1914-09-Improvement Era-Mr J S Perkins

Improvement Era, v17 n11, September 1914, p. 1090.

Mr. J. S. Perkins, formerly assistant manager of the Herald Square Hotel, New York, and at present associated with the Marlborough Hotel, 36-37 Broadway, New York, pays the following splendid tribute to the character of the Latter-day Saints, particularly do his statements apply to the missionaries whom he has principally entertained. He says in a letter to Mr. W. C. Spence of Salt Lake City:

"During the past twenty-five years I have roomed possibly ten thousand 'Mormons,' and wish to say that I have never known one of them to leave a hotel with his bill unpaid, nor did I ever see one of them under the influence of liquor, two cardinal virtues which I think might be successfully copied by communicants of other denominations. I have no particular creed myself, other than a firm belief in the Ten Commandments and future rewards and punishments. I firmly believe that every man has a right to worship God in his own way, under his own vine and fig tree as he may see fit, with no one to molest or make him afraid."