Show Prof N L Nelson Reviews Prof J H Evans Book I T la Is I matter maler of ot congratulation that IT I the day of ot the scholar the day doy of at I the patient student Is beginning to come In among Imong the th Saints Saint It 1 means greater accuracy In the facts behind our fu tu future U ture tur literature and anti freedom tr edom from ver verbiage vel biage In II the expression of ot them The remark Is I cp especially apt alI lu Ill I view viett of oC u n recently published hom Which It IH is tl my may mj pleasure to I 1 refer to One Hundred Years of Met Mor or monism by John fohn lel of ot the L Ij L b I S university In Iii h hil his preface the author assures I Ures us UI that hu he linn been live fv years ear at work vork on this history hl tor during which timo ho Ito hu hUH buss read very every accessible book pamphlet or article relating to tho the subject whether t Mormon M or anti anil Mormon which nOI fact encourages tho tue to hope h p that lint the lh book bk Is I u n thoroughly reliable narrative of ot u a 1 much mich maligned lal I olt and 11 condensed ed to i such uch moderate that tile the busi busiest i Oct est of ot men may mor tImid find time tinie to real It I Tim chin h book hol which Is la from Crom the tue Deseret De eret News Newl press Itress Neal Is IB a n volume of oC page In very ery readable type stUd and handsomely bound hould In ism II cloth cioth decorated with wih a u con COIl v designs design of ot the tho century aloo all In bloom Aa ss I shall have to so 0 many man mail good things to my sa 1 about this tilts vork later Ia ter on ont Oi I 1 as aH well wel be tie le done bib with my lily lY fault finding right here on the start UI to tl almost the tue end of ot my task tl lt rays rys Mr Mi h Evans BYRns It II was vas my ToY Intention to t C publish a It completo bibliography of ot the subject It I teems felm to mo me regret regrettable table tabie that the question of ot space ruled out tIlls this thi design never siever I Ie 1 tm nH a n matter of ot tact fact look hook lok up UI u the tise references In foot toot notes nevertheless one feels Calls more comfortably accuse CUle of the facts tact acts set when the authorities are ure cited cled Two 10 may mB bu be II urged In Justification for Cor or their omission slon The Tho book Is hI In story form Corm anti and alms aims ahn at nt the continuous of oC a n novel noyel and It I Is l written primarily for tor the tho young roun men ren mind and women of the tho Church Chuich the tile sons antI ami daughters In iii the main of ot those heroic souls whose deeds are here recorded The ho book Is II however so thoroughly readable that It II should also alf have hae a 1 wide Iee circulation In high schools and colleges where sources BurCK of fact are Iro ly scanned and 1111 among outsiders who naturally read with wih HUS mius HiS The fhe most serious fault however ho 1 1 li iq lithe 1 the tile el tre nce of ot an Oil Index 1 I tune hove had bind to 10 doear the pages to 10 keep In wind Just jut what I want wont In this Nor or Is II the table of oC contents of ot tho ho least service lerI ns as IS a guide guidI the tha chapter t ties being bing for tor the roost part Ih url live 11 BH ass ni for tor Instance Rising fUsing from the lie tho Ashes Malevolent Echoes Ech I A Ram Itom lit II Ii the thi th Thicket and no ito 10 on Oi fragments o 0 which seem apt enough when you YOl get through with n a f chapter but utterly enigmatical n as 01 you OU approach It I am Informed that the author Is now no nt at work York remedying this tills defect and that the nut next lot bound bould will wi contain nn ass In iii Hex lex lIe lo should niso nl o publish n a few row pages of ot bibliography next the Index The predominating characteristic In Prof Prot brans Ivans 1 style stylI la is simplicity stint and di II I 1 was about to 10 say sn a charm ing simplicity and directness When the advance sheets first frt reached reachel me IC previous to tho j coring forth of oC the tho book I grea greatly ly this not be so I was afraid that as arm lS In So BO much of ot our home hOle literature the feelings of oC the writer wrier had hiatt unduly colored color d his hi In iii I T um pleased now to bo be able to assure t tile the readers renders that the poetic finery of the time table of ot contents Is U no foretaste of oC a corresponding or nr style this the book Is admirably free tree from nauseating sentimentality Perhaps I cannot do better beter that quote Proto Prof Evans account of oC a n familiar episode In the Prophets life as ns Illustration of oC this tact fact The that attaches to 10 the tue apostasy of Booth anti and Ryder Hyder at this time Is 18 that they led n a 1 strong opposition opposition against the result cd el In the customary mob violence This disturbance occurred In the latter later part of March arch On the night of oC the when Joseph exhausted by long at nt the tue bedside of two sick pick fIck children thu Murdoch twins which had adopted In place of her herO O which hail had h died had thrown him himself hll self upon ulon tin tim bed beI and fallen asleep aSlee Emma who had hor retired was sae awakened nel by II hi a 1 tapping nt at the tho window which however she else took no particular notice of at nt at the tha time hut But Jut It I only a 1 few moments till ti a dozen men own broke Into the room roughly took up tip lp the tise sleeping form torm of or Joseph Josel h and dragged him out amid tho the screams of his hil wire wife und and his ills own oln struggles gus to free tree himself from their grasp About Abolt 30 rods from froni the hue house they Ule canoe came cale upon another band of ot men with Higdon Hgdon Uio vho had been drugged dragged by hy the tho feet teet his hil head heal beating against the rough frozen ground Leaving unconscious the united mob Increasing In ill number every minute went about 30 rods further where they held a consultation to determine what should bo be Io done with wih the Prophet hile the majority were sero thus en engaged engaged n it number of ot others held Joseph being careful to keep him him tram from touch louch touchIng touching Ing the ground lest iest he ho should spring away from them The result of ot tha the deliberation was vas that he should be bo stripper stripped of ot his clothes anti and then lien covered with tar und and feathers With threats horrible Imprecations anti and blasphemy they the p this outre upon the tho person forcing the tar lar Into his mouth anti and breaking a n vial of ot liquid his teeth They hey then lien left leCt After A several attempts to rise nice rl e ehe he foully finally succeeded wiped awny away tha the tutu tar III from his lila lips Ups eo 80 o that he might breathe r aU more freely Cree and Ild made his way towards a n light which he found Cound Issued train from his own window Calling Caling for tor a n blanket he lie entered this tho house where a n number of ot sisters hearing of ot the trouble hUll hud collected ell H lQ Its spent the rest of the night In removing the hue tar and ald cleansing his hi body boll bod The Time next day being Sunday he preached at II the hue usual meet fleet meeting tag ing ot of the tho Saints several of oC the mob being bellg In attendance but he mash madu marl no allusions to the preceding night For or several days ta R after this barbarous treat treal treatment ment Sidney was wa delirious The committee of ot brethren whose en endorsement nt follows the thie title tle page aiN after mentioning that t time the th writing wiltIng Is plain simple and direct add that there theela IH Is ap apparently lar nt no muD effort nt itt It literary embellish embellishment ment mont I 1 suspect that It I would I be bl near nearer nearer er or the mark to say cay sy that so 80 carefully tm hb the work worl been chiseled and polished that almost ohno t every ter ever trace of literary ant fcc ce Is II hidden To write n a plain un an unvarnished varnished tale Is 15 the acme of fC literary embellishment thIs thin Ihl Is II art ort which actu atus actually art arl It be betaken b ally all succeeds In hiding I may 11 taken for granted that lout tin this Ihl readers mental energy Is economized the writers wrier mental energy has hUl been beener very er severely serel taxed taud I 1 like your our book boo It SO 80 much mich said a lady lally to Sheridan It ItIs Itin IH Is so en 10 easy to read Yes madam re replied r rs plied pled the dramatist somewhat gustily gruffly but perhaps you 01 dont realize that books easy to read rear are lre d dd d hard hAd to Write It I Is 18 In Its It perspectives and retro especially that One me appreciates the literary work wor which tins has made lall this 1 on nn easy book to read hIstory Is II not I here related chronologically or by that I mot most obvious law lav la I of or sequence unity In time and space That Tat method throws all ahl 01 the burden of ot unity unify 1 and co cc coherency upon the tho reader It Is 18 an easy way Wa a to n Ie history but n a 1 hard way to rend maui It On the contrary facts In Et Eans ns ho sk are massed by b higher latti of association a by b cause nud effect by b contrast by resemblance by h the tha th correlation of oC genus and species Chap Chapters ten tel hart 4 e way r of or pointing forward a In lit n a 1 novel also of ot looking hack back so that lint the known be bo present In tha thi mind to help Interpret time the Ih n new w and amid un This Tills and ond retrospect murk also ursu the transition nf of o paragraphs Here hero Is an nn Instance Tim The career of the notorious Doctor Den Ben Dennett Bennett nett has hus been traced down 1101 to the when the Prophet Joseph refused to II sustain him further ns at al a result of ot f bolm boin b ln ed Kennett Bennet is Ie r ns as n being v ry 1 penitent Should the time ever come COle mud he that I nuts may ia have ho tim opportunity to test my soy faith It I will wi then tilen bu III h whether I am ann a ut or tar ora Ir Ira tara a true tru man So closes clones eM one IO na of oC ProC Evans Evons paragraphs Tho next like the jaws of or o a 1 steel trap That eare eane amid proved him traitor to the tise bone It I la is I by hy rhetorical devices ot on this typo type t hidden to 10 the tili tl ordinary read rend render reader er or hut but obvious to II the Un dent nf of lt that Interest In is I aroused and k kist nt In the this story Perhaps It le is I too to much to expect exp of any the tho sIts Interested alY tat 1 nt odor which hi In us 11 the lie 1 11 I 11 paints David the tho national hero of ot In II 1 rael inet orf both and ant adulterer 1 Yet If It we are ever ver er to stand im urn ll a I light unto the lie nations we wo must IU t write history with Just jast that severe l cre to truth truths lh There are arc In II our which oll ell nor apologised apolo apologized should not be lie IH glossed lol over nr hut but should bo bm left let naked for Jor us ls S Sto to feel teci bunT bad about and for tor our children 1 children to feel bad brul l about No discipline disc pline could coull bo In more wholesome than thal this for fat the time sanity of n a heO plo isle I am nm sorry I cannot 11 mists y that Prof Evans belongs belong to this hula Claa clau of ot historians historian He lie e approaches th lie standard however to the extent nf ot giving I tog ing honestly whatever show of oC rea n nour our tsar sony may Iny havo had hiatt for tor their conduct Another nother admirable feature Is Ishi hi 1111 his Attempt to reasons In the play sisal Interplay of purely human hman motives for tor much that other writers among us attribute en bloc to the devil devi One commendable feature of ot hull hl boo molt aie lieu lies In tnt the fact that It Is Ii I no Ito 10 echo of ot any nn l other book It I reaches mite Hide pendent conclusion sonIc Some of ot these the tho render reader will perhaps disagree with withas ns as when wilen the wi writer ns asserts erts that tin the 11 plates were under ulder Josephs eye ee as lS he lIe translated the Hook of ot Mormon Other he will wi be grateful tot for Who Vilo has not wondered for tor Instance at sIt II that 10 enigmatical episode In lii the tho life of ot the Prophet hil hii candidacy for C r president dent of ot the tho United States Prof Evans I analyzes the hue political situation and makes make you DU fee that tins tl only sane Salle tIling thins thilI for tor tho the Saints to do W wai o throw throwaway away their thell sate ote to II escape party larty Tint That any Mormon entertained the vaguest hope concerning lie tho and his Is suet not to be thought of ns os within the time con connected nil of Everything range ranKe o probability rOi with the he goes to how this hiss wih th Ir political ns as ni nn au opportunity ol to prove ical to escape the thue political snare cOI that WIS ns already around their feet and ald to get set before the tre people original null and power powerful of the nation some saro ful til nil ideas respecting re government Need I urge tinge In conclusion that Oslo One Hundred lundrell Years of oC should be In the hand of ot every young In lit the lust first place this history wilt will 1 I am nm confident be read with Interest by the thue average hoy hay or II wih girl train from preface to conclusion lon In Inthe Inthe Inthe the 1111 next place pinel It will wil If IC I 1 mistake mil n of oC their arouse In them the lie heroic spirit fathers t and an help hell commit them Irrevocably irrevocably ably to tile the cause e of ot Zion Ion It 1 ought moreover to banish forever that lend ency to 10 feel apologetic Mr fM Mormon MormonIsm lorron Ism I HiltI ltd its past t which some minnie of ot our I Ii make malc young people foolishly tool them hold haIti up their heads heats with n a 1 Just and achieve achievement pride In iii II their ancestry Ind ment In short client I know knol of ot no Iso book bool bookmore bookmore more likely Just now to stiffen Ittel the ranks of oC our people for Cor their destiny than this tale talo of ot Mor Mormonism IorI monism I One other remark In this connection It I may mn not seem tem out of ot place Does occur to the thc Il rray Saint that 11 one aspect of ot the glory of oC Blon ioli must In bo he bl that which fluIds finds It 18 its ex cx expression lon In her hel literature Anti And A that tho iso author who If it I lit lie hI could bo Ire Ul supported while he writes would do ro more than n a thousand preachers to 10 up 11 build the kingdom must nevertheless live lic like tho the rest rc t of o his Isis brethren If It not notly by ly le tho tim Ik use USI of o his lilt pen then hy by the thu abandoning of oC his pen A farmer or len business mon dropping out of oC his pro profusion lJ fusion would make no 10 difference to the ho advancement of our cause Hut Belt would the same thing thilI he be true rise nf ot ti it I gifted writer lame For the tho price of ot a 1 theater ticket this book may bo he put into Inlo your our library Moreover the tho dramas and tragedies of ot life contained within Its Is covers are not nol for tor n a moment to be compared with the nitre more passing show of ot fiction In their power ower of ot formation N L N |