Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

BEYOND THE WEST.
guage. Yet, they were found in a rough box, such
as is used for common window glass. This was a
bigger thing than even the "Cardiff Giant."
Smith interpreted the plates, with a stone in his
hat, (perhaps it was the Stone Giant, for he was found
in that neighborhood 1) while another man wrote
down the revelation-which made the Book of Mormon. Nothing but a remarkable fanaticism could
entertain such material; every principle of humanity
and common sense is outraged by its sacrilegious pretensions. The leading principle of their faith and
practice does not seem to have been on the miraculous plates; but Joseph Smith, subsequently, had a
revelation authorizing and establishing plurality of
wives, as the perfection and crowning work of their
religion, while he was at Nauvoo, in 1843. This
new and everlasting covenant, he said, was instituted before the foundation of the world, and was given
him to establish the fullness of his glory: "And verily, verily, I say unto you, (Smith,) that whatsover
you seal on earth, shall be sealed in Heaven! and
whatsoever you bind on earth in my name and by
my word, saith the Lord, it shall be eternally bound
in Heaven; and whosesoever sins you remit on earth
shall be remitted eternally in the heavens; and whosesoever sins you retain on earth, shall be retained in
Heaven." Such an assunmption of superhuman pow
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