MORMONS AND MARRIAGE.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15309, 24 February 1920, Page 3

MORMONS AND MARRIAGE.

! ONE MAN ONJK WIFE IN UTAH I TO-DAY. i

1 • Mr James Gunn M'Kay, president of the London Conference'of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, re--1 ceived at South Tottingham a nu'm bcr of representatives of thcl'res-s for the purpose of making a, statement concerning the activities of the Mormon organisation. Mr M'Kay began by. handing round copies of the "Articles of Faith," which number 13. He denied statements which had been published that 1200 eonI vents to Mormonism were ready to leave Lancashire and Yorkshire for Utah, i There was, he said, not one single Mormon, either male or female, being shipped. An English visitor,; now resident in Utah, supplemented this declaration of Mr M'Kay by stating that a man with more than one wife in Utah would find himself very speedily within prison walls. Mi- M'Kay, proceeding, sa id the Mormon cause was extending very rapidly. A temple had been opened in .Hawaii, and next year Mr Heber J. "Grant would open a temple in Alberta, Canada. The Prince of Wales had secured a farm adjoining, and, added Mr M'Kay, "how will the British public feel on the Prince of Wales becoming ounneighbour ?" ■ Mr M'Kay concluded, by saying that tlie principle of plural marriage had accomplished its end, and consequently was abolished. A sum of £200 had been offered as a reward for,an authenticated case of plural marriage. Up to this date no claim had been preferred. Their mission was really a campaign for purity in physical," spiritual, and, financial matters.