1832-09-08-Trumpet and Universalist Magazine-Mormonism

Mormonism

Source: Trumpet and Universalist Magazine, 8 September 1832, pg 43

Mormonism

Mormonism.—Two Mormonite preachers have recently visited this city, and made about 15 converts to their strange doctrines, who have been baptised and joined the Mormon church. It is stated in one of the papers that these persons contemplate going to the West, and some have already started for "the promised land, the place of refuge for the house of Israel and for all the Gentile world who will flee thither for safety," in Jackson county, Missouri. Two females who have gone, had acquired by industry, one 1500, and the other 800 dollars, which they have given up to go into the general stock. The others possess between 3000 or 4000 dollars, which they are going to put into the general fund, and which they can never draw out again, "Thus are people swindled of their property, and drawn from their comfortable homes, by ignorant fanatics."—Boston Trav.