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THE MORMONS

... such as cloths and counterpanes, equal to the finest fabrics of the Eastern States. The mechanical arts are the fostc of the Mormons, and coming, as may of them do, from the great manufacturingdistricts of Europe, they ase probably the most skilful artificers ...

THE BOOK OF MORMON

... R ales There is nothing more curious about the Book of v o an Mormon than its denunciation of polygamy, which g' only at a later period became a recognised institu- a tion of the Mormon Church. pc reC_ to rves FATAL AcOraDENT TO A BIeCYLIsr.-A young ...

MORMON AMUSEMENTS

... MORMON AMUSEMENTS. llilAM YOUNG AT THEO THEATITi (}SOIL the Torouto Globe.) Ile owns a theatre which cost, it is said, 200,Q00 dollars, and which has yielded a large revenue. It is a Well built edifice, nearly as large as the Boston Theatre, with parquet ...

SYMPATHY FOR THE MORMONS

... five rifles were dis- chatged at then, (by Mormons lying in ambush, as was afterwards openly avowed in the village.) Fortutiately, ow- ing to the distauco sliither was iturt, the man fled, and Nr. disowned Mormonism-shiut himself up, and awaited the result ...

A MORMON MIRACLE

... A MORMON MIRACLE. (From Life in the Far West, in Blackwiood's Magazine for ,ining this time they November.) ,DIwring this time they 'were continually receiving converts to the faith, and mans of the more ignorant courtrv people were disposed to join ...

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 TRUTH ABOUT THE MORMONS

... all a correct idea of the manage- ment of the Mormon politico-ecclesiastical system, and still fewer of the ordering of Mormon households. Even now that the pseudo- sanctity of Utah is invaded, and Mormonism has become the subject of ridicule and denunciation ...

REPORTED DISCOVERY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON

... has at last come to light prove well founded, all surmises on the matter are likely to be set at rest, though of course the Mormons will not be backward in asserting the document to be a forgery, just as Shey de- clare Solomon Spaulding to have been what ...

THE MORMON THEATRE—BRIGHAM YOUNG'S DAUGHTERS

... Lyceum and Drury Lane; no loose women, no e pickpockets, no ragged boys and girls, no drunken s and blaspheming men. As a Mormon never s drinks spirits, and rarely smokes tobacco, the s only dissipation in which you find those hundreds 1 of hearty creatures ...

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 ...

NEW BOOKS

... co-operative stores, seem to threaten the stability of the Mormon state, there is really' no foretelling what the future may bl. Mr. ?? u found, of course, no means of seeing the inner life of the Mormon homes, so he gives the larger part of his attention 'to ...

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 ...