The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-22
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mentioned then is that of our Master and Saviour. Oh, If you could only hear them describe Heaven on earth in this ZioE City of Salt Lake, where sin is un- known. where all live in innocent. loving | brotherhood and work to the honor of God and His prophets! The religion l ac- | cepted was a peaceful, sinless serving. No. no shadow is allowed to fall across converts faith and enthusiasm until she has emigrated and reached the Nor mon country. Then she faces the Endow- ment house, polygamy begins to coil | around her, and, cringing before the | blood atonement terror, she becomes that soulless thing, a woman whose cnly hope of Heaven lies in being sealed to some male Mormon"
 Then a swift color came into her cheek, while in a perfectly even tone she con- | tinued: "Oh, it will be no trouble-I was walking in that direction myself" l was utterly at sea, but somehow man aged to say: Thank you very much" She glanced significantly then at a wo- man in shabby black who loitered near us. looking into the shop windows. Tt is the Fchurch system,' she explained. I'm cold in the faith. I'm seen walking with a Gentle, a travelling woman-may- he. by chance. I'm trying to leave town. !" I shivered. "Will they question her about you?'
 She sneered. "oh. better than that they will question me. Have I seen her lately, and with whom? If I say No they will enjoy the very refinement of espionage in making me condemn my self. But I shall say, Let me see-y-yes, think saw Sister Brown the day was showing the Gentle woman to a store. '
 And then?''
 Well, then. Sister Brown will receive oiso har oA aH,a be more suspected than ever; so we all spy. one upon another"
 had done most of my Christmas shop ping in San Francisco, but now found myself three gifts short and on Friday afternoon of that week I went out to see what could find that was pretty, and so wandered into the handsome shop of the man who had recognized me just now. Nothing Is more conducive to sudden con | fidences between strangers than the dis covery of taste in common. So in our mutual admiration for two or three real ly fine intaglios, which in twelve or flf- teen years of exhibition had never wor a glance of appreciation. the proprietor expanded.
 | He was a resident Gentile-I was a visiting Gentle. We met in the great Mormon city of Salt Lake. There could | bs but one result-a talk on Mormonism
 in which eager conversation developed into the personal condolences of a mar
 who had been forced by physical causes 1 to live in this land and who for twenty odd years had neighbored with the Nor
 mon people. When I ventured the re
 mark that, to me-, an utter outsider, Il
 always seemed that the greatest ene'
 mics of this body Of people were theh leaders, he excIa.md: There. you have crowded the whole business into nut shell. The Mormon missionary seeks the
 agricultural people, the slow honest
 sober, well meaning, who in gratitude for escaping hardships, military serEice
 etc.. gladly pay heavy tithes to the Church. But in the case of the clever
 brainy man, the Mormon Church makes direct appeal. either to hls ambition, his craving to exercise personal power over others, or to his lust.f
 ! wng, aapaciouss cruel men rise hiRh