The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-20
MORMON ELDERS
EXCITE DENVER
LatteT-day Saints Denounced
From the Pulpit.
TELLER DEFENDS MORMONS
GIRL MISSIONARIES HAVE A
HARD EXPERIENCE.

| Now that proselyting by the elders
Of the Mormon church has become ac-
tive in Colorado the denominational
ciergymen are up in arms and discuss
ms the tenets of Latter-day faith with
! considerable vigor. On Sunday last
several of Denver's divines preached
on the subject, and several others sub
mitted to interviews on the question:
IS MOrmonism a Menace to the
State?"
The Denver News contains state
ments from Miss Fanny WOoIley and
Miss Lucy Grant, who are now labor
ing as missionaries in Denver, as well
as from Joseph A McRae, president Of
the Colorado mission, another from
Senator Teller.
The young ladies mentioned have. ac-
cording to their story, had a pretty
hard row TO hoe. Miss WOolley said:
Why, some of them treat US as #
we were not Christians at all. Doors
are slammed in our faces and many
unkind things are said to US by people
who do not know anything about 1I~
faith. They have strange ideas, we
find, about us, and often we will not
be allowed inside more than one or
two houses in all our days work. We
do not go out like the elders without
script or purse, but have our own
room and enough money to supply all
our needs. We are not dependent. and
do not ask for food and shelter, but
that makes no difference, they WI
sometimes treat us in the most insult
ing manner"
Defended by Teller.
In marked contrast to the utterauces
OF the clergymen, Senator Teller paid
the Mormon people a compliment. IS
follows.
I have no fears of the Mormons.
The newspapers and the railroads have
settled the Mormon question.
In the United States senate we have
no Mormon senators from Utah. On
the contrary, one Of the Utah senator's
is Catholic. He was the last senator
elected from Utah.
There is no more danger from re-
ligious dictation from the Mormon
church than from any other church.
All the churches aim to dictate to
their members as TO politics. but 40
great harm results as Tar as 1 can see. /
believe the practice of polygamy
IS abandoned in Utah, and the people
are an enCerprising, Industrious people, |
who are advancing in education and in
fortune under good laws. They are
loyal to the government, as was shown !
IN the Spanish war, and although it has /
Deen claimed in the east that the Nor
mons have gained political control of I
Colorado, / have never noticed it to
be a fact"
Rev. w. a. Hunter of the First Ave /
nue. Presbyterian church was most /
RAPID in his denunciatiou Of Mormon /
ism, and among other things he is /
quoted as having said:
Whether l consider its method of /
proSeiyuSm, or the extravagant or pre- 4
po5terous nature Of its claims. or the /
coarse materialism of its theology or /
the immortality of its practices. or its /
ne history in Utah, I have no hesita- +
ton IN denouncing MOrmonism as one
Of the most vile and Infamous systems
or lmposture which has sprung up dur F.
ing the last century: and as one which
ought TO be combatted by every follow I
er OF Christ and by every lover Of his
country"
NJ. A. RAIDER. pastor Of the Grace NJ.
T. church, dealt particularly with DO
lygamy as vital principle of Mormon
Ialth' though he was not particularly
bitter IN his denunCiatiOn of the Nor
mon church.
Attacked the Mormons.
3. B. Tyler, pastor of the Soutb
broadway Christian church. took up
the temporal side of MOrmonism. Bar-
ucularly as it related to their political
aspirations, and closed by saving. (
lammany has suffered defeat. but
Iammany is neither dead nor diving
Roberts failed to obtain his seat in tba
mouse of representatives. but this IS
not the end of MormOnism as a polfti !
cai power. In the states and territories
"here 1t Is putting in its best work
ana having Its greatest success, a small
number of men can hold in their hands
the balance of power. Che time is not
TAR distant when In half dozen states
lne Mormons Will be able to dictate the
7iectlon OF United States senator's. Do
YOU think they viii not do so when
-hey can! Then you are not as smart
as [ thought you were
bruce Brown of the Central Christian
-hurch thought there was little to be
60 "a IN crltlcising the MOrmOns. and
-hey could DO little harm in Denver.
George b. VOSburg of the First Ran
list church wanted his fioeJZ ia st,,6,,
v ormonism from the inside. so that
they might be able to expose its nature
Calls Mormons Heather.
W. i. Jordan, pastor Of the Calvary
Baptlst church, was most severe in his /
structures, and said:
Mormonism is heathenish. sensual
'ystem OF belief. It degrades woman
lood and exalts passion. Its adherents
are Kept in ignorance and poverty. a
prev to priestcraft and the tools of an
Inscriptions and despotic hierarchy. IT
.eacnes that man who viii not con-
-ess his sins to the priest should be mt
20 death that his blood may atone for
MS sins"
ON top of it all the News quotes Elder
,IcRae as saying that Mormon teach
nSs make good citizens. so the people
u DehVer nave the question presented
iOrm.