Bibliography: #BIB00225

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reference type	Book
title	New America
author	Dixon, William Hepworth
year	1867
date	1867
publisher	J. B. Lippincott
place published	Philadelphia
issue	10.
abstract	An account of the journey of the author, an Englishman, from St. Louis to Salt Lake City soon after the Civil War. 'Nanak in the Punjab, Bab in Persia, may be said to have founded sects on a wider plan than most other religious leaders: for the Sikhs and Babees are both missionary churches, taking their own from among Moslem, Buddhist, and Hindoo flocks; yet the notion of having one free and open church, which should make the brown man and the white man, the black man and the red man, brothers and equals, has scarcely ever yet dawned upon these fiery advocates of faith.... No Babee is found settled out of Persia, no Sikh out of Upper India; in each case a man finds his religious rites adapted to the country in which he dwells.' This passage appears in Chapter XXV entitled 'Secular Notes,' which begins with: 'The new church [Mormonism], established in Utah, though it is called the Church of America, is free, and (with one passing exception) open to all the world; to men of every race, clime, and color; taking into its bosom the Jew from New York, the Buddhist from San Francisco, the Parsee from Calcutta, the Wesleyan from Liverpool, the Moslem from Cairo, the Cheyenne from Smoky Hill River. 'The one passing exception is the Negro. 'The Negro,' Brigham said to me this morning, 'is a descendant of Cain, the first murderer, and his darkness is a curse put on his skin by God.' Only one Negro has ever yet been admitted into brotherhood with the Saints: the act of Joseph, done at Nauvoo. Until God shall have removed this curse, Young will have none of these Cainites in his church.'
notes	Bahá'í Faith: pp. 191-2.
language	English
keywords	TRAVELS & JOURNEYS; AMERICA; MORMONISM; RACISM
number of pages	495, [9]
edition	3rd ed.
type of work	pages

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