HISTORY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON

... I HISTORY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON. As the Book of lformon or Golde's Bible (as it was originally called) has excited much attention, and is deemed by a certain new sect of equal authority with the sacred Scriptures, I think it a duty which I owe to the ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... to the Mormon presidency. He is the Great Prophet of the Mormons still. Brigham Young has shown much shrewdness in the use of his position. He saw that the pure despotism-and this, too, a despotism of the basest kind-which is the essence of Mormon government ...

Literature

... the history of the Mormons for the construction of a ro-l mance that w ould be at once original and powerfully interesting, has made their social and religious system a subject of careful study. Probably she may have lived among Mormons, or in some vay been ...

Poetry

... other band, the volun- teer system may be so arranged as to comprehend two great objects-first, the expulsion of the Mormons or the Mormon hierarchy; and, secondly, the colonisation of Utah Territory with a new school of settlers. From the western side of ...

LITERATURE

... contemptible imposture of the it0f ess ormon by Joe Smith, their founder. 'aol of the Salt Lake, the natural paradise the Mormons are located, is thus de. tr it seeed pis if, until some mysterious purpose were dldisasstero aud no disgraces ecould ?? the ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... inland from th Omnb City. Sonie renegade Mormons or secedera from be the Mormon Churcls, fleeing fron the Danites of Salt Pt Lake, liad re'achsed tisat eettlemesnt, bringing the news a5 that a large force of the Mormon militia, under Brigham hi Yonog and Heber ...

BOOKS ON OUR TABLE

... be that on the Mormon settlement in the 'l great western valley, from which we take the following 0 l extract:-.. ls The outline we have given will suffice to show that, in s . its religious, not less than in its moral, aspect, Mormonism Is t a modern ...

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE

... SAtUTHDs BROTeIIu oI BloiisioRism.-Wis. Smithi, brother ot the Iounder of Mormonism, writes a letter to ?? New York 'ribane, in which he states that he has ceased to be a Mormon, having bten disgusted with the immoral and treasonable practices of the Salt ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... HusnxBnSD IN, UTAIN; Ox, SIGHTS AID SCENES .AMIONGST. THE MoRMoNs. ' By A. WARD. Blackwood, Praernoster-row.-This is another work intended to be. a blow at Mormonism. Although we are of opinion that the Mormons are suffering under a great amount of unmerited calumny ...

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... Charles Mackay's little book upon The Mormons, or Latter Day Saints (1), brings down the strange history of that sect to the present day. The narrative is succinct and sufficient. Even if ill told, the story of the Mormons would be very interesting; here it ...

GRAND EASTER ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION HOUSE

... owners and the crews. ch 'IHE MORMON DELUSioOt,-The Swansea Herald pub- us lishes a letter just received from a Welsh minor eamed 5s- Evan Powell, wsho embarked last year, with his wife and ic, family, to johl the Mormons in America. It is dated St. .d ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... regarding Mormons or Spaniards-the latter paltiecularly with a considerable amiournt of salt. One of the chief Mormon merchants, who has just now [Nov. t856], it appears been sent on a mission, as a punishment for rescuing- a Gentile from some Mormon assailants ...