Improvement Era, 1902 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion

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The Andrew Jenson History Company has just issued volume one of the Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, a volume of 828 pages containing brief annals of over seven hundred leading and prominent men and women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with portraits. Andrew Jenson, assistant Church historian, has written or compiled the sketches which include the names of many of the pioneers of the state whose worthy deeds the book is intended to perpetuate. As a work of reference it is extremely valuable. Many of the sketches are carefully written, and are really character sketches, the subjects being mostly men and women who have become prominent in the Church as general officers, bishops, presidents of stakes, counsellors to bishops, leading elders, seventies, patriarchs, Sabbath school superintendents, officers of Mutual Improvement associations and others. This is undoubtedly one of the most valuable works that have yet been compiled by Elder Jenson, whose "Historical Record," and "Church Chronology" are well known in the literature of the Church.

Christian and Mormon Doctrine, by Charles Ellis, is a little pamphlet of thirty-eight pages defining the differences between Christian and "Mormon" doctrines pertaining to God, the origin and destiny of man, future life, eternal torments, endless progress, etc. Charles Ellis is a well-known free religionist, and in this pamphlet has set forth with great plainness the Christian conception of God, and the origin and destiny of man, as well as the repugnant doctrine of eternal torment. He maintains that the horrors preached by early Christianity on the torments of hell, are still believed in, and that they came through a false conception of man's origin, purpose and destiny; and he makes very clear that the mission of "Mormonism,' is to restore the religion of Jesus of Nazareth, and to bring back the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God unto the hearts and homes of men. He has succeeded in defining the position and purpose of the Latter-day Saints very well, and the pamphlet is one that will be read with deep interest.-Charles Ellis, Salt Lake City, Utah. Price ten cents.

John T. Miller, is the author of a discussion of Educational Problems, a treatise concerning moral purity, religious training, physical education, prevention of disease, and the rational method of cure, including an essay on stimulants and narcotics. This treatise is attached to Child Culture, a book of seventy-seven pages treating on the laws of physiological phrenology and mental suggestion, by N. N. Riddell, Ph. D., who is also the author of a little book entitled A Plain Talk to Boys. These books will doubtless do much good wherever they are read. The contents of Educational Problems, written in simple but plain language, are more to be commended than the typographical execution of the books which is very indifferent. Published by Human Culture Publishing Co., 251 East 3rd South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Child Culture and Educational Problems, bound together, fifty cents. Plain talks to Boys, ten cents.

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