The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-29
MORMONS BY THERIYER' SBRIM
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DOi mrs iBOTT THEN.
'rnirifuSai Remarks Of Mart Trimmer
% Vie Drives To the camp The, Are
Just Ordinary Decent Folks and Are
the Ohio, Not the salt Lake NorIno,Is

'N'AAfh aNfi ttltf event Is folks
who ar" holding the camp meeting and
conference on the bank II the Mana~Iuan
River are not Mormons Of the Salt LAX"
school and do not practise pnlygamy:
but You can't tell ih. villagers that
They look upon the campers a. "A sCanda-
Ions lot. and townsman won't sr"ak
To "A saint ON the street II anybody j. on
hand Ia watch him
! Inc Manasquan parsons didn't get
excited either yesterday IA spite of tho
TACT that the camp meeting crowd sent
circulars around inviting everybody Ia
the services The Rev Mr. Kidd of the
AethodI-t Episcopal Church paid no at
i"ntion tn the Camp"r- h. said. and
the other ministers took th. sam" course
The VI. T. minister intended to say some
thing from the pulpit. hut he was sick in
bed yesterday and couldn't.
| Mart Trimmer. tho Manasquan pessi-
mist. drove out In the camp. Coin out
10 tn camp meetln' ehy- said Mart Il
dunno what kind o. folks they arc. They
claim 10 be Mormons. I wuz told Don't
act nothing like Mormons though
allus had tn idee tibet Normons WIZ
wimmen. l see tibet they've got men
along too.
Its goin' to rain like blazes afore VIZ
Rit back Dye see them black clouds
over th"re' Regular fall storm Two
people WIZ killed IN one o. them storms
last year. Right here too Horse run
away an chuck.d EN- down this bank
Wouldn't wonder Il all them tents ~ he
gone afore night
Say. We don't Use terhAccer. do We?
No. ! don smoke cigarettes They kill
more people than Whiskey. by dern
sight.
's.e this horse' Thirty year olt last
month Too derTsi olt row Wouldn't
wonder II he fell down afure We gIt home
-i''t time ! hei I'm out ho fopI-i right
down and | couldn't ~, him to move
nohow Git up, you lazy devil
hats whopPin. hlg. mnskaroon.
air Z ~ remarked Ia We don't tax"
TO account Of EN- though like y" 10 H. tho
city.
This here Is Butter Holl,r They saw
it's full a. ghosts. | woullp't cntn-
alorg h"r" q nights fer nothing fcl"r
killei his wife and cut hts throat here
orCe
-(ice- rusalcm Look AZ them clouds.
II II rain ia ten mirut.- row IL IA
although could a-irove the top buggy
There's th" camp over there. Now
don't bourC" gOin' over this h"ld. |
busted a sprirg Oh the wagon hero IN !
other day.
The campers ar" not liz direrert
from any other goo prusI "rous p.Npp!a /
from BROOKLYN. Philadelphia or Chicago |
They dress IN IN" con vent Ioral mani -r /
and are perfectly FORMAL They hav. "A /
very ueat and attractiv" little tent city !
or picturesque point ~ the Man asquau |
River az Ra-s Point. about thrs- miles /
from the village.
There i nothing about the party to /
suggest the unusual either Ia religion or |
manr"rs. There weTa many pretty girls I
and well dressed men ~ the camp, and .
everybody seemed 90 he having a COOL /
time even II II dii look as though a fall |
storm might be coming To carry the tents
away
Most people make the mistake 81 |
thinking that because "" call ourselves
the R"prSa' iz"l hurch IL Jesus Chris,
Of latter Dav Saints We ar" MofmuIz-
sail Elder Walter " Smith That /,
not ~ at all We 10 rot stand for many
Of the doctrines of th" Utah MoTmul-
This church was founded in isg in
western New York bv Joseph smith
who had "A revelation and dug up the book
81 Mormon. smith later moved to kirt-
land Ohio and died there IN lSII There
were in the church NJ the time - hrs
death about itsUbp I"nple. who split
went 20 Utah with Brigham Young
He did not adhere to the doctrines -
Joseph smith The real church was
reorganized IN 1873 and that ~ our PRES
ent church our g"nuinensss Was "stal-
lshcd In 1851 10y suit in N" Court nf
Common Pleas in Ohio. IN which ". got
from the Mornons IN Utah property
which was willsd - the church when
Joseph Smith was the leader The court
derid"d that H.. r,-urganized church
was the real continuation II the Church
Of Latter hay Saints This was the suit
over IA" Nauvoo lands
1 do not consider the Utah Mormnns
a law abiding r"opl" or n religious I"upla
..0N. - II. a
was not the doctrin" of Joseph smith
but simply an innovation u Brigham
Young
This is not a camp meeting in the usual
sens" Of the word "" don't have any
- the cNCe~s"s ~ the ordinary camp
meeting II IL really "a conference and
school ~ instruction for the members
of the church. There ~ a meeting -
the Sunday school teachers and elders
every morning in which they discuss
cally all our elders are college graduates.
We have men from Pennsy wanna, COL.
unbia and Grac"land Colleg" The latter
il our own university AZ 1umoni, OHIO.
II ~ nonseCtartan. but ~ owned and con-
trolled 10y tn. church"
The campers have PRAYER meet ings and
sermons every morning and then SJ-.nd
the remainder 81 the lay a. they please ,
There are more than two hundred people !
In the camp and they com. from all parts I
" the Fast and middle West Soine liv. Il
In Brook Ign. others IN ChCago, Buffalo. :
u /. Scranton. Pa and New !,
Bedford, Mass The Conferences ~ m
charge % L " Green ~ kirt land. ohio. q
others are Elder William Anderson 81 h
Canada, and Elder Beni amin T.
MCGUIRE Of Brooklyn Evangelist 7. q
Pit % Chicago who was 20 speak at the
conference IL now I'm Europe they said L
He intends To go 10 Jerusalem and es>iab-
ish a branch u the church there among @
he Americans and Engllshrnsn =
The membership m the I nIied States Al
. about 10000. Elder smith said The
'hurches are all in prosperous condition y
Though the purpose ~ the conference y
= not primarily 10 get converts. the cam q
Sers are glad to have OutsIders attend :
heir services There were "a number OF .
Granger. there yesterday morning
The camp - located On All deal point a
4 the rvrr bank under pune grove
he tents which are u~..d a. sleeping y
uarters are all arranged ia streets like g
military sncainpm"nt In addition "
D the fifty smaller tents there are tho >
lrgs meeting tent. the kitchen. which =
pedS PSI people and a cominiss-lry -tor. q
lac camp ~ lighted and policed AT night j