Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-12
Campaign Of NiIIIdcalIon Carried
On by So.CaIlcd Christian
Missionaries
EXTRACTS FROM THEIR REPORTS
What Utah Gospel NISsoo Is Doing TO
Help Utah and the BcnIghtcd
"M,rmOps.

Under The heading, "PcrnicIous Ad.
rcuIsIng q recent issue Of Truth has
the followlng
IN my letter to you on February
ll,h, told you how the prcsbyterianB
through Brother =, w. Wshard, their
superintendent Of Utah and Idaho,
Wrro advertising Utah IN the prosby'
lorlun Assembly Herald, These urti.
olDa In the Assembly Herald pictured
our homes nv novels ana our schools
hB mean and insufficient There In now
being circulated through the eastern
states n little book which seems ~
supplement the Assembly Herald This
BOOK tells The world ana leads II 10
believe mat al The people lcycopt the
orthodox mlHsIouarcsl IN Utah are tx.
nul'unt dobuscd aud immoral Tho
lltlo Of the book or pamphlet Ia "rho
story ~ our Work AWhcol and Anoat
IN Mormondom During 1904, Bong The
Annual Report Of the Utah Gospel Mis-.
NloO' The book a dishonest In the
oNuomo ana, Ike the Assembly Her
ala, tells only hllf of "a story which N
The molneat Kind Of a Ne, II gives
70 history Of eleven orthodox mission.
aries VINO Travelled through rtoh dur.
ing the summer of 1904 These mIf.
slounlloe visited $500 families held
we meetings In 81 different places
ON page 10 " their pamphlet they
speak Of Mormon IDEAS nm paeanism
ana ON page n Ike Brother Wshard
they speak Of the rlah people as a
people who p.l I'm darkness To read
the entire book, you would ho lcd e.
believe ma, they did not meet a 0en-
tile IN nll their travels ana an the
Mormons they mot werc bad ones
They do not have one good word for
ulHh ana hcr people
In summing up their entire work,
'nry say ON the extracts from let
tors ON page II and beyond win be-
found facts NJ intense interest ON
these ana Other points" ! win give "a
few Of the extracts In their entirety
~ boy az certain place said that
some one was drunk and had 4 scrap
lnghO NJ uonrly every dance they
have there, They are hold In the
school building whore the other
church meetings are also held and
are under the auspices NJ the Young
Mons Mutual ~ NJ NJ, J. A.
Former Bishop ....-- maltroatel
his four Wives lett them ana olopcd
10 (out ~ rtah with another mans
wife, was put out Of the church, but
now has managed "a get back In. This
IL tho story ~ brief told me By
onr NJ the poly wives, she viii
no, call, AGy.gtA d,o-l, 'NNIs , 9,amel
husband,
In conversation with Mormon, ho
said " you pay your ,ithing You
are MI right AZ 10 morals he said,
no account was taken Of drunkenness,
dlhonostN 0ghtng and such like"
"A Mormon I've mover committed
any sins what did Christ die for
then" HIS own sins, ~ course"
I'm , n lady said she never
read her Bible, but trusted to tho ri.
dcrs' To tell her everything"
"a Mormon lady teacher talking 10
a young Mormon gin who IL seriously
thinking OF becoming Il Christian, II
you become II Christian the boys wlll
not come 10 see YOU, She replied, II
that soY Don't the boys come to scc
Christian glrls2'
"a certain mine operator said YOU
emit trust the Mormons, they are such
thieves and drink all the time
CTha ~ too strong for n universal
hldltlNtOI wv " wv NNllS llHN OF
very many)
plural wife No, . Polygamy Ia
he'll know, | was No. ?. My chill.
drcn did not know their father. no
never took any notice ~ them, aud did
not provide for me or thomN"
"lllitcratc Mormon We'll, I seen
God NJ the dedication OF the Temple
CSalt Lake., lIo came out IN his robes
and held out his arms 70 (sprcadlngl
And II was inst az they said n would
ne, before the dedication, Some .etn
him ana some didn't But ! seen
him."
"Mr -------., n Mormon elder said Last
nIght In his talk; God has wife
this IN the way No creates, using M
proof when | asked him At tho close
" the meeting for a Bible toxt, Gen.
81 and ."
There are nvo pages " tho above
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