The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-28
Mr.. HENRY'S BOOK
Is OFF THE PRESS
by Order of the Prophet Is
Highly Commended.
PASTOR TELLS MORMON TALE
VOLUME NOT AN ATTACK ON
SAINTS

L RIENDS of the Rev. Alfred II.
Henry. formerly pastor of the
First Methodist church here, will
be interested in knowing that advance
copies of his book, by Order of the
Prophet" have been sent out. of the
work the Anaconda Standard says:
The story is charmingly written.
Mr.. Henry is the possessor of a delight
full literary style. There is a deep in
terest in the subject, an absorbing in
terest in the story and a growing
charm in the story's telling 1t is a
well sustained story-the interest grows
With the pages. One who starts the
first chapter will surely complete the
novel. There is an appealing strength
10 the story which places it in class
far above the mass of novels lately
issued from the various publishing
houses. Reading certain passages.
dealing with strong situations strongly
told, one feels impelled TO turn back
and re-read the stirring sentences.
THE story opens in Cornwall, Eng
land. The heroine is Carissa Graham.
Mormon. missionary, Eaton Brand,
breaches in the mining village where
Carissa lives. He is young and hand
some. A strong personal interest is
created in the relations between the
girl and the Mormon preacher, and
grows. They love and are married.
The story shifts TO New York and
thence across the plains, in the early
SOS, to Utah. The climax and the
tragedy come when the order comes
from the prophet that Brand must take
unto himself another wife. There is
only one course, and that is submis-
sion' AS the story is told, the reader S
interest in Carissa deepens TO affection
and love, and a personal concern Is
felt in the tragedy of her love as de-
picted by the author.
THE thoroughly western flavor of the
book is enhanced by the Enthusiastically
western illustrations from the pen OF
the famous Butte artist, f. s. Paxson
The frontispiece represents an emf
grant train crossing the plains The
illustrations are works of strength as
we'll as works of art, and add much
to the character as well as to the
beauty of the production.
I'm his preface the author says; The
story of Mormonism has not yet beer
written This book deals with only one
phase of the problem The period COW
cred contains many dramatic elements
and unique points of interest Some OF
| these have been woven into a story
and is true in every essential feature
and in accord with established facts
| The materialiStic doctrines revealed
through Joseph Smith, developed b.
Orson Pratt and preached by Brigham
Young form the framework of pc
culiar body Of belief, and the founda
/ tion for a social system that has NJ
counterpart among civilized men.
Although Mormonism has beer
preached for more than three-quarter'
! of a century, there are very few out
| side the fold who have any clear knowl
| edge of what it's doctrines include. 1t
missionaries have ever been adroit
cautious and plausible in the work o
/ PROSECUTING, and the "Veiled gospef
/ they preach to the world is in startlin:
| contrast TO the esoteric teachings ant
I practices that it covers.
The sources of information con
corning life in Utah during the SOS ar
! abundant. Those found to be of great
/ est value are such Mormon publica
| tions as 1.-The Miliennial Star, Jour
nal of Discourses, The Desere
/ News" Route from Liverpool to tn
G. s. L. w: also Colonel Kane,s Mar
ratives,'' various public journals ant
| documents. reports of travellers, such a
, Remy and Chandless, and Bancroft
History of Utah" From these source
| every fact of Importance that has beel
! woven into this story may be full
verified.
This book is not an attack upol
| MOrmOnism. 1t is simply a story deal
| ing with certain admitted condition
I and making some small use of the dra
| matte materials which the unimpeach
able history of the times has furnished
1t has no sighting word to speak
disparagement of the sturdy strength
untiriRg energy and singular devotio
that marked the lives of the men an
women who did pioneer work in th
! midst of incredible difficulties, an
| whose sons and daughters are risin
to a better understanding, and, it ma
be. to a purer faith
THE novel contains about 400 page!
is neatly printed, and attractivel
bound in an illuminated cover