SALT LAKE AND THE MORMONS 55 



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^J^|/^^)r ERTAINLY you will not pass by 

 ^.^^f^^^\S^ S^l^ Lake when in Ogden. It is 

 ^^^^^Pt^ but forty miles south of Ogden 

 ^^^^^^^. and, on many accounts, one of 

 ^^p^y^^^V the most interesting cities on the 

 ^""^^ ^^^ continent. 



I do not know why — it was foolish — but some- 

 how I had expected to find the Mormons differ- 

 ent in appearance from other people; somehow 

 marked and set aside and easily distinguishable. 

 Of course, they are not. I had forgotten that 

 much of that which distinguished the Mormons of 

 an earlier day has passed, been modified or entirely 

 foregone. That as a church today it does not, in its 

 doctrines, differ greatly from other Christian sects. 

 That railroads, travel, the influx of gentiles, 



