MORMONISM

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8094, 26 April 1906, Page 3

MORMONISM

TO THE EDITOB. Sib—ln your issue of the 25Lli inst., you quote the Napier " Herald " re the success of the Mormons amongst the Maoris. Will you allow me - ; as a layman, to suggest a few reasons as to why they arc successful. First, then, all members of the Mormou Church aro total ahstaiucrs from alcohol and tobacco in any shape and form. The missionaries Jive among the people, whether Anglo-Saxon or aboriginal, as one of themselves, ' They pay their expenses out of their own pockets. Everybody who works for the Mormon Church, whether elder or layman, does it for nothing. No collections aro taken up at any of the services, which sounds funny to us who have been suckled, as it were, on that passage in Ist Cori'nlhiaus (10th chapter, first four w»rds). Another good feature in the Mormon method of procedure is that every member who cams an income gives a tenth, because if is part of lus religion to do so. That tenth goes towards the upkeep of the buildings, etc.; and to feci Lho poor and to help those who arc distressed in any way I suppose the Mormou Church about the most abused (among Christians) in the world, yet they add to ihoir u\|Mt ber about fifty thousand annually. These things speak for themselves.—l am, etc., T-I'ot. ItoUEHTS,