Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-09-09


it's rickety seats, old stoves, carpets,
etc, shows the folly of building other
churches and dividing it's money and
strength when this church was large
enough and convenient for ALL If the
Methodists of this city use good sense
when their new church on Second
South and Second East streets is COM
pleted they will nail up every other
church in this city except the African
and keep them nailed up until the
overflow of the new church demands
them. They will also fire all their
cheap "2x4" preachers and by their
united efforts they will be able to hire
and pay good wages to first class up
to-date preacher, such as Salt Lake
City demands. They will be able to
stop all mission money and not dis
grace Salt Lake any longer by keeping
it mission city the same as they do
Bolobo and Timbuktu in darkest
Africa. DR.. Tiff brags that the church
extension board since he came west
in 1865 has helped to build $4,000
churches. DR.. Tiff exhibits this in the
same mood that western ranger
shows the notches on his revolver
handle. The usual method of getting
new church where it is not needed
is something like this. A missionary
comes into Utah and labors for a
year or two without making any con-
verts and he gets homesick to go
back east. He writes to the church
extension society that a church is
needed say near Cache Junction.
They write to him to raise 81 500 and
they will send him $500 so he fixes up
a sensational anti-Mormon and an anti
Utah lecture. He gets a history of the
Mountain Meadow massacre from a
preachers standpoint; gets some devil
fish pamphlets Spaulding's romance,
the mistakes of Nephi, hunts up an
old antiMasonic or Jesuit oath for
an endowment oath, multiplies Brig
ham Young's wives adds to the length
of Joseph Smiths whiskers, gets
Brother Wishard's articles in the Her
aid and Presbyter, DR.. Paden's inter-
views, few copies of Todkin's little
knocker, the Intermountain Christian
Advocate, and the Salt Lake Tribune
and thus provided he starts east
ward in Pullman palace car on
pleasure trip of misrepresentation, in
jury and greed. DR.. Tiff and the Rev.
Wesley Hill were adopts at this work
DR.. Tiff is a smooth, slick pulpit strut
ter and hypnotic begger. He will
throw his hoary long hair back and
shed real tears over the awful condi-
ton of Utah that only money can rem
edy, and these tears will continue to
flow until he hears the rustic of the
green, the clink of the white and the
ring of the yellow as they drop into
the collection box. These grafters will
report that they have in a certain
place over one hundred converts, all
poor people, who need a church, but
on investigation it will be found they
will have only ten or fifteen. This is
the way Brother Wishard explains it
in the Herald and Presbyter of No
vember H., 1908. OF course he blames
the Mormons for the missionaries
false report. This is what he says of
the Presbyterians: How many self
supporting churches in the Synod of
Utah? Only three, the First Presby-
terian churches of this city, of Ogden
and of Boise, Idaho. That leaves 40
home mission churches that must re-
ceive part of their support from the
home mission board The membership
of these churches ranges from ten to
fifty or sixty. In Utah they are COM
posed of the poorer class of people
who have been boycotted socially and
financially because thew have aband-