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Show [Continued from previous page.] <br> miss your children one hour early that day, and call them together again to receive a theological lecture?' <br> You can imagine my answer to such a question." <br> Here is another item - A Mr. Sullen**, a teacher of several years experience, who holds a perpetual certificate to teach in Idaho, made application for a school, a few weeks ago, in that state. You know that southern Idaho is as thoroughly Mormon as Utah. <br> He was informed that "they must have a man to teach who could help them in the work of the Mormon Church." <br> Still another - I was in Soda Springs last week, a small town in southern Idaho, where the Barnock** Co. Teachers Institute was in session. Prof. Hickman, a nephew of the notorious Daurite,** Bill Hickman, was leading the teachers of the country in instruction. He undertook to demonstrate, by a diagram on the black board, the Mormon doctrine that every man is a germ** of a God, and to show how we become** Gods. This he did without any rebuke from the County Superintendent of instruction. My own ears listened to this blasphemous nonsense. <br> I am satisfied that if our Christian people knew how our public schools in Utah, outside of Ogden and Salt Lake City, are in the hands of the Mormon church, and are __________________________*** <br><br><br> **Transcriber uncertain of word. <br> ***These sections are the bottom written lines on the page; the paper has been torn and words are illegible. <br><br> |
