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salt lake mormon temple 2Juvenile Instructor Vol. 3, No. 18, September 15, 1868, pg 141; “From Caucasian to Negro. A Negro is described as having a black skin, black, woolly hair, projecting jaws, thick lips, a flat nose and receding skull. He is generally well made and robust but with very large hands and feet. In fact, he looks as though he had been put in an oven and burnt to a cinder before he was properly finished making. His hair baked crisp, his nose melted to his face, and the color of his eyes run into the whites. Some men look as if they had only been burned brown; but he appears to have gone a stage further, and been cooked until he was quite black.”

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Hawaiian Converts  Prove Church is True

Mormon Decisions 10Juvenile Instructor Vol. 3, No. 18, October 1, 1868, pg 146; “One great evidence to the Latter-day Saints that the Sandwich Islanders are of the house of Israel is the success the Elders have had in preaching the gospel in their midst.  Not that it is a sure rule that all those nations who have not received the gospel are not of the promised seed; for God has not as yet turned the key to some of them to obey the gospel. But when we see a people obey the everlasting gospel in great numbers, we have a right to consider that they are descended from those to whom the promises were given.”

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