Mormonism formed the topic of an address which was delivered recently by Professor J. M. Coyner, President of the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute, in the Seventh Presbyterian Church at Cincinnati. Mormonism, he said, was a moral plague that was spreading in all directions with alarming rapidity. "Utah Mormonism," said Professor Coyner, "is not the Mormonism that is expounded out of the Territory by from 600 to 800 missionaries at a yearly expense of about $1,000,000 to win proselytes. It is a kingdom of itself, thoroughly organized from the chief hierarch down to the lowest servant, whose avowed object is the overthrow of the social conditions based on Christianity and republicanism at the same time. They boast that within fifteen years, as indicated by their present expansion, and the vast territory within which their principles are either openly avowed or covertly maintained, they will virtually have accomplished that result." Within the last six years they have organized in the Territory eight churches and twenty-three schools, which are maintained chiefly by contributions from the East. One of the speaker's most startling statements was that nearly one-third of the territory of the United States is virtually under the control of Mormons. "Over Utah as a centre," he said, "they hold absolute sway. They are swiftly and surely moving on Montana and Washington Territories, and politically in Nevada and Colorado they hold the balance of power."—Christian Statesman.