TWENTY-SEVEN PAMPHLETS ISSUED BY THE REORGANIZED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS

[Plano, Illinois, 1875. 27 pamphlets, each with caption title. These include pamphlets numbered 2-12, 14-17, 20-27, 29-30 above the caption title; and two unnumbered pamphlets: TITHING [Plano: Printed at the True Latter Day Saints' Herald Office. 1860's?], and BRIGHAMISM: ITS PROMISES AND THEIR FAILURES. [Plano: Printed at the True Latter Day Saints' Herald Steam and Book Office. 1869?]. Scattered foxing, bound in stiff paper contemporary wrappers, with 'Tracts' stamped in gilt on front cover. Ink signature on front endpaper, 'Chas. N. Brown, Providence, R.I.' Pasted on the first front endpaper is a printed 'A Revelation and Prophecy, By the Prophet, Seer, and Revelator, Joseph Smith, Given December 25th, 1832...copied from the 'Pearl of Great Price,' Published at Liverpool, in 1851.' Very Good.

Twenty-seven pamphlets, many of them extremely scarce, from the Reorganized Church, founded in 1860 in Illinois. Its separation from the Latter Day Saints occurred in the schism of 1844, after the murder of Joseph Smith and the ensuing dispute over the succession. The pamphlets reflect the doctrines of the Reorganized Church and its version of its history. Certain pamphlets demonstrate rivalry with the Mormons, e.g., Nos. 12 and 16, denouncing polygamy and Brighamism, calling Brigham Young a profligate materialist and sensualist who is now "worth millions, and has expended vast sums yearly in maintaining large numbers of wives and children."
The pamphlet titles are: [2] Truth Made Manifest, A Dialogue on the First Principles of the Oracles of God, by Eliza; [3] The Voice of the Good Shepherd; [4] Epitome of the Faith and Doctrines of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (with Findings of Lake County, Ohio Court, in Kirtland Temple Suit printed on verso); [5] The Gospel; [6] The One Baptism: Its Mode, Subjects, Pre-requisites and Design. Who Shall Administer?; [7] Who Then Can Be Saved? By Joseph Smith; [8] Fulness of the Atonement. By M. Faulconer; [9] Spiritualism Viewed from a Scriptural Stand-Point. By Elder T.W. Smith; [10] The Narrow Way. By Elder Isaac Sheen; [11] The Plan of Salvation. By Elder Isaac Sheen; [12] The Bible versus Polygamy. By Elder David H. Smith; Brighamism: Its Promises and Their Failures; [14] Reply to Orson Pratt, By Joseph Smith, President of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; [15] Idolatry; [16] Polygamy: Was it an Original Tenet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! By Alexander H. Smith; [17] The Successor in the Prophetic Office and Presidency of the Church (Revised Edition); Tithing; [20] The "One Body," or, the Church of Christ Under the Apostleship, and under the Apostasy; [21] Truth by Three Witnesses, A Warning Voice; [22] Faith and Repentance; [23] Baptism; [24] The Kingdom of God: What Is It? Whence Comes It? Where Is It?; [25] Laying on of Hands; [26] The Mountain of the Lord's House; [27] The Sabbath Question; [29] A Vision; and [30] Origin of the Book of Mormon.