The reasonableness of our own religious ways and views may be best judged by transferring them to some other and opposing creed, in order to see how they looked in that changed light.—Author, chap. i.
When certain parties laughed at the Pope, the Pope said that people ought not to laugh at Religion.—Author, chap. xv.
This chapter, like its two predecessors, is to be devoted to one particular feature, but which, as in these other cases, will be found also illustrative of the time at which we have now arrived. In this chapter, then, I propose to deal with religious aspects. After five centuries of retrospect, how fared the various religious bodies of our country? How fared our great national Church, reconstructed, as we had left it, upon the comprehensive basis of Scripture? What were the religious aspects of the world generally?
The future, Gray would assert, belonged to Mormon truth. Might he but see what his Church would be five hundred or a thousand years hence!—Author, chap. i.
The Mormon Church had by this time taken the first position in its original stronghold, the great United
