. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . N EVERY MORMON VILLAGE Cincinnati, passing through twenty-two villages, in not one of which wasthere any Christian work. Factslike these are too appalling to realizeexcept by long actual experience inthem. In every village is a Mormonservice of course and all its machineryis whirring busily; but to what ad-vantage may be gathered from thefollowing incidents, showing some-thing of its result in Mormon beliefand practice. From a missionarys conversationwith a Mormon: Where does theMormon god live? On Kolob. office. Well, God has just such asystem
. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . N EVERY MORMON VILLAGE Cincinnati, passing through twenty-two villages, in not one of which wasthere any Christian work. Factslike these are too appalling to realizeexcept by long actual experience inthem. In every village is a Mormonservice of course and all its machineryis whirring busily; but to what ad-vantage may be gathered from thefollowing incidents, showing some-thing of its result in Mormon beliefand practice. From a missionarys conversationwith a Mormon: Where does theMormon god live? On Kolob. office. Well, God has just such asystem as that. A newly returned elder, officiousand resplendent in a fine PrinceAlbert coat, high collar and whitetie, in addressing a large Mormoncongregation gave this account ofthe origin of the Bible. Therewas first a great meeting of bishopsand others about the year 420, whocollected the manuscripts which theythought ought to be in the Bible andso made the Catholic Bible. Someyears later there was another meet-ing of the same sort of people, who. GROUP OF MORMON ELDERS. ALL MISSIONARIES IN THE SOUTHERN STATES threw out some of these and put inothers; and later another meeting-threw out and put in some more, andeven now the Lutheran Bible has agreat deal more than the others present day inspiration wecannot tell whether what pretends tobe the Bible is so or not. The Bibleis not a sufficient guide to the does not tell whether women ormen can baptize; without special rev-elation we cannot tell. There aremany books named in the Bible whichare not in ours, hence ours is incom-plete and of little value and thepriestly revelations are necessary. Bishop of has two wives living in houses adjoining. Theyare very proud of the fact and brag-ged to us about it. His father, whowas formerly bishop, has two orthree wives living with him in thesame houses and no attempt is madeto conceal the fact. He has 396living descendants. (1904) A daughter who was given a testa-ment, af
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