The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-28
MORHONS STRONG
IN GREAT BRITAIN,
ALARM IS CAUSED
Missionaries Claim $780,
900 Converts in Past
Seven Years.
Clergy Call Attention to
the Evil of Plural
Wives. "

LONDON, Oct 2s--Engiish religious
organizations Of every denomination are
getting alarmed at the progress made
by the Mormon missions IN this coun-
try.
There ara 800 Mormon missionaries at
work, and they claim 70 have made
$4,000 English converts In seven years.
The British and European headquarters
are at Liverpool. whsre there Is q
church house. printing works, etc. In
London thsy have four meeting houses
IN different districts. while theirJ centel s
In the provinces are at Portsmouth.
Brighton. Southend. Canterbury, Wat
ford, and Reading-aH populous towns
In the southern counties Of England.
on the Continent ana in the British
colonies the Mormons are no less active.
They are working successfully in Ger
many. Switzerland, Belgium. Holland,
Turkey, Greece, and in Australia and
New Zealand They claim to be the
only sect that is making Roadway
among the japanese. and have seven
missionaries IN the Flowery Land.
President Charles ". Fenrose and
other prominent Mormons from Salt
Lake City were present and spoke at
the half-yearly conference OF the Lon
don BIormons. held at Finsbury town
hall on a recent Sunday, when there
was a gathering of Latter Day Saints.
Ministers Are Alarmed.
How alarmed London ministers are
over the Mormon invasion IS shown By
a statement made by the Rev. Q. l.
Clarke. q Baptist minister OF Ealing,
West London. where the Mornons are
opening a vigorous campaign for con-
veTts- Mr.. CLARKE SAID:
The panphleteers Of the Latter Day
Saints are leaving a series Of tracts
upon the res tents in this neighborhoOd.
4 have seen four varieties Of these
tracts, which attempt to prove that sal
walton is to be had only by Joining the
community Of saints They declare
that Joseph Smith. the founder Of the
sect. received visions. discovered reveIa-
tions written on brass plates. had an
interview with John the Baptist, was
anointed TO the priesthood OF Aaron,
and commissioned to preach the Cos
pei SO circumstantially is this pre-
Dosterous nonsense recorded that Il is
well calculated to alarm persons Of IN
certain faith and to lead astray those Of
weak intellect. 4 local preacher from
Ealing has already been ensnared.
Other tracts are concerned IN attempt
ing to prove that baptism Is essential TO
salvation.
Mormonism as Practiced.
cit should be well known that these
people are the missionaries Of the no
torious Mormon settlement in salt Lake
City. Utah. America, a system Of gross
materialism and RIGHTEOUSNESS. Smith
was apprehended on charges Of treason.
murder and felony, and after resisting
the law for some time. was shot by the
mob IN an attempt to escape from JUS
tioe. A secret society. called the Danites.
was formed 10 support smith at all haz-
ards against the laws Of the land. and
to help him 20 get possession, as they
avowed, first Of the state, then OF the
United States. and ultimately Of the
world.
an 1862 Congress passed law against
them for their polygamy, their practice
being 10 take from ten TO sixty wives
Brigham Young. Smiths successor, left
seventeen wives and ffty-six children.
II a refractory wife spoke against their
proceedings she would be secretly miss
ing Whole families were massacred by
the Danites when suspected OF disaffec-
ton, and on one occasion one OF the
elders left the pulpit with some follow
srs. shot a whole family, and then re-
turned and finished the service! Young
Is described BY those who knew him as
both teaching and practicing cruelty,
revenge. fraud, despOtism, and the
worst depravity conceivable. and with
advocating assassination and murder
under certain circumstances