:
nx- no converts among intelligent and
the cent people Of our country.
The missionary will not come to
der ana say that GOO was once as you
IN OF that he has a body of flesh
- bones as tangible as MANS" and 9"
III have got to learn to be gods yC
one selves; that God is polygamist t
and Christ is the Son of God in the Sc
The sense in which any other man is
we'd son or GOD, and that He is poly
ticing plural or celestial marriage"
many other things too harsh to Ii:
the to.
,ials II they were to begin by telling
the Mormon priesthood holds the }
of revelation of the oracles of Coo
man here. ."and that God speaks to l
on we to each other, you would turn I
,ked tnem In oisgust. but !. - IT, ~. ara
GERS leading in the terms used Sometl