LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. G. F. & J. RIVINGTON,
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL:
& SOLD BY W. GRAPEL, LIVERPOOL.


1842.


O merciful God,
who hast made
all men, and
hatest nothing
that thou hast
made: have
mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and HERETICS,
and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart,
and contempt of thy word; and so fetch them home,
blessed Lord, TO THY FLOCK, that they may be
saved among
the remnant of
true Israelites,
and be made
one fold under
one Shepherd,
Jesus Christ
our Lord, who
liveth and
reigneth with
thee and the
Holy Spirit,
one God, world
without end.
A M E N .

PREFACE.

The following narrative, the result of a few weeks' leisure on shipboard, is presented to the Christian public, with a deep sense, on the Author's part, of the iniquity of an imposture, which, under the name of religion, is spreading extensively in America and in Great Britain. Mormonism needs but to be seen in its true light to be hated; and if the following pages, consisting almost exclusively of the personal testimony of the Author, should assist in awakening public indignation against a cruel delusion and a preposterous heresy, he will consider himself amply rewarded. A History of Mormonism, from its commencement to the present time, may perhaps form the subject of a future publication.

Liverpool, June 19, 1842.