The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-08-03
MoRMoMIslNc MITCHELL
Emis,aries of Joe Smith and Brigham
Young Expounding Their Faith
in This Locality.

Mormon missionaries, whose arrival
in this city vas announced bv The
Republican about Il week ago, are
still holding forth, and are evident
ly meeting with Il sufficient amount
OF encouragement in their work to
make their visit to Mitchell quite
a protracted one.
They are apparently all hard
workers and although serving their
cause without compensation and
paying their own expenses. whoever
lmagines that they have come here
ON a pleasure expedition to idle away
theil time in sightseeing, and drop
ping a few tracts by the wayside, is
very much mistaken. They are
working early and late in making a
house to house canNasS OF the city,
distributing the various publications
of their peculiar denomination and
talking to the people about Things
in Mormonism that are commonly
misunderstood. .Atter thus working
hard all day, in a line that must of
itself be the hardest kind of employ
meet that human hands could find
to do, the young 'missionaries' have
recently held public meetings i'm the
evenings on the streets. where they
have preached and taught the doc
trines of their belief.
Several times durlng the past week
they were re-enforced i'm their
efforts by visiting .'misSionariesn
from other parts of the country.
Last Saturday they we've visited by
the Rev. G.. III. Butler, of Ogden.
Utah. president of what is known as
the East Nebraska Conference of the
Colorado Mission. Elder II. a.
Brewer, OF Marysville, Idaho, spent
Sunday with them and delivered the
street sermons 10th Saturday and
SUNDAY evenings. He is quite "A
gentlemanlv sort OF a young fellow
and carries an unusually pleasant
demeauor about him.
a Republican representative. who
called at the apartments of these
missionaries, No. 3Ol east Seventh
street, met Elder Brewer. who in
his native courtesy and grace. con-
sented to give out some information
OF interest to the public.
Questioned as to the prime object
OF the visitors in this part of the
country, where there is no apparent
probability of their creating any
following, Mr.. Brewer said in part:
"Our church is doing this kind
OF work all over wherever we can get
lei to do it. We are not come here
to organize a church society by get
ting people "converted,H so called,
by prevailing on them on the spur
Of the moment when they are under
excitement or perhaps, subject to
our will mor or less. We do not
work in that way. We believe that
by personally expounding and ex-
planning the word Of God and by
distributing w literature, they will
obtain the truth and when they once
become impressed with the truth
they will flock to us readily"
"ls Mormonism increasing i'm this
country in spite OF unfavorable leeis-
lation. or is it loosing Ground
queried the reporter.
"Our church is increasing daily in
power and influence" en- hatically
calculated the enthusiastic mission
airy, land it will continue to in
crease so rapidly that nothing can
prevent our hope being realized, for
our doctrines are nothing but the
truth, founded on scripture. and
truth must prevail"
"There has been much talk in late
years about the headquarters Of
the church being moved to some
other part of the country where the
laws are move favorble. Is there
n such in%tention?"
"None whatever. Salt Lake City
will always be the headquarters of
Molmonism. The church is too
firmly established there to ever
think Of moving away"
"In your work in this city and
state do you preach and teach the
doctrines OF polygamy?:" continued
the reporter.
mo, we do not, and for two
reasons. One is that the practice of
plural marriages is contrary to law
in this country, aud our church per-
sists always in being obedient to the
laws OF the land-that is one of our
articles OF faith. Second, people
ordinarily do not understand the
meaning of the idea until they learn
to understand some of the other
principles and teachings of the
church. After that they can see
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