Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-08-14
What a Visiting Newspaperman Has
To Say Of Such an Experience
MANY THINGS OF INTEREST,
Temple, Tabernacle, organ, Choir.
Achievements and Prevailing
Conditions All Attract

tanning the following article written by
Lewis w. Brewster former publisher
Of the Portsmouth Journal. Portsmouth
10 the birthplace Of Mrs, Young
father, William II. Folsom. The writer
recently spent two days in this city
With his relatives, and this is what he
has to say of his trip
Salt Lake City is beautiful place,
where the wilderness has been sub
dued to the use and enjoyment OF the
lords of creation" We may well
say in this instance the lords" for
evidently the men who led and engineer
ed the great work Of retaining the dcs-
ert asserted their rights and counted
the rest of mankind as secondary IN
the process of city and church build
ing, however useful women may be in
the formation Of community.
Whatever may have been the motives
and aspirations Of Brigham Young and
his devoted and prosecuted band of
Latter-day Saints when on the oath of
July lSi7, they had reached this then
desoatc and retired spot after forced
and painful pilgrimage of 1850 miles
from Nauvoo. Illinois-whatever may
have been their motives there must
have been AZ underlying governing
principle very similar to that which
sustained and stimulated that other
band Of pilgrims, who landed
on the cold New England
shores In 1920 Two days tarry
tThursdayaLzb mfw ymfwyp mfwyp
among them has given us a better in
timation of this great moral and re-
lgious principle, and ts pervading in
auence among the Mormons. OF their
much mooted construction of the moral
and ethical marriage law we can saw
but little. for we learned but little re-
garding t. Their ready and scrupulous
obedience to the law of the land will
have it's fun effect up6n Utah. and
doubtless this. that by popular consent
is a pronounced evil win in due time
terminate. There is quite a difference
between polygamy with the consent
and approval OF the other wives and the
forsakinp Of a wife for another Woman {.
and some of the polypamo,ls wivea Of
Salt Lake CITY. with whom our marty
met. were strenuous in their support of
multlplicitv and only wished that their
husbands would ada 10 their number
"A condition of things with which orr
ladies failed 10 assimilate. viii II
please Won. dear reader. 10 know of the
early history of Mormonism? we
learned something of II from the Lat :
ter-day Saints and II Interested us.
This Is the way II was told us.
Joseph Smith. its founder was horn
M sharon VI Dec 93 1so5 Ar IA
years of age ne became deenlv inter
ested in religious matters and acting
upon the suggestion IN lanes I, he
prayed for wisdom until on the 2lst of
Sent 1924 he received in answer IN
feryent praver a visitation from an an.
gelie personape who gove his name "a
Moroni Suhseouent revelation. sboued
him 10 be The last Of n long iine NJ
nronhets whose Translated yrr,tirgs
constitute the Roof Of Nornnn
Mormon was bis father Ntoront In
formed Jnsenb tbat thoro ovtstad /,
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me- company went 10 'he seacoasI ana
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parses, u! NnIOh, suIueu ny the Loru,
my eney put 70 ses' anu ailer passage OF
81 GAYS lanueu On tne western shore OF
North AineIlca, propaoly az pace
SCUM Oh thg nun Vi tanlornia ana
nortn Oh lne lsthnus OF rahama. Ihey
became "a louslsh,ns ha,loll' out ID tlihe
were DIVIDED mo tacllons whlch
Warred WIN one ahother untll the peo-
PIE were totaUy destroyed. rms PROD
AMY occurred ABOUT the uine OF the De-
ginning OF the Nephi'e nation IS y
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me prosecutors OF IN tne Nephltes were
leG rom Jerusalem evv y; - oy Lehl'
Sew Ts pIonnes W ''l1 ,.loe 80, OF S Mahas-
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