Mormon Iniquity
Chicago: Jameson & Morse, Printers, 1884. Noble, F[rederic] A[lphonso] The Mormon Iniquity. A Discourse Delivered Before the New West Education Commission...Chicago: Jameson & Morse, Printers, 1884. 8 5/8" x 5 7/8", 20 pp.
Thin paper wrappers, front wrapper moderately creased and lightly dust-soiled, a touch of faint creasing at edges, very good condition.
An important treatise on the dangers of Mormonism and the importance of “our endeavors to bring the people of these Mormon Territories into allegiance to Christian ideas and Christian standards.” The opening page proclaimed, "We have many evils in this land, and we are exposed to many perils. It is impossible for good men to be too vigilant and earnest in guarding against the encroachments of harm. But yonder, amongst the fastnesses of the Rocky Mountains, casting its roots into the fertile valleys, finding nourishment and strength in the crevices of the everlasting hills, there grows an evil, peculiar, enormous, and prophetic of untold disaster, before which thoughtful men may well pause and ponder. Mormonism in the West, illiteracy in the South, rum in the East and everywhere-- these are the elements of the Devil's Trinity." The text argued that the sect was “taking on new and startling proportions every year” and that Christians needed to “do our best to swell the tide of public opinion against polygamy … to demand effective laws and able and earnest men to administer them … to push Christian schools to the utmost limit of our resources.”
A longtime pastor at Chicago’s Union Park Congregational Church, the author was also responsible for “Abraham Lincoln,” an address delivered before the Chicago Methodist Social Union “on the birthday of the martyred chief” (1901), as well as titles such as “Divine Life in Man,” “Our Redemption,” “Typical New Testament Conversions” and “The Pilgrims.”
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