1842-07-09-Brother Jonathan-Mormonism in Boston

Mormonism in Boston

Brother Jonathan: A Weekly Compend of Belles Lettres and the Fine Arts, Standard Literature, and…, v2 n11, 9 July 1842, p. 296

MORMONISM IN BOSTON.—Our sister city of the three hills sometimes claims to be considered the Athens of America; and however well or ill founded the pretence may be in generals, in one particular it is undoubtedly well founded. There are in Boston as many people whose sole business it appears to be to see or to hear some new thing, as there ever were in Athens. No adventurer need despair of audiences, if his doctrines are sufficiently marked, and his assertions sufficiently striking, whether for absurdity, or for truth and force. Accordingly we find that the Mormons are making great headway in Boston—that is to say, if large audiences are any indication. The good citizens of that place have even attended meetings the object of which was the great absurdity of seriously defending Mormonism, against that greater absurdity, serious attacks against it. We should as soon expect a course of argumentative lectures to be got up, to prove that the moon is not made of green cheese.