The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-07-17
REVEALS MORMON
TEMPLE SECRETS
Mrs. Lulu LOveland Shep-
ard Addresses Large
Audiences
FOUNDERS OF SECT
BORN IN VERMONT.
Purpose of Latter Day Saints to Make
This State Great Mormon State of
East-Missionaries Now Working
with That End in View.

Two enlightening addresses on Nor
monism, revealing the marriage secrets
Of the secret temple and bringing to sew
| cral hundred the first authentic infor-
nation of that polygamous religion, were
! given yesterday by Mrs. Lulu Loveland
| Shepard, resident of Salt Lake City
the past 27 years. The first address was
| given in the Centre Congregational
church at o'clock in the afternoon and
was for women only, about 200 attend
ing, and the second in the Congrega-
tional church in West Brattleboro at
7.30 o'clock last evening, the audience
room being crowded.
| Mrs Shepard, who is the only woman
speaker for the National Reform asso-
| citation, was well equipped with first
hand information t.rough her long res
idence in the great Mormon center, and
| through personal experiences in serving
on committees with Mormon women,
| speaking from the same platform with
/ Mormon men and in other ways She is
/ the only woman in America TO have
served on a council with Mormon apos-
| ties. She has been the neighbor of as
/ many as three wives of the same man,
and not infrequently has been introduced
! by a Mormon man to several of his wives
| at the same time For II rears she was
state president for Utah of the w. c. L.
/ T.. speaking many times in Mormon
! churches. She also has done Christian
| Endeayor and Sunday school work. She
| has been into many Mormon homes with
| three or four wives present and in many
! other ways has been thrown in contact
| with them. She will sail Saturday from
New York for Europe as chairman of a
/ commission of nine representing differ
! ent countries allied in anti Mormon
propaganda. She will start her work in
| Berlin. She expects to be away three
| months.
She drew a vivid word picture of the
! marriage ceremony, which always is
| performed in the secret temple and
! which requires from five to eight hours,
| her audience realizing for the first time
| the orgies through which one must pass
| in the Norman polygamous wedding, IN
! the course of which the scenes in the
/ Garden of Eden are enacted, and learn
| ing for the first time of the oaths which
| they are compelled TO take. which the
! speaker said were dislcyal to America,
| and of the secret under garments which
/ they wear.
There are three ways in which a NOR
! mon marries-for time through eternity.
| for time, and for eternity only. The
Mormon teaches that everyone must be
married in order TO be saved, the speaker
said.
| Mrs. Shepard declared that the Nor
! mons have settled upon Vermont to
make it the greatest Mormon state in
| the East. Just as Utah is the Mormon
| state of the central West She told of
| how the MoTmons had fooled Yer
monters. of their sending out 5000 mis-
/ sionaries every year, the choicest OF
these being sent to Vermont. They al
ways 90 in twos. selling various things.
| At the time she was in St .Iohnsbury
I - 41xr aTer T,VF Fsasa iona
were working there among the women,
| and she told of some of the arguments
| which the missionaries use in their work.
They never work with men. She told
! of a Rutland woman who had had eight
| Mormon missionaries in her home and
had decided to go to Salt Lake City I'M
! til she heard Mrs. ShepardS talk. Fol
| lowing her talk the woman went to her
home and destroyed the literature, Nor
! presented her.
An amusing. vet convincing. feature
| of her address, was the story which she
| related of speaking from platform
| with DR. Talmadge before an audience
of several thousand and the way in
! which he refused to answer some OF
/ her questions which necessarily would
i have revealed some of the temple secrets.
DIR. Talmadge left the gathering. Because
| of that meeting the hormons are called
| upon to pray daily for the immediate
death of Mrs. Shepard. the speaker said.
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! of Mormonism were explained by the
speaker who added that not all Nor
mons are polygamists. Those who ac-
| certcd polygamv as coming from God
went to Salt Lake City under Brigham
| Young and those who could not accept
| polyoamy followed Emma Smith. who
was of the ra-organized Mormon church.
The re-orga nized Mormons do not take the
oath of disloyaltv. but do put Joe Smith
on the same basis with Jesus Christ.
In closing Mrs Shepard declared that
she was going to fight polygamy as long
as she has STRENGTH Only the mower OF
the Lord Jesus Christ and the Christian
women can stoD it. because the men
will never fight it, she said.
At one point in her address the
speaker explained that she never had
been Mormon. but that her informa-
tion regarding the secrets of the temple
and the marriage ceremony were given
her by the first wife of Mormon who
married l6 others. The woman became
q trained nurse after being turned from
| her home BY her husband because she
bore him no children and being obliged
TO help support the other wives and their
children. For years she was a memhe~
of Mrs; Shepard's household. and died
at her home.
: Vermont has a lot t. account for in
I the situation which makes the Mormon
E menace. said Mrs. Shepard in her eye-
l ming address. Both Joseph Smith and
e brigham Young We're born in Vermont
the former in sharon Dec. %. 1905, and
: the latter in Whitingham June l. 1901.
Tracing the history of these two lead
ers Mrs Shepard presented an array OF
facts proving the amazing growth in
: wealth and mower of the church of the
: Latter Dav Saints. She also dwelt upcn
the political domination of the Mormon
: church. trite reference being made to