The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-13
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

England presenting the home mossion needs in his territory, spoke at the Grand Avenue Baptist church yester- day morning and at noon gave an il- lustrated lecture the Sunday school, showing seventy interesting views. During the past year MT. Kinney has travelled SO,6S9 miles, written 2,64S let ters, preached 198 sermons, made 21 ad- dresses and 102 religious visits, and has attended 120 religious meetings in which he took a conspicuous part. Last year he also travelled 1,010 miles by stage, and more than seventy-five days and nights were spent in getting from one place to another in his large field of labor. Speaking of Wyoming, he said:
 "Wyoming is twelve times as large as Massachusetts. The first settlement was made in 1867. It was admitted a state in 1890, when it had 60,O00 inhab- itants. In ten years the gain in popu- lation was 50 per cent, and now there are 100000 people in the state, or one to each square mile. Six of the prin- cipal products last year yielded $55,000,- 900. That is quite a sum, but only think that $40, 100000 was squeezed out of just one railroad stock in Wall street the other week. There are 20000 square miles of coal lands in the state, an area two and half times as great as Massachusetts, and there is iron ore in abundance.
 "There are now twenty Baptist churches in Wyoming, and some of the churches are located where there isn't another church within seventy-five miles. Some years ago one of our churches was 135 miles from the near est railroad. Sometimes there is not a pastor less than seventy-fve miles away, and know of an instance where a Christian girl of only nineteen offici- l ated at funeral where no pastor
 could be secured, and in another case one woman officiated at fourteen fu- nerals."
 | At the morning service MT. Kinney | spoke more particularly on Mormon | ism He said that the Mormans had
 no reverence for the Bible and believed
 in it only so far as it suited their be- l lief. "They say that they have direct revelations from the throne of God | said MT. Kinney "The elements of | the holy oracle have for them a value above that of the Bible This is a very convenient sort of doctrine to have
 sometimes. One of the Mormon wom- en when she was argued with in re- gard to her religion, remarked, I say
 we are right, and we don't care any thing about the Bible Now, don you believe that these people need mis- sions? There articles of faith are decep- tive because of what they do not say.
 When Utah was admitted state the people made solemn declaration that
 they had given up polygamy Only
 three years ago President Smith said
 that polygamy was one of the funda-
 mental principles of the gospel and
 out of it were the wellsprings of eter-
 nal life; and yet there is no hint about
 polygamy in their articles of faith.
 They are bound to pay one-tenth of
 their income to the Mormon hierarchy.
 The husband is regarded as the god of
 his wife, and she is supposed to get all
 of her religious teaching from him.
 Missionary work is difficult there
 because they do not believe in the Biz
 ble. There are forty cities in Wyoming
 in which no Christian work is being
 done to-day. But the Mormon church
 is not what it was twenty-five years
 ago. Missions are only thirty years
 old out there, and the public school
 system is just seventeen years old in
 Wyoming. Wait until two or three
 generations have elapsed and see what
 the public school will do for Wyoming.
 And Mormonism then will not be what
 it is to-day Our missions under the
 American Baptist Missionary union are
 doing a good work in Utah and Wyo-
 ming"
 MT. Kinney's addresses were very in-
 teresting and instructive, and Rev. Mir
 Smith, who succeeded in getting hin here, secured for the people who heard him yesterday a great treat. MT. Kin ney, with Dr. Hazlewood, is now en-
 gagged in a campaign of education or this subject of Mormonism in New
 EllSl ldllO
 The annual election in the borough of Fair Haven East will be held at tht engine house in East Grand avenue to- } day. The polls open at 6 a. m. an( close at 1 D. m. The ticket nominated at the citizens caucus is as follows; ] For warden-A. L. Chamberlain. For burgesses-R. G. Bradley An , drew H. Bradley, G. Clifford Foote | Frank J. Mansfield. Willett A. Hem , ingway and Edward H. Farren. } For clerk-Ernest L. Averill. ) For treasurer-Orton A. Rose. } For collector of taxes-Lewis L. T } Blake.
 7 For ssessors-Arthur F. fleming } way, Henry L. Ellenberger and Walter ) R. Downs.
 l For bailiff-Charles N. Mack. | It is expected that there will be a large attendance at the meeting of the