Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-11-16
MISSION WORK IN WEST.
Secretary Tead Speaks Of Expert
ences in Utah and New Mexico.

enceS IN Otan ana New Mexico.
Z. 5. Tead Of Somerville, Mass. secre
tary OF the Educational society OF tn,
Congl church, gave a particularly brigbl
and interesting address at the Vestry o.
the local church of that denomination
Friday evening, speaking, he took occasion
to remark, To The largest audience that hac
50 far greeted him on his trip to Vermont
lie first congratulated his hearers on the
recent action Of the Cong'l and Christian
churches looking towards union and told
them that in Randolph has been accom-
plished what in many other places has
been contemplated and attempted only to
end in failure
Secretary Tead, whose missionary labors
carry him into various parts OF the eoun-
try, has made study OF the conditions in
Utah, where Mormonism in the rural
places, he said, differs from the Mormon
ism Of Salt Lake City, of which the tour
ist sees the most presentable side, as much
as the Catholicism OF Boston differs from
that of Porto Rico. Though they may tell
you polygamy is not the main thing 10
Mormonism, that it is as dead as slavery
in the South, and that none of the young
men practise II, yet they all believe in il,
down 10 the jealous woman, who was
heard to bewail the fact that she twas not
good enough to allow her husband to have
as many wives as he wanted, or could
afford to keep
The head OF the Mormon church wields
an authority similar to that of the pope OF
| Rome, and obedience to the ordinances
of the gospel is the burden OF his in
struction. The missionaries refrain from
antagonizlng the people and try to enter
INTO their lives as far as possible to intiu-
ence them, finding frequently that the
objects of their Jealous efforts are so easy
of approach because the willy Mormons
have some proselyting instincts OF
their own and are ANXIOUS to convert the
missionaries to their peculiar beliefs.
The immortality and irreverence OF the
people are appalling. They teach that
God is married and has children, and they
familiarity refer to the Supreme Being ar
'.the old man. Education, that great
transforming power, is nowhere more
needed than in this state Of our great en-
lightened republic. An academy able to
accommodate three or four hundred pupils
would work wonders in leiveniDg the
mass OF Ignorance and degeneration; for
upon the training of its youth depends
the future OF a state or nation.
so uncultiyated is Utah that wolves In
certain sections roam 1t unhindered by
civilization, though its soil is so fertile
that everything can be raised, including
potatoes weighing three pounds, and il Is
no unusual thing for bee keepers to take
uOHu -a1tt Dbunbt u lAtnt1 NJ bhAts
mont, and especially this part OF it, should
take peculiar interest in its benighted sis
ter state, since she gave to Utah that great
apostle OF Mormonism, Joseph Smith.
whom Royalton has the doubtful honor oil
claiming as a son.
New Mexico, in which Mr.. Tead has also
travelled extensively, is more than twice
the sire OF New England but can boast Of
only 300. 900 population in its ~. 600 square
/ mil Of Thf. in hQ htfQntG
divided into three elasses-white people
seeking health IN the dry climate, who art
called lungers; the Navajo Indians; the
Pueblo. or village, Indians, and the span
ish-speaking Mexicans. termed Greasers.
Adobe, or mud, houses are the usual style
OF habitation, and religious enthusiasm Il
so little active that there are az present
three ciergymen in a tract as large a.
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode
Island. The Mexican is affectionate.
affab Die and polite but needless, ineompe-
tent and straight in nothing. He has u
be taught to do the things we do by IN
stinct He is utterly unreliable, and steals
your wood at night to come around IN the
morning and borrow your ak to chop II
with.
The teachers Of the Educational society.
most OF them college graduates, live IN the
adobe huts and combine with their regu-
lar duties, surgery, nursing or whatever
the needs OF the child like shiftless peo-
pie may demand OF them. When the
DAYS work is done, moreover, there Is
then no rest for them; for in walk their
smiling charges to be entertained during
the evening which they spend, men and
their unhappy instructors regular fresh
man smoke-out. Six days OF that kind OF
continuous labor is followed by seventh
Of Sunday school teaching, and the saia-
ries these teachers receive are not tempting
either.
One man who had his finger chewed in
a fight rode 30 miles TO have teacher
dress it for him, and that teacher, with no
special knowledge OF surgery, gave the
hand the first washing II had presumably
from its appearance) ever had, and then
did up the finger. Another man grew
ously wounded received the charitable
ministrations OF teacher and lived TO
steal the mutton she had provided for the
entertainment OF Mr.. lead and his wife
when they visited her some time after.
Education is the need of New Mexico as
well as Utah. In one section when Mr..
Tead's business became known the chill
dren even crowded around him crying for
a school, in marked contrast to the
urchins OF favored communities who hail
with symptoms OF ecstatic JOY the sound
of the rain bell on stormy day and rush
outdoors to play to their hearts content
in weather considered uhpropitiSbs for
school attendance
The Mexican men, too, were anxious to
secure a school and promised that their
mothers, wives and daughters would make
the bricks and put up the building for
Mr.. lead il he would grant them the boon
they asked.
The Educational society has acquired
a 3OOO-acre ranch near Albuquerque, on
which it hopes to establish an industrial
school to teach the rising generations
habits OF thrift and cleanliness, and to
turn out for New Mexico new brand Of
efficient citizens; but as yet there is no
money for the buildings.
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