Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-12-15

Ninth East and First South, the Lib
erty Park at Eighth South and Ninth
South, the Second on Fourth East and
Galena streets, the Heath at Third
South and Eighth West, the Free, 44S
South Eighth West.
All of the above Methodist churches
are on or nearby street car lines and
the furthest away is not two miles
from the First M. e. church of this
city. When the combined average at
tendance of the above six Methodist
churches would not more than half fill
the new church we will say nothing
about the Scandinavian Methodist
church at 1853 South Second
West or the African at AZ Franklin
avenue. Why not unite the congrega
tons of the above with the First
Methodist? Stop the great expense OF
keeping up so many useless churches
fire all the 2x4 preachers and get one
good one for the First church?
Mr.. Talbot well knows that the Salt
Lake M. e. preachers do not make one
convert each year, as they spend
most of their time as curbstone poll
| ticians for the American" party Of
| knockers. What would a good rail
| reader think of Mr.. William H. Ban
croft, the vice president and genera
manager of the o. S. l.. railway, If he
should build or maintain six railroads
| between Salt Lake and Ogden wher
one would more than do all the bust
ness and accommodate all the trav
elers? What would Bishop Hartman
say to Presiding Elder Bancroft If he
should come out here and find thai
| his presiding elder had squanderet
the o. S. l.. money put in his care, tC
hire useless conductors and brakemer
to run empty trains between here an(
Ogden? He would soon tell his pre-
siding elder to hike" and would ge
some one who would run his roa(
properly and stop so much useles.
waste of money.
Not only has Mr.. Talbot failed tt
use good judgment in experimenting
his churches in Salt Lake City, bu
he seems to have imbibed the spiri
of the Ministerial Devil Fish society
Love in his heart seems to have beer
dethroned and hatred and revenge
have taken it's place. On Thanksgiv
ing day in the pulpit of the First Pres
| ny lclldH CuuICl VI thlS City Wncl
Thanksgiving praise and love should
have been his theme, Mr. Talbot helt
up the hammer of vengeance ant
brotherly hatred. Mr.. Talbot did b.
innuendo and inference severely criti
CHE one of our judges because he die
not impose a prison sentence as wei
as fine on Joseph f. Smith for polyg
amous cohabitation at his last perse
cution and uncalledfor trial. Mr.. Tai
bot showed himself hypocrite in The
| above criticism for he censured
| Judge for not doing what Mr.. Talbo
has not done, and would not do. Per
| jury is a much greater crime thar
polygamous cohabitation. Yet Mr.
Talbot did not have the Rev. John L
Leilch of his church or the Rev. Mr.
| Brown of the Baptist church impris
oned, fined or even censured for com
hitting perjury. Adultery is mucf
greater crime than polygamous cohab
tation, because the God of the Bible
whom Mr.. Talbot pretends to WORSHIP
not only permitted and sanctioned
but commanded, polygamy (Which
makes polygamous cohabitation posi-
ble) and condemned to death the
adulterer.
Yet we have never heard Mr.. Tai
bot censure the Methodists who pait
Rev. Mabry's bail bond (Which II
reality was a small fine), to keep hin
from prison. The Methodist preachers
of Utah mentioned in the bepinnins