The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-25


whom it 80 earnestly belabors.
Mormonism-Prosress ~ Homc and Abroad
Latter Day Saints Literature.
We have lately received several documents
emanating from the presses Of the Latter
Day Saints, which contain many facts full
of interest for the present, and warning for
the future. We have published the immi-
grafton report from the Ailleuia1 Star, by
which it appears that in about four months
nearly four thousand converts have sailed
from Liverpool en- route for the modern Sodom
at Great Salt Lake. This foreign immigra-
tion, added to the recruits which are pouring
into Utah from the Eastern States, will give
an increase Of fye Or six thousand to its popu-
lation for the present season, and hasten the
time when Brigham, with his twelve stage
loads Of wives, will knock at the door of the
Capitol asking for State rights and privileges,
unless the swarms of grasshoppers drive them
from their home and scatter them over the
face Of the earth.
organ of the Latter Day Saints, is published
weekly at Liverpool, neatly printed, and edited
with some ability. There is also French
paper, called the Etoile dn Desert, organe de
rEglise dc Jesus Christ des Saints DIES Derners and
Welsh hebdomadal Ldgom Scion, (Zions
Trumpet,) which latter publication has reached
its eighth volume. These periodicals are very
cheap, and are circulated by hundreds Of thou
sands all over Europe
In addition to their journals, the Mormon
elders have issued large number Of cheap
text books, such as the Book Of Mormon-that
precious piece Of trash compounded by Jo.
Smith and Sidney Rigdon--"One Year in
Scandinavia: Result of the Gospel in Sweden
and Denmark Latter Day Saints in Utah,
with Bill to Establish Territorial Government,
List of Officers, &C.," at three pence; "Assas-
snation Of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and
History of the Expulsion Of the Saints
from Nauvoo;" key to the Science of
Theology" by Farley p Pratt one of the
Twelve Apostles, (nira5ih dictu y divine Au-
thority, or was Joseph Smith sent Of God" at
two pence the italian Mission and the
Prussian Mission" Reports of Missionaries
to Archbishop Young" and many others.
Nearly all Of these works have been translated
and published in the French, German, italian,
Danish and Welsh languages. The Danes have
an organ Of their own, the Scandinavian Star
edited and published at Copenhagen, semi
weekly; and the Germans are favored with
book bearing the pleasant title Fine Gott-
liche Offenbarung und Belehrung uber den
Destand," Revelations Of Marriage, and Pa
triarchal Order or Plurality of Wives) The
Welsh have large number Of cheap works,
written by native authors, and by the report
published elsewhere it will be seen that Wales
furnished more converts, i'll proportion to its
population, than any other country, Denmark,
perhaps, excepted.
Nor is the muse Of poetry lost sight OF in
the sharp controversial and theological strug-
giles carried on by the scribes of the Latter
Day Saints. We find that Brother John Lyon
has written a series of lyrics, called The
Harp of Zion," which is sold from six shillings
dow; to three, according to binding, and
hymn book can be had in morocco extra for
four shillings, while the last number Of the
Star is enriched by the subjoined poetic gem :
FAINT NOT.
Air" Love not.n
Faint not faint not yc Saints of Latter Days.
Though trlbuationa may upon you fall
Trust in the Lord, your prayers unto him raise,
He viii support those who upon Him call.
Faint not faint not
Faint not faint not should death himself draw nigh
Our God unto the utermost eau save;
Let us then on His promises rely,
Whose power extends beyond death and the grave.
Faint not faint not
Faint not faint not nor think that God viii change
His promises will stand for sure;
And though, at times, appearances be strange,
Faint not faint not
faint not faint not but prove that you arc Saints
Faithful unto the covenants you've made
Fulfilling, without murmurs or complaints,
All duties which upon you may be laid.
Faint not faint not
GREAT SALT LAKE CRY. HENRY MAIBEN,
This is not quite so good as the original, but
we have no doubt that thegifted authoress dhe
Hon. Mrs. Norton) will feel highly delighted
with it, and much obliged to Brother Maiben.
The elders seem to have been highly sue
cessful in Scotland, Wales England, and Den
mark; in the last named country we read that
the Saints were put to sore persecution, but the
"blood Of the martyrs is the seed Of the church,"
and the Danish converts, encouraged by the
promise oil numerous concublncS In Deserct,
remained firm in the faith. The Frepch seem
10th to adopt the Mormon doctrine; although
they generally run after every thing new, good
or bad, they seem to be disguised with Joe
Smiths transparent plattudes. At the late
Manchester convention some fifteen hundred
converts were present and one brother from
America, rs we learn from the Star, .nade STIR
ring speech upon the rough side of Mormonism,
which caused the saints to think about Yankee
doodlcdo-doing it," That last elegant express
sion is, we presume, Manchester slang for i'm
migration.
The ''P. L. Fund" referred to in The Emil
grafton report, is thus explained in the
Star, in answer to n letter from person who
announces himself a. Clergyman of the
Church of England -