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Hardcover. ix, 367 p.; front.(port.); 20.5 cm. John Watson (Ian Maclaren), of the Presbyterian Church of England at Liverpool, 1850-1907. From a letter written from Salt Lake City during Watson's second visit to America, April 1899: `In the morning we had entered the plain in which the city of the Mormons stands. Once this was a waste of barren land, and dry as dust. Brigham Young, the leader of the Mormon pilgrims, looked at this inhospitable land with the eye of faith, and saw what it might be made. He struck his staff upon the ground and declared this to be Mount Zion. Near the tabernacle stands the Assembly Hall, which was full in the evening when I lectured. The judge of the city presided, and several of the Mormon dignitaries were present. In the forenoon I had an interview with two heads of the community, and received much courtesy as well as information at their hands. One of their bishops showed us over the city, and was a most agreeable man. Mr. Moody was preaching in Salt Lake City when we were there, and the Mormon papers were most favourable; their only criticism was that he did not state the "Plan of Salvation" with sufficient clearness. From this you will understand how evangelical the Mormons are, and how suspicious they are of doubtful doctrine. A Mormon Senator has been sent to the Congress, who is an avowed polygamist, and the churches are much concerned. The position is made the more difficult by the fact that, apart from their "peculiar institution," the Mormons are a hard-working, law-abiding, and moral set of people. They are, in fact, a survival of the early process of civilisation, and are now a return in their family arrange ments to semi-barbarism, which in course of time will die out.' (p. 221 f.) Good lt. spotted orig. green cloth. Gilt top.