The Mormons are poor, and their temple rises slowly; but as every Mormon is requested to give the avails of every tenth day's labor, to aid in building the temple, this will perhaps secure its ultimate completion. The house of Joe Smith is plain and modest, and does not differ from the better sort of houses in Nauvoo, except that, upon its front, there appears a sign with this inscription, in great characters, 'Ancient Records, Egyptian Mummies and Parchments exhibited here. Price of admission 25 cents.'

It is enough to make one 'blush and hang his head to think himself a man,' when he sees thousands of his fellow-men deluded and carried away by the absurd mummeries of Mormonism—sees thousands of immortal beings born to worship the God of heaven, following the beck, and almost paying homage to such an ignoramus and consummate scoundrel as Joe Smith. The Mormons believe that he is more than man—that he can forgive sins and work miracles. And I see not how Mormonism differs in its essential features from Popery—that scourge of the earth and enemy of all righteousness.

B. W.