MORMON REVELATIONS.

Patea Mail, 31 December 1880, Page 4

MORMON REVELATIONS.

Mr J. T. Lunnox, late priest of Canterbury (New Zealand) Mormon Conference, lias addressed the following letter to an officer of the s.s. Australia, with a requestjithat he would obtain it publication in the New Zealand journals. Mr Lunnon left under the care of Elder Pearce, who took charge of a number of emigrants chiefly from the neighborhood of Tirnaru. Mr Lunnon says“ As I have been informed that there is another exodus of poor, deluded Mormon victims shortly leaving New Zealand for Utah, and as I have had some experience of the Mormon Church consider it my duty before God and man to inform my fellow-countrymen what class of society they intend joining, and a few doctrines of the Mormon faith, which are not taught to them in New Zealand. The Mormon priesthood, as a rule, consist of liars, debauchees, and ihurdcrcrs, who are shaking with fear that the truth should come to light. I will begin with John Taylor, the present President of the Mormon Church, who stated in a public debate, while in Franco, that a plurality of wives was not either taught or practised in Utah, and read a passage from their Book of Doctrines to prove, while at the same time he had four wives living in Utah. Orson Pratt, the apostle and their champion debater on polygamy, has advised and counselled many young men girls to marry into polygamy to old men that they might be saved, as the young wore not tried in the Kingdom of God and could not save them. In many instances he has caused young women to break off engagements with young whom they loved, to gratify a bishop’s preference, a missionary’s feelings or an elder’s desires. I have written this as information for the deluded ones in New Zealand, and should they let this go unheeded they will be like the last batch of Mormons from that colony who arrived hero and have now left Utah, for other States of America, grieving for the homes which they broke up in New Zealand. Mormonism is nothing but a well-organised system of disloyalty and deception, which is luring thousands to poverty every year. If some of the Mormon ciders had their deserts they would have been in gaol, even while in New Zealand, for indecent assault or something worse. I could tell a long story of their action in New Zealand, and were I there I would expose each one of them, but distance prevents my doing more than giving the present warning to the public.