Show HONEST journalism an english newspapers unbiased review of mormon books the didham manchester england chronicle of the alt reviews several of alie standard church works in the following language doctrine and covenants this well got up volume is a manual of doctrine and duties fraid to have been given by inspiration toJos epli smith the founder and first prophet of mormonism or the church of the latter day saints in many respects the contents of the work correspond to the letters in the new testament they expound dogmas in clear fervid and masculine english and they inculcate a very high moral code the earlier part of the work con of seven powerful searching and telling lectures on faith and the latter part contains a letter from brigham young no one is in a position to say what mormonism is till he has carefully and impartially read the work before us it is wonderful and impressive reading and tends to turn the edge of many of the hard things that the unthinking are ever ready to hurl at the heads of mormon leaders the voice of warning this volume so pungent pithy and pointed is one of the ablest defenses defences de fences of in our language it is luminous persuasive fervid the author reasons with much skill and drives homo his conclusions with force he is mighty in the scriptures and so contrives to throw much fresh light on less known passages spencers letters these letters in de ul n ere n alllen by an ex baptist minister and in them he gives his reason for his change of faith they are calm solid weighty and im pr are clearly the utterances of ne who made severe sacrifices for conscience sake and cannot ant ba read much seriousness by who value the rule of conscience they present a strong plea on behalf 0 f the church of the latter dav saint key to theology the gifted author of this able and vigorous volume parity P pratt was pro eminently the dogmatic theologian of mormonism he was a scholar a thinker an esposet es poser and is quite at home in presenting to us a sya keiu of mormon theology his work ought to be read by all who would like to know what the cormons mormons Mor mons really do tc lieve it Is an honest transparent and really interesting work which ought to be mastered at least by ministers of religion the pearl of great price by many this collection of visions revelations and translations is the most striking of the whole of our mormon literature apart altogether from its claims aad vie wing it only as a publication it ia quite unique if we reject the mormon account of its origin we ought to be ready with an account more reasonable it is because that this is not done that mormon headway in EngI andAll the priests demand a better explanation of the origin of their documents than the one they give and this not forthcoming the people imagine that the priests have scored a triumph it is largely a question of literary criticism critis ism and our religious teachers ought to be able to our thoughts on alie subject the cormons mormons have cause to be proud of the works which they isado in this country |