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Show [Side 2] <br><br> STATISTICAL SUGGESTIONS 1925-26 <br> Population of Utah………..500,000 <br> Members and adherents of the Mormon Church………..300,000* <br> Members and adherents in Idaho………..85,000* <br> Mormons in the world………..625,000 <br> Utah variety, headquarters Salt Lake………..535,000+ <br> Reorganized variety, Independence, Mo. ………..90,000+ <br> Increase of Utah variety, 1925………..7,556+ <br> Decrease of the reorganized variety, 1925………..6,140+ <br> Net increase of the two varieties………..1,416+ <br><br> SALT LAKE CITY <br> Population of Salt Lake City, 1925………..125,000 <br> Membership of the Mormon Church………..43,757++ <br> Mormon adherents………..18,083++ <br> Members and adherents………..61,840++ <br> Members of Protestant church, 1925………..6,186 <br> Enrolled elsewhere or adherents………..[left blank] <br> Members of the Roman Catholic Church………..4,000 <br> Enrolled membership of three Presbyterian Churches………..1,016 <br><br> OUTSIDE OF SALT LAKE CITY AND OGDEN <br> Protestant churches and missions………..75 <br> Presbyterian churches and missions………..32 <br> Resident ministers of Presbyterian church………..13 <br> Academy teachers and community workers………..40 <br> Westminster College working force………..30 <br> Number of counties in Utah………..28 <br> Without resident ministers………..10 <br> Without established missions………..6 <br><br> *Senator Reed Smoot in "Forum," Oct. 1926 <br> +H. K. Carroll, Statistician. <br> ++Mormon Reports. <br><br><br> PECULIAR TEACHINGS OF THE MORMON CHURCH <br> They teach that: <br> 1. The Christian Church was apostate and Joseph Smith was called of God to re-establish the Church of Jesus Christ. <br> 2. He exhumed certain gold plates from which he translated the Book of Mormon as an addition to the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. <br> 3. He and others had certain direct revelations which were printed as the Doctrine and Covenants and put on a par with the Bible. <br> 4. He translated from an Egyptian papyrus the Book of Abraham printed in the Pearl of Great Price and given the authority of the Scriptures. <br> 5. He and his successors-the presidents, prophets, seers and revelators of the Mormon Church-may supplement the Scriptures and these three added books by revelations having equal authority. <br> 6. The priesthood speaks for God and as God-the president of the church being His mouthpiece. <br> 7. There are many gods, male and female, and that these gods have bodies, parts and passions, and that the Eternal Father is an exalted man. <br> 8. Men and gods are of the same species, men being gods in embroyo [sic], and that as God is now man may be. <br> 9. Men and women may become gods and goddesses by being baptized by men having the Mormon priesthood and by accepting the secret vows or endowment pledges administered in the Mormon Temple. <br> [Continues on side 1.] <br><br> |
