John D, I'luttinp^ 
 
 Iiorinonisn To-dry rnd its 
 Remedy 
 
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leprinted by special permission from The Missionary Review of the Wo rld 
 
 for April and May, 1913. 
 Copyrighted by the Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York, Publishers. 
 
 Mormonism To-day 
 
 AND ITS 
 
 Remedy 
 
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 By Rev. John D. Nutting 
 Secretary of the Utah Gospel Mission 
 
 Cleveland, O. 
 
 The Utah Gospel Mission 
 
 1913 
 
 Pricm, 10 centt ; r«n for 7S cmntt ; pottpaid. 
 
Lu'JKINo NOKTII ON MAIN STREET IN SALT LAKE CITY, THE CAPITAL OF MOKMuNISM 
 
 The Brigham Young Monument is in the center of the street and the Mormon Temple and 
 Hotel Utah are on the left and the right sides. 
 
 MORMONISM TO-DAY AND ITS REMEDY 
 
 r,V REV. JOHN" D. NUTTING, CLEVELAND, OHIO 
 Secretary of the Utah Gospel Mission 
 
 ORMOXISM has been great hindrances to a correct under- 
 called "Satan's master- standing of the question has been 
 piece;" and, with all the utterances of those who have 
 respect to its sincere ventured to "inform" the public with- 
 adherents, there is no out first informing themselves. We 
 more fitting name. It purpose in this article to give some 
 is often little understood, and more results of over 20 years' most intimate 
 often wrongly understood ; for it is connection with the Utah situation. 
 far away from most people, is many- During this period the writer has 
 sided, conceals itself like a cuttlefish, talked with approximately 7,000 Mor- 
 and is spread over such an area as mons about their system, in nearly 
 
 to make local study and generaliza- 
 tion difficult. He who would under- 
 stand Mormonism must either be con- 
 tent to spend years in study and 
 first-hand observation among the 
 
 200 of their settlements, attending 
 hundreds of their meetings, conduct- 
 ing over 500 gospel services, and be- 
 coming familiar with their periodical 
 and other publications. ^Meanwhile he 
 
 common people and in reading publi- has been at the focus of the reports 
 
 cations for and against it, or he of workers who have visited practi- 
 
 must take the results of such study cally all the Mormon homes three 
 
 and experience on the part of those times over, in Christian work in- 
 
 who have thus done. One of the tended to give them a fair gospel 
 
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 chance. A system which has more 
 than doubled itself in the last 20 
 years of nineteenth century daylight, 
 and which sends out 1,000 emissaries 
 a year to accomplish its purposes, is 
 surely worthy of study, and must 
 have it if Christianity is to protect 
 itself and its civilization from dan- 
 gerous invasion. 
 
 What is Mormonisin To-day? 
 
 Joseph Smith, its "prophet," said 
 it was the only true church and re- 
 ligion ; Joseph Cook characterized it 
 as "a religion of the barnyard," or 
 breeding. Other word-portraits have 
 
 been : 
 
 "A political machine surpassing Tam- 
 many." 
 
 "A financial trust dealing in the bodies 
 and souls of men.'" 
 
 "A clannish and immoral social order 
 bound together by secret oaths." 
 
 "A politico-financial hierarchy." 
 
 "A renaissance of phallic paganism." 
 
 All but Joe Smith's certainly have 
 much truth in them. Let us group 
 the main facts under four heads: 
 
 I. Mormonism as a Political Machine 
 
 While over-emphasis has sometimes 
 been given to this point, certain un- 
 questionable facts show the tremen- 
 dous possibilities of the system. And 
 it is beyond credulity to believe that 
 such a machine waiting for an oper- 
 ator and such operators as Mormon 
 leaders waiting for machines, have 
 not long ago come together. The 
 main items to be noted are these : 
 
 I. The shrewdness of the leaders 
 and the simplicity of the common 
 people forms a combination hard to 
 beat for either political or religious 
 results — the ideal for oligarchical rule 
 of any kind. The most of the peo- 
 ple are unlearned in the ways of the 
 world and the politician, as well as 
 in political issues. Many want 
 
 eadcrship and get it; as a non-Mor- 
 mon said, speaking of Mormon serv- 
 ices : "There's always some one 
 comes down from Salt Lake before 
 election, and we go then, and from 
 something he says we know how they 
 want it to go, and it goes that way." 
 This was her observation, and some 
 such general truth holds to-day, tho 
 probably less now than formerly. 
 
 2. The habit of obedience to ec- 
 clesiastical superiors as measurably 
 inspired of God, in secular as well 
 as religious things, is a still stronger 
 factor in the case. It is simply im- 
 possible for a person with such a 
 habit to be uninfluenced by the wish 
 of his superior, even if influence were 
 not intended ; which often seems far 
 from being the case. 
 
 "When a man says you may direct 
 me spiritually but not temporally he lies 
 in the presence of God." — Deseret News, 
 Apr. 25, 1895. 
 
 3. The opportunities for such in- 
 fluence are almost unlimited. The 
 Mormon machine is especially con- 
 structed as if this end was in view, 
 as it doubtless was. A so-called 
 "bishop" is in immediate charge of 
 every village, with two "teachers" 
 for each block under him ; the men 
 are organized into "quorums" with 
 their leaders ; a "stake president" is 
 over each group of settlements and 
 bishops, with his "counsellors" ; over 
 them the "Twelve Apostles," who 
 are the traveling authorities ; over 
 them the head "proi)het, seer and 
 revelator" of the whole, with his 
 "counsellors," these being the final 
 and highest authority for the whole 
 world and he the special mouthpiece 
 of God, whose word thus given su- 
 persedes even the r)ible. Weekly, 
 "Zion" is covered with a network of 
 
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 speakers, local and traveling, whose cci.libic .'.f similar use. t;i()()f late 
 supposably religious talks easily years usual'y guarded in their utter- 
 touch anything from religion to ances. 
 
 ditching. One could hardly imagine 5. A very important factor, indeed, 
 
 a machine more thoroughly devise 1 Ics in the direct teachings of the 
 
 to accomplish the will of its central system about its relation to civil gov- 
 
 authoritv, in things political as well ernment and politics, of which a few 
 
 (luotations are here given : 
 
 "The priesthood 'holds' the power 
 and right to give laws and command- 
 ments to individuals, churches, ruler?, 
 nations and the world; to appoint, or- 
 dain and establish constitutions and 
 kingdoms; to appoint kings, president>. 
 governors, or judges." — Kcy\ />. 70. 
 
 "It is the only legitimate power that 
 has a right to rule on the earth; and 
 when the will of God is done f>n earth 
 as it is in heaven, no other power will 
 be or rule." — Apostle John Taylor, J. of 
 [).. J' : 1S6 and on. v 
 
 "Their priesthood gives them the riglit 
 to advise and instruct the Saints, and 
 tlicir jurisdiction extends over all things 
 spiritual or temporal." — Sermon by Dr. 
 Coii.'ans, Logan Jonrnal, May 26, 1898. 
 
 "The question witli me is . . . 
 when I get the word of the Lord as to 
 who is the right man [to vote for] will 
 I obey it, no matter if it does come con- 
 trary to my convictions?" — Pres. Jos. F. 
 .Smith, sermon in Tabernacle; Des. Xezcs, 
 Dec. 6, 1900. 
 
 These statements are strong, but 
 are the logical corollary of the pro- 
 fessedly theocratic but really hieratic 
 idea which is the basis of Mormon- 
 ism. Any number of denials of poli- 
 tical use or control of the system 
 would make no difference, even if 
 sincerelv made; the machine is thus 
 constructed. a>td is hound to zi'ork out 
 that zi'av: — the writer believes inten- 
 tionally so from the beginning. 
 
 \'()lumes might easily be written 
 (U the actual interferences of Mor- 
 monism in local and national politics 
 —the natural outworking of the im- 
 planted principle. The would in- 
 
 BnONZE STATUE OF JOSEPH SMITH 
 
 This is the ATormon statue of the foundei- of 
 
 Morninnism, and is in the temple grounds 
 
 in Salt Lake City 
 
 as religious; and this withotit the 
 uninitiated surmising what was being 
 done. 
 
 4. The IMormon periodical press 
 is another factor which can not be 
 overlooked. A good-sized and fairly 
 well conducted daily, with a semi- 
 weekly edition taken in every hamlet ; 
 the organs of the young men's and 
 young women's organizations, and 
 issues in foreign tongues, are sus- 
 
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 lOK.MUN l-UELIC SCHOOL CHII.nREN, CHESTERFIELD, IDAHO (DESTITUTE OF 
 CHRISTIAN privileges) 
 
 elude the early political efforts of 
 Smith at Kirtland, in IMissonri and 
 at Xauvoo, with his candidacy for 
 the presidency; the defiance of law- 
 leading to their illegal expulsion from 
 each of these places in turn ; the 
 l)rocuring, by the methods of the 
 demagogue, of the charter making 
 Xauvoo superior to the State within 
 which il was located ; the long and 
 sometimes open defiance of the gov- 
 ernment by Brigham Young and 
 others in Utah which finally led to 
 the establishment of a military post 
 there ; the long story of the years 
 covered by ex-Senator Frank J. Can- 
 non's exceedingly valuable articles 
 and book, and multitudes of other 
 facts down to the latest minute of its 
 hierarchical life. And the claim that 
 much of this was only in defense 
 of religious rights does not im- 
 prove the case, for it actually con- 
 fesses the fact with which we are 
 chiefly concerned, that IMormonism 
 
 is such a political machine; capable 
 of infinite mischief in the lx)dy politic 
 whenever it chooses so to apply it- 
 self. 
 
 6. Mormonism is a gigantic secret 
 order, in which the mass of adults 
 are bound to one another, to the 
 system and to its leaders by terrible 
 oaths with death penalties — a fact 
 which afifords every chance for un- 
 derhanded, Jesuitical influence and 
 control, political and otherwise. These 
 oaths have been testified to again and 
 again during the last fifty years, so 
 that their existence and character are 
 beyond question. 
 
 7. Politicians outside know enough 
 of these facts to make the vote of 
 Mormondom a bait for them, en- 
 abling Mormonism by trades to get 
 about what favors it wants otitside ; 
 witness the passing of the enabling 
 act, the favorable decision in the 
 Smoot case, the prevention of action 
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 against polygamy, the undeserved 
 ])rominence given Smoot in the Sen- 
 ate, the acts of two recent heads of 
 the nation when visiting in Utah, etc. 
 While there can be no doubt that 
 multitudes of the common Mormon 
 people love their country and intend 
 to be true to it, there can also be no 
 question that the very existence of 
 the above facts would make Mormon- 
 ism a vast political machine almost 
 in spite of itself, human nature re- 
 maining as it is. And no such ma- 
 chine is safe to have around. 
 
 II. Mormonism as a Financial and Busi- 
 ness System 
 
 Of course, any true church has its 
 business and financial side ; but that 
 is not what is referred to here at all. 
 The features of the system outlined 
 above clearly empower ATormonism 
 with financial, industrial and busi- 
 ness control which is not only be- 
 yond the needs of any true church. 
 
 but far and away beyond legitimacy 
 ( r public safety. Mormonism started 
 as a money-making scheme of Smith 
 and Rigdon, and its development was 
 along the same lines. First the 
 money-digging schemes of Smith ; 
 then the Book of Mormon concocted 
 for sale ; then the "church" organ- 
 ized, tithing, fraudulent lot-sales and 
 wild-cat banking — all before or in 
 Kirtland ; since which time the stamp 
 of gain has by no means disappeared. 
 Its million or two of tithing receipts, 
 plus income from business interests, 
 plus expenses contributed by over 
 2,ooo emissaries, plus the financial 
 results of its political and moral 
 control, plus gifts, enable it to finance 
 almost any scheme of propagandism 
 or suppression which may seem desir- 
 able. Its missionary work must cost 
 more every year than Christianity 
 ever put into that field in a decade ; 
 its "church" schools arct claimed to 
 have cost $350,000 last vear, while 
 
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 new buildings and publications must 
 require quite as much. The center of 
 this power lies in the tithing sys- 
 tem, which must next be briefly- 
 noticed. 
 
 The Mormon Tithing System 
 
 This was established by several 
 "revelations" to Smith, 1831-38, given 
 in Doctrine and Covenants, pages 241, 
 301, 339, 418-19. It requires that on 
 
 the Salt Lake authorities. No real 
 accounting is ever made to the givers, 
 except in the most general terms. In 
 spite of the penalties above, many 
 Mormons do not pay, and many 
 others pay less than is their honest 
 tenth. The real tithe of the income 
 of, say, 400,000 Mormons could hard- 
 ly be less than four and a half mil- 
 linns annually. 
 
 TEMPLt tgUARH. .sALl LAKE CITY;— TEMPLE FOR SECRET RITES. 
 
 (See paragraph 6, page 4.^ "Tabernacle" in center; "Assembly Hall" on left; 
 only these are open to any but Mormons. 
 
 becoming a ^Mormon every one shall 
 give "all their surplus property to be 
 put into the hands of the bishop," 
 and thereafter a tenth of his income ; 
 and there are heavy penalties "re- 
 vealed" for those who fail to pay, as 
 "he that is tithed shall not be burned 
 at my coming," and that the names 
 and genealogy of non-payers shall 
 not be kept in the "church" records, 
 so that they can not get the ordi- 
 nances which alone can give salva- 
 tion, according to Mormonism. Kvery 
 village and every city ward has its 
 "bishop" whose first duty is to see 
 that this tithing is paid and to keep 
 records about it; his share of this is 
 about a tenth, the rest being sent to 
 
 A sidelight on the financial charac- 
 ter of present-day Mormonism is 
 seen in the fact that the head of the 
 s}stem, Joseph F. Smith, (nephew of 
 the original Joseph), besides being 
 the head of the "only true church," 
 and only mouthpiece of God on 
 earth, was not long ago listed as 
 president of 14 different local busi- 
 ness enterprises, zvitli operations ag- 
 gregating probably not less than $25,- 
 000,000 annually, besides being a di- 
 rector in a transcontinental railway ! 
 One of these institutions illustrates 
 the system still further. It makes 
 tl.'c special undergarments which 
 every adult Mormon is supposed to 
 wear. It has competitors, also ]\Ior- 
 
A IVl'lCAI- \II.I.Ai;K TlTUINi; 
 
 The bishop's cfi'.cc, and the hay, brought in as tithes, 
 
 nions; but Joseph F's concern puts 
 on its garments a label stating, around 
 a picture of the "Temple," that these 
 are the only garments authorized by 
 President Joseph F. Smith, and ad- 
 vertises similarly : "They are the au- 
 thorized garments. . . . Made ex- 
 clusively by the ," Smith's 
 
 concern. Was ever graft more ap- 
 parent — at least to an outsider? And 
 one rival imitates by using the word 
 "approved," instead of "authorized." 
 And instances of direct interfering,^ 
 with business affairs of others have 
 not been wanting in history, even in 
 recent times; tho probably not so 
 frequentlx- now as formerly. A vol- 
 ume would not do more than justice 
 to this part of our subject. 
 
 Painful instances of the growth of 
 this graft spirit have come under 
 the writer's observation in the past 
 two or three years, seeming to indi- 
 cate a great declension from the sim- 
 
 Y.\l<n, \\ il.l.AKIi, L 1 AH. 
 
 Stacked in the yard, and the granary (at_ right) 
 
 ])lc-min(led earlier characteristics of 
 very many Mormons. A "bishop" in 
 a larger town was given custody of 
 a fund which had been collected to 
 help a poor Mormon bring his family 
 over from Europe. When the man 
 called for it he was compelled to 
 give a note at 6 per cent, before he 
 could get it, which so aroused thi 
 indignation of those who had raised 
 it that they compelled the "bishop" 
 to destroy the note. 
 
 With practically everything in the 
 hands of the Mormon authorities in 
 a localitv. it is easy to see how a 
 non-Mormon might be "frozen out" 
 as soon as it becomes evident that he 
 would not be converted to the ruling 
 faith ; as also with one who had 
 left the system. An independent 
 farmer, or a man who can establish 
 a business which is necessary and in- 
 dependent of competition, need not 
 fear, of course. And often in other 
 
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 Till Ma:o ■VTAM. IllHR. II lil^M.'liT) TAHERNACLK, PAYSnN. UTAH. 
 
 iiiis cusi $50.(100. The titliii g office and stake house office are across ihe street 
 
 cases opposition will not materialize ; 
 depending on the man, the bishop, the 
 kind of ]\Iormons in the vicinity, etc. 
 iJut the power still remains, and dur- 
 ing the past summer several com- 
 l)laints were made to the writer of 
 its exercise. The fact certainly 
 seems to be sure that Mormonism, 
 backed by its immense income and 
 control of the movements of its fol- 
 lowers, has a financial and business 
 grip which all the other institutions 
 of Mormon-land combined could hard- 
 ly overcome should a struggle come, 
 as w'ell as one which reaches far out 
 overland. 
 
 This is not, however, to say tint 
 this power has commonly been exer- 
 cised greatly to public detriment, or 
 that it has not often been used to 
 the great advantage of the common 
 people. The writer has known 
 bishops who seemed to take a really 
 
 paternal if not Christian interest in 
 the affairs of their people, and does 
 not doubt that probably the majority 
 (if such officials are seeking fairly 
 well to do their duty by their own 
 people. But because powder may be 
 useful, we ought not to take the less 
 care against its great danger. 
 
 III. Mormonism as a Social System 
 
 The social phases of Mormonism 
 seem to the writer to have been 
 greatly over-emphasized in most pre- 
 sentations of the subject, both as re- 
 gards polygamy and cooperative fea- 
 tures. Articles have attributed the 
 growth of the system to its coopera- 
 tive features; while it has also, and 
 more truly, been said that the co- 
 operation was more like that of the 
 lion and the lamb, with the lamb in- 
 side. The so-called cooperative stores 
 are simply joint-stock companies, usu- 
 
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 THE MORMON CITY DANCING PAVILION AT SPANISH FORK, L'TAII 
 
 ally locally owned, and having no 
 integral connection at all with others. 
 The same is true of the creameries, 
 canneries, irrigation enterprises, etc. ; 
 ipideed, the creameries and cheese 
 factories have mostly been combined 
 in a trust within a few years, greatly 
 increasing prices — the very opposite 
 of cooperation. The knitting factory 
 methods already noted, and the of- 
 ficial "advice" to certain farmers to 
 "raise more beets," where the factory 
 wanted them, are other instances. 
 
 The polygamic feature of Mor- 
 monism, perhaps, defies over-descrip- 
 tion; black itself is hardly black 
 enough to paint it. cither in its 
 moral or social character or its effect 
 on posterity. Its purpose was prob- 
 ably threefold: to cover up the 
 licentious proclivities of Smith. Young 
 and other leaders who began it. to 
 "build up the kingdom" by human 
 
 breeding to the limit of possibility, 
 and to create a nasty barrier against 
 apostacy and a bond of union by the 
 very shame of the thing in which 
 they were involved. All these pur- 
 poses were accomplished, sometimes 
 even through almost the wails of the 
 damned among its victims, as every 
 one familiar with the facts knows. 
 And daily we are told, even now, 
 that it is as much a doctrine of 
 the system -to-day as ever it was, 
 tho it is falsely added that "we do 
 not practise it now." A friend of the 
 writer was calling at a home in Utah 
 the past summer. The man was 
 quite indignant at the "lies" he had 
 heard were being told in the East 
 about the Mormons as still practising 
 polygamy, and stated as above. On 
 calling at two neighbors later in the 
 same day, the friend (new to Utah), 
 was quite astonished to have both of 
 
POLYGAMOUS FAMILY OF PRESIDENT JOSEPH F. SMITH, THE PRESENT HEAD OP MOKMOXISM 
 
 President Smith is a nephew of the original Joseph Smith, the founder. The photograph was taken in 
 
 1905. Smith and his five wives are in the central row. He now has 43 children. 
 
 One son is an "apostle." 
 
 them tell him that this very man 
 was then living in polygamy — and 
 his own daughter was one of the in- 
 formants ! (This illustrates common 
 Mormon duplicity as well as poly- 
 gamy). Probably almost every vil- 
 lage in Mormondom has one or more 
 cases. Nor has proof been lacking 
 that new "marriages" have been per- 
 formed ; the Salt Lake Tribune has 
 published the names and addresses of 
 about 235 such cases, two of them 
 "Apostles." The head man of all, 
 
 Smith, has now five families in Salt 
 Lake, within one-fourth mile of the 
 "Temple" itself ! 
 
 The fact is that polygamy is an 
 integral part of Mormonism itself. 
 and can not be abandoned as long 
 as the people worship polygamous 
 "deity." Law will hinder the out- 
 ward practise, if enforced; but the 
 tlieology will continue to propagate 
 the belief, and the practise as far 
 as possible, until the doctrine is 
 chans:ed. 
 
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 I po0$e0S, except in relation to tbe ll^ingDom of Cbrist.'' | 
 
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 ^U,c•^"",o^"^o'"vc^Iu7h^h^.i''Lc^^°^?,,^^''^^^^^^ Egyptian- inter, (a language which never existed) copied from the "gold 
 Tetler, a laM are o fv Fnehlh n.^.,II^ 1 H "' ','">' """"' ']"= ""J^" """^ '""' " '""<* '"''"<'• The« "caractors" which are 
 C.gn anLa.e in the whoie^^^^^^^ ■"■ '*""''■' i'"'^"- '« b''"*- There is probably not a letter of any 
 
 luiTign language in the whole, bmilh s ignorance is shown by the two errors in spelling the title ward 
 F,T,t i.ne ; iTfb.ckwards). H. * (. L. 4.C.t.A,f,I, n. e. 8-1, 4 with s. T, t/, /, r^ 3, " ). 
 
 &ron<f Line: S 7, /I, t, ^.iTb.ckwards, W. CO C 3. /,» P. - --^backwards, t, 2. Sbackwinis, //, /. 
 
 I i.rning the page bottom up makes clear tJie fraud of several letters in lines 2 to 7- turning endwise shows several mo 
 Jhe lalsiiy of the claim that the "piates" were encraved in Amerir., ,hn,„ jnn 1 n '- "^.* ---■--■- by ^hefacVt^ 
 
 from the Mormon 
 lormon books. 
 
 Reduced facsimile of the "caiactors" fabricated by Joseph Smith in 1828 to support his claim to 
 having the "gold plates" for the Book of Mormon. This one page is sufficient alone to prove Mormonism 
 a fraud. (See the explanation below the "caractors.") 
 
 ............. '/ u """""' "l" maKes clear ue traud of several letters n lines 2 to 7- turninir endwise • 
 
 TnJX \lnoZ ""^ '^V" '"^' ,',•'? "^\""" ""' '"graved in .America about 400 .V D s further vhovn ' 
 hn„u "R ^ *' "" «n*„ou.n /■// hundreds of year, later ihanthat dale. This cu is photo-engr'a °ed 
 book Reminiscences of Joseph the Prophet" (Salt" Lake City. 1S93): similar ones are found in o"he?Mor 
 
 MORMONISM TO-DAY AND ITS REMEDY— II 
 
 IV. Mormonism as a System of Religion 
 and Morals 
 
 This phase of Mormonism is more 
 important than all the foregoing put 
 together, tho usually given hardly a 
 tithe of the attention bestowed on 
 them. For it is the only thing which 
 could make the others at all possi- 
 ble, in the very nature of the case ; 
 it is the fundamental cause, while 
 they are somewhat superficial results ; 
 and in it is the only key to the un- 
 derstanding of all the rest. Hence 
 Ave must consider briefly some funda- 
 mentals of Mormonism as a religion, 
 false tho it be in every essential. 
 
 The fundamental and formative 
 factor in any religion is its doctrine 
 of God ; whether right or wrong, it 
 will bring all the other parts of the 
 system into essential harmony with 
 itself sooner or later, if allowed to 
 operate. 
 
 I. The Mormon doctrine of God — 
 the basis of the system. (The quota- 
 tions are from Mormon writings.) 
 
 (a) There are many Gods, of 
 zchovt Adam is the "god" of this 
 zi'orld and the one to be worshiped 
 by its inhabitants. Both of these 
 ideas are official doctrine, tho many 
 Mormons of the better class repudiate 
 them both. Yet numbers have told 
 us that they worshiped Adam, and 
 one of their most frequently used 
 hymns makes Joseph Smith now a 
 "god," and ascribes divine powers to 
 him. 
 
 "Hail to the Propliet, ascended to 
 heaven! 
 
 Traitors and tyrants now fight him 
 in vain; 
 Mingling with Gods, he can plan for his 
 brethren, 
 
 Deatli can not conquer the hero 
 again." 
 
 "Are there more Gods than one? Yes, 
 many." — Catechism, />. 13, (also see quota- 
 tions below). 
 
 "He" [Adam] "is our Father and our 
 Cod, and the only God with whom we 
 have to do." — Brigham Young, J. of D., 
 I. 50. 
 
 (b) These were all formerly hu- 
 
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 luon beings on this or some other 
 earth, becoming "gods" by an evolu- 
 tionary process. 
 
 "God Himself was once as we are 
 now, and is an exalted Man."— Joseph 
 Smith, J. of D., VI; p. 4- "And you have 
 got to learn how to be Gods yourselves, 
 the same as all Gods have done before 
 you."— /OJ. Smith, J. of D., VI., 4; Comp. 
 383. Liahona, Dec. 5, 191 1, gives the whole 
 sermon from wliicli those are taken, ap- 
 provingly. 
 
 (c) They are male and female, and 
 with their former human marriage re- 
 lations, (especially if polygamous), 
 still continued; and sex-propagation 
 is their "chief glory;" the more chil- 
 dren, the greater the "god," as each 
 rules over his own posterity only. 
 Their number is constantly increasing 
 as Mormons die and "evolute" into 
 new divinities. 
 
 "When our Father Adam came into 
 the garden of Eden, he came into it 
 with a celestial body, and brought Eve, 
 one of his wives, with him." — Brigham 
 Young, J. of D., I. so. 
 
 "Each God, through his wife or wives, 
 raises up a numerous family of sons and 
 daughters: ... for each father and 
 mother will be in a condition to multi- 
 ply for ever and ever." — The Seer, I. 2,7- 
 
 By this process "the race of the Gods 
 is perpetuated," and by it, in connection 
 with the rest of Mormonism, "man will 
 yet attain unto the power of the God- 
 head, and like his Father— God— his 
 chief glory will be to bring to pass the 
 eternal life and happiness of his poster- 
 ity."_5. H. Roberts, New Witness, 462. 
 
 (d) They have fleshly bodies. 
 
 Speaking of polygamists only: "Worlds 
 will be filled with their generations and 
 they will ascend to the majesty and 
 splendor of the Gods on high." — Mor. 
 Doc. 51-2. 
 
 "There is no other God in heaven but 
 that God who has flesh and bones." — 
 Jos. Smith, Comp. 287. "Jesus Christ and 
 the Father are two persons . . . possess- 
 ing every organ, limb, and material part 
 that man possesses." — Key 42. 
 
 (q) As a divinity gets power 
 enough over the forces of nature he 
 goes into some unoccupied corner of 
 space and there organizes a new 
 world out of the chaotic matter there 
 (we are not responsible for the con- 
 tradictions of Mormon theology) and 
 goes to it with one of his "wives" 
 and begins to populate it with bodies 
 for the spirit babies of the "gods" 
 already mentioned. These spirit babies 
 were born of the "flesh-and-bone" 
 "gods" and goddesses, in the other 
 world, and are allowed to come here 
 and enter bodies, in order that they 
 may go on and become divinities. 
 Adam was the "god" who thus or- 
 ganized this world (creation is ridi- 
 culed by Mormonism) and thus be- 
 came its "god," as already stated. 
 
 "In that endless future, new worlds, 
 systems of worlds and universes will be 
 created from the exhaustless store of 
 eternal matter, and made the habitation 
 of the ever-increasing posterity of the 
 Gods. Let no one fear — there is room 
 for all this multiplying and increasing in 
 limitless space." — New Witness, 474-5- 
 
 "One great object of the creation of 
 the world, was that bodies might be 
 prepared for those spirits who already 
 existed, and who, when they saw the 
 earth formed, shouted for joy." — Taylor, 
 Med. and At., 130. 
 
 It follows from the above that 
 such "gods" must all be sinners, for 
 no human being but Christ ever lived 
 without sin; while polygamy and 
 lying, of which their own books ac- 
 cuse these supposed "gods," are cer- 
 tainly sins. 
 
 "Adam found himself in a position 
 that compelled him to disobey one of 
 the requirements of God." — J. E. Tal- 
 mage, Art. of F., 68. "God's plan in re- 
 lation to man was that he should fall" 
 — Pres. Taylor, Mediation and Atonement, 
 187. 
 
 And any such beings, if they ex- 
 
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 isted, would not be gods at best, but 
 only human beings grown large, with 
 all their faults and limitations, just 
 as paganism teaches. So Mor- 
 monism teaches directly that its 
 "gods" can not be in more than one 
 place at once — as is, of course, true 
 of any being having flesh and bones. 
 It is also true that none of the 
 other attributes of God could belong 
 to any such being; he could not be 
 either eternal, unchangeable, spirit, 
 trinity, omnipresent, omnipotent, om- 
 niscient, invisible, perfect, infinite in 
 love or otherwise, holy, or the only 
 one of his kind ; all of which are 
 imperatively taught by the Bible and 
 good reason as characteristics of the 
 true GOD. The foregoing doctrine 
 is clearly pagan in almost every 
 feature; and the counterpart of its 
 every detail may be found in the 
 mythologies of heathenism, while 
 every point is, of course, squarely 
 contradictory to the Word of God. 
 Indeed, aside from the licentious 
 features of the worship of Venus and 
 Bacchus, one might search in vain 
 through all heathenism to find a 
 doctrine of God more entirely con- 
 trary to the Word and reason than 
 is this of Mormonism to-day. And 
 the above is no out-of-date teaching, 
 but is held NOW, and is officially 
 taught. One of the ]\Iormon journals 
 published Joseph Smith's worst 
 "sermon" on this subject only a year 
 ago, with foot-notes to prove it by 
 B. H. Roberts, the foremost Mormon 
 writer, and editor of the young men's 
 publications. It is astounding that 
 such a renascence of paganism 
 should be able to obtain even passing 
 credence in this age; but we find 
 both the leaders craftily defending its 
 worst points and the common people 
 
 for the most part swallowing it 
 whole and without the least apparent 
 impediment to their intellectual and 
 theological digestive apparatus, tho it 
 is never digested. 
 
 The simple fact is, as shown by 
 the above quotations and many others, 
 that Mormonism is simply a modern 
 phallic paganism; its doctrines re- 
 volving around the idea of propaga- 
 tion through physical sex, in both 
 worlds. It is impossible to analyze it 
 down to anything else. Fuller state- 
 ments, in quotations, can be found in 
 "True Mormon Doctrine," "The Pri- 
 vate Doctrines of Alormon Theology" 
 and "The Truth About God," by the 
 writer (15c.). 
 
 2. The Doctrine of Christ — No 
 Trinity. The Trinity is openly jeered 
 at, and the first so-called "Article of 
 Faith" (the whole of these are in- 
 tended as a blind more than a true 
 statement of faith), which seems to 
 teach the Trinity, is explained to 
 mean three separate Gods, of whom 
 the Father and Son have fleshly 
 bodies, but the Holy Ghost has not. 
 The Holy Spirit is a different being 
 still, the permeating light and life of 
 the universe. "Every tree and stone 
 has a spirit, everything has a spirit," 
 said a good and prominent Mormon 
 last summer to the writer. 
 
 Like other human beings, Christ 
 had pre-existence as the spirit son of 
 some ex-human god and goddess. 
 His earthly life began, not by the 
 miracle of the Bible, but by the com- 
 ing down of the fleshly "Adam-God" 
 to I\Iary ; and instead of being the 
 double, divine-human nature which 
 the Bible teaches, he is simply a 
 human physical, "elder brother" of 
 us all, born as above. (The doctrine 
 is contradictorv and irreconcilable 
 
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 here.) He is generally believed to 
 have been married in polygamy to 
 Mary and Martha at Cana, which 
 was his own wedding feast; and by 
 these he had children (base interpre- 
 tation of Isa. 53 :io). 
 
 "The Father had begotten him in his 
 own likeness. He was not begotten by 
 tlic Holy Ghost. And who is the 
 Father? He is the first of the human 
 family." — Brigham Young, J. of D., I; 50. 
 
 "We saj' it was Jesus Christ who was 
 married (at Cana, to the Marys and 
 Martha) whereby lie could see his seed 
 before he was crucified." — Apostle O. 
 Hyde, sermon. 
 
 3. Conceptions of Sin and Righteous- 
 ness Lacking. With the worship of 
 a "god" who is sinful, as we have 
 seen, neither abhorrence of sin nor 
 love of righteousness is logically pos- 
 sible; for both alike are mutually 
 consistent and objects of worship in 
 tlie divinity. The being one worships 
 is his ideal; he can rise no higher, 
 and if already higher is bound to 
 sink to its lc\cl in time, because if 
 honest with his ideals he is bound 
 to strive to attain them. Hence we 
 find, both theologically and in practi- 
 cal life among the people, no real 
 abhorrence of sin on the one hand or 
 love of righteousness on the other; 
 moral distinctions have largely been 
 annihilated by such wicked theology, 
 as is inevitable. One might go 
 through the many hundreds of Mor- 
 mon reports of their sermons in the 
 writers' library, such as the Nezvs 
 constantly publishes, and not find one 
 idea of sin or righteousness above the 
 level of mere expediency; the moral 
 sense is dulled and distinctions largely 
 obscured. 
 
 "We ought to consider the fall of our 
 first parents as one of the great steps 
 to eternal exaltation and happiness, and 
 
 one ordered by God in his infinite wis- 
 dom. Q. Did Adam and Eve lament or 
 rejoice because they had transgressed 
 the commandment . . . ? A. They 
 rejoiced and praised God." — Catechism, 
 32, 33'> Coup. 4. 
 
 4. No Conception of the Atone- 
 ment. With the Mormon idea of 
 Christ as himself debased to a sinful 
 level, and that of sin itself almost an- 
 nihilated, there is slight need or pos- 
 sibility of atonement by Christ. So 
 their doctrine on this point also must 
 be untrue and contradictory to the 
 Bible and fundamental doctrine of 
 Christianity frotn the beginning. 
 Hence, too, its counterfeit of the 
 Lord's Supper drops out the symbol 
 of the blood shed for sin, and substi- 
 tutes mere water; and this while its 
 stock charge against us is that we 
 "have changed the ordinances !" 
 
 "The Atonement made by Jesus Christ 
 brought about the resurrection from the 
 dead, and restored life." — Taylor, M. and 
 A., 178. (See B. of M., Alma 42:22.) The 
 atonement "signifies the deliverance . . . 
 of the earth and everything pertaining 
 to it, from the power which death has 
 obtained over them through the trans- 
 gression of Adam. . . . Redemption 
 from personal sins can only be obtained 
 through obedience to the requirements 
 of the gospel [Mormon ceremonies] 
 and a life of good works." — Comp., 8, 9. 
 
 5. Four Bibles — Coiitijiuous Reve- 
 lation. Before Mormonism can foist 
 its own system on the world it must 
 get rid of Christianity. It must 
 teach the incompleteness and unre- 
 liability of the Bible, and its own 
 powers as a modern channel of con- 
 tinuous revelation from God. So, 
 from Smith down, these have been 
 fundamental doctrines. One of the 
 saddest things we meet among Mor- 
 mons is their intrained distrust of 
 tlie Word of God ; and one of the 
 
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 most striking of encouraging things 
 is the fact that, notwithstanding this, 
 God still gives his Word so much 
 force with them as he does, in spite 
 of their teaching that the Uiblc is 
 unreliably translated, that much has 
 been lost out of it, etc. 
 
 "Add all this imperfection to the un- 
 certainty of the translation, and who, in 
 his right mind, could, for one moment, 
 suppose the Bible in its present form 
 to be a perfect guide? Who knows that 
 even one verse of the whole Bible has 
 escaped pollution, so as to convey the 
 same sense now that it did in the 
 original?" — Apostle Pratt, Divine Auth. of 
 B. of M., p. 218. 
 
 "The living oracles [priestly revela- 
 tions now] are worth more to the Lat- 
 ter-Day Saints than all the Bibles, etc." 
 —Apostle M. IV. Merrill, Conference, S. L. 
 City, Oct., 1897. 
 
 A common idea is that the Bible 
 was God's revelation for a bygone 
 age and the European continent; 
 while the Book of Mormon was for 
 this continent and the same bygone 
 age, and the Doctrine and Covenants 
 is for this continent and age both; 
 they also believe in the Pearl of Great 
 Price. Such ideas rob the Word of 
 its value and power; but in spite of 
 them it miraculously holds greater 
 power for almost any Mormon than 
 the other books, tho the living voice 
 of their leaders still eclipses all in 
 the minds of many. The Bible is 
 used vastly more than even ten years 
 ago, and will surely vindicate its real 
 character in time. 
 
 6. Salvation by Deeds and Ordi- 
 nances Only. Since the death of 
 Christ was only to produce a physical 
 resurrection, in which good and bad 
 alike share, we are left to good 
 works for salvation, so far as any 
 is needed. Indeed, their idea of sal- 
 vation is merely the obtaining of an 
 
 "exaltation" in one of the degrees of 
 heaven, of which the highest is occu- 
 l)ied by polygamists and others who 
 have become "gods" — not a very at- 
 tractive prospect! Grace, gift, faith 
 and forgiveness are all unknown to 
 Alormonism in this connection, and, 
 indeed, are often ridiculed when men- 
 tioned. The heathen idea of paying 
 off for sins with good deeds is almost 
 universally the limit of ideas on this 
 subject. One of the most painful ex- 
 periences among the people is to find 
 their almost entire ignorance and 
 even frequent ridicule of these very 
 A B C ideas of the New Testa- 
 ment. As a Mormon woman in 
 Idaho said to the writer, when asked 
 what she thought we must do to be 
 saved, "O, if I do more good than 
 I do evil, I'll get to heaven after I've 
 been punished for the sins I've com- 
 mitted;" the statement being affirmed 
 also by dozens of others to whom it 
 was quoted. They generally ridicule 
 the idea of any hell, tho their own 
 books are full of it ; thus making 
 salvation consist only in getting to 
 some degree of "exaltation ;" the 
 teaching being also that all but a 
 very few will so attain, after their 
 purgatorial experiences. (See quota- 
 tion under Atonement.) 
 
 The results of such ideas are now 
 and everywhere just what they were 
 in Paul's time (Rom. 9:30-32) — 
 lowering the standard to match the 
 immoral life as the failure to raise 
 the life to the true standard becomes 
 manifest. And this is always a char- 
 acteristic of Mormonism in practical 
 life. There is no hope of help from 
 its sinful, ex-human deities, nor in a 
 Christ who is not the Christ of the 
 Bible, nor in a salvatio*'! which is at 
 the best like trying to lift oneself by 
 
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 his own bootstraps. Hence the moral 
 level of JMormonism is and always 
 must remain very low, except as it 
 is influenced by Christianity from 
 outside in spite of itself. We have 
 not room to consider this phase of the 
 subject, tho very important, further 
 than to say that instead of Mormon- 
 dom being the paradise on earth 
 often portrayed by the Mormon 
 "elder" on his proselyting errands 
 outside, after 20 years' experience the 
 writer is compelled to say that it 
 seems to him the lowest moral level 
 of all the nine places in five States 
 in which he has lived. Yet the people 
 are far better than the pagan, phallic 
 system by which they are enthralled ; 
 because very many of them have 
 come out of Christian churches, as 
 honestly deceived by a system which 
 hid its realities from them as are 
 the adherents of Christian Science or 
 other religious fads. The good they 
 bring over helps neutralize the bad 
 into which they have come. 
 
 With all the foregoing facts as the 
 background, we are now ready to ask 
 the great question. 
 
 What is the Remedy for the Mormon 
 Evil? 
 
 The political, financial, social and 
 religious characteristics of Mormon- 
 ism which have been pointed out are 
 the indications by which any rem- 
 edy which will succeed must be 
 chosen. Let us glance, in passing, 
 at the work which has already been 
 done. 
 
 The Sabbath-school was the first 
 form of Christian work in Utah. 
 Consecrated by the life-blood of its 
 first superintendent at the hands of 
 Mormon hatred, it has endured until 
 now. Its value in helping the Mor- 
 mon neople has been limited by their 
 
 small attendance and the seeming or 
 real impossibility of treating upon 
 some of the very things which they 
 need most to learn. There are, per- 
 haps, 120 schools now in operation in 
 Utah and the eastern (Mormon) part 
 of Idaho, with probably 10,000 mem- 
 bers. 
 
 Next in order of time came preach- 
 ing services and the church. Accord- 
 ing to the best figures at hand, 
 which are not complete, there are 
 about 100 churches and regular 
 preaching-stations in Utah and con- 
 tiguous Mormon territory. The Bap- 
 tists have about 11, the Congregation- 
 alists about 12, the Disciples i, the 
 Episcopalians about 16, the Method- 
 ists and Presbyterians each about 35, 
 and the Lutherans about 7. Perhaps 
 18 of the whole are self-supporting, 
 tho usually barely so ; the total mem- 
 bership is about 8,000, and the at- 
 tendants nearly all non-Mormons. 
 The Mormons are often "counseled" 
 to keep away, and are ahvays 
 taught that Christian ministers are 
 counterfeits, working merely for 
 money and sect, and the churches 
 spurious ; a very small proportion 
 only of the Mormons are ever in at- 
 tendance at these services. 
 
 Next came the mission school 
 work ; and for many years it was the 
 largest and most effective agency for 
 the Kingdom which we have ever had. 
 But the public school has now cov- 
 ered the field of secular education 
 well, and only about a half-dozen 
 mission schools remain, with as many 
 academies ; and the latter are finding 
 their pathway made increasingly diffi- 
 cult by the incoming high-schools. 
 The mission school was intended 
 largely as a religious agency as well 
 as intellectual ; the scholars daily 
 
learned Bible truth and on Sunday 
 attended the services which the 
 teacher held — perhaps the only ones 
 for many miles around. Now a num- 
 ber of such places are without any 
 Christian work, while the buildings 
 stand in reproachful neglect and the 
 children of Gentile and Mormon 
 alike go to be taught that there are 
 many gods, of whom Joseph Smith 
 was a prophet, with all the other 
 
 reach them as well as others with 
 His gospel. In pursuit of such an 
 idea, several forms of traveling work 
 have been in operation among the 
 Mormons. The American Tract So- 
 ciety for some years had one or two 
 men at work selling good books from 
 house to house. The American Sun- 
 day-school Union has also had one 
 or two workers in the field for some 
 years, founding several schools. The 
 
 
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 false and debasing tenets of Mor- 
 nionism ; and later they intermarry 
 and increase the Mormon dynasty. 
 
 The gospel is the power of God 
 unto salvation only when it is made 
 to come strongly into contact with the 
 souls in need ; and since the Mor- 
 mons will not come to us in any 
 great measure to be taught the Bible 
 way, it is perfectly clear that we 
 must go to thetu or fail of carrying 
 out the final command of Christ to 
 
 l>aptists have had one or two men 
 in wagons ; the American Bible So- 
 ciety has had several workers, tho 
 for some years now working mainly 
 through the Utah Gospel Mission. 
 
 Thic Utah Gospel Mission, of 
 Cleveland, is the result of a broad, 
 experimental and very careful stuciy 
 of all the factors in the problem of 
 reaching the Mormon people with 
 wlKit might bo called a fair gospel 
 chance. 
 
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 It was incorporated in 1900, with 
 a Board including members of various 
 denominations ; and its every detail 
 fits the peculiar needs of the people. 
 The "sect and salary" objections are 
 met by going without both, finding 
 friends to help meet actual, econom- 
 ical expenses as they occur. Its 
 workers live in great gospel wagons 
 the year round, visiting all the homes 
 and holding meetings outdoors, in 
 meeting-houses or dance-halls, so 
 planned as to be most attractive and 
 useful. Nearly all the 550 odd set- 
 tlements (450 with no local Chris- 
 tian work), have been visited three 
 times in about 11 years of the work, 
 making about 180,000 visits, holding 
 2,000 meetings with i6o,oco present, 
 and using over 13.000,000 pages of 
 special literature ; while in the East 
 it has done a large work of public 
 information, also. In character the 
 work is educational-evangelistic; first 
 seeking to make the great truths of 
 the Bible clear and strong to the peo- 
 ple, and then to secure the undivided 
 surrender of heart to the God thus 
 perceived and to all His truth. 
 
 Many persons have the idea that 
 some sort of legal measures will 
 solve the Mormon problem. But 
 such surely forget that the evil is 
 fundamentally that of a false re- 
 ligion, and that so long as the leaders 
 can keep their grip on the religious 
 nature of the people (no mattfr 
 whether sincerely or not) they have 
 that which gives control in finance, 
 ]"»olitics, family relations, residence 
 and everything else ; and that hence 
 there can be no real cure except one 
 which shall correct their religion. 
 Law can help suppress outward po- 
 lygamy or other crime ; but that is 
 about all it can do. The writer is 
 
 most heartily in favor of having law 
 do all that it can do; but let us 
 cease making the mistake of expect- 
 ing it to do things entirely outside of 
 its province or power. And until an 
 amendment to the national Constitu- 
 tion is passed, the national govern- 
 ment has no power at all to inter- 
 fere in such matters in any State : 
 while Utah laws, tho good, are prac- 
 tically null because Mormons will 
 never enforce them against themselves. 
 Others have expected that secular 
 education would correct the evil. The 
 statement of a skeptical professor in 
 one of the largest Utah schools some 
 years ago is instructive in this re- 
 gard : "When I came here, six years 
 ago, I thought that education would 
 solve the problem. But since I have 
 seen some of their brightest young 
 men go even to foreign lands and 
 come back with a string of degrees 
 after their names, and as much Mor- 
 mons as ever, I have given that all 
 up." "How do you explain it?" the 
 writer asked. "Was their secular 
 education only so much added power 
 behind their old religious ideas, which 
 education had left untouched, or was 
 it because of social or financial rea- 
 sons after they returned, or both?" 
 "I guess it was both," he replied ; 
 and such is doubtless the fact. Secu- 
 lar education does not touch the 
 sorest spot of need, tho it helps by 
 cultivating thought and giving a 
 broader basis of facts. True re- 
 ligious education is necessary till they 
 can see the great religious facts to 
 which their false training has blinded 
 them as others are sometimes color- 
 blind. Ordinarily they get nothing in 
 their meetings and reading, but the 
 pagan ideas of IMormonism, from one 
 end of the vear to the other ; and 
 
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 these are presented in the most at- 
 tractive and reasonable ways possi- 
 ble, "to deceive if possible the very 
 elect." In similar circumstances we 
 would believe as they do — and far 
 more deeply than many profest Chris- 
 tians believe their doctrines, because 
 far more intensely indoctrinated. The 
 only real cure for such religious dis- 
 ease lies in reversing the process by 
 some means, so that the people shall 
 gradually learn the truth instead of 
 error, and shall become really con- 
 verted to Christ. The process must 
 necessarily be slow to be genuine ; 
 but it may none the less be real and 
 thorough. God is working; let us 
 work by all possible methods which 
 will lead to this end. The traveling 
 work of the Utah Gospel Mission is 
 especially important, as the only way 
 yet found to reach the whole people 
 systematically and with the methods 
 and messages suited to their needs. 
 All other forms of Christian work 
 mentioned should be continued, espe- 
 cially the Sabbath-school and church 
 work ; and these should be made 
 more effective by greater versatility 
 of effort. Let no one be discouraged 
 about the Mormon field ; tho it is the 
 hardest in the world, the gospel of 
 Christ is stronger than that of Satan 
 
 and will triumph if its messengers 
 are faithful and sufficiently numerous. 
 As long as Mormonism sends out 
 perforce i,ooo young men a year to 
 recruit for itself, each without salary 
 and finding his expenses as he ca:i 
 from friends and enemies, we must 
 be stirring to do what may be done 
 for the Kingdom against their aggres- 
 sive system ; and strong men ought 
 to be offering themselves in plenty 
 to help carry the light back to them. 
 There are two ways to prevent 
 Mormons from getting many con- 
 verts: one is to keep people taught 
 in the truth of the P.ible so well that 
 they can not be deceived by false 
 doctrine ; the other is to so inform 
 the public about Mormonism that 
 people can not be made to be- 
 lieve untruths when these "elders" 
 come. It is time that pulpit and press 
 alike are teeming with the facts on 
 both these lines till all are informed 
 and awakened. Dr. Kinney's book, 
 "Mormonism, the Islam of America," 
 is exceedingly valuable, as are also 
 many tracts issued by various houses. 
 Upo)i the faithfulness of Christians 
 to the zvork thus needed in the West 
 and elsezi'here depends the outcome 
 of the Mormon issue. 
 
 Reprinted by permission from The Mission.\rv Review of the World for April 
 and May, 1913. CojiyriKlitcd by Funk & Wagnalls Company, Publishers, New York. 
 
 (See important statement on next page, and Publication List 
 on last page of Cover.) 
 
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 AN URGENT APPEAL. 
 
 In behalf of the exceedingly important issue 
 which is barely outlined in the foregoing pages, 
 the Utah Gospel Mission of Cleveland makes 
 very earnest appeal as follows : 
 
 1. For broadcast and constant use of lit- 
 erature showing the real character of Mormon- 
 isni, such as is issued by the Mission and others. 
 Arouse interest and action by spreading infor- 
 mation everywhere. Mormonism keeps over 
 tzvo thousand emissaries out constantly, using 
 probably 200.000.000 pages of its deceptive 
 tracts, etc., annually, and holding 50,000 meet- 
 ings, besides the hundreds of tons of its periodi- 
 cals which are mailed. Everybody should keep 
 the best tracts on hand for enclosures in letters 
 and other use ; towns where emissaries come 
 should be quietly but quickly supplied at every 
 house; editors should be urged to give the sub- 
 ject wise place. (See List, last page of cover.) 
 
 2. For more public speaking. Every pas- 
 tor should keep his people informed and re- 
 minded, in various ways; and public addresses 
 should be had far more often. We can supply 
 or direct to such, illustrated if desired. 
 
 3. For a much larger support for the work 
 of the Mission, both West and East, and co- 
 operation in it. This work embodies the utmost 
 of adaptedness. efficiency, economy and co-op- 
 eration with all good agencies in bringing the 
 Kingdom in this regard. About 400,000 peo- 
 ple, mostly Mormons, are reached by no other 
 direct gospel agency, and can be reached only 
 bv similar methods. Its work has often been 
 greatly hindered by lack of means, and much 
 has been impossible. The Mission is incorpor- 
 ated and competent to receive bequests. Write 
 for circulars, the Annual, details of needs, items 
 for special gifts, etc. 
 
 4. For more men for the Western work. 
 For the 1.000 men annually sent out by Mor- 
 monism, all Christianity has often not sent a 
 dozen back. Our work has especially suflfered. 
 Details on application. 
 
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 A fine contrast between Mormon Doctrines and the Word of 
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 The Mormons and Their Bible. A complete annihilation of 
 the claims of the Book of Mormon, from internal evidence; by 
 Rev. M. T. Lamb. Illustrated, 152 pages 25c 
 
 Iiig-hts and Shadows of Mormonism. 535 pages, illus- 
 trated, cloth, by J. F. Gibbs, an ex-Mormon of Utah. Very 
 valuable for quotations, documents, etc., and forming a good 
 history of Mormonism from its beginning, with special reference 
 to its political aspects, though not entirely free from favorable 
 bias as to certain Mormon persons and classes. CJives the facts 
 about Mountain Meadows Massacre, Brigham Young's Distillery, 
 polygamy, priestly politics, etc $1.25 
 
 Cumorah Revisited. By Rev. C. A. Shook, who was raised 
 a Josci>hite ("Reorganized") Mormon. Becoming convinced from 
 the study of American archaelogy that the Book of Mormon and 
 the whole system founded upon it was a fraud, he left it and 
 later became a Christian minister; and this book is the result of 
 further study. It is not only exceedingly interesting and full of 
 information, but seemingly unanswerable $1.50 
 
 Three Great Movements. By Rev. W. A. Stanton, Ph. D. 
 Contains a graphic story of the Sidney-Rigdon-Pittsburgh origins 
 of the Book of Mormon and Mormonism, from original investi- 
 gations there; important, 48 pages 10c 
 
 Sample packets containing all but the last four on this list, 
 with other matter, SSc postpaid. The whole list, $3.30. 
 
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