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A Mormon missionary who gives a lecture on the train from Oakland, California to Omaha, Nebraska. Jean Passepartout and a small crowd of other passengers listen to the lecture, which focuses on the history of Mormonism and the recent oppression of Mormons by the United States government. Passepartout finds the lecture interesting but rejects Hitch’s call for him to convert to Mormonism.
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Chapter 27
As the train passes through Utah, a Mormon missionary named Elder William Hitch advertises a lecture that he will be delivering shortly in one of the train cars....
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