The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-22

iO Propagate the DOcirine-Men Who
 are Feared sent Co other Lands.
 A Salt Lake Correspondent of the Brooklyn Sunday Eagle says:
 spreading the gospel' according to the Mormon system is getting back to the first principles. It is reviving the methods of the apostles of old. It is returning to the eldest traditions of the Christian church.
 Every Mormon boy is brought up with the idea of some day going abroad ! on a mission. For this purpose he is carefully trained in the doctrines of his 1 own religion and of most other relig- ions. He is taught the art of controv- ersy-to talk intelligently and argue i forecully in defense of his faith. | And he knows that at any time he may be called and set apart" for mis- 1 sionary work; that he way be dispatch ed to London, or the Netherlands, or to Australia, or the isles of the Pacific, and that he must go without financial aid from his church. His intructions are to proceed to a certain part of the globe and there do what is in him to spread the gospel revealed in the latter days through Joseph Smith, As to the means of travel, of getting to his desti- nation, of living in strange land while preaching the Word-all this is his own concern. The Mormon Church has nothing whatever to do with it. 1 The missionary, often quite young and totally inexperienced in travel and the ways 0 fthe world, must find some means of living while away from home without asking the church for support.
 All this manifests a faith that is sublime "The Lord will provide for those who do His work, for those who preach His word" That is the reliance of these Mormon folk. They have an abiding faith that somehow they will be taken care of; that God watches over them and their work; that trials and hardships are designed for their own good.
 And so the Mormon youth starts forth on his pilgrimage to some far off cor ner of the earth's surface. with a light or empty purse, but with full confidence that he will get there and that he will net starve.
 And he does "get there" and he does not starve, nowadays, although time was when Mormon missionary might expect anything in the way of suffering and deprivation. It is different now, with many thousands of Mormon con verts scattered over the world and all ways willing to assist a missionary of the faith.
 < Personal convenience has never been a factor in setting apart" the bretl- ren for Mormon mission work. The merchant has been forced to leave his business, the farmer his fields, the me- chanic his bench, with scant time to prepare for his journey. This feature of the work is not quite so apparent now as it was in the days of Brigham Young, for a variety of reasons. yet the spirit is the same. He who is called" must go or foeever after be ldeemed weak in the faith.
 While Christian ministers in the East are preaching sermons against Nor monism and what they consider the evils of the system the Mormon Church goes steadily forward in it's work of taking the gospel to all mankind" between l,4UU ana Z,UUU MOrnlOn l1llS- sionaries are constantly in the field, making continued gains for the faith l founded by Joseph Smith. The latter was the originator of the present mis- sionary system of the church. The prophet had a happy faculty of receiv- | ing revelation" occasionally in which this or that brother was "called and set apart" to carry the gospel to other lands. Smith would merely in- l form the brother of the honor bestoyed lupon him, and the brother would start out. Brigham Young was one of the 1 first to receive this sort of message. and he went to England, where his labors on behalf of the new religion were de- cidedly effective.
 When Brigham Young became the