Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-08-12

was a Mormon because the MormOns
never believed in eterr"l torment,
and when Thomas X. Beecher (Henry
Ward Beecher's brother), built an
amusement hall by the side of his
church at Elmira, N. Y, and held
dances and other innocent amuse-
ments there the preachers were dead
sure that the Beechers were the fol
lowers of Joseph Smith. But the new
thought started by the Beechers, Starr
King and a few others soon won the
people and today if preacher should
stand in the pulpit and preach a literal
and an eternal hell the people would
tell him he had a cracked Uranium.
Nearly all the orthodox preachers and
missionaries who have labored in
Utah have believed and worked &C
cording to their belief that to succeed
in Utah and get their mission money
they must abuse vilify and bear false
witness against the Mormons. The
superintendent of the Methodist mis-
sions in Utah committed perjury to in
lure the Mormons. The Rev. Bruce
Kinney, superintendent of the Baptist
missions in Utah was instrumental in
sending Mrs. Annie Elliott to Wash
ington who committed perjury in the
Smoot case. She positively swore
that her husband died in October,
1897, whereas the facts are that in
1899 she secured divorce from him
and he is alive and well today. How
did the Rev. Bruce Kinney get into
this female perjurer's secrets? She
swore she told the Rev. Kinney things
which she said she hadn't even told
her husband. The superintendent of
the Presbyterian mission in Utah has
told many unqualified falsehoods
about Utah and the Mormons and the
Rev. DR.. Paden who started the great
Smoot campaign of SANDER hired and
directed spoilers" and received into
his Office self accused perjurers to fur
Their his ends in injuring Utah and the
Mormons.
Like the old time preachers the
preachers of this state have tried to
make the people of the eastern states
believe that Utah was literal hell to
get their sympathy and support. But
the day is at hand to redeem Utah
from this gang of reverend knockers.
little over two years ago there came
to this state second Beecher in the
person of the Rev. Elmer |. Goshen.
He had only been here short time
when he notified his congregation that
he would not preach to people who
begged or received mission money.
This astonished many of his congrega-
ton they thought that this little mis-
sionary stipend they received was
clear gain and they would go bankrupt
without it, but it was right the re-
verse. He also told his people he did
not come to Utah to fight or SANDER
the Mormons or any other denomina-
ton, but to make them better men
and women if he could. He would not
join the Ministerial Devil Fish So
ciety for he saw their mission was to
destroy" and not to fulfil" He does
not draw his face down as long as
Dutch dog and pose as sign post to
perdition, but with cheerful heart
and good will to all men" he is try
ing to accomplish the work he came
here to do, and although young man
he has succeeded far beyond his eX-
pectations. He has larger following
and a larger congregation than all the
other orthodox churches in Salt Lake
City combined. The dawn OF new
era is here. The storm starters, the
slanderers, the reverend knockers ana
grafters and all Utah traitors nave