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chapter, like its two predecessors, is to be devoted to one particular feature, but which, as in these other cases, will be found also illustrative of the time at which we have now arrived. In this chapter, then, I propose to deal with religious aspects. After five centuries of retrospect, how fared the various religious bodies of our country? How fared our great national Church, reconstructed, as we had left it, upon the comprehensive basis of Scripture? What were the religious aspects of the world generally?

The Mormon Church had by this time taken the first position in its original stronghold, the great United