Sir,—It is a source of great pleasure to many citizens of the U.S. that you have so ably exposed the Mormons in your influential paper. When more than 1,300 Mormons had been sentenced to imprisonment and fine the celebrated manifesto of Sept. 24th, 1900, was issued, and even so able a judge of Utah as Charles S. Zane said a year later, "I do not believe plural marriages have been sanctioned by the officers of the Mormon Church since the manifesto." But the people of the U.S. were followed, and Utah was admitted as a State and Mormon Missionaries with two wives each are sent out into the world to propagate their doctrines. What these doctrines are must be gathered from their published works. I send you some extracts which are vouched for by Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Baptists in Utah. They are marked in the enclosed tract. I leave it to your judgment whether such shocking statements are wroth reproducing this time.

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1. "He" [Adam]" "is our Father and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do. . . . When the Virgin Mary conceived the child Jesus, the Father had begotten him in his own likeness. He was not begotten by the Holy Ghost. And who is the Father? He is the first of the human family."—Journal of Discourses, Vol. I, p. 50, Sermon by Brigham Young

2. ". . . And also with Michael, or Adam, the Father of all, the Ancient of days."—Pearl of Great Price, p. 60.

3. "Adam fell, but his fall became a matter of necessity after the woman had transgressed. . . . In the language of the Prophet Lehi, 'Adam fell that men might be. . . . No wonder Father Adam fell, and accompanied the woman, sharing in all the miseries of the curse, that he might be the father of an innumerable race of beings who would be capable of becoming Gods."—Millennial Star, Vol. XV., p. 801.