The Mormon puzzle, and how to solve itBeers, R. W.
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The Mormon puzzle, and how to solve it
Beers, R. W.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines; Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
Another minister in the northern part of the Territory hired a building
for a mission school from an old lady connected with the Mormon Church,
and paid a month's rent in advance. As soon as the priesthood found out
what she had done, they brought such pressure to bear upon her that she
went to the minister and urged him to give her back the building, although
in her poverty she greatly needed the rent. Is not that slavery? And yet
President Taylor has stood up in the great Tabernacle at Salt Lake City
and declared that they were in favor of the largest liberty for their own
people and for all mankind.
Thousands of converts to Mormonism are brought from Europe to Utah every
season, and this large immigration is under the complete control of the
Church. It can be sent to any place it is thought best. If a colony is
started in Arizona or Nevada, and it is thought best to enlarge it, the
immigration is sent thither. The persons must go where they are directed,
however much they might prefer to settle somewhere in the beautiful Salt
Lake Valley, the Switzerland of America. Every settlement is made under
the direction of the Church.
Not only is the foreign immigration under the control of the priesthood,
but all members who have already settled either in Utah or elsewhere are
subject to the orders of the Church. If the priesthood think it expedient
to send a thousand or two thousand into Colorado or Arizona or any other
locality, the number is divided out among the different wards, and each
ward must not only furnish its quota of men, but all the means for the
emigration; and the persons selected must go, although it is a great
sacrifice to them to leave their cultivated lands and comfortable homes
and go into the unbroken country of another Territory to again undergo the
trials and sufferings incident to pioneer life.
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