Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-12-17
Strong ADDRESSES
Sunday Morning and Evening His
Addresses Make Strong I'm
preston.

Two strong addresses were made by
DR.. w. j. Wilson of the National Re-
form Association of America at the
Methodist Episcopal church last Sun
day
Sunday morning DR.. Wilson spoke
TO full house upon the Mormon Men
ace, stating that the Mormons in Utah
and other western states have not
ceased to practice polygamy since
| they were ordered to do so by the
government and that Joseph II. Smith
| the present head of the Mormon king
dom, has at the present time five wives
and AZ children and that he is the only
man in America that can register five
women at a first class hotel and not
be arrested by the police or be de-
MED entertainment by the hotel pro-
prietor.
Their religion is as crude as that of
the heather of Africa. They speak
of God and his wife and say that Je-
sus Christ is their son. If a woman
does not marry, she loses her soul.
They believe spirits enter into the
lives of men in proportion to the num-
ber of wives that they have, and that
they may also be affiliated with wo-
men they have never seen and these
will be their wives in the world to
come.
He surprised the people by saying
that the Mormons control the cleo
tions in eleven states already and that
Reed Smoot will be retained in con-
gress. The Mormon kingdom has a
controlling interest in the beet sugar
industry. He says now is the time to
act and urged everyone to help secure
an -polygamy bill and to act quick
ly as now is the most favorable time.
Previous administrations have been
in league with the Mormons in order
to secure the votes in these eleven
western states. In the evening he
urged that the Bible be restored to
the public schools. He said that God
is the source of all civil liberty and
that God is the rightful ruler and that
Jesus Christ is the worlds greatest
personality today.
He said that the people who want
the Bible excluded from the public
schools are the Secularists and are
made up of Atheists, Agnostics, Ro-
man Catholics, Jews, and some Pro-
testants. These people are opposed
to the Christian principles upon which
this government was founded and they
would undermine our whole civil and
political system. They object to the
Bible being used by the President of
the United States in taking the oath
of office. If they have their way ev-
cry allusion to God will be eliminated
from our schools. The children can
no longer sing "The Star Spangled
Banner" or america" The history
teacher cannot teach colonial history
because of the many religious things
that took place in the state in those
early days.
The Bible is not a sectarian book.
Because a Presbyterian reads few
verses from the Bible does not make
it a Presbyterian book, because the
Baptists read few verses does not
make it a Baptist book. He stated
that history and literature cannot be
properly taught in our schools with
out a knowledge of Bible illusions.
Why exclude the Bible? Did it ever
make your children any worse or do
them any harm?
He cited the schools in the city of
Pittsburg where the Bible had not
been in the schools for years and when
the superintendent of the city schools
was convicted of serious crime in
volving a couple Of the lady teachers
in the high school, he was dismissed,
and as a result the state legislature
passed law to the effect that at least
ten verses from the Bible are to be
read in the schools of Pennsylvania
every day. He made plea for the
open Bible and said we need it as much
as the free-press. The American pub
lie schools are the heritage of free
people and should not be dominated by
any sect or class who will close the
Bible to the masses and have it inter-
preted by one man. Let everybody
read and draw their own conclusions.