MORMONISM, ITS LEADERS AND DESIGNS.
CHAPTER I.
- Mormonism in England and America
- Embraces Mormonism
- Is ordained and preaches
- Goes as a missionary to France
- Leaves England for America
- Visits Carthage and Nauvoo
- The Smiths
- Icariens
- The plains
- Indians
- Arrives at Salt Lake
- Initiated into the Mormon mysteries
- Efforts to leave Salt Lake City
- Appointed a missionary to the Sandwich Islands
- Leaves for California
- Doubts and difficulties
- Pacific ocean
- Arrives at Sandwich Islands
- Renounces Mormonism
- Brigham's certificate
- Motive for active conduct of the Church toward him.
Books require to be instructive and credible. These qualities altogether depend on the opportunities of the author to obtain corrrect information, and the purity of his motives in imparting it. To have been a Mormon, is to be an object of suspicion. To be an apostate, is to be regarded with distrust. To be an apostate Mormon, is to be doubly suspected. As the weight of testimony entirely depends on the credibility of the witness, I therefore commence my evidence with a statement as to myself. Who I am, how I became what I am, and why I write, are questions every one should ask. I endeavor to reply. Mormonism in England and Mormonism in Utah are two very different systems. In England all its objectionable principles were not only ignored, but denied.
