A few copies of this book from 1948 passed through my hands while I worked at a used book warehouse, and my curiosity was piqued enough to buy one for myself. It's worth reading for at least two reasons: as one of the few sympathetic overviews of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by an outsider (then or now), and as a snapshot of the infant Utah religion as it stood poised to burgeon into the slightly more diverse and global faith we know today. Because the author has been dead since 1983 and the book has been out of print for far longer, I took the liberty of making it available to a whole new generation. You're welcome.

These Amazing Mormons!
​By Joseph H. Weston
Painstakingly Copied by C. Randall Nicholson

Introduction

I. Meeting the Mormons

II. Holy Books

III. The Capital of Mormondom

IV. Industrial Adaptation

V. Church Organization

VI. The Priesthood

VII. Relief Society

VIII. Church Welfare Program
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IX. The Word of Wisdom

X. Business, Labor and Politics

XI. Architecture

XII. Education

XIII. Their Missionary System

XIV. Propaganda

XV. The Family

XVI. Sunday School

XVII. Primary

XVIII. Young People

XIX. The Temple

XX. Polygamy

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