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Show COME FROM. 165 sent thence to different parts of the kingdom. The manu facturing towns, where there are large numbers of operatives, and other localities where the ignorant and poor are collect ed, are their principal fields of operations. Their meetings are held in public halls, hired for the purpose, and large numbers are attracted by curiosity, and the more credulous among them are easily deceived by the sophistry and mis representations of the preachers, and unite with the church. Sometimes their meetings are held out doors, in market places, and elsewhere, but such gatherings are often dis persed by the police. Another means of reaching the peo ple is by meetings in the houses of those who have embrac ed the faith, and are zealous to extend the new gospel among their friends ; accordingly they are collected together, and the teacher invited to preach. No insignificant proportion of Mormon converts have been made in this way. A more successful way of proselyting than by preaching the ridiculous tenets of their theology, is in the extravagant praise of the Mormon's Zion, in the Great Salt Lake valley. The temporal advantages to be derived from a residence there are represented to be incalculable ; and then to be comparatively shut in with God's people, away from the unbelieving and wicked Gentiles, is another desirable con sideration. Some of the Elders teach that a home will spring up as if by magic, and that the fields will yield their fruit almost without cultivation. Others whose assurance is not so great, dwell more upon the spiritual benefits of a residence in Zion, but all are agreed in overrating the natural advantages of the locality. It is portrayed as equal in all respects to the Canaan which the Jews so long sought while journeying in the wilderness. In addition to these tangible advantages, held out to a poor, ignorant, and often oppressed people, is the wonderful in fluence exerted by the impression created of a real interest in their spiritual welfare on the part of the missionary. They never before realized that a minister's concern for them individually, extended further than to see that they attended service occasionally, and paid regularly their church |