Religion: Help from the Mormons

U.S. Protestants tend to practice "comity," i.e., make no effort to convert other practicing Christians. What should they do if a missionary knocks at their door? In the current Presbyterian Tribune, the Rev. Wesley C. Baker of Redmond, Ore. proposed a way to handle one energetic brand of domestic missionaries—the Mormons. Wrote he:

"Practically every community in the land is being canvassed door to door by earnest, energetic, devoted young men and women who present a skillful, studied doctrinal argument, directed toward the proselytizing of any and all ... [They] have volunteered to do this for their church. They are giving, at...

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