theological discourse and church building." The character of the work is exhibited in the title. The priesthood "being the foundation of the authorized system of worship in the old dispensation, its proper place is sought to be assigned to it in the New." Commencing with the earliest priesthood, the line is carefully traced through the ages to the present day. As there was provision in the priesthood of the early Christian church for apostles, seventies, high priests, prophets, elders, bishops, priests, teachers and deacons, so there should be provisions made for all these today; and Mr. Kelley concludes that as the New Testament is "the standard or test by which all religious denominations should be tried," so "those found not to be in harmony with this pattern,

should be rejected." All of this, therefore, leads to the conclusion that as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints-the Mormon church-is the only one fulfilling the above conditions, it is the proper successor of the primitive church, and the only one that has kept the truth alive. The argugument is made with no little ingenuity; and while hardly convincing to even a theologian of merely the lay order, the book will call attention to the fact that Mormonism has a theology, and that there is much to it as a religion outside of polygamy and those things that have of recent years kept it prominently before the world. "Presidency and Priesthood" is but one work among the many that are issued under the sanction of the Reorganized Church.

In response to a call for missionary teachers made by some Indians of the northwest, Dr. Marcus Whitman and his bride were, in 1836, sent to Oregon by the American Board. They made the journey overland, accompanied by Rev. H. H. Spaulding and his young wife and Mr. W. H. Gray. Others had gone to Oregon by way of the ocean, but these brides were the first white women to cross the Rocky Mountains. It was in all a wedding tour of thirty-five hundred. miles, mostly on horseback. They started from Central New York State in March, and passed through the young cities of Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Council Bluffs, where they left the Missouri River in May. It was thought that Mrs. Spaulding was too delicate to continue, but the young woman said to her husband: "I have started for the Rocky Mountains, and expect to go there." They were over four months on their difficult journey, by way of the North Platte and Snake River trail from the

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Missouri to the Columbia. On entering the Rocky Mountains it was customary to abandon the wagons. Against many protests and with great difficulty Dr. Whitman took a wagon over the remainder of the trail. The Hudson's Bay Company had declared that it could not be done, and consequently colonization was impracticable, and Oregon would be of small value to the United States. The taking over of the wagon was really a most important event, for it demonstrated beyond a doubt the possibility of the settlement of that country from the States. In June they crossed over the Continental Divide through the South Pass in what is now Wyoming Territory, and as they turned to follow the streams which flowed into the Pacific, with the Bible they knelt down under the Stars and Stripes, and in the name of their Divine Master formally took posession for Him of that far west which slopes to the Great Sea.

In the month of July they arrived