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[Mormon] Bible & Polygamy. Does the Bible Sanction Polygamy? A Discussion between Professor Orson Pratt, One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Rev. Doctor J. P. Newman, Chaplain of the United States Senate, In the New Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, August 12, 13, and 14, 1870--To Which is Added Three Sermons on the Same Subject, by Prest. George A. Smith, and Elders Orson Pratt and George Q. Cannon, Deseret News Steam Printing Establishment, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1876. 9.75 x 5.75 inches. 105pp. Wrappers are missing and likely disbound. Previous owners stamp on title page plus his signature on page 3. Slant to booklet. Fair condition. Early re-print of the famous debate regarding polygamy between Orson Pratt and J.P. Newman which took place August 12-14, 1870, in the "New Tabernacle" in Salt Lake City. Plus, additional sermons on the same subject by President George A. Smith and George Q. Cannon. Copy owned by James G. Bleak of St. George, Utah with his signature. From the Washington County Historical Society, "In 1862, Bleak was appointed counselor to the Bishop of the Third Ward. Thereafter he became tithing clerk for the mission and city recorder for St. George and still later he became a member of the High Council. From 1868 to 1872 he was the postmaster of St. George. He was called at the age of forty-three to serve a mission in England, the land of his birth, and during 1872-1873 he edited the Millennial Star. He returned to the red earth of the Cotton Mission, helped complete the St. George Temple and became the Temple's first recorder. There is no record of his persecution by the Federal government, but Bleak must have experienced some contention over his plural marriages. In 1909 he was ordained a Patriarch in the St. George Stake, and he died at 88 years of age on 30 January 1918, in the town he helped build." Flake 6490. Seller Inventory # 1369
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