MORMON MORALITY | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jul 22, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 28.

MORMON MORALITY.

REV. THOS. F. DAY, a missionary in Utah, writes as follows to the New York Evangelist—

“Their moral conceptions travel dirt roads. Self-seeking is the only motive possible to them, and this too is the “be all and end all” of their religion. To please and be pleased with themselves, to laud their own virtues, to expect the highest glory in the next world for the great things they do in this—these are prominent traits of Mormon character. they are appalling evidences of carnal security. The people are in a deep sleep, and it is not easy to wake them, for there is no opiate like self-righteousness, and Mormonism administers it in powerful doses. No wonder that the people do not like that doctrine of the divine word which shreds man’s righteousness, and exalts the righteousness of Christ. Said a Mormon recently, “I’ll be satisfied if I receive in the next world just what I have earned in this.”