But if the nation fails to do this, then individual citizens throughout the land, all lovers of humanity, and especially all Christian denominations, should take the matter in hand; and they should not only plant free schools in all parts of the Territory, a few of which have been established already by five different Christian denominations; but they should also form Utah Colonization Societies, whose object should be to secure the planting of pure, freedom-loving, Christian families in every Mormon city, town, and village; and they should not desist until the Mormons are in a minority in Utah, the people freed from their bondage, and the laws respected. Honor demands it; humanity cries out for it; Christianity implores it. "Up _now_ for Freedom! Not in strife Like that your sterner fathers saw-- The awful waste of human life, The glory and the guilt of war; But break the chain, the yoke remove, And smite to earth Oppression's rod, With those mild arms of Truth and Love, Made mighty through the Living God!" PART IV. THE RELIGIOUS PUZZLE. "The true grandeur of nations is in those qualities which constitute the true greatness of the individual."--CHARLES SUMNER. "A Christian is the highest style of man."--YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS. "There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth."--LORD BACON. CHAPTER XII. The religious aspects of Mormonism paramount--General ignorance concerning the Mormon religious system--SOURCES OF THEIR DOCTRINES--Revelation, not reason, the primary source--All religions founded on revelation--Sacred books--The Mormon Bible--The "Book of Mormon"--Migrations of Jews to America--Visit of Jesus to America--"Book of Doctrine and Covenants"--The "Living Oracles." The majority of persons are more interested, it seems, in the political and social aspects of the Mormon question than in the purely religious; and this is only natural, because events of a political nature are usually more stirring than any other, and multitudes of people can grow indignant over violations of the law of the land, who at the same time have no deep-seated abhorrence of sin _per se_. The war against polygamy is undoubtedly of great interest to the average citizen; and the Christian himself cannot help sympathizing with the vigorous work of enforcing the law against polygamy, even though he may not always be in sympathy with the spirit of those who make the political phase paramount to every other.