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THE MORMO 
 
 BY 
 
 REV. E. O. GUERRANT, I). I). 
 
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 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
 
 RICHMOND, YA. : 
 
 Pkesbytekian Committee of Publication. 
 
Copyrighted 
 
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 JA.S. K. HAZEN, Secretary of Publication, 
 1899. 
 
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 THE MORMONS. 
 
 My reply to your request to write something 
 about the Mormons has been delayed by other 
 matters, and the hope that more competent 
 hands would do it. The conviction that some- 
 body should expose this monster iniquity of 
 the cehtury, only, impels me to comply with 
 your kind request. 
 
 I shall have time now only to give an outline 
 '{of their origin and teachings. It would take 
 <fvolumes to fully set forth the history of this 
 Imodern abomination. 
 
 I feel confident that many of our people do 
 not know the character of this body, nor the 
 magnitude of the effort it is making to spread 
 its doctrines. General Eaton (Ex-Commis- 
 sioner of Education of the United States) says 
 v that their missionaries are estimated to num- 
 
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 iDer two thousand , three hundred, 
 i I know they are travelling all over our land, 
 2^two by two, canvassing every school district, 
 distributing their literature, and preaching in 
 
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 public school-houses, contrary to our law, 
 which says, N o sectarian , infidel or immoral 
 doctrine shall be taught in our school-houses/’ 
 I have met them in the most distant and in- 
 accessible parts of the mountains. "They com- 
 pass sea and land to make one proselyte.” 
 They have more missionaries in Kentucky 
 (and probably in every Southern State) than 
 all other denominations together. They have 
 members in every State and Territory but five, 
 and have scores of missionaries in foreign 
 lands, and are winning perverts to their faith 
 by thousands. Of course, they are mostly 
 among the poor and ignorant classes, but they 
 have souls , and constitute the mass of man- 
 kind. 
 
 Origin. 
 
 As is well known, the founder of this sect 
 was Joseph Smith, who was born in Vermont 
 in 1805, but brought up in New York, at Pal- 
 myra. His mother was an ignorant and super- 
 stitious fortune-teller, and his neighbors pro- 
 nounced him “an ignorant, idle youth, given 
 to chicken stealing.” He could not write, 
 though he could read, and his favorite books 
 were “Capt. Kidd , the Pirate ” and “Stephen 
 
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 Burroughs , the Clerical Scoundrel” How nat- 
 urally his after life took the complexion of 
 his early companions. His associates in start- 
 ing his Church were Sidney Bigdon, a back- 
 sliding preacher, and Parley P. Pratt, a travel- 
 ling tin-peddler — all unscrupulous, cunning 
 and characterless. They were followed by 
 Brigham Young, whom Judge Goodwin (edi- 
 tor of the Salt Lake Tribune) describes as 
 “the worst of men ; intellectually he was not 
 bright, but he was full of animal magnetism; 
 and though his heart was that of a sheep, there* 
 was a great deal of wolf in his forehead ; pos- 
 sessing a stubbornness that never yielded, and 
 a plausible tongue. His avarice was measure- 
 less. He never looked on without coveting his 
 neighbor's fair wife, good horse, or profitable 
 investments." Prom such a source nothing 
 but Mormonism could proceed, and it is 
 worthy of its parentage. 
 
 The so-called “Book of Mormon," is a ro- 
 mance entitled “The Manuscript Found," 
 written by an invalid Congregational preacher 
 named Solomon Spaulding, of Ohio, but 
 never published. It gives in Biblical style a 
 fanciful history of the Mound-builders, a peo- 
 
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 pie who are supposed to have preceded the In- 
 dians in the Ohio Valley. This manuscript 
 fell into the hands of Smith or Rigdon (stolen 
 probably) , and was grossly altered to suit their 
 purpose. This is the Book of Mormon. The 
 Mormon Bible is a sacrilegious imitation of 
 the Holy Bible — changed to suit the revolting 
 doctrines of the new faith of its founders. 
 
 “Joe” Smith was killed by his indignant and 
 outraged neighbors, at Carthage, 111., in 1844. 
 Pratt was killed in Arkansas in 1856 for 
 'stealing a man’s wife. Rigdon was expelled 
 from the Mormon Church and given over to 
 Satan by Brigham Young ! 
 
 Doctrine. 
 
 For doctrine the Mormon Church rests on 
 two pillars P olytheism and P olygamy — twin 
 relics of heathenism, many gods and many 
 wives. Take these away, and it falls like the 
 temple of Dagon. 
 
 Adam is the Mormon God, and all the rest 
 of their gods were men, and became gods by 
 practicing polygamy. They teach that “God, 
 angels and men are all of one species.” 
 
 They teach that the “Holy Ghost is a man , 
 
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 one of the sons of our Father and our God.” 
 I quote their own language. 
 
 Their whole system is idolatrous man wor- 
 ship. They teach that their gods are polyga- 
 mists; that Jesus Christ had three wives. 
 
 Again^ their chief god changes his mind 
 when it suits him (or them); as he did in once 
 denouncing polygamy (in 1830); and after- 
 wards recommendilig it (in 1843) to accom- 
 modate Joseph Smith. 
 
 It is the fashion of their missionaries to 
 deny these well-known facts; and especially 
 their well-known practice of polygamy. But 
 this is of a piece with their whole system of 
 deception in beguiling the ignorant into their 
 net. They are “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” 
 
 Rev. Dr. Wishard; of Salt Lake City, says 
 that polygamy is fundamental to the system; 
 that “it is now taught and practiced in all the 
 towns of Utah; where it has ever been prac- 
 ticed.” “The assertion that polygamy is dead 
 would produce a smile on the face of an honest 
 Mormon.” This is the recent testimony of a 
 distinguished clergyman who knows them 
 well. “To live our religion; is to live in polyg- 
 amy/’ said their priest; McAlister. 
 
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 John D. Lee, for thirty-seven years a Mor- 
 mon Bishop land priest, who was executed for 
 murder, confessed that he had nineteen wives, 
 and sixty-four children. 
 
 “The (Mormon) Saints ” (they call them- 
 selves the “Latter-day Saints”) “have made 
 Utah a modern Sodom, and the paradise of 
 libertines.” This is the testimony of Judge 
 Boreman, for eight years associate judge of 
 the Supreme Bench of Utah, and before whom 
 Bishop John D. Lee was tried before he was 
 executed. It was Lee that led the Mountain 
 Meadow Massacre, in which more than one 
 hundred and twenty innocent emigrants were 
 murdered, and their property taken in 1857. 
 
 Of course, you would not expect to find 
 truth or sobriety or other virtues in such com- 
 pany. So we are told that profanity and per- 
 jury are almost universal. A resident of Salt 
 Lake City challenged any Mormon to produce 
 a single case where a Mormon was ever cut off 
 from his Church for murder, theft, lying, 
 drunkenness, fornication, profanity, or Sab- 
 bath breaking. Miss Mary Cort (who taught 
 five years in Utah) told me she never knew a 
 Mormon who would tell the truth when it 
 would convict another Mormon. 
 
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 Prof. Coyner, for many years superinten- 
 dent of Salt Lake Collegiate Institute, says, 
 “Business has thrown me among all classes of 
 society in various parts of the world, but the 
 most profane and vulgar address I ever lis- 
 tened to, I heard delivered by Brigham 
 Young” — the Mormon high priest and 
 prophet. 
 
 “No pen can describe the demoralizing effect 
 upon the young, nor adequately set forth the 
 lack of morality on the part of a vast majority 
 of young men and women who are brought up 
 in connection with it. In fact, they don’t 
 seem to know what the term morality means !’ 
 So says Rev. Dr. McNiece, for many years pas- 
 tor of the First Presbyterian church of Salt 
 Lake City. 
 
 Of course, hatred and persecution naturally 
 belong to such a system. And from the begin- 
 ning they have waged an unrelenting warfare 
 against all others. 
 
 Their creed teaches disloyalty to all civil 
 government, and the President of the United 
 States had to remove Brigham Young from 
 being Governor of Utah, and appoint a law- 
 abiding citizen of Georgia in his place. 
 
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 Private murder by their “blood avengers/’ 
 culminated at last in the “Mountain Meadow 
 Massacre/’ when John D. Lee, a Mormon 
 elder, with a band of Mormons and Indians, in 
 Southern Utah, murdered, in cold blood, one 
 hundred and twenty men, women and chil- 
 dren, emigrating from Arkansas to California. 
 This .man, inspired by Brigham Young, was 
 shot at last by the United States authorities, 
 after twenty years’ delay by the Mormons, who 
 prevented his earlier conviction. The penalty 
 for revealing the secrets of the Endowment 
 House, where all marriages are celebrated, is 
 to “have your throat cut from ear to ear, and 
 your tongue torn from your mouth.” 
 
 Their vindictive spirit may be learned from 
 this expression of one of their apostles, “I do 
 pray for our enemies. I pray that God will 
 damn them and send them down to hell.” Such 
 is the spirit of Mormonism. 
 
 “The degradation of Mormonism falls more 
 heavily upon woman than upon man,” says 
 General Eaton. She is made the tool and the 
 slave of his greed and lust. She cannot live 
 on earth except as a concubine, nor enter 
 heaven at all, except by marriage. “I have 
 
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 shed tears enough since I have been in polyg- 
 amy to drown myself twice over.” This is the 
 language of a Mormon wife — of the Prophet 
 himself. Another said, “The plains from Mis- 
 souri to this valley are strewn with the bones 
 of those whom this system has killed, and the 
 cemetery on the hill is full of them, but every 
 one of these women is now wearing a martyr’s 
 crown.” 
 
 Is anything else necessary to damn such a 
 system? You wonder that it could exist at all 
 in this country of ours. But remember, the 
 great majority of its adherents are very igno- 
 rant and poor people, and many are foreigners 
 who cannot read our language ; many are sin- 
 cere and honest in their belief because they are 
 enslaved by wicked and designing teachers. 
 
 But I weary you, and have no space to say 
 anything of the tyranny of their priesthood, 
 nor the greed of their tithing system, with an 
 income of a million a year and no account 
 given of it, nor of their celestial marriages (of 
 the living to the dead), nor their baptism for 
 the dead — nor their doctrine of “blood atone- 
 ment” which taught that a man might be mur- 
 dered to save his soul. These are some, not all, 
 
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 of the tenets of this monstrous crime of the 
 nineteenth century — this open sore of the 
 world! 
 
 I do not wonder that Rev. Dr. McNiece 
 says, “Let Paganism, Judaism, Jesuitism, 
 Protestantism and Diabolism be shaken up 
 and the result is Mormonism.” 
 
 God’s description of this abomination is 
 found in 2 Peter ii. 
 
 To his hands we confidently commit its 
 overthrow, and pray for our country and our 
 children. 
 
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