The daily sentinel., 1904-04-22
MOrmOniSm AmericaniSm

10 adeq uately comprehend a report
of the great lecture delivered last
night at the Methodist church by DR..
I. @. Iliff. on the subject Mormonism
VS. Americanism. Merely an outline
may be presented of the course lie fol-
lowed in his discussion, as he spoke
for over two and half hours and vast
ed no second of time during that per-
iod in his denunciation of this curse
against the homes of the land.
Not one person rose from his or her
seat during this period and DR.. Tiff
complimented his audience as being a
most attentive and unusual one
There was a small audience. not
one half as large as there should have
been to hear such a great lecture.
The larger number too. were women.
The men should have also been present.
They could have heard aud profited
greatly by being present to hear dis
cussed this great question. now one of
the most pertinent ones to be solved
before the government.
The speaker is distinguished lnok-
ing and most aggressive. He Is vehe
ment and his words come forth like
the swift flowing of a great torrent.
In fact his mind was so filled with the
question that he could not speak the
words swiftly enough in an endeavor
to convey to his audience every phase
of the Mormon question. At times
hn al, gN y, tod nd Ia ic
came fast and furious as the result of
his exertion
He introduced the subject matter of
his lecture by stating that there were
four great corner stones of government
which must be maintained. if the
country was to be preserved. They
were "God. Home, Patriotism and In
telligence. Mormonism he said was
the great peril and menace to these
corner stones.
On these four points he spoke for
some time and thon branched into a
history of the church. its beginning,
their journeyings, final settlement in
the basin of the great Salt Lake. the
personality of Brigham Young etc.
He spent quite considerable period
in showing what the leadership of
Brigham Young amounted to. How
he defied the government, gathered
round and about him men in the Nor
mon hierarchy committed to and prac
ticing polygamy, as he was doing He
illustrated the greatness of President
Young with numerous anecdotes and
of matters in which he was personally
familiar during his long residence in
Utah
Most tersely he told of the invasion
of that territory by the missionaries
of the great Christian bodies of this
country, first the Episcopal, then the
Methodist and then by the other de-
nominations. To Bishop Tuttle, of
the Protestant Episcopl church he
paid great tribute for his intrepidity
ana his work, also to Sheldon jackson
of the Presbyterian church.
He said that the missions establish
ed and the flag of the Christian
churches had never been lowered in
that stronghold of Mormonism and it
was through, to large extent the work
of the lion hearted missionaries that
Mormonism had been fought.
The appeals to the government was
given In detail and finally he spoke
of the first great territorial governor.
Eli II. Murray who made the Mormon
power tremble, when he set his foot
down upon any overt act against gov
ernment, which he represented.
And to one other great man. Judge
@. @. Goodwin he paid magnificent
tribute for the thunderbolts which he
had hurled for decade against the
Mormon priesthood through the Tri-
bnne of that time.
Perhaps one of the most interesting
part of the lecture was the deailed &C.
count given by DIR. Tiff of the fight
that had been made against the admis-
sion of Brigham Roberts to a seat in
Congress. The sentiment that had
been aroused through the missionary
societies of the various denomination
al churches throughout the land was
directly responsible. The part DR..
Iliff played in this political drama
was a great one and no more interest
ing recital could have been listened to
than the above.
His peroration was great and the
audience reluctantly left their seats,
the reverend gentlemen holding a
little reception within the chancel rail
at its conclusion. many of the audi
ence going forth to shake him by the
hand.
Your Thinning promptly attended to.