The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-28
How the

I think that Bfigham's bound to run
The whole hog Or none."
So glibly sang the guileless youth of
twenty-five oEnthirty years ago-a
song that was Int the mouths of thou
SANDS; but thauGoming and going Of
the years haVeIWrpught a change since
that time-a change wondrous in it's
immensely. far7reaching in it's import.
Inc Mormonnor Latter-Day Saint, Is
not the headstrong, fanatical polyga-
mist of fifty or sixty years ago; no
longer does Gentle and Mormon hos
tility find tragic expression in such
Fearful events as the Mountain Mead
oW Massacre, for both parties have
found that strife is naught but weak
en1ng. There cannot. and perhaps
never Will there. exist really amicable
compromised on a sort of armed neu-
| ( trality.
To think that the Mormon; as a per-
sonal follower of the tenets of that re-
l1gion digged out of the ground by
Joseph Smith. down in York State"
is becoming weary in the pursuit or
observance of those, doctrines, or to
think that the number of strict Nor
| mons is becoming less. is to make one
| OF the greatest mistakes possible.
-Ihere Is not, in all the world today,
q sect that is prosecuting a more Wig
orous or fruitful missionary work than
the Mormons; and there is no mis-
slonary work that Is being carried on so
silently and forcefully.
And when one considers the manner
| In winch this work is carried on it does
not seem at all strange that success
| should crown the efforts Of its pro-
motors. Shrewd, intelligent and unfal-
| ter1ng in their zeal these Morrnons are
nothing If not model missionaries. They
1 = "a fslysN -
| manner of aid or help from the par
ent body; they must support them
| serves While at work making converts
ana they are given to understand that
the more they accomplish so shall thew
be rewarded iBrt1egree
strange as It may seem these mis-
sionarles are not specially trained fer
tnls work in a technical manner-they
| receive no special book learning
armed, as theyI say, with naught but
the Divine Gracerand unfaltering be-
lief In their creed5' they are ready and
wiling to face the world. There is no
| quarter of the world to which thew
have not penetrated, the Samoan Isl
ands, Siberia, liberia, Denmark and
Canada. The United States is synpa-
thetically dividedli into sections and
these are under the direct supervision
OF presidentfu3Un Under him are num-
berless elders. their number being gov
Tic ESOPd1dt1OI1' 10 De worked
among. sB11s
Mornaops in ST. Paul.
In st. Paul there are four elders
VINO minister to a congregation of
about sixty souls. 1t is Thought nv
these elders that in the entire state
tnere are about one hundred Saints, as
they prefer to be known, though the
title Mormon is not at all offensive to
them
At sc Eleventh street there are four
representatives of the faith; Elder
John A. Hyde Of. Wyoming: Howard
A. Davis. Utah; Geo. Webb. Utah. and
the senior elder, A M. Croft, who is
also president Of the division known as
me Minnesota Conference" and a
native of Ufah8 s< - =
Elder Hyde expressed himself as be-
ing very wiling to expound the be-
= ef OF the Mormons, to clear away
any erroneous ideas that one might
nave gathered in regard to that faith
The Mormon religion, the tenets of
Whlch We're revealed to Joseph Smith,
at Manchester, N. Y, Sept. 81, 1923,
ana which are a clear, positive and Ger
tain means Of interpreting and ex
planning the Bible upon the teachings
OF which. our faith is PLANTED, is stead
lily growing.
TT was through the angel Moroni.
who yappearedl'fo Joseph Smith. that
the hiding place, of these plates was
made known. Upon being dug out of
the ground and read it was found that
they comprised the Urim and Thum-
min, and when I'm 1928 they were first
made into book form they were called
by1 Smith, The Golden Bible" cor The
Book of Mormon. ~gs slsls
The first regularly established church
was erected and occupied, at Man
chester, N. Y, in 1890; but, In the cold
II Mi
Smith was notified by supernatural
means that he was to lead his follow
ersato new Mecca-the Holy Land Of
Mormons.
Westward they. went, and at Kirt-
land, Ohio, a town was established
which, In fewzyear, became a -four
lshlng metropolis 9ef no mean proper
lions. Finally, after much persecution.
they were forced to flee, and they went
TO the extreme western part of Mis-
souri,. But crtel treatment awaited
them here. and At was only about 1910
that they had to- again flee to save
their lives. eh -.-, IN
;. ITO Illinois they went, and there
they were kindly received; and, on the
site of the present city of Commerce,
Ill, their leader Joseph Smith, sought
to found the future capital Of Nor
monism, and called it Nauvoo. which
he vowed to-. make the Seat of the
LORD and OF the OSaintSi"
Then commenced persecution. to
which all they had hitherto endured
were as naught; and the end of it was
That Joseph Smith was slain and they
moved still farther westward Sue
cesslye Wanderings brought them to
the fertile valley Of the great Salt
lake, to which they felt sure no man
would ever come to modest them.
Brigham Young.
"At Kirkland the partv had been
joined by a young painter who gave
ms name to them as Brigham Young.
aThere was littleSahc1t the young fell
low to indicateA 4aafre than ordinary
genius. or intellees sbut the yicissitudes
of their pilgfimagess brought out All
the force thar lay wifhsn him, and he
showed himself to be. az ilaturalborn
leader.
Indians, miasmatic fevers and ont
laws epreyed upon, them, but through ALI
their faith in their Lord and Dr0n1,at
reigned supreme and sublime. and To-
day the fruits of all those sufferfngs
are being borne, for, If the Morn1ons
are not, the most dominant people as
reiigionists, they are surely the most
forceful.
From that band of 143 men. women
and children who settled in the Salt
Lake valley in 1874. there sprange one
of the mightiests races and religions
known to men today"
Sect Is Growing.
1t is, indeed, a far cry from the wear
1923, when Joseph Smith, in whatso-