A Voice of Warning and Instruction to All People - Parley Pratt

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As I think I've mentioned elsewhere, right now I'm beginning to read Parley P. Pratt's forceful 1837 book A Voice of Warning and Instruction to All People, Containing a Declaration of the Faith and Doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Commonly Called Mormons. This book is actually available online for viewing or for download here, courtesy of BYU. (In 1839, Pratt released a revised second edition, so if you'd prefer to check into that, it's here. But I'm reading the original.) So far I'm just through the preface, but the subsequent table of contents is as follows:

• On Prophesy Already Fulfilled
• On the Fulfilment of Prophesy Yet Future
• The Kingdom of God
• The Book of Mormon - Origin of the American Indians, &c.
• A Proclamation
• The Resurrection of the Saints, and the Restoration of All Things Spoken by the Prophets
• The Dealings of God with All Nations in Regard to Revelation
• The Contrast Between the Doctrine of Christ, and the False Doctrine of the Nineteenth Century

I'm hoping to post some thoughts here as I work through it, and if anyone else is up for reading along, please, by all means! So far in the preface, Pratt has mostly dealt with the persecutions faced by the Latter-day Saints of his day and portrayed the Church as being at war with pretty much the entire world. Pratt's very eloquent, that's for certain.