MORMONISM.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12406, 23 November 1908, Page 1

MORMONISM.

, nd INDIGNATION AT LIVERPOOL. lot ~~*~" ;he Mormonism in Liverpool, which is practically the bettdijunriters of the faitl'i, in England, la decidedly on the iccrease, nnd it is extremely probable tbat t»fore lo: g an cr<ranI ised crusade will be nutria ag-:i;;s<: it. ■It is no SHcrofc that s vor^il jo.-.'tig ks , people iv Liverpool are prop-ij ir-^ to follow the example oi Mi\s Al:i:^'jret and Miss Katheiinc Koe, t"wj divnyiihe tera of n respectable plu nbar \■. tao employ of the Liverpool Oorjorri ion, who, despit'i the detsriuiQci redsstlcs anco of tDeir pirents and a weliIfnowo Church of EogLnrlniiniatar left Liverpool for Boston a couple of at monttis ago. Ie .Mr Koe, the fattier of the girls, l.y exerted every effoit to prevent hia is daughters from joining the Mormon community in TTtah. IJ:s cable to lW the Immigration Hoa-d ;it B ston J*. was instrumental not only iv obtain- ? ing the detention of Ll3 girls, but '" also of others who had g. ne out by 3r the same boat from various parts of le England. . ' ' ; a It was aoticipnt-d — although, backed up by the Mornior.s, a vigorc- Otis appeal against cit-poi tution. was F- lodged— that tue Whitn Star li'.-er •; (Jynirio, which.; reached Liverpool ;o J«an Boston, would liare the girls en r. boai'd, but on the arrival o£' the ;e liner it was aseoitaiDed tu.it; the rtp5, peal had been iiiisuu^easi'ul,. and the ■c Mormon L»o^t in Liverpool continued 0 thia. >- In tlie meantime, hcwivar, Mr '. • Ro°, the father, *is uofc relaxing his '. 'efforts to rchecU jbhe emigration o* «•' E ;glisfj girls to Utab. "If I cannot P get back my daughters, " he declared I* reeantly, "I can stop other English. tl bouseboldd Irom being despoiled by s - the Mormons." j? Public feeling io Liverpool a'g-iins!; 1 the work of the Mormans,iareaching 0 an acute stage.