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Mormonism Exposed 
 
 BY 
 
 THOMAS PHILIP MARSHALL 
 
 EX-ELDER OF THE UTAH 
 MORMON CHURCH, 
 
 WITH 
 
 The Secret Workings, Washings, Anointings 
 and Ceremonies performed in 
 their Temples, 
 
 TOGETHER 
 
 With the secret signs, grips and their names by 
 which they can make themselves known 
 to one another, either in crowds, or 
 walking along the streets 
 of our cities. 
 
 -ALSO- 
 
 The horrible and barbarous punishment inflicted 
 upon all who dare to divulge t hese 
 secrets outside theiS ' , 
 temple wallg^v*' 
 
 Oh! may all things herein contained, 
 
 Be swallowed with a thirst fpr more, 
 
 Of great truths from the world detained. 
 
 Through chicanery of false pfnp^ts,’ ^ore. 
 
 1919 
 
 The proceeds accruing from the sale of this book will be appro- 
 priated for the promulgation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout 
 the world. 
 
 PRICE, 25 CENTS 
 
 Copyright 1908, by THOMAS PHILIP MARSHALL. 
 
 Registered in the Office of the Librarian of 
 Congress, Washington, D. C. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Dear reader, I fully realize the mag- 
 nitude of my undertaking to expose 
 the fraud and deception of this fallen peo- 
 ple, whose number is, I presume, about 
 800,000 strong, devoted as they are to 
 their religious rituals, instituted by their 
 leaders, in order to deceive the world 
 and evade the laws of the land in which 
 they dwell in all civilized countries, even 
 the heathen and semi-civilized pbrtions 
 of the earth, wherever their doctrines 
 have been promulgated by their elders 
 and properly understood by the natives, 
 it becomes obnoxious to them when 
 compared with their Mohammed, Budda, 
 Confucious and Shinto systems of re- 
 ligion. How much more, then, does its 
 stench arise into the nostrils of the fol- 
 lowers of the meek and lowly Nazarine, 
 whose teachings and example given 
 throughout His pure and holy life have 
 been quoted and admired by all isms in 
 whatever country they may be, at home 
 or abroad. 
 
 The anger of the Great Jehovah is now 
 kindled against them, and unless they 
 repent, the time is now ripe for their 
 downfall and destruction, their days are 
 numbered, their times are in the hands 
 
of God, who, unless they repent, will 
 visit them with fierce and swift de- 
 struction. 
 
 This book is dedicated to the glory and 
 honor of God that His “will may be 
 done on earth as it is in heaven,” and 
 as a voice of warning to this fallen peo- 
 ple that their dark and diabolical deeds 
 are exposed to the world by one who is 
 willing to bear the wrath and indignation 
 of a cruel people whose crimes now cry 
 cut unto the Lord for vengeance. 
 
 The abuse of the Mormon world may 
 be hurled against the v/riter, but he 
 regards it not — even death itself — so 
 long as this book fills its mission and 
 carries conviction to the souls of this 
 deluded and fallen people, who are 
 blinded by theory and lost to the prac- 
 tice of true holiness before the Lord. 
 This end being accomplished, the writer 
 is willing to depart in peace, leaving 
 others more able, but not more willing, 
 to “offer up their bodies as a living sac- 
 rifice to God, which is our reasonable 
 service/’ through the exposure of Mor- 
 nvonism. May this book be the means 
 of doing much good and cause many 
 Mormons and non-Mormons to think 
 and thereby draw nearer, still nearer, my 
 God, to Thee. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The object of this book is to make 
 known to the world the secret workings 
 carried on inside the Mormon temples 
 with their closed doors and thick walls, 
 strongly and safely guarded against 
 intrusion, for they make their boast that 
 the foot of an unbeliever, either in spir- 
 itual or physical life, has never trod 
 upon their floors, nor never shall, not even 
 to clean, dust or repair the interior of 
 the premises. 
 
 This we know to be true, for there 
 are many good people who call themselves 
 Mormons — that is, they believe in Mor- 
 monism as taught to the outside world, 
 but know nothing of Mormonism as 
 taught in their temples, of which they 
 have four, built at a cost of from one to 
 four million dollars each. The temple at 
 Salt Lake City, Utah, is said to have cost 
 about four million dollars. 
 
 No preaching of the gospel or expo- 
 sitions of the Scriptures are conducted 
 within its (sacred) whlls. They claim 
 the work performed there is for the “liv- 
 ing and the dead” ; hence the secrecy of 
 their doings. 
 
Most of the male members, after a 
 rigid examination, pass through the sev- 
 eral grades or degrees of the Aaronic 
 priesthood, priesthood meaning authority 
 from the Lord. In this priesthood there 
 are three degrees, and they are raised 
 from deacon to teacher, then priest, and, 
 if found proficient in all respects, they 
 are ordained tc theMelchisedec priesthood, 
 which they claim to be the highest of all, 
 it being conferred by the Father upon 
 His Son, as mentioned in Heb. 5, 10th 
 verse. 
 
 These ordinations take place outside 
 the temples when raised to eldership — 
 that is, to the Melchisedec priesthood — 
 there being only one degree, but many 
 offices, in said priesthood, and after un- 
 dergoing another examination by the 
 bishop and receiving credentials from 
 him they are admitted into the temple, 
 and each elder can then take with him a 
 female, wife, mother, sister or any female 
 relative of the same faith as taught to 
 the outside world. 
 
 It is not the purpose of this book to 
 criticise their outside teachings before 
 the world, for their literature is broad- 
 cast over the land, some of which appear 
 to bear fair comparison with that of 
 ’other sects and denominations. Of these 
 we shall speak in our next edition, which 
 will be on a more comprehensive and 
 larger scale. The sole object of this 
 book is to let the world know who and 
 
what Mormons are, not what they seem 
 to be. The inside teachings given in the 
 temples, not the outside teachings given 
 to the world. 
 
 The reader of this book can rely with 
 implicit confidence that nothing but the 
 truth is here aimed at, and that, too, with- 
 out coloring so as to make it pleasing to 
 the ear or horrible to the spiritual na- 
 ture oif men. The writer has many 
 good friends among them, and would to 
 God, the Eternal Father of all, that they 
 would awake to a full realization of their 
 condition in the sight of Almighty God 
 and not be surprised at the Judgment Day 
 that their names were not written in the 
 Lamb’s Book of Life, as described by 
 John the Revelator. 
 
 “May my right hand forget its skill,” 
 
 To use the pen or pencil at will, 
 
 Should I e’er fail men to impress 
 With dangers of the soul’s distress. 
 
 “May my tongue rest within its head, 
 Mute as the voices of the dead,’’ 
 
 If from the world it longer he concealed, 
 The ways of God to me revealed. 
 
 Dear reader, you may say that my ef- 
 forts are futile; to put myself, single- 
 handed against about 800,000 people is 
 but foolhardy. To this I will say, No. 
 “The race is not to the swift nor the bat- 
 tle to the strong.” “If the Lord be for 
 us who can be against us?” 
 
 We care not what men may say or do 
 while the Lord is on our side. The bat- 
 
tie is on. This is the first gun fired 
 against the stronghold of the powers 
 of darkness, and while it may be si- 
 lenced before the fortress falls and the 
 enemy be subdued, there are millic^ns 
 more to keep up the cannonading. The 
 firing shall never cease, nor shall we call 
 for a flag of truce until the armies of the 
 Lord our God shall gain the victory for 
 His Christ, the Captain if our salva- 
 tion, in the very near future, when out 
 of the ashes of Mormonism truth shall 
 arise and shine forth in its native splen- 
 dor bright and glorious as the morning 
 star. 
 
 It is not with what men have been, 
 but with what they now are, that we 
 have to deal, and to accomplish this end 
 we must trace the history of the Mormon 
 Church from its infancy down to the pres- 
 ent time, which includes a period of about 
 seventy-eight years. As said before, it is 
 net the mission of this book to criticise 
 their outside teachings, except in a few 
 cases where it may be deemed necessary 
 in order to observe the line of demarca- 
 tion which separates the real from the 
 supposed truth, and to this end may the 
 Divine Spirit be our guide. Amen. 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 The Writers Experience and Earnest 
 Desire. 
 
 As the lightning’s flash purifies the air, and 
 purges it from all atmospheric impurities, so 
 religious thought ennobles and beautifies the 
 soul and reflects back its rays through the 
 eyes and countenance of men and women. 
 
 The writer being an ex-elder of the 
 Utah Mormon Church places him in a 
 position to know the teaching of said 
 church, both in and out of the temple, 
 for both are diametrically opposed to 
 each other. The Mormon elders are, 
 in general, a good disposed class of very 
 intelligent young men, who in all prob- 
 ability had never been in the temple but 
 one time, and that for the purpose of 
 obtaining their endowments and receiv- 
 ing instructions as to what to do, how to 
 act and what to teach when out on the 
 two years’ or more mission ; therefore 
 the other acts and scenes in the religious 
 drama were but little thought of and 
 soon vanished from the minds as a 
 thing of the past, not realizing the full 
 import of their meaning, for strict in- 
 junctions are given them to follow the 
 rules laid down or suffer the penalty at- 
 
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 tached for - non-compliance with their 
 obligations, namely, called in and given 
 a dishonorable discharge, thereby placing 
 them in utter contempt with their asso- 
 ciates and lowering them in the estima- 
 tion of their people. Were it not for 
 this, there would be many desertions 
 from their ranks. They are so in- 
 ured into their faise teachings and the dog- 
 mas of their superiors that they follow on in 
 docile submission without a murmur, be- 
 lieving that the ceremonies, washings, 
 anointings, vows and, horrible punish- 
 ments inflicted by the hand of God and 
 man while in the body and out of the 
 body upon all who violate them. These 
 supposed revelations coming from the 
 Lord are so solemnly impressed upon 
 the minds, as they once were upon the 
 writers, as to deter and appal the stout- 
 est heart, who know not that it is only 
 a solemn mockery, framed through the 
 desire and deep laid schemes fostered 
 and matured in the prolific minds of 
 Brigham Young and his predecessor, Jo- 
 seph Smith. 
 
 The - writer’s most earnest desire is to 
 broadcast this book far and near in hope 
 that a copy may fall into the hands of 
 every Mormon elder on or off the Church 
 mission, ponder well over its contents, and 
 if out on the mission, go back to Utah, that 
 beautiful city, Salt Lake, enter the tern- 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 11 
 
 pie and refresh their meories, then 
 make comparison with this book, at the 
 same time paying strict attention to every 
 act and scene in the religious farce ; then 
 return to their private chambers at their 
 homes and take the whole to the Lord 
 in prayer, saying, My God, Oh, my God! 
 Art Thou a kind and affectionate Fa- 
 ther who hast sent Thy beloved Son Je- 
 sus Christ into the world to save sinners, 
 and the history of His life and teach- 
 ings show Him to be meek and lowly 
 and full of compassion for all men, or 
 art Thou such a terrible Father as to 
 inflict the cruel, brutal and degrading 
 punishments upon Thy children as our 
 supposed prophets claim they received by 
 revelation from Thee, to chastise and put 
 to death any and all of Thy children 
 who dare oppose Thy will by making 
 these things known. 
 
 After due consideration of these things 
 and good , honest-hearted, fervent prayer, 
 they will be better and wiser men. May 
 they think, as the writer did, and not be 
 guided by priestcraft, allowing others to 
 think for 'them, and dare not say, nay, 
 you are wrong. 
 
 Now, dear reader, and fellow-travel- 
 er on the way, for your own sake and 
 that of all you hold most dear, do not 
 give this a cursory reading and then 
 throw it away without meditation over 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 its contents. Leave prejudice for or 
 against the Mormon people aside, and 
 judge with a righteous judgment. You 
 will profit thereby. 
 
 THE REAL BUT NOT SUPPOSED 
 
 Blessed be the man who can see clear, 
 
 The beauties of the celestial sphere, 
 
 And comprehend the ways of God; 
 
 Revealed to men from that abode. 
 
 Dear reader, in a book like this we 
 cannot give an elaborate history of the 
 origin of the Mormon Church and its 
 founders in full detail, but in a brief and 
 concise manner state facts without prej- 
 udice for or against that deluded people, 
 who, through lack of a thorough inves- 
 tigation into its origin and the circum- 
 stances which enabled its leaders to 
 formulate (their plans and promulgate 
 their doctrines so as to bind the little 
 band of adherents and hold them to- 
 gether in unity, at least for a short pe- 
 riod of time, before schisms, dissensions 
 and divisions separated them into fac- 
 tions, each contending one against ;an- 
 other during the whole period of its 
 seventy-eight years of existence down to 
 the present time. Out of the many fac- 
 tions into which it has been divided, about 
 sixteen in all, the two leading ones, 
 namely, the Brighamites and Josephites, 
 have become powerful factors in the 
 present day, especially the Brighamites, 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 13 
 
 who have now about 2,000 missionaries 
 in the field covering all countries and 
 the islands of the seas. 
 
 We only ask you for a careful read- 
 ing of this book and an impartial con- 
 sideration of its contents, before render- 
 ing judgment for or against the people 
 or the writer; the sole object being to 
 throw light upon all who seek after 
 truth, in order that they may see their way 
 to approach the line of demarcation 
 which divides the real from the supposed 
 truth and thereby bring them to a knowl- 
 edge of things as they are, not as they 
 appear to be, that is truth and “truth 
 shall make you free” from the doctrines, 
 commandments and dogmas of men. 
 
 ORIGIN OF THE MORMON CHURCH.. 
 
 The Mormon Church was first organ- 
 ized in the State of New York, U. S. A., 
 on the 6th day of April, 1830, under the 
 leadership of a stalwart, religious and in- 
 telligent young man, Joseph Smith, a 
 farmer, possessed of very strong and 
 sensitive mediumistic powers, who, at 
 that time was, and now is, acknowledged 
 by his followers as a prophet of the Ford. 
 He gave the church organized by him 
 the name, “Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- 
 ter Day Saints:” The words “latter 
 day ” being added to distinguish it from 
 the former day saints organized by 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 Christ and His chosen apostles on the 
 Eastern continent. 
 
 Joseph Smith’s spiritual guide being 
 one of the last of a long line of 
 good and religious men, who inhabited 
 the American continent for centuries be- 
 fore and immediately after the time of 
 Christ, was placed in charge of the rec- 
 ords containing the history of his people 
 and handed down from one generjatiojn 
 to another during their sojourn on the 
 American continent. The records being 
 so voluminous, his father Mormon made 
 an abridgement of them, and at his death 
 handed them over to his son Moroni, who. 
 before his death buried them in the side of 
 a hill called Cumora, situated near Palmyra, 
 Wayne County, State of New York, U. 
 •S. A. So said Joseph Smith. He being 
 very sensitive and of strong mediumistic 
 powers, as we have said before, Moroni 
 had no difficulty in opening up to Jo- 
 seph’s view a vision of the place where 
 they lay buried by the hand of Moroni, 
 son of Mormon, who condensed them. 
 So Joseph knew the place when pre- 
 sented in a vision before him, because it 
 was near his own home, and on the fol- 
 lowing day he went and marked the spot, 
 so as it could be easily found by him 
 when the time arrived for their removal ; 
 for Moroni appeared before him, and 
 would not permit him to remove the 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 15 
 
 plates at that time, he not being ready for 
 their reception. 
 
 Moroni was not an angel, as believed 
 •by the Mormons, nor never shall be, be- 
 cause an angel is a spirit that never had 
 nor never shall have a material body. 
 Moroni having had an earthly taber- 
 nacle, consequently he cannot be an an- 
 gel ; and as to the plates, it is claimed 
 they were of gold of uniform thickness, 
 and the engravings to be found thereon 
 to be bright and clear . Science claims that 
 gold will corrode if not used for a lesser 
 time than 1,400 years, the time the plates 
 lay buried. As to the truth or falsity of 
 the Mormon claim, the writer leaves it 
 with the reader to be the judge. 
 
 TRANSLATION OF THE BOOK OF 
 MORMON. 
 
 The book of Mormon was not trans- 
 lated by the use of an instrument, they 
 claim was found with the plates, called 
 the Urim and Thummim, by the use of 
 which, through the gift and power of 
 God given to Joseph Smith, the book 
 was translated into the English language. 
 It was translated by the spirits of those 
 who wrote it. We are now speaking of 
 incidents of the present generation, and 
 it is almost universally admitted that 
 spirits can and do control the actions of 
 men and women by what is called inspi- 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 ration, reincarnation and reinhabitation. 
 The writer of the book of Mormon, which 
 they claim lay buried 1,400 years, by tak- 
 ing- possession of Joseph Smith’s organs 
 of speech, uttered the words in English, 
 and Martin Harris wrote them down as 
 dictated by the spirit which utilized Jo- 
 seph Smith’s organs of speech. You may 
 call this by whatever name you please. 
 It is manifested and demonstrated by 
 hundreds of men and women in this City 
 of St. Louis and others throughout the 
 world. It is a daily occurrence witnessed 
 by the writer. It is acknowledged by 
 science and demonstrated by thousands 
 of earth’s inhabitants. It is acknowledged 
 in the Old and New Testaments, and is 
 the leading power of the world with its 
 scientific achivements apart from the 
 god of the world (mammon). Hence the 
 admonition of Paul, “Try the spirits,” is 
 very applicable to the true followers of 
 the lowly Nazarine, for many who are 
 influenced or controlled by spirits other 
 than their own claim that it is the Holy 
 Ghost operating upon their minds and 
 bodies. If that be so, then there is more 
 than one Holy Ghost, for it seems they 
 all teach and preach different doctrines, 
 if doctrines you may call them. Of these, 
 I say, beware. There is only one God, 
 the Great Eternal Father, ' who created 
 you; one Son, the Lord Jesus, the Christ, 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 17 
 
 who redeemed you, and one Divine 
 Spirit, or Holy Ghost, who sanctifieth 
 you. Yet there are many who believe 
 this — the Mormons do — but they have not 
 the power of discernment to distinguish 
 the difference between a prophet of the 
 Great Eternal God and that of , one of the 
 gods of Baal, or of the world; therefore 
 they accept anything given them by 
 a good, religious spirit, and place their 
 stamp upon it as a revelation from the 
 Angelic or Celestial spheres, sent to them 
 as messengers of the Great Jehovah. 
 
 If Joseph Smith was a true prophet, 
 seer and revelator, sent by the Lord, that 
 through his instrumentality he might 
 bring the world to a true knowledge of 
 the Scriptures, I ask, why did he write 
 thirteen articles of faith and attach his 
 signature to them, and in the second of 
 these deny the teachings of Christ and 
 His chosen disciples and set the exam- 
 ple for all mankind to follow? 
 
 The second article reads thus: “We 
 
 believe that men will be punished for 
 their own sins, and not for Adam’s trans- 
 gression.” This means that we are not 
 baptized ‘for the remission of original 
 sin, but simply for our own transgres- 
 sions. If that be so, then the vicarious 
 sacrifice offered by our blessed Lord was 
 not complete, as we must enter the pres- 
 ence of God, the Father, with the orig- 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 inal sin still hanging over us for con- 
 demnation. Consequently we must be 
 debarred from entering that place called 
 heaven, as nothing impure can enter 
 therein. And the last article reads: “We 
 believe in being honest, true chaste, 
 benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to 
 all men ; indeed, we may say that we fol- 
 low the admonition of Paul, We believe 
 all things, we hope all things.’ We have 
 endured many things and hope to be 
 able to endure all things. If there is 
 anything virtuous, lovely, or of good 
 report, or praiseworthy, we seek after 
 these things.” Ye must give credit to the 
 .Josephites, that is, the followers of their 
 supposed prophet, Joseph Smith, for 
 their adherence to this article, and not 
 practice polygamy as taught by the 
 Brig'hamites in Salt Lake City, Utah, and 
 elsewhere. 
 
 BRIGPIAM YOUNG. 
 
 * 
 
 After the death of their leader, Joseph 
 Smith, which occurred at Carthage Jail, 
 Illinois, on the 21st day of October, 
 1844 — the Josephites, and Brighamites 
 altered it to June 27th — when an angry 
 mob demanded justice from the courts 
 of the land, but failed to obtain any sat- 
 isfaction. After releasing Joseph Smith 
 from prison about thirty-seven times, 
 the mob became so incensed at his teach- 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 19 
 
 ings that they demanded his body. The 
 prison doors being closed, they fired 
 through the windows of the room in 
 which he and his brother, Hyram, were 
 placed. Joseph Wient deliberately to the 
 window and threw himself out upon the 
 crowd below, thereby committing suicide. 
 You know the penalty of the Lord in- 
 flicted upon all who commit this rash 
 act against their own lives or the life of 
 another. I point out these things, not to 
 bring reproach upon the name of that 
 good man, but to show that he was not 
 a prophet of the Great Jehovah, nor did 
 he translate the book of Mormon by the 
 means presented to the world and ac- 
 cepted by his followers. 
 
 Brigham Young, being one of the first 
 followers of Joseph Smith and holding a 
 high office in the church at the time of 
 Joseph’s death, assumed the reins of 
 government, and took upon himself the 
 power and authority of prophet, 
 through the supposed power of the Holy 
 Ghost, led his little band of fol- 
 lowers, comprising 148 souls, o-f men, 
 women and children, from the Missouri 
 River across the western plains in the 
 year 1847, and halted at Salt Lake, Utah, 
 on the 24th day of July of the same year. 
 Mr. Young, being a shrewd, clever and 
 energetic man, soon built up a flourish- 
 ing city, and laid the foundation for a 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 temple, the pattern of which he claimed 
 was revealed to him from heaven. 
 
 Much credit is due him in laying out 
 of the city, with its broad streets, sani- 
 tary conditions, magnificent dwellings 
 and places of amusement, which, no 
 doubt, any ordinary man of taste and 
 brains could easily have achieved under 
 similar conditions and circumstances, 
 which proved favorable to him at that 
 time ; for instance, the gold fields of Col- 
 ifornia had just opened up, which added 
 many souls to their number and en- 
 larged their coffers. There were none 
 to dispute their right to the rich lands 
 of the great Salt Lake Valley and the 
 surrounding valleys of the Uintah dr 
 Utah Mountains. They had nothing to 
 do but till the soil, erect comfort- 
 able dwellings under a vigilance com- 
 mittee organized by Brigham Young to 
 see that all who came into their God- 
 fearing and sanctified community 
 should not leave, under the penalty of 
 death, and they executed that penalty in 
 the most rigid and secret manner. Of 
 course, it has been known of a few who 
 evaded their pursuers and made their es- 
 cape to civilization in safety. One man, 
 with whom the writer has been inti- 
 mately acquainted for many years, re- 
 lated his miraculous escape with tears 
 in his eyes when he thought of the horri- 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 21 
 
 ble deeds committed by them under the 
 guise of religion. That man is alive to- 
 day and can verify this statement. But 
 as they grew in numbers, and the authori- 
 ties at Washington learning of their 
 cruel deeds, caused them to relax their 
 vigilance and apply themselves to the 
 tilling of the soil; by which means they 
 procured ample provisions from the vir- 
 gin soil to fill their barns, and by the law 
 of tithing one-tenth of the income of 
 each individual, together with free offer- 
 ings, they soon had sufficient means to 
 build a temple, at a cost, they claim, of 
 about $4,000,000.00; by this means they 
 could carry on their secret workings un- 
 known to the outside world. At the 
 present time they have four temples at 
 prominent points in the State, ^costing, 
 they claim, from one to four million dol- 
 lars each. Here they can, as in days of 
 yore, when Utah was a Territory, before 
 being admitted into the Union, and be- 
 fore United States soldiers were sent to 
 check them in their wild career, do many 
 things unkown to the world. Their his- 
 tory, not reversed by the Mormon 
 Church, but as it stands, is well known 
 in Washington, D. C., Carthage and 
 Nauvoo, 111., in Missouri and elsewhere. 
 
22 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 BRIGHAM YOUNG’S CLEVER 
 SCHEME. 
 
 Before passing over the early history 
 of the Mormon people, we must not neg- 
 lect to mention a clever scheme invented 
 in the fertile mind of Brigham Young. 
 Previous to starting upon their long 
 journey across the Western plains, in 
 order to establish himself in the minds of 
 his little band of followers as their di- 
 vinely inspired prophet and leader, for 
 contentions and divisions had already 
 risen among them, he claimed that he 
 had a vision, which, no doubt, he had, 
 given him by his controlling spirit, the 
 same vision being given to Joseph Smith 
 a little before his suicidal death, show- 
 ing the great Sait Lake Valley, and the 
 wav to it. By this means he effected his 
 purpose, that of gaining their confidence, 
 and had Joseph Smith been controlled 
 by the same good spirits, who used him 
 as their instrument through whom the 
 words were dictated for M(artin Harris 
 to write, he would not have committed 
 the deplorable suicidal act. 
 
 HISTORY REVERSED BY THE 
 MORMON FACTIONS. 
 
 As the writer stated in introducing this 
 book to the world that his sole object is 
 to state facts as they were and as they 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 23 
 
 now exist among the Mormon people, 
 who all worship Joseph Smith as a true 
 prophet of the Great Eternal God, sent 
 forth by Him to open up the way of 
 truth and righteousness, which has 
 been lost sight of since the days of Christ 
 and is apostles, during the dark centu- 
 ries of the reign of terror, which imme- 
 diately followed their demise; for this 
 purpose we will only quote history as it 
 now stands at the present time, and let 
 the reader be the judge. 
 
 DEATH OF JOSEPH SMITH. 
 
 The Utah Mormons, or Brigliamites, 
 claim that their prophet, Joseph Smith, 
 was incarcerated thirty-seven times on 
 charges trumped up against him for his 
 false teachings, and that, in order to save 
 the life of his brother, Hiram, patriarch 
 of the Mormon Church, who was also in- 
 carcerated with him, went to the window 
 and threw himself out upon the mob 
 below. 
 
 The Josephites — that is, the followers 
 of Joseph’s son, who is also called Joseph, 
 who organized a church about seven- 
 teen years after his father’j death and is 
 at the present writing president and 
 prophet — claim that Joseph was shot 
 when at the window and fell out. This 
 was given by one of their elders whose 
 
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 membership dates back forty-four years’ 
 standing. 
 
 Should any of the Josephites be asked 
 the question. Why did not the president, 
 Joseph Smith, organize his church sooner 
 than seventeen years after his father’s 
 death? the answer is, because he was 
 waiting upon revelations from the Lord. 
 They have the date of his death as June 
 27, 1844. 
 
 The records of the Circuit Court at 
 Carthage, 111., say Joseph Smith was la 
 prisoner of the State of Illinois, charged 
 with adultery and fornication, on the 
 21st day of October, 1844. 
 
 It seems clear to the mind of the 
 writer that the supposed revelation on 
 polygamy given to Joseph Smith and 
 signed by him, purporting to be from 
 the Lord, was given to him by the spirit 
 that then controlled him and also his 
 successor, Brigham Young, and that he 
 taught and practiced it to such an extent 
 in the State of Illinois as to incense the 
 people against him and his followers. 
 
 This statement is backed up by another 
 supposed revelation from the Lord and 
 entered in their book, called “Doctrine 
 and Covenants,” wherein his wife, Sa- 
 rah, is exhorted to have patience with 
 him and not be offended at what he did. 
 The act is not stated. The same spirit 
 which gave the former gave the latter. 
 
MORMONISM- EXPOSED. 
 
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 The writer is further impressed that 
 Thomas Ford, Governor of Illinois at 
 that time, and his people were very le- 
 nient with Joseph Smith and his follow- 
 ers by giving him thirty-seven chances 
 to retract and mend his ways, but Joseph 
 was blind and could not discern so as to 
 follow Paul’s injunction, “Try the spir- 
 its.” 
 
 It is said by the Josephites that the 
 revelation given on polygamy was given 
 to Brigham Young, who signed Joseph 
 Smith’s name to it, but this the writer 
 does not credit, inasmuch as they built a 
 temple at Nauvoo, where secret ordi- 
 nances could be performed and the world 
 know it not; as said before, temples are 
 not built for preaching or teaching the 
 gospel in. The Mormon temples, like the 
 temples of Baal, were not built for the 
 worship of the Great Jehovah, but for 
 the worship of the gods of the worship- 
 ers who worship therein. 
 
 The supposed revelation on polygamy 
 given to Joseph Smith was to the effect 
 that any man who desired more than one 
 wife could marry as manv as he chose 
 to select, with the proviso, that in order 
 to make it binding through all time and 
 throughout all eternity, the marriage 
 ceremonies must be performed by him or 
 his successors, and all called, chosen and 
 ordained by him or his successors to the 
 
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 holy office of the Melchisedec priesthood, 
 had full power and authority from 
 the Lord to officiate in that capacity, in 
 a house built for the purpose of perform- 
 ing these and other secret (sacred) or- 
 dinances therein. Brigham Young had 
 seventeen wives. 
 
 This supposed revelation authorizing 
 polygamy stirred up a confusion and con- 
 tention, also a division, among his follow- 
 ers, but in order to appease them and 
 the indignation of the Christian world 
 at large, he claimed to have re- 
 ceived another revelation, commanding 
 him to take all who were willing to obey 
 the above revelation and lead them to a 
 land in all respects like Palestine, on the 
 Eastern Continent, where they could 
 stand upon the summit of another Mount 
 Nebo, and veiw the promised land, as 
 Moses did of old, with its River Jordan, 
 Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea, but all who 
 would not accept and render obedience 
 to the polygamous revelation must stay at 
 home. 
 
 This supposed revelation and command 
 caused them to divide into factions, each 
 contending for what they claimed to be 
 right in the sight of God. The writer 
 cannot say into how many divisions they 
 have divided themselves to-day, but we 
 do know' of two' prominent divisions, 
 namely, the Brighamites and the Joseph- 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 27 
 
 ites. In all, we are informed, there have 
 been about sixteen, but some of them 
 have passed into obscurity. 
 
 BRIGHAM TRUE TO HIS WORD. 
 
 Brigham Young, true to his supposed 
 revelation, separated from the others, and 
 led his little band of one hundred and 
 forty-eight, * all told, to the promised land, 
 with its Mount Nebo, in shape, resembling 
 an Indian mound, but very much larger, 
 situated about a mile or a mile and a half 
 north of where the temple now stands at 
 Salt Take City, Utah. Upon this Mount 
 Nebo he placed a flagstaff, where it now 
 stands, revered by all Mormons. A little 
 distance west of the city is a small stream 
 of water, which takes its rise from the 
 Sea of Galilee, or Utah Lake, and emp- 
 ties itself into the Dead Sea, or what is 
 known as the Great Salt Lake. It has no 
 outlet, but its waters are very salt and 
 buoyant, and it seems to be drying up 
 rapidly. 
 
 These things coming true and by ap- 
 plying biblical names to them, gave him 
 a strong hold upon the minds of his fol- 
 lowers, so that he had free access to their 
 hearts as well as to their purses. 
 
 BRIGHAM YOUNG’S FALSE CLAIM. 
 
 The claim made by Brigham Young 
 and his followers that they were the first 
 white men to stand upon the soil of the 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 Great Salt Lake Valley cannot be sus- 
 tained, but, on the contrary, it may be 
 easily seen from a clipping or extract 
 taken from a reliable daily paper published 
 in St. Louis, Mo., in its issue of August 
 30, 1908, wherein the most positive and 
 indisputable evidence is given, backed up 
 by the records of the Missouri Historical 
 Society. They do not change dates, alter 
 names and invent history 1 to suit their 
 purposes, as the Mormons do with their 
 church history. For proof of this read 
 the history of the State of Illinois and 
 the State of Missouri concerning the 
 Mormons ; then turn to the Mormon 
 Church history, and you will find that, in 
 order to give themselves a high coloring 
 before the world, and especially among 
 the children of the Mormon people and 
 new converts to their faith, for all study 
 Mormon history and faith, believing that 
 they are the only children of God who 
 have the truth and that God committed 
 it to their care and keeping through their 
 supposed prophet, Joseph Smith, and his 
 successor, Brigham Young, in succession 
 down to the present day. 
 
 The following is an extract from the 
 “St. Louis Globe-Democrat” of August 
 30, 1908, under the heading, “Where 
 
 Brigham Young Got His Knowledge”: 
 
 “The present-day traveler to Salt Lake 
 City is informed by the faithful Mormons 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 29 
 
 that Brigham Young must have been di- 
 vinely inspired, since he told his followers 
 that he would lead them to a land in all 
 respects like the Holy Land, thjat they 
 would climb to the summit of another 
 Mount Nebo, and view the promised land 
 with its Sea of Galilee, its River Jordan 
 and its Dead Sea, a fresh-water lake 
 drained by a short river into the great 
 lake of salt water. The assertion follows 
 — and is rarely contradicted, so little do 
 we know of our own history that be- 
 fore the advent of the Mormon band no 
 white man had ever invaded the valleys 
 of the Wasatch and Uintah Mountains, 
 and that in the nature of things Brigham 
 Young could not have obtained his infor- 
 mation from the Indians. 
 
 “As a matter of historic fact, the Mor- 
 mon leader obtained his information of 
 all that Western country in St. Louis, and 
 he knew in advance exactly how to pro- 
 ceed and what to expect in the way of 
 topography, climate and dangers to be 
 encountered. When this fact is called 
 into the discussion by some one who hap- 
 pens to know the truth, the Mormons 
 point in the hope of refutation to a Gov- 
 ernment report made by Major Powell, 
 of the United States Geological Survey, 
 in 1869. On a high rock near Brown’s 
 Hole, General Ashley inscribed his name 
 and the date of his first invasion of that 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 dangerous region. Major Powell, mis- 
 taking one of the figures in the date, drew 
 on his imagination for a thrilling story 
 that is generally accepted as true. He 
 declares that William Ashley and a few 
 of his companions who survived the fool- 
 hardy venture climbed the canyon wall, 
 made their way across the Wasatch 
 Mountains and descended into Salt Lake 
 City, where they were hospitably received 
 by the Mormons and given work on the 
 foundation of the temple until they could 
 earn enough money to pay their way back 
 to St. Louis. This is supposed to have 
 happened in 1855, when the Mormon 
 city was seven years old. 
 
 ASHLEY THERE LONG BEFORE. 
 
 “Had the ‘Government expert’ taken 
 the trouble to look up the biography of 
 General William H. Ashley, he would 
 have learned that that able soldier, states- 
 man, merchant and explorer died in 1838, 
 and was buried in an Indian mound over- 
 looking the Missouri River, above the 
 city in which he made his fame and for- 
 tune. Had that same expert scru- 
 tinized the figures on the rock wall a lit- 
 tle more closely he would have found that 
 the date of the Ashley expedition was 
 1825, instead of 1855, some five years 
 before the first suggestion of Mormonism 
 was born in the mind of Joseph Smith. 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 31 
 
 General Ashley was one of the greatest 
 early explorers, but the real glory of 
 opening up the Salt Lake region belongs 
 to another St. Louisan, Etienne Provost, 
 whose name, slightly curtailed, is still 
 preserved in Provo City, the home 
 of Reed Smoot, on Utah Lake. 
 
 “Another name in that wild mountain 
 country that is of interest to the student 
 of early St. Louis history is that of Cache 
 Valley, a delightful intra-mountain park, 
 north of the Great Salt Lake. It was 
 here that the tide of fortune turned in 
 Ashley’s favor, after years of hardship 
 and constant loss. A trapper of the Hud- 
 son Bay Co., always a bitter St. Louis 
 rival, had made his way down from the 
 fur regions with one hundred and thirty 
 packs of beaver pelts, which he had 
 cached in the valley. The man was Peter 
 Skeen Ogden, and when Ashley left the 
 place the furs were his. Just how the 
 transfer of ownership took place historv 
 has not yet revealed. It is indisputable 
 that the cache cost Ashley a small frac- 
 tion of what it was worth. Whether he 
 found the pelts and confiscated them be- 
 cause the British had no right to trap in 
 that section of country, or whether he 
 dealt directly with Ogden, who was in dire 
 straits and forced to sell out for a 
 song, or, as one report has it, he induced 
 Ogden’s men to desert and come over to 
 
32 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 his party, we will probably never know. 
 All we do know is that the cache was 
 worth at the lowest estimate one hundred 
 thousand dollars, and its sale in the St. 
 Louis fur market gave Ashley and his 
 company such a boost that they prose- 
 cuted their fur operations without the 
 need of detrimental economy, which had 
 hitherto forced them to work on a conser- 
 vative scale. The following year he made 
 his last trip to the mountains, going by 
 the annual rendezvous in Cache Vajlley 
 by way of the North Platte and the South 
 Pass. On this trip he took with him a 
 six-pounder, which he installed in the fort 
 at Utah Lake. This was the first piece of 
 wheeled artillery to invade that country.” 
 From the above extract we learn by the 
 conclusive evidence given that the Mor- 
 mons, as a people, will stop at nothing to 
 gain their points, establish their false 
 doctrines, and, no doubt many would 
 like to practice their adulterous, polyga- 
 mous habits openly, which, no doubt, 
 they do seceretly, were it not for the 
 courts of the land issuing a decree 
 against it. They then, in order to evade 
 imprisonment, sent forth a manifesto to 
 the effect that such adulterous or po- 
 lygamous practices would no longer be 
 tolerated by the church, but privately 
 saying among themselves, “It was only a 
 bluff to cheat the devil at his own game,” 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 33 
 
 while outwardly they claim that they 
 have a revelation from the Lord to dis- 
 continue polygamy and be subject to the 
 laws of the land. This they did, knowing 
 that their corrupt practices would no 
 longer be tolerated by the courts of the 
 United States. As a further proof of 
 the truth of this statement, they have not, as 
 yet, prohibited polygamous spiritual mar- 
 riage ceremonies to be performed by them 
 in their temples, but rather encourage them, 
 saying, “The more wives the greater the 
 honor in the presence of the Lord.” 
 
 POLYGAMY. 
 
 “That which has been is now, and that 
 which is to be hath already been, but God 
 requireth the past.” Esdras. 
 
 Polygamy being part of the doctrine of 
 the Utah Mormons, it is evident that 
 while it is not now openly practiced to 
 such an extent as formerly, the practice 
 is still carried on, both bodily and spirit- 
 ually, else why the spiritual marriage, 
 contrary to the teachings of Christ and 
 His apostles, whom He sent forth to pro- 
 mulgate His teachings throughout the 
 world. 
 
 Christ knew the evil results (arising 
 from such a course of procedure, 
 it being in violation of the law, 
 “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” 
 In the case of the seven broth- 
 
34 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 ers who in succession had one woman for 
 wife, and we are not informed that they 
 had any other wife, though the Mormons 
 claim they had, the question was asked 
 the Savior, “In the resurrection whose 
 wife shall she be?” The Savior merely 
 replied, “In the resurrection they neither 
 marry nor are given in marriage, but are 
 like unto the angels of Heaven.” This 
 reply of our Blessed Lord should convince 
 not only the Mormons, who claim to have 
 all truth, but the whole human family 
 that chastity and honorable marriages are 
 pleasing and acceptable to the Lord, but 
 not spiritual marriages. 
 
 The self-styled prophets, Joseph 
 Smith, and his successor, Brigham Young, 
 both of whom practiced polygamy and 
 were governed by the same spirit, Joseph, 
 who first received the supposed revelation, 
 but did not have time to carry it on suc- 
 cessfully, as the people of Illinois would no 
 longer tolerate it, but Brigham Young, be- 
 ing controlled by the same spirit and hav- 
 ing an ardent desire for fame and riches, 
 brought his little band to the land where 
 there were no laws for or against it, and 
 he carried it out very successfully, to the 
 destruction of many thousands of souls. 
 Those who stayed at home submitted 
 themselves to be governed by the law of 
 the land, and about seventeen years after, 
 when all things seemed quiet and forgot- 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 35 
 
 ten, they organized a church, with Joseph 
 Smith, son of the former Joseph Smith, 
 who was arrested at Carthage, 111., 
 upon the charge of adultery and fornica- 
 tion, as their president. The present so-called 
 prophet, Joseph Smith, president of the 
 church, strictly prohibits adultery or po- 
 lygamy, but claims to be a prophet of the 
 Great Jehovah, and is respected and held 
 in high esteem by his followers as such ; 
 also the present supposed prophet and 
 president, Joseph F. Smith, of the Brig- 
 hamites, at Salt Lake City, while not 
 denying the legality of polygamy only in 
 so far as the law of the land conflicts, he 
 having seven wives and forty-two or 
 more children, is highly honored and re- 
 spected by his followers, who are numer- 
 ous. 
 
 THE WRITER’S MOTIVE. 
 
 The writer’s motive is not for argument 
 or controversy; were that so it would in- 
 volve a weekly edition to be isued from 
 each side much larger than this, and the 
 arguments continue pro anG con for many 
 years to come, as has been the case in the 
 past, the opposing factions sustaining 
 their arguments by numerous and devious 
 ways. Incidents of a similar nature have 
 arisen in the past, and are now success- 
 fully carried on by the different sects and 
 denominations of the present day. We 
 
36 
 
 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 have only to cast our eyes around for 
 proof of this statement, and leave the 
 reader to form his or her own conclu- 
 sions, but the writer’s desire is to state 
 facts both from a religious and secular 
 standpoint, so as to point out truthfully 
 the deceptive views entertained by the 
 Mormons before and after the death of 
 their leader, Joseph Smith, whom they 
 worship as a true prophet of the Great 
 Eternal God. 
 
 The writer is fully impressed by the 
 past and present history of the two lead- 
 ing and mcst prominent branches of the 
 Mormon Church that the first prophet 
 and leader, Joseph Smith, and the book 
 of Mormon are not what his followers 
 claim them to be. Much time and thought 
 have been spent in trying to convince the 
 world that Jospeh Smith was a great 
 prophet of the Lord, sent forth by Him 
 to usher in the last dispensation of time, 
 and that the book of Mormon is a di- 
 vinely inspired book bearing the seal of 
 Christ’s approval, by establishing His 
 church upon the Western Continent shortly 
 after His resurrection, and continuance for 
 some four hundred and twenty years after. 
 
 CAUSE AND EFFECT. 
 
 The wrter of this book fully beleves in 
 cause and effect, and without this belief 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 37 
 
 would be entirely at the mercy of others, 
 especially men of learning and of deep 
 theological and philosophical thought. The 
 writer lays no claim to either of these. If 
 he did, this book would be full of theo- 
 ries, philosophical reasonings from logical 
 standpoints and their theological deduc- 
 tions and conclusions ; but simply states 
 the fact that the book of Mormon is not 
 what they clai m it to be, nor the last 
 .writer in the bock, Maroni, and the trans- 
 lator of the whole volume, Joseph Smith, 
 were not — neither are they — what the 
 good Mormon people claim them to be. 
 
 CAUSE. 
 
 The translator of the book of Mormon, 
 Joseph Smith, was controlled by the spirits 
 of the good men who wrote the books 
 which comprise the book of Mormon, util- 
 izing Joseph’s vocal organs (cases of this 
 kind occur every day), and Martin Harris 
 wrote them down as they fell from 
 Joseph’s lips. Moroni, the last writer, was 
 not, is not, neither shall be, an angel of the 
 Lord, he once having had a physical body, 
 Additions were added to the book of Mor- 
 mon and many changes made, especially to 
 the book of Mormon and his son Moroni. 
 That good man, Moroni, never did write 
 the latter part of the book, wherein it is 
 stated that Christ established His Church 
 •in person, choosing twelve apostles as He 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 did on die Eastern Continent. He did 
 visit the Nephites, but did not organize His 
 Church by choosing twelve apostles, etc. 
 Christ said to His apostles on the Eastern 
 Continent: “Go ye into all the world,” etc. 
 
 These changes were made and additions 
 added entirely through another spirit of a 
 lower order taking possession of Joseph’s 
 vocal organs and using them for the vile pur- 
 poses which he did. Well might the 
 Saviour exclaim : “Beware of false 
 
 prophets !” It is claimed that the plates 
 upon which the book of Mormon were 
 written were of gold of the thickness of 
 common sheet tin and lay buried in a hill- 
 side for a period of about 1400 years. 
 Science proves that even gold being ex- 
 cluded from dampness and other atmo- 
 spherical conditions will corrode in a much 
 lesser time than 1400 years. This proves 
 the statement made that the book of Mor- 
 mon was dictated, or, in other words, were 
 given to Joseph Smith in the English 
 language by the same spirits who wrote 
 them, and in all probability were not 
 buried in the Hill Cumora more than four 
 years, the time of Moroni’s first visit, to 
 the time of Joseph’s obtaining possession of 
 them. 
 
 EEEECT. 
 
 The effect caused by the change of 
 spirits, the last of whom held possession 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. £9 
 
 of Joseph until the last minute of his 
 death, led many to believe that the reve- 
 lation given him on polygamy emanated 
 from the Lord, and they dubbed him with 
 “the title prophet, seer and revelator.” 
 Kind reader, you who seek after truth 
 and nothing but the truth, ask yourself 
 the question, “How could Joseph Smith 
 obtain a revelation sanctioning polygamy 
 when the book itself condemns it and 
 through which many quarrels arose before 
 and after its publication, because of re- 
 taining it, insomuch that when the church 
 was organized on the sixth day of April, 
 1830, it had only a membership of six 
 souls, or could the Criminal Court records 
 at Carthage, 111., have upon their docket 
 that Joseph Smith was a prisoner of 
 the State charged with adultery and for- 
 nication on the 21st day of October, 1844, 
 and his followers change the date of his 
 death to June 27, of the same year, and, 
 according to their own church history, 
 state that on the same day, June 27th, 
 1844, Joseph, as the last noble act of his 
 life, in order to save that of his brother, 
 Hyram, who was in the same room with 
 him, went deliberately to the window and 
 threw himself out upon the crowd below. 
 By that act he committed suicide in the 
 eyes of God and man. How could he be 
 a prophet of the Lord?” 
 
 Would a prophet of the Great Eternal 
 
40 
 
 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 Jehovah commit such a rash act to save 
 his own life or that of another, or would 
 a civilized people seek the life of any man 
 to whom their courts had given, the writer 
 was informed by one of their elders, a 
 Josephite, fifty-four chances to cease his 
 pernicious teaching and adulterous prac- 
 tices, when at last the Attorney General 
 seeing all was in vain suggested the, death 
 of the Leader and the extermination of 
 his followers from their borders. 
 
 Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, his 
 successor, is to the Mormons what Mo- 
 hammed is to his followers. Through the 
 chicanery of Mohammed inventing the 
 Steel Coffin for his burial and a powerful 
 magnet placed in the dome where the Steel 
 Coffin was to be taken with his dead body 
 in it, borne upon the shoulders of six 
 strong men. According to his prophecy, 
 it rose from off their shoulders and re- 
 mained suspended in space with his head 
 towards Mecca, his birthplace, and feet 
 towards Medina, his burial place, and thus 
 his prophecy was fulfilled. His people be- 
 ing ignorant of the cause, but seeing the 
 effect, worship him as their prohphet. So 
 the Mormons, not knowing the cause of 
 Joseph’s downfall, after the departure of 
 the good spirit Moroni, still worship him 
 as their prophet. 
 
 As it is not the writer’s purpose to at- 
 tack their false doctrines in this issue but 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 41 
 
 will do so subsequently, this book being 
 only to expose to the world the surface of 
 the grounds upon which they stand as a 
 people and the secret workings and teach- 
 ings of the hidden mysteries of their tem- 
 ples, will quote the 2d and last or 13th 
 Articles of their faith, as printed upon the 
 back of their elder’s cards, which read as 
 follows: “We believe that men will be 
 
 punished for their own sins, and not for 
 Adam’s transgression.” How does that 
 agree with Christ's teaching in St. John, 
 3d chapter, 3-6 verse? And, ask what is 
 baptism for. Do we enter Heaven with 
 it hanging over us? If so, then the filthy 
 can enter therein. The 13th Article reads 
 thus: We believe in being honest, true, 
 chaste, benevolent, virtuous. These Arti- 
 cles bear the signature of Joseph Smith, 
 the virtuous and revered prophet, yet they 
 teach polygamy. 
 
 JOINED THE JOSEPHITES. 
 
 The writer, having satisfied himself that 
 the Brighamites were enacting nothing but 
 a solemn religious farce as a mo'ckery be- 
 fore Almighty God, left them and joined 
 the Josephites, with the sole purpose of 
 investigating their principles and their 
 purposes more fully, giving them great 
 credit for abstaining from the teachings 
 of their polygamous brothers, the Brig- 
 hamites. A few days after, four were 
 
42 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 baptized, among them being the writer. 
 Just seven days after, one of the four bap- 
 tized ones being accused of misdemeanors 
 said to be committed previous to baptism, 
 by an outsider, or what is termed a man 
 of the world. The presiding elder, who 
 just seven days before had confirmed the 
 accused by the laying on of hands for the 
 reception of the Holy Ghost, while at a 
 prayer meeting, the same presiding elder 
 went upon the platform, and, pointing the 
 finger of scorn at the newly baptized mem- 
 ber, saying, you are a dangerous criminal. 
 This seemed that the baptism was not for 
 the remission of sins, furthermore, when 
 criticised, and no, doubt, rebuked for the 
 act by his fellow elders, he framed words 
 for the accused to say which exonerated 
 the presiding elder before the church 
 for his rash act and false doctrines, 
 and the stain on the newly baptized can- 
 didate is still fresh in many minds of the 
 Church members, consequently, he is now 
 held aloof by many of the members of 
 that branch. 
 
 The Josephites are bitterly opposed to 
 the Byigham'ites, but both are firm be- 
 lievers that Joseph Smith was a true 
 prophet of the Lord, and their doctrines 
 are the same, except in a few instances. 
 Each claim to be the true Church. 
 
 The writer knowing by infallible proofs 
 that both are wrong from the very foun- 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 43 
 
 dation ; for they seem to have built their 
 Churches upon the foundation of Joseph 
 Smith being a true prophet, seer and reve- 
 lator, rather than upon Jesus Christ being 
 the Son of God and chief Corner Stone, 
 he left them. 
 
 THE SECRET AND SACRED 
 HOUSE. 
 
 Since the temple at Nauvoo was demol- 
 ished in the time of Joseph Smith’s reign 
 upon the prophetic throne, and his follow- 
 ers expelled from the State of Illinois, we 
 will follow his successor, Brigham Young, 
 who so cleverly led them away from all 
 civilization, where they could worship 
 their gods, licentiousness and mammon, 
 without being molested or dictated to by 
 the courts of law. With this end in view, 
 Brigham Young lost no time to erect an- 
 other secret (sacred) house, more seclu- 
 sive, and more conducive to his deep-laid 
 schemes and monarchical plans, at a cost, 
 it is said, of about $4,000,000.00, claiming 
 the pattern was revealed to him from the 
 Great Architect o f all things. Of the truth 
 of this assertion of Brigham Young, we 
 will leave the reader to be the judge, after 
 coming to a knowledge of the work car- 
 ried on within its walls. All good Mor- 
 mons are not permitted to enter the place, 
 being so sacred and secret that “the foot 
 of an unbeliever has never trod.” 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 They must be well tried, initiated fully 
 into the doctrines of the Old and New 
 Testaments as taught by them, book of 
 Mormon and book of “Doctrine and Cov- 
 enants.” The claim made for the last 
 named is that it contains the revelations 
 given to the supposed prophet, Joseph 
 Smith, by the Lord for the guidance of the 
 Church. 
 
 The male members are admitted by 
 passing through the several grades of the 
 Aaronic priesthood, then ordained to the 
 Melchisedec priesthood held by the Son 
 of God, and bestowed upon Him as men- 
 tioned in Heb. 5-10. These ordinations 
 take place outside the temple. The teach- 
 er, priest or elder must make a weekly 
 report of his visit among the people, 
 whether Mormon or Gentile, as they are 
 called. A ward is comprised of nine 
 blocks, meeting house in central block; 
 this is supposed, but is not always the case. 
 The weekly reports sent in go to the 
 .Bishop, and so on until they reach the pres- 
 ident, so that a regular chain of commu- 
 nication is held with the president and the 
 whole city and a concensus made of every 
 possible thing known in every house, 
 whether male or female, married or single, 
 with or without children, number, etc. 
 
 After the elder has given satisfactory 
 evidence of his ability and earnestness of 
 his purpose, he receives a recommendation 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 45 
 
 from his Bishop, which he carries to John 
 Q. Cannon, a high and haughty official, 
 who signs a permit for his admission into 
 the temple. This done, the candidate is 
 allowed to enter the annex the next morn- 
 ing, when that paper is also taken from 
 him and filed away for entry on the temple 
 books. It being his first time to enter the 
 temple, he is not permitted to do work 
 except for himself, that is, receive his own 
 endowments or gifts, which include a new 
 name by which he is to be known through- 
 out the roundless ages of eternity. 
 
 After having paid his donation to the 
 support of temple workers, which is not ex- 
 acted from him, but is expected, according 
 to his means, he is then admitted into an- 
 other room of the annex, where, after song, 
 prayer and instructions given to all present, 
 showing the object and sincerity of the re- 
 ligious work they are about to enter upon, 
 which is very solemn and impressive indeed. 
 The instructions are given by a bishop, pa- 
 triarch or one of the twelve apostles. When 
 dismissed they give their names and the 
 nature of the work they desire to do. Then 
 all repair to the basement of the temple by 
 a stairway leading from the annex. 
 
46 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 THE SECRETS OF THE TEMPLES 
 PUBLICLY MADE KNOWN. 
 
 May my bones rot beneath the flesh, 
 Should I e’er fail men to impress 
 With the real, but not supposed 
 Truths of Christ to me reposed. 
 
 Before entering the basement of the 
 temple, at the foot of the stairway leading 
 from the annex through a long passage 
 leading to the basement, all must take off 
 their shoes, any part of the temple being 
 holy. Males work for males, females for 
 females, so that after the first day’s work, 
 males may take with them one female each : 
 wife, mother, sister, or anyone who has 
 been baptized by immersion for the remis- 
 sion of their sins after having had hands 
 laid upon them for the reception of the 
 Holy Ghost, who are faithful and of good 
 standing in the church. 
 
 After having “cast the shoes from off 
 the feet,” all proceed to the basement of 
 the temple, males branching off to rooms 
 on the right, and females to rooms on the 
 left, where all undress and put on white 
 raiment, if for baptisms, which take place 
 every Tuesday, that being the day set apart 
 for that purpose, Mondays for registration. 
 Of course, you may be baptized for as many 
 as you please while in the font, except that 
 after each baptism you ascend three or four 
 steps and have hands laid on for the recep- 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 47 
 
 tion of the Holy Ghost and anointed with 
 oil, you again descend into the font, and 
 so on until you have completed names given 
 in for that day’s registration. Your list 
 of names being completed, you enter an- 
 other room, take off the wet garments and 
 put on an inner garment made of one 
 piece which the officiating bishop or pat- 
 riarch puts on you with instructions never 
 to take it off except to change. It will 
 be a covering for you and protect you 
 (against many dangers, he declares ; this 
 garment you purchase at nearly any of the 
 Saints furnishing stores in the City. While 
 going through the ceremonies of putting 
 on the new garments which he declares 
 were a covering for Adam and made from 
 the skins of animals. He gives you a new 
 name by which you are to be known 
 throughout the roundless ages of eternity, 
 and by which you are to enter the celestial 
 room of the holy temples also the celestial 
 sphere on high. 
 
 He then marks your garments by cut- 
 ting a slit across one breast for a compass 
 and another slit across the other breast for 
 a square, while other the navel, another 
 horizontal slit in the garment is made. 
 Having your inner garments marked and 
 receiving a new name you are prepared 
 to go through the solemn religious farce to 
 be enacted the following day. 
 
 This being the first day you entered the 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 temple you were only baptized for the dead, 
 your own baptism having taken place long 
 before your ordination to the Melchisedec 
 priesthood without which you would never 
 be admitted into the temple. You must 
 first receive your own endowments before 
 you can obtain them or act as proxy for 
 another. 
 
 WEDNESDAY’S WORK. 
 
 On the following day } Wednesday, you 
 proceed to the temple annex, and, after the 
 usual services, as described above, having 
 given in the name or names of the dead 
 for whom you desire to do work, one male 
 and one female each day. Wednesday, 
 Thursday and Friday, Mondays being for 
 registering of names; Tuesdays, baptisms; 
 Saturdays, temple closed; Sundays, preach- 
 ing, but never in the temple. You then 
 descend to the passage connecting the 
 annex with the temple basement and hav- 
 ing then cast the shoes from off your feet 
 proceed to the dressing rooms as on the 
 day before, Tuesday, taking with you your 
 full temple garb, which consists of white 
 stockings, white moccasins, white shirt, 
 cap, robe and girdle. 
 
 WASHINGS AND ANOINTINGS. 
 
 You now undress and wait your turn 
 to enter nude one of the bath tubs and be 
 washed clean ; no matter how clean you 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 49 
 
 may be before entering, your whole body 
 must be washed clean every whit by one 
 appointed for that purpose. After all parts 
 of the body being washed and cleansed 
 from the filth of the world, they are then 
 anointed with oil, repeating solemn cere- 
 monies as the anointing of the parts pro- 
 ceeds. For instance, when anointing the 
 arms, the worker says, “May they be 
 strong to wield the sword of truth,” the 
 secret parts to be prolific, etc., these be- 
 ing anointed by yourself while the worker 
 repeats the ceremony, and so on for all 
 parts of the body, head, ears, eyes, mouth, 
 neck, heart, spine, limbs, feet to be shod 
 with the preparation of the gospel of 
 peace. 
 
 HAVING YOUR GARMENTS 
 MARKED. 
 
 This act being over you pass into an- 
 other room, where the officiating bishop, 
 patriarch or apostle puts on your under- 
 garments, and if not marked, he marks 
 them in the way described, and the same 
 solemn injunctions, not to take them off 
 except to change, etc. He then gives you 
 a blessing and a new' name, by which you 
 are to pass through the temple as men- 
 tioned before. 
 
 PUTTING ON THE TEMPLE GARB. 
 
 You now retrace your steps to, the 
 rooms wherein you left your everyday 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 clothing and your temple garb, which we 
 have already described. After dressing 
 yourself in white pants, shirt, stockings, 
 moccasins, you take your robe, girdle, cap, 
 and small apron having fig leaves em- 
 bossed upon it, or wrought in by the 
 needle, you repair to another place, where 
 you are asked your name, and it being 
 found on the register kept for that 
 day and entered on the temple books later 
 on, you are ushered into 
 
 THE CREATION ROOM 
 
 and take your seat on the right hand, 
 in the basement ; the windows being 
 somewhat darkened makes it very dim, 
 but not in total darkness. Here you 
 wait until such times as reported by the 
 doorkeeper that all are present; this he 
 knows by checking off the names of all 
 who enter therein. It is then announced 
 by the officiating bishop, or one appointed 
 to that office, that all who desire to go 
 no farther have an opportunity to turn 
 back. Of course few, if any, turn back; 
 they desire to go on through the whole 
 programme. 
 
 The passage in the book of Genesis 
 concerning the creation is then read, and 
 when the words are pronounced, “God 
 said let there be light,” the electric lights 
 are turned on, and illuminate the room, 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 51 
 
 which appears very brilliant, when com- 
 pared with the semi-darkness which pre- 
 vailed shortly before. The reading is 
 continued until the end of the Creation 
 of all things when God pronounced them 
 “very good.” He, acting as Jehovah, 
 consults with Adam, who is with him, 
 saying, Let us make man in our own image 
 and give him power over all things, beasts 
 of the field ,etc., and Eve for a helpmate 
 to him. They then ascend upon an ele- 
 vator, but shortly descends upon the same, 
 and causes deep sleep to come to Adam 
 by touching Adam’s head, saying, “When 
 he wakes up he will not remember what has 
 taken place, but will forget all things 
 past.” Adam awakes and in wonder 
 looks around the garden, which, no 
 doubt, represents Eden. Jehovah then 
 gives him instructions to dress it and keep 
 it in order. All things are for his use 
 and enjoyment, but he must not eat of 
 the tree of knowledge of good and evil, 
 and obey all the commandments given to 
 him by Jehovah, and he will visit him and 
 give him more instructions. 
 
 At this point Jehovah ascends upon the 
 elevator, leaving Adam among the flow- 
 ers, examining them and other beautiful 
 shrubbery. Presently Adam makes his 
 exit among the trees, flowers and shrub- 
 bery of another part of the garden. Eve 
 then comes in by another entrance and, 
 
52 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 while examining the flowers and shrub- 
 bery, she also passes out, apparently to 
 help Adam. At this juncture Lucifer 
 enters, and in surprise scrutinizes the 
 whole interior of the room, and exclaims, 
 “O! a new world made after the pattern 
 of the old,” and, while viewing it with 
 wonder, Eve enters by the exit at Luci- 
 fer’s hack, and while engaged dressing 
 flowers and shrubs, Lucifer turns around 
 and sees her so employed. It startles 
 him. He then approaches her, and in a 
 confiding way talks to her. During his 
 conversation with her he alludes to her 
 lack of knowledge and her blindness to 
 the true enjoyments of life. At the same 
 time he points to a tree whereon ripe fruit 
 hangs in abundance, and says, pointing 
 his finger at it, “If you will eat of the 
 fruit of that tree, your eyes will be opened 
 and see things you know not now.” The 
 name of that tree is the tree of knowl- 
 edge of good and evil. He then goes to 
 the tree, plucks off an apple and again 
 approaches her, handing her the apple, 
 saying, “Eat this and you will become 
 as one of the gods to know both good 
 and evil.” After great persuasion, 
 she submits and eats of the apple. Im- 
 mediately after this Lucifer makes his 
 exit by one door, while Adam enters by 
 another, and, beholding Eve, he suddenly 
 stops and exclaims, “You have eaten of 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 63 
 
 the forbidden fruit! contrary to Father's 
 command/' She approaches him, with 
 apple in hand, saying, “If you, too, eat of 
 this fruit, you shall see as I see and know 
 as I know, being as one of the gods." 
 Adam refuses, saying “No." That seems 
 to grieve her very much. She then asks 
 the question, “Why not eat of this fruit?" 
 He replies, “Father forbade." She then 
 asks, “Do you intend to keep Father’s 
 commands?" He replies, “Yes, all of 
 them." At this stage of affairs Lucifer 
 enters, seemingly paying no attention to 
 the presence of Adam or Eve, but sur- 
 veys the beauty of the new world, 
 when after much persuasion with Adam, 
 she exclaims, “I then must go out into 
 the cold world alone and you will stay 
 here to tend this garden; no one to help 
 you or be with you." Adam swiftly turns 
 round, holding out his hand, saying, “I 
 will then eat of the fruit that we may be 
 together." Just then Lucifer ap- 
 
 proaches. Adam, having eaten of the 
 fruit, exclaims, “Thou art Lucifer." The 
 latter grins with that sort of grin we find 
 upon the faces of some men every day. 
 
 Shortly rolling, as of distant thunder, is 
 heard. Lucifer, as if in a great hurry, 
 goes to Adam and Eve, saying, “Go, get 
 fig leaves and make yourselves aprons 
 and hide yourselves quickly before the 
 Lord comes and sees your nakedness." 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 At this stage of the act all present busy 
 themselves with fastening on a small 
 apron, of uniform size, having fig leaves 
 embossed or marked upon it, each pro- 
 viding himself or herself with this neces- 
 sary adjunct to the farce. The price of 
 the apron ranging according to the qual- 
 ity of the fabric. The writer’s apron cost 
 $2.50. After putting on the aprons, an 
 elevator descends slowly with two men 
 upon it. Here the entire third chapter of 
 Genesis is enacted in a solemn and im- 
 pressive manner. After Jehovah ascends, 
 Lucifer enters with his apron on, every 
 emblem being reversed with the words, 
 “Holy priesthoods,” embossed, also crossed 
 swords upon it. The angel left to expel 
 Adam and Eve from the garden rebukes 
 Lucifer and commands him to leave, 
 which he does very reluctantly. The 
 aprons are then taken off and the command 
 given to go forth into the cold world. 
 The sons of Adam to follow Adam, and 
 the daughters of Eve to follow Eve. They 
 all pass into another room, taking their 
 places as usual, males on the right and 
 females on the left. 
 
 THE TERRESTRIAL ROOM OR COLD 
 WORLD. 
 
 The room into which they are now 
 ushered is called the terrestrial room, 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 55 
 
 which represents the world. At the far end 
 and midway between the walls there is 
 an altar, and a little distance behind the 
 altar a platform rises a few feet above the 
 floor of the room, with steps at each end 
 leading up to it, and behind the platform 
 a cloth or canvas extends across the whole 
 width of the room, the canvas being the 
 same height as the walls, and touches 
 the floor, but can be easily separated in 
 the middle, where it meets closely to- 
 gether. This indicates the veil which 
 separates the terrestrial from the celes- 
 tial spheres. The walls of the room are 
 painted with drawings of animals, trees, 
 etc., supposed to then exist upon the 
 earth’s surface as they came forth from 
 the plastic hand of God. 
 
 The solemn mockeries in the services of 
 the first act are now' opened and carried 
 on by singing, led by an orthodox minis- 
 ter. During the singing Lucifer comes in 
 and accosts the preacher with the query, 
 “Are you a preacher?” After receiving 
 an answer in the affirmative^ he again 
 asks, “Are you an orthodox preacher?” 
 Receiving the same reply, he says, “Well, 
 I want to hire an orthodox preacher for 
 all my children here. Are you out of a 
 job?” Being informed that he is, and, 
 after hearing him preach his trial sermon 
 about a god sitting on top of a topless 
 throne, Lucifer proposes to hire him at 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 a small salary, times being hard, but if he 
 suits Lucifer's children and pleases them 
 well, his salary will be increased largely. 
 This pleases the minister and he accepts 
 the job. Lucifer picks up his stovepipe 
 hat and sets it on one side of his head. 
 The minister takes up his also and sets it 
 well back on his head, so that the rim 
 touches the collar of his coat, and retires, 
 but turns back and asks Lucifer, if any 
 miracles are to be performed, or, if any 
 apostles or prophets are to be in the 
 church, the reply being, “No, they are 
 not needed, and, as for miracles, you may 
 sometimes break an arm and put it to- 
 gether again; that is all.” The preacher 
 retires, leaving Lucifer with his children. 
 
 Adam takes no part in the services, but 
 protests against them. After the preacher 
 retires Adam uncovers the altar, and is 
 about to worship, when Lucifer, beholding 
 it, exclaims, pointing to it, “Woe unto 
 any man who will build an altar in any 
 part of my domain. I will ‘rule from the 
 rivers to the mountains and none dare dis- 
 pute my authority.” He then retires, and 
 Adam calls upon his Father to send him 
 down some one to instruct him. Lucifer 
 returns and asks Adam who he was call- 
 ing upon. Adam replies, “My Father.” 
 Lucifer says, “I am he,” but Adam will 
 not accept him as such, and calls again, 
 “Father, Father.” After further persua- 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 57 
 
 sions and threatenings by Lucifer to Adam, 
 three men come down a stair near the al- 
 tar, who give their names as they de- 
 scend, saying, ‘‘I am Peter, I am James, 
 I am John/’ Lucifer acknowledges he 
 knows them. Peter asks Adam, “What 
 is wanted?” Adam replies, “I want in- 
 structions from my Father ; this man is 
 teaching my brothers <‘and sisters false 
 doctrines; he will not allow me to build 
 an altar and worship thereon.” Peter then 
 turns to Lucifer, who says, “I have hired 
 an instructor ' for my children here, but 
 this one,” pointing to Adam, “is disobe- 
 dient and will not accept his teachings, but 
 wants to build an altar and worship in his 
 own way.” 
 
 Peter then rebukes him and orders him 
 out. Lucifer then turns from Peter and 
 commences to address the congregation, 
 whom he calls his children. Peter again 
 rebukes him, telling him not to preach 
 any more, and orders him out, pointing 
 to the door. Lucifer turns round to Pe- 
 ter and asks, “By whose authority do you 
 order me out?” Peter answers, “By the 
 authority of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Lu- 
 cifer retires. After giving instructions 
 to Adam, who seems to have been a little 
 doubtful of their identity, Peter assures 
 him by giving him a sign and grip of the 
 hand. This satisfies Adam that they were 
 sent by his Father, and he promises to 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 obey the instructions given, after which 
 all three ascend the stair to report to Je- 
 hovah ; and this ends the first act in the 
 religious drama. 
 
 THE TEMPLE GARB. 
 
 They all put on their white robes, white 
 caps and white girdle over their shoulders, 
 preparatory to officiating in the offices 
 of the Holy priesthood, the females wear- 
 ing white veils over their faces, instead 
 of white caps, and all change their robes 
 from left to right shoulder, according to 
 the priesthood they officiate in — Aaronic 
 or Melchisedec. 
 
 VOWS MADE AND TAKEN. 
 
 I was about to neglect to state a very 
 important ptart in the religious Idrama, 
 namely, the vows made and taken. These 
 vows are of so cruel and irreligious a 
 nature and so impressively made and 
 taken as to almost make it impossible for 
 anyone to be foolhardy enough to divulge 
 them to the outside world. This, no doubt, 
 has been the cause of their carrying on 
 their diabolical schemes so successfully 
 in their secret, but not sacred, houses so 
 as to evade the laws of the land, but they 
 cannot evade the retribution of Almighty 
 God, whose anger is now kindled against 
 them. 
 
 Some of the vows are that “Should 
 I ever make known the work carried on 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 59 
 
 in the temple, with its signs, grips and 
 penalties attached thereto in any way or 
 manner to any person or persons outside 
 of the temple walls, not even to speak 
 them to those who have been in the tem- 
 ple, “that my throat may be cut from ear to 
 ear.” All rise and stand while making 
 and taking this vow, repeating the words, 
 at the same time drawing the right hand 
 across the throat when repeating the 
 words “Cut from ear to ear.” Another 
 brutal penalty attached to the divulging or 
 making known the things done or said in 
 the temple is : “That my bov/els may be 
 cut across and fall out,” at the same time 
 drawing the right hand across the stom- 
 ach. 
 
 Now, dear reader, whatever you may 
 be, a Mormon elder, who knows this to 
 be true, or one who has never been in the 
 temple and know nothing of their se- 
 cret doings and workings, I ask you as a 
 human being, in the name of common 
 sense and sound, rational judgment, apart 
 form religion, would the great Eternal God 
 and His Son Jesus Christ authorize any 
 of His children who had formed them- 
 selves into a secret combination to exact 
 such vows and execute such pen- 
 alties upon any one who would dare make 
 known the acts committed by them in that 
 house built by Brigham Young and 
 marked above the door, “Holiness unto 
 
60 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 the Lord,” to cloak the dastardly acts of 
 this secret combination of fanatical hypo- 
 crites, all in the name of religion. 
 
 O ! ye fallen people, will you not stop 
 and think, would the meek and lowly Je- 
 sus sanction such horrible conduct and 
 claim you as His Church, “The 'Church 
 of Jesus Christ?” You have no claim 
 uj-on the sympathy of the world, especially 
 the religious world, to uphold you in your 
 dark deeds of crime, murder, adultery, 
 false teachings and misconceptions of the 
 Word of God. 
 
 There is another vow that you will lay 
 your life down for the Church. The vow 
 on tithing of one-tenth your income, I have 
 no objection to, provided the tithings 
 were appropriated for the work of the 
 Lord, and the Church members to unite 
 in the worship of God with His Spirit to 
 guide, and not the murderous, adulterous 
 spirits of mammon, as taught in the tem- 
 ple, where the world cannot hear or see. 
 
 I now vow that I am willing to lay down 
 my life to expose to the world your dark, 
 hidden schemes and treacherous deception, 
 invented, in the name of religion, in or- 
 der to save the souls of men and women 
 from the snares of your hidden traps, 
 concealed from the world, but revealed in 
 your temples, erected for the worship of 
 your gods, licentiousness and mammon. 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 61 
 
 WORK IN THE TEMPLE. 
 
 Let us now' return to the work going on 
 in the temple. As we said before, all are 
 dressed in white robes of similar pattern, 
 males having on caps and females veils ; 
 they also have white girdles of the same 
 texture over the shoulders and fastened 
 around the waist. The vows all being 
 made and the cruel penalties attached 
 thereto forcibly impressed upon the mind, 
 should any dare to make them known, 
 they next proceed to give you 
 
 SIGNS AND GRIPS, 
 
 By which you may be known among the 
 Mormons, but unknown to the Gentile 
 or world. As they say, signs and grips 
 are called the signs and grips of the holy 
 priesthood, a sweet and holy name applied 
 to their corrupt schemes. 
 
 The signs of the Aaronic and Melchi- 
 sedec priesthood are as follows: Upon 
 
 shaking hands, place the thumb over the 
 knuckle of the index finger, press it, then 
 move it into the hollow between the in- 
 dex and middle fingers. The Melchise- 
 dec priesthood extends the fore or index 
 finger along the wrist over the pulse of 
 the friend with whom you shake hands. 
 The patriarchal sign or grip extend the 
 thumb between the thumb and forefinger 
 of the friend’s hand, press it firmly and 
 
62 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 lock the little finger ; if you cannot, press 
 it firmly with the little finger. 
 
 SIGN OF THE NAIL. 
 
 Hold up the left hand as high as the 
 shoulder, fingers extended and closed, with 
 the palm facing toward the right, then 
 with the index finger, other fingers be- 
 ing closed, of the right hand, place the 
 index finger of the right hand in the palm 
 or hollow of the left hand and perpen- 
 dicular to it, then draw the finger down 
 to the wrist and perpendicular to it ; 
 hold it there a while. Should any Mor- 
 mon be among the crowd, they will know 
 you by this sign. They claim that when 
 Christ was on the cross, another nail was 
 driven through the wrist, lest the weight 
 of the body should tear the other nail 
 through the fingers. But such is not the 
 case ; so said an eye-witness to the hor- 
 rible death of our Blessed Lord. It is 
 another of their false teachings. No rec- 
 ord of it in sacred or secular history. 
 
 There is one more by which you may 
 make yourself known to a crowd, or even 
 to a single person. Raise the right hand 
 as high as the head, palm outward, and 
 say can ; then lower it as low as the shoul- 
 der, arm close to the body, and say can; 
 then drop it to the side, at the same time 
 say can; for instance, can , can , can you 
 inform, or can you show me, or can you 
 tell me, where I can find, etc. This sign 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 63 
 
 is not. likely to be observed only by those 
 who know it. It is the Adamic sign, 
 the word can being used by Adam, and 
 signifies help, distress. 
 
 THE CELESTIAL ROOM. 
 
 Your girdle now being changed to the 
 other shoulder, you sit and patiently wait 
 until you are called. You then step onto 
 the platform before the veil and knock 
 three times with the gavel. This is done 
 by one placed there as prompter, un- 
 til you can become acquainted with 
 the ceremonies by daily practice in doing 
 work for others. The door is then opened 
 a little and a man’s head appears, the 
 body being concealed. He asks the ques- 
 tion, “What is wanted?” You answer, 
 “Admittance.” “Why do you want in?” 
 Answer, “To receive blessings (endow- 
 ments) for myself,” or if another, say so. 
 Question, “Have you on your garments 
 and are they marked?” You answer, 
 “Yes.” You are then directed to another 
 aperture to the right, situated midway 
 between you and the end of the veil. If 
 you have brought a female with you to 
 perform work for your female Relatives 
 and friends, she also goes through the 
 same routine as yourself, but at the left- 
 hand side. You approach the aforesaid 
 aperture, and the party behind the veil 
 asks your name. You then give the new 
 name given you bv the working Bishop 
 
64 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 or patriarch who put on and marked your 
 garments after your washings and anoint- 
 ings. You then extend your right hand 
 through a small aperture in the veil. It 
 is grasped by a hand within and you give 
 the patriarchal grip, so as to assure the 
 one behind the veil that you are worthy 
 of admittance. You then extend your 
 left hand through another round and 
 small aperture on your left, standing 
 close up to the veil. Still holding the 
 right hand with the patriarchal grip, you 
 place your right foot against the inside 
 of the right foot of the person behind 
 the veil, so as the inner part of your 
 knee will press against the inner part of 
 the knee of the other behind the veil, a hori- 
 zontal aperture being made in the veil for 
 that purpose; in this position close up to 
 the veil and every word spoken in a 
 whisper, the person inside places his left 
 hand and arm through another aperture 
 to his left and embrace each other. Mid- 
 way between these apertures there is 
 another horizontal one, where both speak 
 through in a voice scarcely audible above 
 a whisper. 
 
 It is here that great blessings are be- 
 stowed upon the one outside the veil, and 
 if a male, great powers in the priesthood 
 conferred through all time and through- 
 out all eternity. You then return to. 
 the middle door, where you first 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 65 
 
 knocked three times for admittance. The 
 door is opened, you are taken by the hand, 
 welcomed as worthy of admittance. 
 When inside, if you have a female with 
 you, you go through precisely the same 
 performance, omitting powers of the 
 priesthood, no females being ordained. 
 You welcome her as being worthy and 
 lead her by the hand into the 
 
 CELESTIAL ROOM OR SPHERE. 
 
 This room is to represent the celestial 
 sphere, where the souls of the righteous 
 dwell in peace, love, joy, and harmony 
 together in the presence of God. In this 
 room marriage ceremonies and sealings, 
 both for the living and the dead, are per- 
 formed in all solemnity. The marriage 
 ceremonies and sealings for the dead 
 are the same as those performed for the 
 living, except where the one officiating 
 says to the proxy, “I lay my hands upon 
 
 your head for and behalf of .” Here 
 
 the name of the dead is mentioned and 
 the word dead added. 
 
 There are two small rooms set off, but 
 in line with the main body of the Celes- 
 tial room,- with an altar in each, one for 
 the living and one for the dead. In these 
 rooms marriage ceremonies and sealings, 
 both for the living and the dead, are per- 
 formed for time and eternity. The so- 
 demnity of the services just gone through 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 for admittance into this room has been 
 the occasion of many a young couple 
 who entered the temple for the purpose 
 of getting married, neither of whom 
 having been in the temple before, sup- 
 posing that the young bride being held by 
 the hand and welcomed as worthy to en- 
 ter the sacred room, have made their 
 exit down the stair, fully believing they 
 had been united in holy wedlock, before 
 the error was found out by them or some 
 one else, but when called upon by the law 
 of the land to show their marriage cer- 
 tificate, ' they had none to show, and the 
 consequence was they had to repair to 
 the temple and repeat the performance 
 again until they arrived at that stage of 
 the programme where they were admit- 
 ted into the sealing room, where the mar- 
 riage ceremony was gone through and 
 sealed for time and for eternity. 
 
 CAUSE OF JOINING THE MOR- 
 MONS. 
 
 While the whole programme of the tem- 
 ple farce is but solemn mockery in the 
 sight of the Lord, the writer gives them 
 credit for not introducing another act 
 into their religious farce, namely, that of 
 being baptized by proxy for others who 
 are living as well as for the dead, and 
 have washings, anointings, laying on 
 hands, sealings, etc., performed for them. 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 67 
 
 The one seems just now as reasonable as 
 the other, but we must admit there was a 
 time when it did not. That was before 
 the writer was taught the true meaning 
 of the passage mentioned in 1st Cor., 
 15th chapter and 29th verse; the passage 
 upon which the Mormons build their 
 foundation for their vicarious work for 
 the dead. It reads as follows : “Else 
 
 what shall they do which are baptized for 
 the dead if the dead rise not at all, why 
 are you then baptized for the dead?” 
 
 1st. At their death they leave their 
 mortal bodies, as Christ did; their bodies 
 return into dust, but Christ’s bodv did 
 not, because the Father said, “I will not 
 suffer my Holy One to see corruption” — 
 and taken upon themselves their immortal, 
 or spiritual bodies, as Christ did, for three 
 days when He went and preached to the 
 spirits in prison, which bodies they oc- 
 cupy until the resurrection ; they then 
 return back to their mortal bodies, as 
 Christ did, which shall be gathered at the 
 last and general judgment. Rev. 20:12-15. 
 It is appointed unto men once to die and 
 after death the judgment. Heb. 9:27. 
 
 From the above it may be seen that one 
 man cannot carry out the Divine law for 
 another. The writer did engage in work 
 of this nature, believing, as taught by 
 the Mormons, that the Great Eternal 
 Father sanctioned such work and re- 
 
68 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 vealed to Joseph Smith and Brigham 
 Young how it ought to* be carried on in 
 a house built for that purpose. 
 
 The passage in Corinthians, when ex- 
 plained by the Mormons, appears to bear 
 the Royal impress of truth, and by their 
 exposition of it was led to join them and 
 hasten to Salt Lake Utah, with a heart 
 filled with joy and gladness that the Lord 
 had spared my life to become as the Mor- 
 mons have it, “A savior for my people.” 
 
 MY REASON FOR LEAVING THE 
 MORMONS. 
 
 While my heart was filled with joy and 
 gladness in anticipation of a glorious 
 resurrection, to rise and reign with 
 Christ the Lord, believing that the bap- 
 tism by immersion administered to me had 
 washed away my sins, it being performed 
 by one who held authority from the Lord 
 to act in His name, and that the laying 
 on of hands for the reception of the Holy 
 Ghost had implanted within me that 
 greatest of all gifts, more to be prized than 
 honor, fame or riches, I earnestly applied 
 myself to the cultivation of the spiritual 
 gifts which were to follow all true be- 
 lievers, praying to the Lord to give me 
 those which He, in His Divine wisdom, 
 knew I could best use in His work among 
 my fellow-men upon the earth, I earnestly 
 sought after them, calling upon Him day 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 69 
 
 and night for manifestations of the same, 
 promising that by His help my life should 
 be consistent with them, and trusting to 
 meet His approval. I ceased not to re- 
 turn thanks to Him for raising up prophets 
 such as Joseph Smith and his successor, 
 Brigham Young, together with apostles 
 and other prophets, to lead his children in 
 these last days of strife and contention in 
 the religious world, praising his holy name 
 for sparing me to behold the first dawn 
 of the millennium morning as it burst forth 
 to clear away the dark clouds of infidelity 
 which have enveloped the earth for so long 
 a time, and then, turning my attention to 
 the grandeur of the work carried on in 
 the temple, my thoughts brought me back 
 to the vows made and taken, the signs and 
 grips by which they could secretly make 
 themselves known to their own combina- 
 tion, and asked myself the question, Is it 
 possible that a loving, kind and affection- 
 ate Father would sanction so cruel 
 deaths to be inflicted upon any of His 
 children for making known outside the 
 temple the things He permitted done in 
 His name inside the temple. Oh, Cod, 
 why is it? 
 
 I heard a voice say unto me, “Marshall, 
 Marshall, why persecutest thou the* Lord 
 Jesus Christ?” I said, “Wherein do I per- 
 secute Him?” The voice answered and 
 said : “By teaching for doctrines the com- 
 
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 mandments of men.” Again I asked, “In 
 what do I teach for doctrines the com- 
 mandments of men?” The reply was. 
 “You belong to a fallen people, an apos- 
 tate church and know it not. Arise 
 and be baptized and wash away thy sins, 
 calling upon the name of the Lord, and 
 be cleansed from all the iniquities of thy 
 fallen people, and it shall be made known 
 unto thee wherein thou doest err, and in thy 
 ignorance doest persecute thou the Lord 
 Jesus Christ, who died for thee and rose 
 again that thou mightest live and enjoy 
 eternal felicity in His presence.” 
 
 “The anger of the Lord thy God is now 
 kindled against thy fallen people, against 
 their teachings, against their practices and 
 against their corruption in their temples. 
 They are doomed for destruction unless 
 they repent.” 
 
 I obeyed the voice and was baptized for 
 the remission of my sins, after which many 
 things were made known unto me, some 
 of which are given here and some reserved 
 for future use when the dark cloud which 
 hangs over the Mormon Church shall 
 pass away, leaving them a better and more 
 religious people, not worshipping dead, 
 false prohpets, and not pin their faith upon 
 the hypocritical garments which cover the 
 living ones of the same order. 
 
 Should the writer not survive to see the 
 cloud of smoke arising from the ashes of 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 71 
 
 their burning pass away, he has the assur- 
 ance that thousands and tens of thousands 
 will put on the armor and keep the battle 
 raging until the last vestige of their 
 pernicious practices and soul-destroying 
 secret customs shall clear away, when none 
 shall be left to say, I am a Mormon. 
 
 The writer earnestly trusts that many 
 will turn and be cleansed from the in- 
 iquities of their people ere it be too late, 
 for the Lord’s anger is now kindled against 
 His rebellious children. He has many pow- 
 erful agents of destruction. Remember San 
 Francisco, and learn the fate of your beau- 
 tiful temple and temple block, which may 
 suddenly pass away and be found no more. 
 
 The Great Eternal God has decreed that 
 Mormonism shall fall, and unless they 
 repent and turn from their false teachings 
 and corrupt, horrible practices untoj the 
 Lord, who will have mercy upon them, the 
 blood-stained fields of battle will mark 
 their final struggles and the name Mor- 
 monism handed down in history as an 
 enemy of the Lord Jesus Christ and His 
 righteousness. 
 
 “Their house is left unto them desolate.” 
 In the upper chamber of their house, which 
 they call “Angelic Chamber,” where their 
 high officials assemble to receive commu- 
 nications from that high and Holy Sphere, 
 they never have nor never shall receive 
 a communication from that High and 
 
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 M0RM0N1SM EXPOSED. 
 
 Holy habitation, not only from the celes- 
 tial sphere which is one degree below, but, 
 no doubt, they all have received mes- 
 sages from good spirits who dwell in other 
 spheres below. Christ said, “In my Fa- 
 ther’s house are many mansions.” In the 
 above-named sphere none but the pure in 
 heart can dwell. 
 
 They can quote the passage, “Are they 
 not all ministering spirits sent forth to 
 minister for them who shall be heirs of 
 salvation.” Heb. 1, 14th verse. But un- 
 derstand not the full import of that text. 
 They have accepted the teachings of these 
 lower order of spirits, who., like them- 
 selves, before their departure to their sev- 
 eral abodes in those spheres, knew not, 
 neither did they practice the purity of 
 Christ’s teachings, by keeping His com- 
 mandments. 
 
 Kind reader, I ask you in the name of 
 common sense, will angels or spirits of 
 just men made perfect, for there is a vast 
 difference between angels and spirits of 
 just men made perfect — will either of 
 them enter their so-called “Angelic room” 
 and teach them the baneful doctrines of 
 polygamy by which they can gratify their 
 lusts ; also the secret signs and grips by 
 which they can themselves be made known 
 to one another while walking along the 
 streets of our cities and towns, and the most 
 horrible punishment inflicted by them 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 73 
 
 upon all who might awake from the hyp- 
 notic spell under which they have been 
 placed through the incantations of the 
 delusive temple ceremonies. If so, then 
 there is no God of justice, mercy and 
 truth, or meek and lowly Nazarene, whose 
 teachings have been accepted by the 
 Christian world, and are diametrically 
 opposed to those enacted in their (holy) 
 temple farces. 
 
 It is not the writer’s purpose at this time 
 to attack the doctrines taught by them 
 to the outer world, some of which are 
 seasoned with truth to lure on, while 
 others are comprised of bitter herbs with 
 a little truth sprinkled over to give them 
 appearance. 
 
 Of these two classes we shall take one 
 of each as a sample of the others ; both of 
 which we take from their thirteen articles 
 of faith, printed upon the back of their 
 traveling elders’ cards. The second ar- 
 ticle reads thus : “We believe that men will 
 be punished for their own sins, and not 
 for Adam’s transgression.” According to 
 this article, they do not believe that men 
 are born in sin. Thereby they form a mis- 
 conception of the words of our Blessed 
 Master to Nicodemus, John 3d chapter, 
 verses 3-6. The thirteenth article reads 
 thus : “We believe in being honest, true, 
 chaste, benevolent, virtuous and in doing 
 good to all men; indeed, we may say that 
 
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 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 we follow the admonition of Paul, “We 
 believe all things, we hope all things, we 
 have endured many things, and hope to be 
 able to endure all things. If there is any- 
 thing virtuous, lovely,., of good report, or 
 praiseworthy, we seek after these things/’ 
 
 The above is a good coating or sprink- 
 ling of the very essence of religious 
 thought, backed up by the quotation taken 
 from Paul’s letter, “We believe all things, 
 we hope all things,” to hide their other 
 teachings, especially those taught in their 
 temples. 
 
 Now, let me ask, Do they believe in be- 
 ing virtuous, when at the same time they 
 teach and practice polygamy? They teach 
 that Christ the Son of God had three 
 wives. This, no doubt, is true of Joseph 
 Smith, but not of the Divine Master, wiio 
 never knew woman by having sexual in- 
 tercourse with her. The civilized world 
 being against them for their pernicious 
 teachings, they have tried to keep out of 
 history the truth that Joseph Smith taught 
 and practiced it, as their leader, but the 
 records of the Criminal Court at Carthage, 
 111., prove facts. They do not reverse 
 things to suit the times, as the Mormons 
 do, and then cry out that the world is 
 against them. As men and women the 
 world is not against them, but against their 
 evil ways. They cannot hoist up Joseph 
 Smith and his successor, Brigham Young, 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 75 
 
 any longer before the world as prophets 
 of the Great Jehovah. Of course, they 
 were prophets of the god they worship- 
 ed after that good man Maroni took his 
 departure; when Smith and Young hatched 
 up stuff, after changing parts of the his- 
 tory and inserted it at the close of the 
 book as Maroni’s work, in order to give it 
 a coloring, like the fabrication of the book 
 being translated by use of the urim and 
 thummim, saying it is a Divinely inspired 
 beck, and quote Scripture to prove it, such 
 as “Truth shall spring out of the earth, 
 and righteousness shall look down from 
 heaven.” Ps. 85, 11th verse. They neg- 
 lect to read the next two verses, which 
 plain!) show that David was speaking of 
 the Son of God coming in the flesh, and not 
 the book of Mormon coming out of the 
 ground ; the same with other passages of 
 the Scriptures. 
 
 Beloved reader, the book of Mormon is 
 no more divinely inspired than any other 
 history. The history of the United States, 
 or of the American Continent, from the 
 time of its discovery by Christopher Colum- 
 bus down to the present time, is as much 
 a holy record as that of the book of Mormon 
 or any part thereof, and the writer of the 
 history of these United States, or of any 
 state or country deserves more credit for 
 being divinely inspired than Joseph Smith, 
 because they used their heart, brain and 
 
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 M0RM0N1SM EXPOSED. 
 
 hand, whereas Joseph Smith being 'con- 
 trolled by the writers, had nothing to do 
 but sit still and let the words roll out of his 
 mouth in modern language, while Martin 
 Harris wrote them down. The last good 
 spirit to control Smith was Moroni, else he 
 never would ha/e thrown himself out of 
 the window, thereby committing suicide. 
 
 Kind reader, please let me state a case 
 somewhat similar in nature to that of Jo- 
 seph Smith, which very recently occurred 
 and is still fresh in the minds of men 
 nearly all over the world, especially in 
 these United States. It is that of John 
 Alexander Dowie, who being possessed of 
 strong mediumistic powers, was utilized by 
 a higher intelligence, whereby he built up 
 a large, flourishing city, called Zion, about 
 ten miles from Chicago, Illinois, U. S. A., 
 and established a church worthy the ad- 
 miration of the Christian world, with 
 branches all over these United States, and 
 foreign countries. Criticized by the clergy 
 and laity of all Christian denominations, yet 
 it bore a fair example of Christ’s teachings 
 among them all. He accumulated wealth 
 and purchased millions’ worth of property 
 in a short period of time, that influence de- 
 parted from him and he was controlled 
 by that of a lower order ; then contentions 
 and dissensions arose in the beautiful City 
 of “Zion,” even in his home, among his 
 wife and children, who all departed from 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 77 
 
 him and left him to die a mental wreck. 
 
 The writer now knows the voice he 
 heard and remembers the instiuctions given 
 him. The publication and circulation of 
 this booklet being the first duty required, 
 apart from keeping the laws of God, the 
 Great Eternal Father, and His Son Jesus 
 Christ, others shall follow in close succes- 
 sion, until the Mormon temples shall change 
 their names and be utilized for more noble 
 and more Godly purposes. Though the 
 writer may not survive the brunt of the 
 battle, others more qualified than he shall 
 take his place and wage the Mormon war 
 by carrying it on until the purposes of the 
 Great Jehovah and His Son Jesus Christ 
 shall be accomplished. 
 
 Then, and not until then, shall the war 
 cry cease and the banner of our Divine 
 Leader be furled in the arms of peace, joy 
 and salvation to the souls of men, women 
 and children, who, now unwittingly in their 
 blindness, worship at the low shrine of sen- 
 suality; paying honorable tribute to the 
 memory of dead false prophets, who were 
 the originators and instigators of such cor- 
 rupt and hellish practices. 
 
 The writer, who was at one time as sin- 
 cere and devoted to the Mormon cause and 
 its promulgation throughout the world as 
 any man, from their president down' to the 
 most humble worshiper in their faith and 
 creed, believing he was serving the Lord 
 
78 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 and His Son, Jesus Christ, the Redeemer 
 of all, honestly and faithfully, before 
 Him and his fellow-men, and desirous of 
 bringing others into the supposed fold of 
 the Great Shepherd. But now he ceases 
 not to return thanks to his Heavenly Father 
 for leading him into the glorious light of 
 truth as it is in Christ Jesus, through the 
 voice he heard, which gave him instruc- 
 tions how to leave the dark valley below, 
 where he had been fed upon the stale hay, 
 wilted leaves and decayed vegetation of 
 dead and corrupt supposed prophets of the 
 Lord and embrace the truths as presented 
 to him showing that Joseph Smith and 
 Brigham Young were not prophets of the 
 Eternal Jehovah and that the book of Mor- 
 mon is no more divinely inspired than any 
 other history of other people, state or coun- 
 try ; that our Blessed Lord did not organ- 
 ize His Church upon the Western Conti- 
 nent, but did upon the Eastern, and sent 
 forth His apostles, saying, “Go ye into all 
 the world.” 
 
 Dear reader, you may rest assured, so 
 true as I value the eternal salvation of my 
 soul and so true as that I must answer 
 before the Great Eternal Judge of all for 
 every word written in this book, I solemnly 
 declare before Him and the holy angels 
 that Jesus Christ, the Son of the Great 
 Eternal God, did not establish or organize 
 His Church upon this Western Continent 
 
MORMONISM EXPOSED. 79 
 
 in His body, after His resurrection, as the 
 book of Mormon claims He did, and chose 
 twelve apostles. 
 
 I further solemnly declare that the book 
 of Mormon was not translated by the gift 
 and power of God, by use of the Instru- 
 ment called the Urim and Thummim, as it 
 claims, but rendered in our modern lan- 
 guage by the means mentioned in this 
 book, consequently it deserves no more 
 consideration of being divinely inspired 
 than does that of any other secular history. 
 
 Also, that Joseph Smith and Brigham 
 Young were not prophets of the Great 
 Eternal God ; farther, that Moroni did not 
 write the last part of the book relative to 
 the establishment of Christ’s Church, cere- 
 monies, etc., and I call upon the Lord Jesus 
 Christ to bear witness thereof. Amen. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 THOMAS PHILIP MARSHALL. 
 
 May the Lord open the eyes of every 
 Mormon and all who seek after truth as it 
 was, is, and ever shall be, for God is truth, 
 and He reveals it to all who diligently seek 
 after it, and all who obtain it are free from 
 the teachings of men and false prophets 
 who would, were it possible, deceive God’s 
 own elect. Be not deceived, not everyone 
 who saith I am God’s elect, are elected by 
 Him as such, while many are called, few 
 are chosen as His elect. 
 
 In John’s revelation, given to him while 
 
80 MORMONISM EXPOSED. 
 
 a prisoner on the Isle of Patmos, he saw 
 the books opened and the dead, both small 
 and great, judged according to the things 
 written in the books. The Lamb’s book 
 of - life was opened, and many were dis- 
 appointed and wondered why their names 
 were not written therein, so many a good 
 Mormon and others who have passed away, 
 who led Godly lives and enjoyed the wor- 
 ship of God, feared Him with a Godly fear, 
 that is, love for Him as a kind Father, and 
 afraid of doing anything- to offend Him, 
 yet when the books are opened may not 
 find their names as they expected, written 
 in the Lamb’s book of Life. 
 
 Let us not rest our faith upon dead 
 prophets, especially upon false ones, and 
 build up their sepulchres, neither let us fool 
 ourselves with the belief that Mormoni was 
 the angel who flew in the midst of Heaven 
 and gave the everlasting gospel to Joseph 
 Smith, who was no prophet, but was an 
 adulterer, fornicator and a suicide. 
 
 Oh, God ! May this book fill its mission 
 to the glory and honor of Thy Holy name, 
 in bringing every Mormon and all others, 
 who name the name of Jesus Christ, Thine 
 only begotten Son, with respect, to con- 
 sider their condition before Thee and 
 have their names written in the Lamb’s book 
 of Life, by accepting Him and following 
 His example given, is the earnest prayer 
 of the writer in the name of Jesus Christ. 
 Amen. T. P. MARSHALL. 
 
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