Mormons | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 6, 1866

Mormons.

THE MORMON DELUSION.—There are now nearly 100,000 “Saints” at Salt Lake. There are Mormon missions in England, Wales, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Sandwich Islands. Brigham Young, Jr., is the president of the European missionary system. He is twenty-seven years of age, and his headquarters are at Liverpool. Forty missionaries are annually sent to Europe, and the missions are supported by a tax on the “Saints” in Utah. The policy of the mission is gradually to concentrate all the followers at Salt Lake. The converts usually embark at Hamburg or Liverpool. Great licentiousness and an utter disregard of health characterize the voyages. Careful arrangements exist at New York to prevent the immigrants from getting among the “Gentiles” on their arrival.