n of which is generally of
one kind. The speaker is thankful that at last he has known the Lord,
and wishes he had done more for Him, and hopes, if health and strength be
spared, to do more. There is also generally an address of a wider
character. The Lord is calling them out of this country, where the
Gentiles have the rule over them, and they are to hasten, old and young,
to the City of the Saints. They are to pay their debts, mend their old
clothes, save all they can, and then those that cannot pay for their
voyage will be helped to join the settlement in Utah. Apart from the
prayers and hymns, these meetings seem secular rather than spiritual,--to
have reference more to this world, than the next. If, as it seems to me,
the Mormonites in this country have had a Methodist training, they have
managed to eliminate pretty completely the Methodist theology; but,
perhaps, they treat it as they do the Bible. The Mormons profess to
believe in it, at the same time they omit its spiritual teaching
altogether. Their theology may be best explained in one of their own
hymns:--

"The God that others worship is not the God for me,
He has neither part nor body, and cannot hear and see;
But I've a God that lives above,
A God of power and love,
A God of Revelation,--Oh, that's the God for me!
Oh! that's the God for me; oh! that's the God for me.

"A church without apostles is not the church for me,
It's like a ship dismasted, afloat upon the sea,
But I've a church that's always led
By the twelve stars around its head,
A church with good foundations--oh! that's the church for me!
Oh! that's the church for me! oh! that's the church for me!

* * * * *

"The heaven of sectarians is not the heaven for me,
So doubtful its location, neither on land nor sea,
But I've a heaven on the earth,
The land that gave me birth,
A heaven of light and knowledge--oh! that's the heaven for me!
Oh! that's the heaven for me! oh! that's the heaven for me!"

Such are the songs sung, with a fervour unknown in better attended and
genteeler places of worship.

The Mormons speak of us as Gentiles, yet in reality they take our creed
and add to it polygamy and communism. Their belief as regards Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost is almost orthodox, and if they claim to be divinely
ruled and to hav