1841-06-05-The Huntress-The Gospel Publisher
The Gospel Publisher
The Huntress, v5 n23, 5 June 1841, p. 2
This is a neat little paper, and published in Shermanstown, Pa. and contains a variety of news, and short remarks on general subjects, as well as religious topics.
The editor is in trouble about the surprising progress of MORMONS. We extract the following from his paper:
- "MORMAN ARMY.—On Friday last eleven wagons passed through this place with families for the town of Nauvoo, Illinois, the Mormon city. More, we learned from one of them, are to follow soon. They are all from Chester co. Pa, where the Mormon agents have lately and are perhaps still, making proselytes to Jo Smith's doctrine. Alas what a delusion! It is astonishing that in this enlightened age, and age of humbugs too, that people should be so infatuated with the doctrine."
We agree with the editor in one or two of his remarks, that it is the "age of humbugs," else why are the people humbugged out of their money by giving it to missionaries, so called, to spread the gospel, when they have not the power to spread it at home!
If they can spread the gospel at all, it would have been a gospel-like act to have converted those silly people of Westchester, and thereby have prevented them from leaving their homes to join those heathen Mormons, almost in sight of Philadelphia, where the General Assembly of Presbyterians hold their sitting. Had they been faithful shepherds, and possessed the gospel (as they pretend) sufficiently to convert heathens in foreign lands, these Mormons would not, as they do, beguile so many of our citizens, neither would our country be, as it now certainly is, deluged by crime.
The Mormons, and money Christians have the same object in view—that is, POWER. "Two of a trade can never agree." By power they get money, and with money they get power, and as for christianity, it seems to have fled the country except in name, and hypocrisy, pride and crime have usurped its place.
If our brother Weishample (the editor) would bestow a few essays on those money Christians, he might do something towards opening the eyes of the people.
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