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Show " By Order of the Prophet." -By Order of the Prophet," a startling story of early Mormon life, is on sale at the bookstore of .L. F. Hammel, 49 West Second South street. It is a story which has for its foundation the proselyting pros-elyting schemes of the Mormon church in foreign lands. The story is well written and full of incidents. in-cidents. It narrates the subtle proselyting, intrigue in-trigue and "sealing" secrets of the early Mormon church in Salt Lake City, under the regime of Brigham Young. The heroine is a sweet, pure English girl, the daughter of a Methodist minister minis-ter in Cornwall, who, after listening to the preaching preach-ing of a young Mormon missionary, who at the outset knows nothing of the practice of polygamy just being initiated into the Church of Latter-Day Latter-Day Saints, marries the English girl and returns to his home in Zion. Here he is at once initiated into the secrets of the church, and, impressed ' with the spiritual necessity of taking another wife, goes through tho form of having a second, third and then fourth wife kidded to his household. house-hold. The young English wife, horrified by the unexpected innovation, flees from her husband aid finds aid in the person of a young amy officer, who is in turn wounded by the irate his-band. his-band. Rev. Alfred H. Henry, a Methodist ministei of the Gospel, formerly of this city, and now pastor of the Mountain View Methodist church of Bu te, Mont., is the author of this worthy contribut on to Western literature, and, while not a direct it-tack it-tack on Mormonism, it deals with admitted cn-ditions cn-ditions forcefully, and lays bare the whole s s-tem s-tem of polygamy as preached and practiced un er Brigham Young. The work is well illustrated, but its style is somewhat crude in -regard to detail. Its dialc Is well written, although there are many crull-ties crull-ties in its continuity which mark the work o a veil-meaning but erratic writer. It lacks, perhaps, per-haps, fitting climax to otherwise dramatic nar-a-tions, although as a story of typical Mormon life it will fill a niche creditably as a sketch of un-usual un-usual interest. |