THE MORMON CHURCH AND ELDER SORENSON.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 189, 10 August 1880, Page 4

THE MORMON CHURCH AND ELDER SORENSON.

A NEW ZEALAND GIRL AMONGST THS MOBMONS, A correspondent of tbe Auckland " Herald " writes from Salt Lake City ss follows : — Having been acquainted with fhe doctrines of the Mormon Church, and being one of the deluded victims, I thick it ray duty to forewarn my Now Zealand neighbors of thcp.a infernal Latter Day Saints' doctrines. The oburch is nothing but a well organised system of lust, tyrsnny, disloyalty, and murder. In their so-called Land of Zion, where I saw so many poor people wriihing under pain of that cursed polygamy — women that hod been in good positions in their own native land, bow glad (o beg off the Gentiles iv Salt Lake City, and perhaps three or four children to cloths and feed by their owo industry over a washing-tub — -vpomiso whom men ban turned iupon

and given a bill of divorcement after their beauty wee gone. Such is' life in Utah. Hundreds of poor women would bo plnd to lfiflve tbft land the Mormons call Zion, bat cannot get tbe means, as they bave to woik for potatoes, carrots, clotb, lettuce, etc. I have eeen families crying after they arrived there at their disappointment ; but etill they wrote to their friends that all was well. I have found the Mormons the greatest liars that ever I met, as they will kiil a mac for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake, and tell a lie to save j their own &eek or any of their ; creed. Their Blood Atonement is a diabolical institution. Were not the Parish and Potter families of Springville murdered when attempting to leave the Territory ; and Potter end Wilson, of Weber Valley, were assassinated in gaol under the same law ! The Mormons claim (ha right to slay ah who commit adultery or, violate b sanctified oatb, and for this cause Elder John Hyde wa3 compelled to flee from the Territory, while his friends Margettsand Cowdy were followed hundreds of miles and murdered. Secret assassination is a part of the doctrine »cd practice of Mormouism, the Church being Bole; judge of sufficiency of cause. But 'there »re the United States soldiers at Fort Douglas to keep' them quiet now. Did not 56 of the leaders of tbe church assist in the massacre at the Mountain Meadows, ami are not some of (hem in a high position in the church tc-day, quakirg wHh fear iv case tbe truth should come to the light of tbe Gfiitilee! I answer "Yee," J. P. Sorensen may no', who is nothing but a fraud. He was first a MoroaoD, then an infi-Jel, then a Catholic, then an atheist, then a Mormon again, and now a frauts,and a wolf ia sheep's clothing, seeking whom he cnay devour. Oue moruiug previous to his go\Bg to New Zealand, be took his child and wrapped a blarskot around it aud put a string around it and dipped it down a well seven times, as ba said there wera seven, devils in the child, and tbe devils .would not go in the water, dud he bad a dream that (hat woolJ heal it. He kept wax candles burning all night to < keep the devils from bitneelf. He is a man that no one in Salt Lake speaks well of, either Mormon or Genlile. They all consider him as a frnud. I wonder why the Government of the United States do not sJamp the Mormon Church into tbe dust, where it would have,beea placed long ago had it attempted to rear its hideous bead in any other country, — John Thos Ltjnnon, one of its deluded victime.— United States, June, 1880. Mr Luonos sends us several letters ogainat Mormonism which have' been inserted in tliß Salt Ij&ke Tribune i — In 1879 three lyiog Mortnoa Elders, Pierce, Batt, and Shrives decoynd K.y youug sister Mibs Mary Ana Luunou (born in November 1865), into the Mormon faith, while in New Zealand, against hen- father's consent, and j with the assistance of a few sisters of the Mormon faith, they succeeded in petting her on a steamer in Lyttelton in March, 1880, aotwitbat&nJing her father and friends wore doing all they could to prevent har, and also had the police trying to prevent her. Sbe stowed herself on the steamer and osraa (o Utah, arriving here > about nine weeks ago. Sioee her arrival here I bave been trying to persuado her to return home and undo the wrong sho has done to parents, knowing that sbe is on tbe road to shame and disgrace through the horrid doctrinces of the Mormon Church. Being- her only natural guardian in America, I have applied to the United States District Attorney (o aid, me, but have failed. She is now staying with one of John W. Young's wives on Third West-Btreet, in this city, and her mind has been poisoned against me by tbe women and bishop of the ward. My intention was to ' take her .back to our parents in New :Zsaland, from whom, she was enticed by the Mormon priests r agt\inst the instructions of the' circular issued by Secretary Evarte. She is set against her friends and, may. become the injmate of a Mormon harem, a fate almost as bad as eternal damnation.— -Salt I^ake, 'June. 2.4,' 1880."

There is do abatement of the success of the « Pirates of Penzance " in the States, Avhere the sole right of re-producing this how famous comic opera has recently been secured by .Major J. Pond, the well-remembered Yankee agent for Dr. Talmage in England. The piece, I understand, is bringing in something like a thousand per week. A farmer living in the neighbourhood of Derby was driving a cow to market^ when the animal was suddenly seized with illness and died. The farmer was not at all surprised at the occurrence when he came to open his j beast and discovered in its stomach tbe fol- ' lowiug choice assortment of articles :~A ! large lump of lead, an iron top of a clog seven J inches long, half a peck of nails, a few pounds of tin tacks, four boulder stones, and several other trifles too numerous to mention. It is not often that a humble milking cow takes , such substantial fare as this. A readyfeeding beast of the kind would be anasfy customer to the neighbourhood in a blacksmith's shop. Suicidal tendencies are enjoyed by different nations'in different and well-marked degree*. The Swiss, it seems, are particularly partial to the luxury, and this fact has at last led the statistical department in that country to institute some inquiries into the matter. From their researches it appears that there is a Wide difference in the percentage ofsuicides in the various countries of Europe. Saxony has the honour of standing at the head of the list with a record of 3 7 selfinflicted deaths to every ten thousand of the inhabitants. Denmark comes next, while the . third place is occupied by Switzerland itself, with 2^3 to the .ten thousand. The last oh the list is Italy, where the people hold so tenaciously to life whe they can that the record is but 04. England, it might be thought, had a ;very high rate, v but such is not the case, as we are last but one with a Btandard of 0.6. What a splendid appointment that of a Saxony coroner must must be, especially if his services are " paid by the results," and not by the salary.