1870-02-14-New York Sun-A number of Mormon emissaries

A number of Mormon emissaries

New York Sun, 14 February 1870, p. 2

A number of Mormon emissaries are actively at work on Long Island, and are meeting with more success than would be expected. They have already organized two churches, and are about to organize seven more. Among their converts are five young and beautiful girls, who are enthusiastic in their devotion to their new faith, and intend emigrating to Utah in the spring. The men who are engaged in the enterprise are plausible and agreeable speakers, and possessed of much knowledge of human nature. They do not publicly advocate polygamy, but in private are frank in their defence of it, as a practice at once Scriptural and proper. The audiences who assemble to listen to them are composed of highly respectable people, and the collections they take up much more than pay their expenses. They say that their object is not only to obtain recruits of a better class than those which come from Europe, but to influence public opinion in favor of their religious views. Here is a chance for preachers of other denominations to show their ability in meeting and overcoming error.