THE American Anti-Mormon Association, the organ of which, The Sword of Laban, is published in Pikeville, Kentucky, as also the Utah Gospel Mission, is doing strenuous work to check Mormonism. Yet notwithstanding this we are told that Mormonism is increasing and spreading. In fact the Utah Gospel Mission, the headquarters of which are in Cleveland, Ohio, declares that polygamy in Salt Lake County and City has far more than doubled in the last two decades, contrary to law. Polygamy and priestly polygamists, it declares, are only more under cover, but they are nevertheless prospering. But it points out that these two things are not the great thing, after all, but it is the absolutely pagan doctrine of the flesh and bones polygamous gods out of which logically comes the actual or practical denial of every fundamental Christian doctrine. It admits, however, that the Mormon people do not grasp this fact. They think it is the only true Christianity; and the appeal from the mission truly says that the remedy for this is not law, but the Gospel.
If one desires to obtain publications, he can write to the secretary, the Rev. John D. Nutting, Utah Gospel Mission, Cleveland, Ohio, or to R. B. Neal, Box 426, Pikeville, Kentucky.
There is certainly need of enlightenment. Mormonism is spreading, and is spreading rapidly. One recent Mormon paper told of eight places in Western Pennsylvania where elders were then working with success; and another Mormon paper brings reports from Northern Illinois, Eastern States, Southern States, Central States, Northern States, Northwestern States, California, and Australia, all reporting abundant labors and great success for the elders. Enlightenment is what the people need, and enlightenment means the preaching of God's Word in all its simplicity and purity and power.