Mormonism: its leaders and designs./ By John Hyde.

DEDICATION.
can not determine the principles of communities, yet, when
those practices are criminal and those individuals assume
to be prophets and apostles, all men ought to hesitate before
committing themselves to their jurisdiction, believing their
pretensions, or imitating their examples.
If the following pages, for which I solicit your serious
and candid perusal, accomplish no more, may they at least
lead you to a thorough and careful re-investigation of your
grounds of faith; while they teach you.to remember that
new thoughts are not, therefore, true thoughts; nor new light
true light. To industriously declaim against the evils existing in the world, does not render proposed remedies necessarily good; and wise men should deliberate before rushing
from evils that we know,
To those we know not of."
I am your sincere well-wisher,
THIE AUTHOR.
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