POLYGAMOUS MORMONS
TWO ELDERS DETHRONED By cable.—Press Association.—Copyright New York, May 14. Despite frequent denials nf polygamy, the Mormon Church at Salt Lake City announce that two ciders have been deprived of the priesthood consequent on practising polygamy recently. A correspondent writes to the Auckland Herald as follows:—"I notice several references in the New Zealand papers regarding {] IC Mormon crusade in Orent Britain, but 1 see no reference to the crusade in your own country. Arc you aware that it (Mormonism) is being preached from' one end of New Zealand | to the other, and that every ship leaving for Sail Francisco is taking young girls and converts from Australia ami > 7 «w Zealand to Salt Lake CI<"V *> An 'loardj the Manuka.) will"!', left last month, and M 1 which 1 travelled to Tahiti, then! wsrft three elders and twelve converts, among them several young girls, and T hear that many also left by the, Maitai. Surclv an exposure of Ibis in vour columns might lead towards checking this serious cyodus, and the misleading of ignorant girls."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 302, 16 May 1911, Page 5
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