THE
CITY OF THE MORMONS;
OR,
THREE DAYS AT NAUVOO,
IN 1842.
BY THE REV.
HENRY CASWALL, M.A.
AUTHOR OF "AMERICA AND THE AMERICAN CHURCH,"
AND PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN KEMPER COLLEGE,
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. G. F. & J. RIVINGTON,
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL:
& SOLD BY W. GRAPEL, LIVERPOOL.
1842.
| O merciful God, | ||
| who hast made | ||
| all men, and | ||
| hatest nothing | ||
| that thou hast | ||
| made: have | ||
| mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and HERETICS, | ||
| and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, | ||
| and contempt of thy word; and so fetch them home, | ||
| blessed Lord, TO THY FLOCK, that they may be | ||
| saved among | ||
| the remnant of | ||
| true Israelites, | ||
| and be made | ||
| one fold under | ||
| one Shepherd, | ||
| Jesus Christ | ||
| our Lord, who | ||
| liveth and | ||
| reigneth with | ||
| thee and the | ||
| Holy Spirit, | ||
| one God, world | ||
| without end. | ||
| A M E N . | ||
PREFACE.
The following narrative, the result of a few weeks' leisure onshipboard, is presented to the Christian public, with a deep sense, onthe Author's part, of the iniquity of an imposture, which, under thename of religion, is spreading extensively in America and in GreatBritain. Mormonism needs but to be seen in its true light to be hated;and if the following pages, consisting almost exclusively of thepersonal testimony of the Author, should assist in awakening publicindignation against a cruel delusion and a preposterous heresy, he willconsider himself amply rewarded. A History of Mormonism, from itscommencement to the present time, may perhaps form the subject of afuture publication.
Liverpool, June 19, 1842.
THE
CITY OF THE MORMONS,
&c.
The rise and progress of a new religion afford a subject of the highestinterest to the philosophical observer. Under these circumstances humannature may be seen in a novel aspect. We behold the mind grasping at anideal fo