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Show i6i WHERE THE MORMONS chants, was given one of these u punishments." Of course it would have been a great sacrifice for him to have left his business, so the matter was compromised with the president, and Mr. Jennings allowed to procure a substitute. I do not know the pecuniary consideration received either by the presi dent or the substitute. The presidency of the English mission is supported out of the tithing paid in that country ; but those who are sent out to preach receive no remuneration from the church, and are supposed to fall back upon the old apostolic plan, and go forth without purse or scrip. Going without purse or scrip practically refers only to the purse ofthe church. Mis sionaries are allowed to use their own funds to any extent they desire; but to do so is unnecessary. When one is about to start the people of his ward, or settlement, ascertain his wants, and supply them in kind. That is if his wardrobe is scant, it is replenished ; if his shoes are poor, others are fur nished ; and his larder is supplied for a journey to the next locality, where it wil be renewed. The more liberal of the Saints also furnish to the more popular of their missionaries ready cash ; but this is unusual. Cash itself is exceedingly uncommon among the people. In England, when an Elder arrives on a mission he is dealt with most liberally. The first act of the resident Mor mon is to take him to a clothier, and substitute a suit of ministerial black for the variegated homespun in which he is clad. The outer man is quite renewed, and a missionary two days after his arrival in Liverpool, would not be recog nized as the same individual who had landed a few days before. Their houses are then thrown open, and he fares very much as did Methodist preachers when taken into a family during the session of a conference twenty years ago ; the fatted calf is killed, and everything possible done to increase the creature comforts. If he should be a polygamist, he is even more enthusiastically received, and more sumptuously entertained, being regarded by the vulgar as belonging to a higher order of beings than monogamic brothers. How different from the public feeling toward such in 1850 when Parley Pratt had to lie to the people to satisfy them ! In |