THE MORMONS
IN SALEM. -- Mormonism is advancing with a perfect rush in this
city just at present. Several of the Elders have made a descent upon us.
Meetings have been holden now very frequently for several days past, and crowds
flock to listen to the strange doctrines of the "Latter Day Saints."
How many new converts they make, we have not learned, but understand that the
whole number of those who have come over to the faith, is about eighty.
-- Salem (Mass.) Register. (“The Mormons in Salem,”
Salem Gazette [December 7, 1841], repr. Salem Register [June 2,
1842]; here, repr. New York Observer 20, no. 24 [June 11, 1842])
MORMONS. -- Two young
women were baptized into the Mormon faith, on Sunday afternoon, in the South
Mill Pond -- a hole, of a few yards square, where the water was about three
feet deep, having been cut in the ice for that purpose. The administrator of
the ordinance, in his common dress, of pantaloons, &c., but in his shirt
sleeves, first appeared from the edge of the ice into the opening, and then the
young women, one after the other, were assisted into the water, baptized, and
lifted out again upon the ice. The administrator made a prefactory address to
the audience; but if there were prayers, singing, &c., the services
probably took place some where under cover. -- Salem (Mass.) Gazette. (“Mormons,” Salem
Register, repr. New York Observer 22, no. 8 [Feb 24, 1844])
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