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31888
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English
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The Prophets, or Mormonism Unveiled
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Philadelphia
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Wm. White Smith
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"In seeking to lift the veil from an unpleasant spectacle, the heart has often sickened and shrunk back from its task, while reason reproving bade the hand finish and hold up to the gaze of the world, the enormities into which fatal fanaticism had plunged so many thousands of our brethren—for such still they are, as no crime can blot out the impress of the God of nature's hand, although it may so deface it, that nothing less than the Divine attributes can recognise his handiwork.The first four chapters of this volume, are the authentic records of the Prophet's [Joseph Smith's] family, from his infancy to manhood. From thence commences his career as a Prophet, and the most successful diplomatist of the nineteenth century. Here his political history begins, and these chapters have been recorded, that the world may view the man who claimed a Prophetic mission, as he was, denuded of all that could mislead, or bias the judgment. From this time many of the details of his progress could not be incorporated in a work like this; but enough, it is believed, has been revealed to illustrate the man, as he lived and died." [Article Preface]