adherents, bring down the righteous indignation and just vengeance of the American nation upon the accursed system of Mormonism.

I am aware that Mormon missionaries, and officials, who seek proselytes and converts from among Christian denominations and in Christian communities, can and do come like an Angel of Light, as the Arch-deceiver once approached the Master, with a Bible under their arm, and Christian phraseology upon their lips, and thus with Satanic cunning allure the unwary into the soul-blighting meshes of this unholy system, of temporal and spiritual bondage.

In these pages I have endeavored to give a fair and truthful outline of Mormonism, sustained by the best possible authority and by testimony unimpeachable. But the half has not been, and cannot be told. In this unfolding there are things which may seem puerile and shocking to the refined taste. This, however, has seemed necessary because of the character of the Mormon system which has become so formidable. The revolting pictures of crime, of filthiness and of blasphemous assumptions, I would gladly have passed by unnoticed, but without these the true character of Mormonism cannot be pictured, and without mention of them its history cannot be told.

The Bible Student will find a striking analogy, which seems almost prophetic, between Mormonism and the Scripture portraiture of heathenism and heresy as pictured by the Apostles.-See Rom. 1:21-32; II Peter 2; Jude 4-19.

Abbreviations to Motes and References.

H. M.-History of Mormonism.

M. U.-Mormonism Unveiled.

H. B. M.-Hand-Book of Mormonism.

H. B. R.-Hand-Book of Reference.

P. M. C. M.-Folygamy, Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism.

W. M.-Women of Mormonism.

M. D.-Mormon Doctrines-Penrose.

P. M.-Why we practice Plural Marriage.

M. and M.-see P. M. C. M.

Lee-Confession of Bishop John D. Lee.

Doct. and Covs.-Doctrines and covenants.
Pres. Rev.-Presbyterian Review.

Intl. Rev.-International Review.

Meth. Q. Rev.-Methodist Quarterly Review.
N. A. Rev.-North American Review.

Authorities Quoted.

Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Orson Pratt, Paley P. Pratt, Heber C. Kimball, Geo. Q. Cannon, Brigham Young, Jr., Mrs. Helen Mar. Whitney, Bishop Lee, C. W. Penrose, Lorenzo Snow, Pres. John Taylor, Counselor Wells, Pres. Wilford Woodruff, &c. Judge Hale, Judge C. C. Goodwin, Judge McBride, Judge McLean, Judge Cradelbaugh, Judge Boreman, Gov. Murray, Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Mrs. A. G. Pollard, Miss Francis Willard, Rev. R. G. McNeice, Pres. Garfield, Pres. Haves, Pres. Grant, Pres. Arthur, Hon. P. T. Van Zile, Maj. Carleton, M. E. Conf., Utah, M. Coyner, &c.

The Wolf and the Lamb.

The Wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together and a little child shall lead them.-Isaiah 11:6.

WE

E are standing to-day on the threshold of the anniversary of our nation's birth. A few hours hence, and everywhere, in city and town and hamlet, hillside and valley, from the shores of the Atlantic to the slopes of the Pacific, the sound of celebration will be heard. A hundred years and more have gone since the old "Liberty Bell," in Philadelphia, rang out the notes of freedom, and the United colonies were declared free and independent. The record of a hundred years, and more, of our nation's history is before us. And what a history is this, which marks the beginning, the life and the present development of the American Republic. A nation which has touched, with marvelous and elevating power, all the great nations of the world;-a nation whose history exemplifies benign influences which have been transforming and bringing together the peoples and nations. We find in this history happy and encouraging facts. Former eagerness and inclination for war and bloodshed, because of real or fancied wrongs, are fast giving way to the desire for national peace and harmony International difficulties are largely settled by appealing to reason and moral principle. Nations are coming more and more to recognize the rights of neighboring nations, and the individual

rights of their subjects. Barbarous peoples of the centuries past are now civilized; savage tribes that once lived by plunder and pillage, who fought ard sought to devour each other like beasts of prey, have laid aside their savagery, and dwell together in harmony, as states, and provinces and nations; each led to higher and nobler aims by the spirit of the Child of Bethlehem. In short the prophecy of Isaiah seems fitly to illustrate this truth, which is so largely being realized among the nations: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them." An intelligent study of history, and a careful outlook upon the peoples and nations of the globe, are sufficient to animate with real life the striking figures of this prophecy. They seem to picture to us a glorious, a developing reality in the life of the races and the nations of the world. With such unquestionable facts before us, it is natural for us to ask why?

We reason correctly when we conclude that moral effects, like the physical, have their legitimate causes. When we consider the commotion which a few centuries, and even a few decades ago, was prevalent among the nations, it is but natural for us to ask what are the principles which underlie and make possible this present state of affairs? No one familiar with the history of human governments will question the assertion that self-interest has been, for the most part, the motive power underlying the great national powers aiming at success. National policy, in one form or another, is every where written on the

pages of secular history. The idea of self-interest, however, is as varied as the phases of civilization with which it is surrounded. As with individuals, whose aggregate makes up the nations, we may trace this principle among the nations, from the most degraded selfishness, as it rises up and up to the dignity of innocent self-love, actuated, at times, even by the life giving principles of Christianity. It was the thought of national self-interest, largely, that induced much of the butchering of prisoners of war in earlier times. Some idea of this is exemplified even in modern times, as in the Sepoy rebellion in India, the treatment of our American Indians, the Middleages policy of the Spanish nation, in the treatment of subjects and prisoners, and the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks, which is even now a stench in the nostrils of all civilized peoples. It was national policy that induced the English nobles to compel king John to sign the Magna Charta,—the basis of English and American liberty. It was the idea of national policy that induced Charles VII of France to allow his benefactress, Joan of Arc, after having led his army to victory at Orleans and saving to him his crown, to be given up to the English, to be burned at the stake as a sorceress. It was the idea of national policy that led England to tax the American colonies, while self interest in turn led the colonies to resist.* It was national policy that, years ago, led to the arbitration of the Alabama claims, and later concerning the Venezuela boundary. These *National policy led the Canadian government, a hundred years ago, to enact the renowned INDIAN POLICY which has there proved so eminently successful. National policy induced our government, under the presidency of Gen'l Grant, to follow their example;-and would to God that succeeding Congresses had left that policy to work out its beneficial results,