THE MORMONS
OR
LATTER-DAY SAINTS,
IN THE VALLEY OF
The Great Salt Lake

Preface

PART I.

CHAPTER I.

Description of the country settled by the Mormons — Soil — Amount of population — Great Salt Lake — Utah Valley, Mountains...

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CHAPTER II.

Union of civil and religious law — "Theo-Democracy" — Priests are civil officers — Origin of Mormonism — Persecutions — Colonizing the mountains — Crickets and Gulls — " Flag of all nations "

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CHAPTER III.

Spiritual claims and temporal expectations of the Mormons — Roman Catholic Church to absorb the Protestant — Sunday exercises.

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CHAPTER IV.

" Latter-Day Saints' faith" — Interpretation of theological terms — The Bible-emendations — Deity, more perfect — Genealogy of the Gods — Progression of man into Gods — Queens of heaven — Sacraments — Baptism for the dead — Faith — Gospel — Matter eternal and intelligent — Birth of Spirits and their probation — Soul — Death ,

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CHAPTER V.

Interpretation continued — Original sin and Satan — Tongues — Resurrection — Prophetic time — Priesthoods — Spies — Masonry — Summary comparison of sources — " Hieroglyphics " of Utah ....

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CHAPTER VI.

Kind dealings with strangers — Gold emigrants — Casuistry — " Many wife" system or " Spiritual wives " — Courtship — Power of the President on marriages — Desertion of sealed wives — Adoption of families — Profanity — Social life — Brothers' widow — Rank of wives

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CHAPTER VII.

Power of the Seer — Submission of disciples — Education and schools — Justice and Laws of the Lord — Loyalty to the Union — Record of the crimes of nations — Success of Mormonism — Developement — Lost tribes and four undying witnesses — Generous policy of the United States Government

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PART II.

RISE AND EARLY PROGRESS OF MORMONISM.

CHAPTER I.

Rule for testing the truth of Mormonism — Character of the Smiths — Seer-stone — Revivals — Angelic vision — Joseph's four years — " Money-Digger" — " The Manuscript Found " — Its conversion into a Golden Bible — Martin Harris ruined — Plan of converting Jews and Indians, and harmonising sects of Christians — Founding the church — Pratt and Rigdon — Extacies at Kirtland.

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CHAPTER II.

Selection of Zion in Jackson County, Missouri — Corner stone — Tithes declared — First persecution — Kirtland speculations and Endowments — Settlement in Clay County, Missouri

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CHAPTER III.

Mormons defy Missouri — Danites — Missouri war — Expulsion of the sect and horrors of the exodus — Effect in strengthening Mormonism

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CHAPTER IV.

Nauvoo City — Temple — Aqua — Manner of choosing Missionaries — "Spiritual wife revelation" — Old Bachelorism in the mountains

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CHAPTER V.

Joseph's views of government — Dissensions in Nauvoo — Martial law — Imprisonment of leaders — Murder of Joseph and Hyrum — Character of the Prophet — His genius and policy — Election of Brigham Young

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CHAPTER VI.

Mobs continue to annoy — Temple finished and consecrated — Expulsion — Missouri bottom — Battalion of 520 men — March to Salt Lake — Journal — Right to their own laws — Anniversary Pageant — Constitution of the United States

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CHAPTER VII.

Miracles — Dignity of Labor and Slavery — Proselyting — Land-titles — Indian wars — Utahs — Military post — James Bridger — Pacific Rail-Road

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CHAPTER VIII.

Mormon treason — Laws — — Five causes of breaking up of Mormonism — Right of self-government — Character of Mormonism — Chronology

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ADDENDA

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