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BEING A CONDENSED AND CLASSIFIED ARRAY OF TESTIMONY AND ARGU M I THE L P P P MI HIS W K ENTS AGA NST FA SE RO HET , JOSE H S TH, OR S , AND HIS C U C Y M AND C R I B H R H S STE D O T NES , ASED UP I Y CI C THE BIBL ON STANDARD H STOR , S EN E , E , AND SMITH AGAINST HIMSELF

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CONTE NTS .

PREFACE . ABBREVIATION S S — H C I . JOSEPH M ITH ISTORI AL ’

P . II . S M ITH S ROPHECIES A C S M I F M ILY III . CH RA TER OF THE TH A S P S M I P LYG M I IV . JO E H TH A O A ST M P I WAR V . ORMON OL TICS AND M M S E CRETI S M — M S Y VI . OR ON A ONR

I TH E E W M H U . V I . NDO ENT O SE TH E M M U C — HI IC L VIII . OR ON CH R H STOR A

TH E T U C U C F LS . IX . R E H R H AND THE A E T M T H E M GI GU S . X . OR ON FT OF ON E

M M S I S . XI . OR ON GN TH E T U M M C U C I U BU NO XII . R E OR ON H R H N TAH , T

AU THORITY I N IT . B M — B O I T R0 XIII . OOK OF ORMON RIEF UTL NE OF H IS M AN CE TH E WI PL S E X M I XIV . TNESSES OF THE ATE A NED .

X TH E PL N V R CUL LY S U S . V . ATES E E O AR EEN OR ED

X TH E ARE DI TE S A . VI . JOURNEY OF THE J TO MERICA TH B M Z E D . XVII . OOK OF ORMON OPPOSE TO OOLOGY TH E B M B V O Y . X III . OOK OF ORMON PPOSED TO OTAN TH E B OOK OF MO RMON NOT S USTAINED B Y ARCH AE OLOGY

TH E B M E O . XX . OOK OF ORM ON PPOSED TO THNOLOGY TH E U Y N P I XXI . JO RNE OF THE E H TES F W CE XXII . ROM HEN CA M E THE INDIAN S L A XXIII . OST TLANTIS

AN LOJ RAEL . . XXIV . G S

X M ' B L D I X V . ORMONIS M OPPOSED TO THE IB E IN OCTR NE HEAVEN AT DEATH I M MORTALITY E TERNAL ’ LI — TH E S U L S P F L FE O , AND THE ER ENT S A SE HOOD ON N S C TE T .

TH E M M GOD DI XXVI . OR ON ED TH E H IBL H LL M M I M XXVII . ORR E E OF OR ON S TH E M M H LL C WI B IBL XXVIII . OR ON E ONTRASTED TH THE E

B IBL P P CIES APPLI BY MO M THI XXIX . E RO HE ED R ONS TO E R ” WORK— TH E YOUNG M A N S M ITH — S M ITH THE E LIJ AH — TH E E VERLASTING GOSPEL AND THE S TONE K INGDOM T H E S EALED B OOK . TH E Tw o S TICKS S M ITH ’ S INSPIRED TRANSLATOR OF THE B IBLE INDEX To B OOK OF MORMON AND TO BOOK OF DOC TRINE AND COVENANTS ON S OM E IM PORTANT REF E P AC .

H v o a ing studied Mormon literature c nsiderable , and other literature relating to that system— for public de bates that I have held with the reorganized branch of that church system — and having gathered together much evidence that I regard as unanswerable against what I

regard as a dangerous delusion , I have felt the need of a “ ” book that was boiled down , and that had each subj ect s o classified that the busy investigator can turn at once and read under its proper heading some forcible argu ments against this sy stem ; s o I have here attempted such r a wo k .

I expect criticism , and do not claim infallibility , but I believe that many of the arguments contained herein have never been , and never can be , fairly refuted . We have no fears as to the result of inquiries from the general public who heard our debate for sixteen

S w 1 0 0 nights at ac City , Io a , December , 9 ; nor from the ’ general public w h o heard our sixteen nights debate at

w 1 0 1 . Kalo , Io a , November , 9 We believe that this book will be valuable to all w h o “ ” - have any contact with Latter Day Saints especially . those who have not the time to wade thru long histories and various encyclopedias , and Mormon literature and also that the fo rcible testimony herein may save some honest souls from being led away by a fake . ’ pro phet s works and a counterfeit church . e To save space , and to avoid too large a book , in som

places we give the testimony in substance , as found in th e work referred to , or extracts from such works , which , 5 6 P FAC RE E .

' as when enclosed in quotation marks , are substantially ah found in the wo rk quoted from . The explanation of br evi a i n s t o appears on an o ther page . May God u s e the truth herein contained to undermine false systems , to save the honest from delusion and bitter m disappoint ent , and to advance truth . which alone sancti

CRo w E . s . . fies , makes free, and save W . L R E N S AB B VIATIO .

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C...... J C L D S means , Church of Jesus Christ of a o L tter Day Saints , now the name of the Morm n church

in Utah .

U . C . means this Utah church

R . . . . . R C J . C L D . S means , eorganized Church of ” Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , sometimes called

Josephites .

R . C . means this Reorganized Church . For the sake of brevity we sometimes speak of all who believe in the “ ” o bo k of Morm on as M o rmons . The Mormon books referred to in this work are those

w . of the reorganized church , published at Lamoni , Io a k B . . M means , Boo of Mormon . ’ D . C . means , the book containing Joseph Smith s rev

e . elations , call d Doctrine and Covenants ’ ir - In s . s o p . Transl means , Smith s called inspired trans th e lation of Bible . h ' ’ W at we simply call Beadle , or Beadle s Hist . is “ o m entitled , Life in Utah , or Mysteries of Morm nis and

Polygamy , by . H . Beadle , published by the National “ J P ub . Co . . , Chicago , Ill

n En c c . I ter . y l . means , International Encyclopedia

R CHAPTE I .

SE H S T H — H ST R AL JO P MI I O IC .

Joseph Smith , the founder of Mormonism , was born

1 80 . Dec. 2 3, 5, at Sharon , Vermont His parents , Joseph and Lucy Smith , were regarded by their acquaintances as indolent , illiterate , superstitious and unreliable .

1 8 1 t e . . In 5 h family settled near Palm yra , N Y All acquaintances of the Smith family agree that young

i e Joseph avoided phys cal labor, that he sp nt much of his

i W n t me itching for water , digging for treasure , and spi ning yarns . The balance of his time seems to have been fairly well occupied in reading . As J . H . Larned says , 1 8 H R . . in ist . eady Ref , pub 95, He read comprehensive l y , and as he advanced in reading and knowledge he as sumed a spiritual aspect . He frequently perused the

a Bible , and bec me quite familiar with its contents .

fam il v The were regarded as indolent , whisky drink ers , irreligious and shiftless . “ 1 8 1 o In 9 young Joseph f und a glassy , transparent ’ h . w e stone , dug out o f a Mr Chase s ell , thru which

‘ claimed to see hidden treasure , and things too wonderful for mortal vision , hence he shaded his face with his hat , o int which he put the stone , and then his face in the hat . This stone was what Smith afterwards called his ‘ urim ’ an d th e thummin , by which he pretended to translate

o to bo k of Mormon from gold plates , which he claimed ” have been given him by an angel . ’ “ That this stone was Smith s urim and thummin s ee ’ ’ 2 t s a . . 22 . e lso Beadle s Hist pp , 3 Also Willard Chase s

9 M M WA T 1 0 THE OR ON ERLOO .

” tim o n m x d y , as found in Mormonis E pose , by Wm .

— 8 . Kirby , pp . 3 9 395 Nearly all encyclopedias testify to the same .

n S 2 1 1 82 O . ept , 3, Joseph Smith claims to have seen d an angel , who informed him that he was chosen of G o to bring forth the fullness of the gospel , and to restore the true church . The angel also told him of the abo r ig ines of America , and of hidden plates containing a his

o tory of their laws , wars , religi n , etc .

On S 22 1 82 the morning of ept . , 7 , the angel is said to

s S o . have delivered these plates into the hands of J mith . O 1 6 1 82 n April , 9, Smith claims to have first met O liver Cowdery , who afterwards acted as his scribe in

- this s o called translation of plates . Three thousand copies of the Boo k of Mormon were published by Pom

1 8 0 . eroy Tucker , and given to the world in 3 On 6 1 8 0 April , 3 , the church was organized at Man

Y o s . r . chester , N . . , with six members ; J Smith , J , and h i r s O o s . father , two b others and liver Cowdery and J

Knight . This is what Smith and Mormons regard as the restoration to earth of the true church or Kingdom f 2 o . . . . . God D C pp 4, 37, 5

The first con ference of the church was held at Fayette , 1 1 8 0 S Y . N . . , June , 3 ome Whitmers and a few others

had then been added to it . The same year , in August ,

Sydney Rigdon and Parley Pratt j oined the church .

Rigdon believed in the literal fulfillment of prophecy , and

- the soon coming of the Lord , and had been teaching as

r e en ten ce im a Campbellite , faith , p , and baptism by b mersion . He and Pratt are admitted to have een two

of the ablest historians and biblical scholars of that time , and many claim that much has been added to the Book of M o rm on since the first issue which Smith got from m en these . H S M TH — H S TO CA I I S P . JO E I . I RI L

O 1 8 1 . The Saints next settled at Kirtland , hio , in 3 Smith Soon a fter had the revelation that the final gather ing place of the saints was to be in Jackson county , Mis souri , near Independence . Smith and a portion of the

Kirtland saints went to Missouri that year , and another revelation located the site of the New Jerusalem , Zion , 0 0 and temple , in Independence ; the temple site to be 3 yards west of the court house in Independence . a Smith was p rt of the time in Independence , Mo . , and O H part of the time in Kirtland , hio . e took up the study

H r 1 8 6 a e of eb ew in Kirtland in 3 , under a le rned J w ,

h o w had j oined the Mormons . There was continual

‘ at trouble between Mormons and Gentiles , as all history ’ - . 0 0 . tests . See Beadle s Hist . pp 3 4

’ “ 1 8 w il d In the fall of 37 Smith s cat bank , engineered by himself and Rigdon , failed under circumstances which to created great scandal , and the prophet had a revelation a “ dep rt to Missouri . Smith and Rigdon left between ” tw o d a s 1 0 0 y , and their creditors pursued them miles ; ’ “ but in the language of Smith s Autobiography , The

Lord delivered us from the hands of our persecutors . Smith found a terrible commotion and strife in his

. 1 8 8 . Zion , at Far West , Mo , in 3 Many had apostatized and brought serious charges against Smith , and leading saints , of treason , conspiring with the Indians , counter feiting, cattle stealing , secret murder , poly gamy , etc .

. . w o ff Cowdery , Harris , L E Johnson and others ere cut from the church . Here the Danite ban d was organized , which took their name from the suggestion in Gen . 49 1 Dan 7 shall be a serpent by the way , an adder in the - ’ path , that biteth the horse s heels , so that his rider shall fall backward . Their mission , all history attests , was t o fo llow quietly and secretly apostates and enemies of

Mormons for revenge . The Mormon doctrine of blood 1 2 M M IVA T THE OR ON ERLO O .

’ atonement is that the shedding of the blood o f an apostate i hi s s only means of future salvation . The main b o dies of the Mormons were driven from

e 1 8 8 F Kirtland and Indep ndence in 3 , and settled in ar

West , Mo . Their stay of about a year there was fraught

with trouble . The Mormons attacked the militia near Richmond and killed two of them The latter returned ” the fire , killing the Danite leader , Captain Fearnot , or

. . n D . W Patton The Mormons then rose e w a n e and drove out all the officers not of their faith from Dam s

county , and burned and plundered the town of Gallatin ,

driving out the inhabitants . These troubles , and con “ tin u al G o v . that strife , led Boggs to issue the order the

Mormons should be expelled from the state , even if it ” was necessary to exterminate them .

Go v . w as Boggs shot in the head thru his window .

Porter Rockwell , a notorious rascal and bosom friend of ’ Smith s , was suspected of the attempted assassination ,

as he was absent that night , and Smith , when asked “ : O where he was , replied , j ust gone to fulfill ” prophecy . The Mormons were bound together by most terrible oaths as Masons and the leaders by the endow

s o to ment house oaths , that it was next to impossible r convict them . Hundreds of their secret confede ates ’ 6 would swear them clear . See Beadle s Hist . p . 5.

. Jos . and Hyrum Smith and forty others were held for

tr eas o n . m u r der trial for , , robbery , arson , larceny and ” breach of the peace . The evidence proved them guilty r 1 th of most of the charges , but on Ap il s Joseph and some others escaped from their guards and fled to

! uincy , Ill . H k Their next settlement was at Commerce , ancoc

county , Ill . , which they called Nauvoo . They began to 1 8 build up this place in 39 , their number then being about H S M H —H T A 1 P T S C . JOS E I . I ORI L 3

In about eighteen months they had erected

“ dwellings . The facts thus far mentioned are gathered from encyclopedias and standard histories . “ 6 H s Beadle says , page 5, undreds of licentious villain , - e cut throats and robbers made their way to Nauvoo , wer baptized into the church as a convenient cover for their crimes , and made that their secret headquarters . Prop er t e y stolen far up the riv r , or east of the city , was run thru or concealed in the western bayous , or hastily dis to s o a er posed of innocent purchasers , th t the own s gen er l l a y found it among the Mormons . The criminals were m traced directly to Nauvoo , but once within its char ed n circle all power to punish them was go e . “ ‘ Their secret confederate‘ s were ready to swear them ‘ ’ clear ; too often the cry of persecution Was sufficient to mislead really honest Mormons , and cause them to de ‘ ’ fend the guilty who claimed the name o f Saint . “ Another cause of popular hostility was that the Mor ” mons would vote solidly at the dictati o n of a few men .

Among other causes of popular hostility to the Mor in tr o duc mons , Beadle and other historians mention the

o tion of polygamy int Nauvoo , and the doctrine of the “ Saints to take what they wanted from the Gentiles , hi th 1 w . 6 6 . c e 6 . C. . h y did Beadle , p . , and D , p 5 Other causes were the difficulties with the Mormons over delinquent taxes and a complication of diffi culties that grew out of the powers given to Smith thru that o notorious Nauvo charter , draw n up by that shrewd

. n . scamp , Dr Joh C Bennett , and the wiley Smith , and 0 - 1 passed by the Democratic legislature of 1 84 4 . The Democrats and Whigs had both been co urtin g the Mor m o n vote , and to conciliate them the legislature passed this chart er without calling the ayes or noes in eithe r

. B 6 o th e house eadle , p . 9 . It gave Smith all the p wers M M WAT 1 4 THE OR ON ERLO O .

. Southern states had asked for when t h e subj ect of state u 1 828- 1 8 . o v rights was disc ssed in 34 As G . Ford says “ It was proposed to r e- establish for the Mormons a governm ent within a government ; a legislature with power to pass ordinances at war with the laws of the state ; courts to execute them with but little dependence t upon the consti utional j udiciary , and a military force at their own command , to be governed by its own laws and ordinances , and subj ect to no state authority but that of the governor . The mayor was at once th e o executive p wer , the j udiciary and part of the legislature . r t e The common council , in passing ordinances , we e

o v strained only by the constitution . A city g er n m en t w as 1 8 1 under the charter organized in 4 , and

Joe Smith was elected mayor , with a force of well o f drilled troops his own at his command , of which he ” ’ 6 - 0 . 8 . was the lieutenant general Beadle s Hist . , pp . 9 Those who came to Nauvoo in search of stolen prop “ ” er t y were followed by the whittling deacons , arrested , “

fined , or followed by the Danites They received mys

r i u s te o warnings written or stained with blood , dropped in their way or found under their pillow , and dire was their fate if they heeded not the warning . Many such

r Go v . disappeared and we e never heard of again , says

Ford . As an example of how Smith abused the powers granted him by the Nauvoo charter , we give some ex ’ fi o . f tracts from G v Ford s o cial records , as published in ’ - . 8 2 Beadle s Hist . , pp 9 9 “ w 1 8 — In the inter of 43 44 , the common council ( of Nauvoo ) passed s o me further ordinances to protect their

s m . leaders from arre t , on demand fro Missouri “ They enacted that no writ issued from any other an place than Nauvoo , for the arrest of y person in it , eu should be executed in the city , without an approval S P H S M TH — H S T ICA 1 JO E I I OR L . 5

do r s ed thereon by the mayor ( Smith ) that if any public ff o icer , by virtue of any foreign writ , should attempt to

make any arrest in the city , without such approval of his

process , he should be subj ect to imprisonment for life , an d that the governor of the state should not have the power o f pardonin g the off ender without the consent of

the mayor . “ Owners of property stolen l n other counties m o ade pursuit into Nauvo , and were fined by the Mor mon courts for daring to seek the 1r property i n the holy

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city . To one such I granted pardon . Several Morm ons l had been convicted of arceny , and they never failed in to any instance to procure petitions , signed by

o f . their friends for their pardon . “ o o in To crown the whole f lly of the M rmons , the spring of 1 844 Joe Smith announced himsel f as a Hi s candidate for the President of the United States . T o followers were confident that he would be elected . w or three thousand of his followers were immediately sent out to preach their religion and to electioneer in favor of their prophet for the presidency ! This folly at once covered that people with ridicule , in the minds of all sen o s sible men , and brought them into conflict with zeal t r and bigots of all political pa ties . He insti tuted to a new order of priests , who were be priests and

kings temporally and spiritually . These were to be his

. H nobility , who were to be the upholders of his throne e caused himself to be crowned an d anointed king and priest far above the rest , and he prescribed the form of m oath of allegiance to himsel f , which he ad inistered to his principal followers . and reinstituted the

Danite Band , who were sworn to obey his orders as the ” orders o f GOd himself . ’ We continue with a few extracts from Gov Ford s tes 2- 1 1 : timony,as published by Beadle , pp . 9 7 Smith now OR M ON T 16 THE M WA ERLO O . became more ty rannical among his disciples h e permitted no one but himself to have a license for the sale of spiritu o us liquors he attempted to take

' W h i s o the wife of illiam Law , one of m st eloquent , tal

La en ted . w and principal disciples , for his spiritual wife

' w as then one of Smith s first counselors and a learned

m an. m and talented Willia Law and his brother , Wilson ’ Law au , and some others , then rebelled against Smith s

h r i h h t o ty . They designed to enlighten t eir bret ren thru

w th e auvo o a paper hich they issued ( called N Expositor ,

o ffi s — E H fr m which we quote further on some a davit ) , but they never issued but o n e num ber ; before th e seco nd could appear the press was demolished by order of the th e r common council , and conspirato s were ej ected from ” the M o rmon church .

The Governor says of this trial , as published by the

w as Mormons themselves , that it altogether one of the most curious and irregular trials ever recorded in the annals of any civilized country . That it does not appear that William or Wilson Law or others then tried w ere permitted to appear or s ay anything . That n o j ury was r to called or sworn . nor were the witnesses requi ed give o their evidence on oath . The counselors sto d up one m after the other , and so e several times , and related what

h as ffi they pretended to know , and one di culty in deter mining whether the proceedings were more the result of o depravity or insanity . The trial resulted in the convi tion of the press as a public nuisance . The Mayor

( Smith ) was ordered to see it abated . Smith issued his warrant to the city marshal , who , aided by a portion of ‘ f the Legion , proceeded to the obnoxious printing o fice

’ and destroyed the press and scattered the type . ff This lawless destruction of property , a ecting the lib er t s o y of the press , dear to the American people , led

1 8 OR M ON T THE M WA ERLOO .

r o fn in He was full of levity , even to boyish p g dressed

like a dandy , and at times drank like a sailor , and swore ” — . GOV . . 1 1 1 1 like a pirate Ford in Beadle , pp 3, 4 . “ ’ 8 0 d . 1 e . : In Inter 9 , we read After Smith s

death there was much confusion in the church . Sydney F Rigdon , the only remaining member of the irst Presi

d en c y , aspired to the leadership , but the twelve unani

m u s l o y elected Brigham Young as leader . m d 1 8 2 Brigha had j oine the church in Kirtland in 3 , and was president of the twelve apostles at the time of ’ 1 8 Smith s death in 44 .

w a s 1 8 Utah explored in 45, and the first Mormon emi

grants started for there from Nauvoo in 1 846 . They

a w ff stopped a ye r in Io a , chiefly at Council Blu s , and ar

rived at Salt Lake in 1 847 . The main body of Mor

m ons got to Utah in 1 848 . Nine of the apostles went

with Brigham Young to Utah .

S o the migrations of the Mormons were from Fayette ,

Y O M o . . . . e N , to Kirtland , hio Then to Independenc , Then from both of these places about 1 838 to Far

West , Mo . Then to Nauvoo , Ill . Then to Salt

‘ ’ Lake , Utah , and , according to Smith s revelations , the last and final gathering place is back to In

M o er us a dependence , . , which is the site of the New J R 2 1 o . to lem o f ev , and from which they are be never m re

. 8 1 0 20 2 20 . o . . C. rem ved D , pp 7 , 4 , , 3 R CHAPTE I I .

’ S T H S R H E ES MI P OP CI .

- I . 1 2 1 1 In Voice of Warning , pp . 9 3 , W . W . Blair , “ ” er o und title , J seph Smith a Prophet of God , speaks of o o f J seph Smith prophesying social , political and moral

corruption ; of how iniquity would abound , and wars and o o f rum rs wars prevail , and crime abound , and earth l quakes , f oods and storms destroy human life , the discon t o f ten laborers , etc . Ho w blinded indeed must a people be w h o attribute the o f o o m an - gift f rekn wledge to a who , parrot like , repeats o ver these predictions of old prophets uttered and written for o ve r 1 80 0 years ! These prophesies can all be found

h 2 2 1 1 . 2 t : . . e . in bible in Matt 4 , Lu , Tim 4 , Tim 3, James

' R evel atio n s n d a 5, a the old prophets , and h ve been the subj ect o f comment by students of prophecy from the be o f an d ginning this Christian era , particularly since the

days of Martin Luther . ’ 2 . Mormons dwell much upon Smith s prophecy that his nam e would be spoken of for both good and evil al l among nations . But with th e following he had at the time of uttering

w as this statement , and the great claims he making , it required no prophet to announce this , as our readers can e easily se . Every false prophet that ever had any fol

as o l o wing has been spo ken of both go d and evil . ’ B u as 3. t what Mormons regard Smith s most wonder 3 “ 2 ful prophecy is found in the back of D . C . p . 3 , Revela Dec 2 1 8 2 o v n to e . ti n gi e Jos ph Smith , 5, 3 ; but first pub

1 9 M M WA T 20 THE OR ON ERLO O . l i s h ed o in the Pearl o f Great Price , in Liverp ol , England ,

1 1 in 85 . ( Hence first published nineteen years after Smith i s said to have received it and seven years after h i s

s o - death . ) Below we give this called prophecy : “ Verily , thus saveth the Lord , concerning the wars that

h al l s shortly come to pass , beginning at the rebellion of

er m i n at i n h e t e . South Carolina , which will eventually t

o s death of many souls . The days will c me when war hall be poured out upon all nations , beginning at that place ; for behold the southern states shall be divided against the northern states , and the southern states shall call upon

i s other nations , even the nation of Great Britain , as it called , and they shall also call upon other nations , in order to defend themselves against other nations and thus shall

o n war be poured out up n all ations . And it shall come to pass , after many days , that slaves shall rise up against their masters , who shall be marshalled and disciplined for war . And it shall c o me to pass that the remnants that

h m s el ves an d t e . are left of the land shall marshal , shall become exceeding angry , and shall vex the gentiles with s o re vexation ; and thus with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn ; and with famine and plague and earthquakes and the thunder of heaven , and and fierce vivid lightning also , shall the inhabitants of earth be made to feel the wrath and indignation and Chas tening hand of an Almighty God , until the consumption decreed hath made a full end of all n at1o n s ! and the cry of the saints and the blood of the saints s hall cea se to come up into the ears o f th e Lord of Sabaoth from the

o f . earth , to be avenged their enemies Wherefore stand ye in the holy places . and be not moved , until the day of the Lord come ; for behold it cometh quickly , saith the ”

o . L rd Amen . ’ S P H 2 1 S M I TH P RO E CIES .

In our examination of this alleged prophecy it is not necessary to notice famines , earthquakes , thunder and i l ghtning and India n uprising; such as had been before this

o time , an d have been ever since ; s we will simply notice at the slave trouble , and the war that was to begin South “ as Carolina , these are all the points in this prophecy

as that can be regarded foretelling anything . ’

. . . 0 u s a e w as Barnes U S History , p 5 , tells that sl v ry 1 6 1 n n e . . n t first introduced into the U S in 9 , whe we ty “ e F gro s were sold by a Dutch trader to the colonists . ro m ” m m this circu stance , small as it seemed at the ti e , says “

o . the historian , the most m mentous consequences ensued

e Consequences that long after rent the Republic with strif , n d i a moistened ts soil w ith bl o od . ’ Thus for 22 3 years before Smith s prophecy the slavery question had been preparing the way for a division be tween the North and South .

o 1 2 1 In the same scho l history , pp . 7 , 73, on the Mis ” s o uri Compromise , we rea d of the bitter discussions of ’ “ 1 82 1 ( eleven years before Smith s prophecy ) , as to

a whether Missouri should be a free or sl ve state , and whether slavery should be prohibited in all territories west of the Mississippi river and north of parallel 36 degrees 0 3 minutes , the southern boundary of Missouri . As an o ther example of h o w present and past events cast w t 1 8 2 their shado s abou Smith in 3 , we refer the reader to “ ” l l fi a i n what is kn o wn as the N u i c t o Act of that year . ’ 1 82 . . 8 See Student s Encycl p 579 , how , in , Jackson was elected President of the United States and Calhoun Vice

President . How Jackson stood for the federal union ,

. 1 8 0 and Calhoun for state rights In 3 , at a banquet , the “ President gave his famous toast : The federal union— it “ must be preserved ; to which Calhoun replied : Liberty

is dearer than union . 22 H ORM O W T T E M N A ERLO O .

' Th e ff protective tari bill passed in 1 832 was very di s

s h e tasteful to South Carolina , and decl ared the law u n w ith ih constitutional her boundaries . This became known ‘ as the N u l l ificati o n Act

. S ee also Life of Jackson , by . . 26 J S Jenkins , p 3, where we learn that the convention assembled in South Caro

a 1 8 2 1 828 1 8 2 lin in 3 declared the acts of and 3 , in re fer

to ff o ence certain tari s and imposts , to be unconstituti nal , and that attempts to enforce them otherwise than thru civil tribunals would be resisted by the citizens o f South

Carolina , and would be deemed inconsistent with longer continuance of South Carolina in the Union ; and that the people of said state would hold themselves absolved from all obligations to maintain or preserve their political Co n n ecti o n with th e people of other states ; and wou ld forth

1n de en den t m with proceed to establish an p govern ent , and do all the acts that sovereign states have a right to do . 1 8 2 Now , if Smith did in this same year , 3 , make such ? W a prediction ! as the above , was it wonderful hen South Carolinahad threatened to secede from the Union that same year , was it a marvelous prophecy to predict a revolution beginning with that state ?

And yet , if Smith ever made such a prophecy , it was not published to the World till after he had been dead seven years an d nineteen years after Smith is said to . “ ” ! 1 8 1 have made it In 5 , when this prophecy was first e published , it required no prophet to predict a war betw en

o the North and South , beginning at S uth Carolina . But the fact of waiting nineteen years before publishing such an important prophecy , shows , either that Smith was afraid it might not come to pass , so waited awhile to watch developments , or else that it was a forgery of

1 8 1 do 5 that Smith had nothing to with . S M TH ’S P P H C S I RO E IE . 23

As to war being poured out upon all nations , begin n ing with South Carolina, this has failed of fulfilment . We think that the blowing up of the Maine would be a more prob-able starting point for that last war that is to o inv lve all nations .

4 . Another prophecy , which , although published by

. C. s o the Board of Publication o f the R , yet is much in favor of the U . C . that the publishers and saints of that o faction would be glad to do away with it , is as foll ws “ I prophesied that the saints w o uld continue to suff er f R much a fliction , and would be driven to the ocky Mount

a o s tas i z e s tr an e l ains . Many would p ( g ) , others would b e put to death by ou r persecutors , or lose their lives in

o consequence o f exposure and disease , and s me of you will live to go an d assist in making settlements , and m build cities , and become a mighty people in the idst of ” the Rocky Mountains . ’ This prophecy is found in Tu l l edge s History o f Jo s e h o f p Smith , issued by the Board of Publication the

. 880 . R C. 1 . . . S . J C L D . , Plano edition of ’ a It is also found in Joseph Smith s Journal , under d te

A 6 0 . u 6 1 2 . . 8 1 o f g , 4 , as published in Mill . Star , Vol 9 , p 3

. 2 0 2 Also in Mill Star , Vol . 3, p . 5 , we learn that Smith ,

to o before his death , appointed one Hyde ask C ngress for permission to settle a colony of his people in O regon to a or California , and instructed his twelve apostles p point a delegation to explore in the region of the Rocky

Mountains for a good location . Als o in the account of the arrest and death of Joseph : Smith , by Willard Richards , appears the following “ 2 a Sunday , 3 at daybreak , arrived on the Iow

c Nauvo O . o side of the river . Sent . P Ro kwell back to with instructions to return the next night with horses A T 24 THE M ORM ON W ERLO O .

for J o seph and Hyrum pass them over tli e river in the n night secretly , and be ready to start for the Great Basi ” in th e Rocky Mountains . These testimonies are sufficient to Show that before

Smith made this wonderful prophecy , that he saw that

e o au v o o his peopl w uld have to flee from N , and had in mind a settlement in the Rocky Mountains somewhere .

It also shows that the well known thug and murderer , ’

m . Rockwell , was Smith s boso friend till the last We would also remark on this prophecy that if the s ai n ts did g o to the Rocky Mountains an d bec o me a great ’ R' o people there , then the . C . organized at Amb y , Ill 1 860 o , is not the true Morm n Church , for they did not fulfil this prophecy .

On s ai n ts did n o t o to the other hand , if the g the u t Rocky Mo ntains , then Smi h was a false prophet , for he predicted and planned that they should do s o . Yet h t . m e R C . clai s that Brigham Young was the Judas , “ ” a n d ! s o that many of the Utah saints are devils I f , where is the Prophet Smith ? But as the genuineness of this s o - called prophecy is

d a p roven beyond a oubt , it proves Smith false prophet “ ” from the fact that upon those saints w h o went to the Rocky Mountains has been fastened beyo nd a doubt some of the most disgraceful and diabolical crimes that

have ever darkened the pages of history .

We give below a few instances , taken chiefly from ’ 1 -1 Beadle s Hist . , pp . 55 95 1 “ A band of horse and cattle thieves was organized in

1 8 6 O a 4 under the control of rson Hyde , and band of ” o c unterfeiters were sent into Missouri . Th e crimes against emigrants en route for California “ who stopped in Salt Lake , or went thru Zion , were so numerous that in California 50 0 affi davits were selected

M M IVA T 26 THE OR ON ERLOO .

n M o u fl tai n men , women and children emigra ts , at Mead

1 8 M n 0 0 S ow , in 57 . ou tain Meadow is 3 miles from alt A Lake , on the road to Los ngeles , Cal . We quote some

m 1 8 1 - 1 : extracts fro Beadle , pp . 95, as follows “ The d ay after the emigrants passed Cedar City a grand council was called there by ( the Mormon leaders ) C Bishop Higbee , President J . . Haight of that town , and o John D . Lee of Harm ny . They stated that they had received a command from Salt Lake ‘ to follow those

accursed Gentiles , attack them , and let the arrows of the ’ Almighty drink their blood .

‘ o A f rce of sixty men was soon raised , who disguised

an d themselves as Indians , were j oined by a larger force “ ” of Indians . They crept up on the emigrants while

they were at breakfast and fired on them , killing ten or

twelve . The emigrants shoved their wagons together ‘ ” and kept the savages at bay for a whole week . Then r e the Mormons raised a white flag and the emigrants ,

o iced s ee j to men of their color , raised a little girl in t e white o answer the signal . Lee and Haight and som

other Mormons came in to settle for the Indians , claim ing that the Indians would not settle unless the emigrants

would give up guns , ammunition and all their property ,

and go back the way they had come . These hard terms

were acceded to . “ After they had gone a mile or so , at an agreed signal ,

a sudden fire was poured into the body of emigrants , and .

then Mormons and Indians , together rushed upon them ,

o sh oting, cutting their throats and beating them to death

stones and clubs . ’ wi“th Th e Mormons and Indians fell upon the women , bit

o and tore the rings fr m their fingers and ears , and tram

pled in the faces of the dying . One young girl was e im dragg d aside by President Haight , and kneeling ’ S P HE IE 2 S M I TH P R O C S . 7

l o r ed . p for life He violated her with shameful barbarity , then be at out her brains with a club . Another young

Lee . woman was taken out of the throng by John D . He a fterwards stated that he intended to save her life and fake her to his harem ; but that s h e struck at him with a large knife , when he immediately shot her thru the head .

Three men escaped , and seventeen children were saved ,

o supposed t be too young to remember the circumstance .

,But two of them did , and afterward gave important tes im o n t y . “ As late as 1 862 j ewelry taken at Mountain Meadow ” was worn at Salt Lake , and the source not denied . Although two of the principal perpetrators went i n

S s ecr eti s m ane , yet , due to ungodly and to the disgrace

n o t of American j ustice , one of these murderers have ever been punished according to law . But Utah shall

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r s h e o . yet eap as has s wn , in God s time

AN TH ER ASE OF R N TREA H ER O C MO MO C Y .

1 8 - 8 In 57 , there was a small war going on between the Mormon forces an d the United States troops . Early

1 8 8 a in 5 , while the United St tes troops were at Fort t , eighty discharged teams ers started thru to ! Bridger C ’ . f alifornia An o ficer of Brigham s legion , who was to “ m a guard the thru , was told that he would find trusty ” force at a certain place , and received the following order :

SALT LA K E T 1 8 8 . CI Y, April 9 , 5 The officer in command of escort is hereby ordered to s ee that every man is well provided with ammunition and have it ready at the time y o u s ee those teamsters a hun dred miles from the settlement . President Young advises that they should all be killed , to prevent them from r e I’A TE R L 28 THE M ORM ON I OO.

E ff er r ecau turning to Bridger to j o 1n our enemies . y p

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t s ee . tion should be aken , and that not one escapes Se

e crecy is requir d . “ D By order of General aniel H . Wells . “ ’ ”

Ad . ES FE RG SON . JAM U , Asst . j Gen l f The o ficer refused to execute the order , for which his

‘ a life was threatened . He took refuge at the Feder l

camp and was sent out of the territory . The signature of Ferguson is authenticated by two Mormons formerly ’ of Salt Lake . The letter was shown to Ferguson s wid

ow later . She turned deadly pale and rushed out of the 1 - room without saying a word . See Beadle , pp . 93 4 . We could fill a dozen books like this with the crimes

o o of M rm ns , but as our readers have read of many of f them , we deem this su ficient on this point . These are the “ saints ” that Smith prophesied would go to the Rocky Mountains ! R I II CHAPTE .

CH ARA TER F T H E S T H FA L C O M I M I Y .

We give below a few extracts fro m Mormonism E x

8 - 0 0 1 o . m p sed , by William Kirby , pp 3 3 4 , as cop ed fro “ : Mormonism and Mormons , by D . P . Kidder “ M H Y . . AN ESTER . . 1 8 C , N , Nov 3, 33

, the undersigned , being ersonally acquainted ‘ We p r with the family of Joseph Smith , J . , with whom the

G so o r 1 1n ated olden Bible , called , g , state that they were

a i n tem er not only lazy , indolent set of men , but also p

w as e ate , and their word not to be dep nded upon , an d ” that we were truly glad to dispense with their society . Then follows eleven names of neighb o rs and acquaint

an ces . Y AL RA . . . 1 8 . P MY , N , Dec 4 , 33

We , the undersigned , have been acquainted with the

Smith family for a number of years , while they resided at this place , and we have no hesitation in saying that we consider them destitute Of that moral character - which ought to entitle them to the confidence of any community .

s o n Joseph Smith , Sr . , and his Joseph were , a in particular , considered entirely destitute o f moral ch r acter and addicted to vicious habits . In ref erence to all who have embraced M o r m o m s m in this neighborhood , with whom we were acquainted , we are compelled to say th ey were visionary and many o f them in destitute of moral character, and without influence ” - the community . R M B 30 THE M O ON WA T RLO G .

Then follows fifty - one names of old neighbors and acquaintances of the Smith family . ’ 8 - Then follows , on pp . 3 9 394, Willard Chase s testi ’ mony an d affidavit as to Joe Smith s falsehoods about the ’ n in sto e he got from Mr . Chase s well , which he used ’ translating his bible ; also Smith s profanity ; Martin Har r as flying in a rage ; Hyrum Smith shaking h i s fi s t at

— d d o . Chase ; Joseph Smith calling Chase a fo l , etc How the tongues of the Smith ’s were continually em ployed in spreading scandal and abuse of their neigh bors ; an d that although they left without paying their

a debts , that their creditors were gl d to get rid of them .

Then follows the signature of Willard Chase , and his

oath before Frederick Smith , j ustice o f the peace for 8 1 1 1 . Wayne county , Dec . , 33

- Then on pp . 394 5 follows the testimony of Parley

e Chase , that the Smith family were lazy , intemperat , worthless and much addicted to lying , and that they frequently bo asted o f their skill in this line ; and that

r the character of Jos . Smith , J . , for truth and veracity was such that he would not believe him under oath . Here are 64 names of men of character and good standing , as to the lack of character and of honesty in the Smith family . Are these Smiths the men that God chose to restore the fulness of the gospel to earth, and to build up the only true church on the face of the ? ” C. . whole earth See D . , p The church which “ ’ ” ! . C. . 8 Smith calls God s kingdom ( D , pp 7 , 79 and

' ' th e r eader We leave to j udge . ’ On 0 6- pp . 4 7 of Kirby s book , Levi Lewis also testifies

i n that he knew Smith to be a liar , and had seen him to x icated o n three times while writing the bo k o f Mormo ,

u s e An d and had often heard him great profanity . Sophia Le wis testifies that s h e had heard Smith s ay that A M AM CH RACTER OF THE S I TH F IL Y . 31

s n the b o ok of plates would be opened by h i s firstborn o .

w a That s h e was present when it as born . That it w s

- still born and much deformed . I doubt if as many witnesses co -ul d be fo und against m Moha med , or any other impostor ; yet Mormons will s et this aside and take their own biased history , as writ ten by Smith and his secret confederates and followers ! That Mormons have always been noted for unreasonable

2 : partiality , we quote from Beadle , p . 99 “ They will not read our books or papers ( very many

a o f them can not ) , nor listen for a moment to our rgu ments . They denounce everything which is not approved by the bishop , and pronounce the plainest facts of history f h ‘ ’ s s t e s . al e , if they cla h with tatements of authority H R C APTE IV .

SE H S T H A L GA ST JO P MI PO Y MI .

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1 C . . hambers Encycl on Mormons tells how Smith at ’ s 1r i tu al w i fe r first denounced Rigdon s theory of p y , but a fterw ard accepted it and sealed wives to himself . How w O i n these first steps to ard polygamy , in Kirtland , hio ,

m o b a n d flamed the people , and a expelled them , they

C . at went to lay County , Missouri How , later , Nauvoo , p o lygamy and o ther crimes caused the death of the two

w h o 1 8 . Smiths , were shot at Carthage , Illinois , in 44 2 1 6 8 . 2 . . . See also Encycl Britannica , p 5, Vol , how the eternal marriage covenant w as rev ealed to Joseph

1 8 1 n C Smith in 3 ; and that he co fided this to owdery ,

Johnson and Pratt and other disciples .

3. See also Inter . Encycl . for Similar testimony show ing Smith a polygamist . ’ u s 4 . Hill s Encycl . tells how revelations on polygamy , and defiance of the laws of taxation , and other crimes ,

’ 1 led to Smith s death in 844 . O ther encyclopedias tell the same , but we deem four

enou gh . ’ - m . 0 1 : 5. Beadle s Hist . , pp 43 , says Sixteen wo en f swore most positively , and allowed their a fidavits to be published in the ‘ Expositor ’ of Nauvoo that Joseph Smith made proposals to them to become his con ’ cu bin s e ; twelve women now in Salt Lake ( Beadle s Hist .

- d was published in 1 870 . E . ) made affi davit that they i F . were the sp ritual wives of Smith at Nauvoo ; Joseph , s o n of Hyrum Smith , testifies that he knew certainly of

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M M IVA T 34 THE OR ON ERLO O .

auvo o . r going on in N Smith was mayo of the city , and h i s w as au vo o w as will law in N , and nothing done with “ ” out h i s instructio ns ; and h i s common council w as i n

’ to structed destroy Law s presses and printing material ,

which they did ; and then this high counsellor , Law , with

h i s all keys and powers , was expelled from the church , h i A 1 8 1 8 . s pril , 44 Below we give testimony , as pub “ ” d h i s l i s h e in paper , the Expositor , the same year that Smtih was killed : The following affidavits are copied from the Nauvoo

. 1 8 . Expositor , published at Nauvoo , Ill , June 7 , 44

h i s f 7 . I hereby certify that Hyrum Smith did ( in o fice ) o read to me a certain written d cument , which he said was a revelation from God ; he said that he was with

w Smith when it w as received . He after ards gave me the document to read , and I took it to my house , and read it , and showe d it to my wife , and returned it next day . The revelation ( so called ) authorized certain men to have more wives than one at a time , in this world

o . and in the w rld to come It said this was the law , and commanded Joseph Smith to enter into the law

and also that he should administer it to others . Several other items were in the document supporting the above W M LA . W revelation . .

S tate o I l l i n o i s H n o k o u n a c c C t . f , y

. o I , Robert D Foster , certify that the ab ve certificate

as e was sworn to before me , tru in substance , this fourth R . 1 R 8 O . . E T F STER day of May , A D 44 . B D O , J . P .

8 . I certify that I read the revelation referred to in the f above a fidavit of my husband . It sustained in strong

terms the doctrine of more wives than one at a time , in this w orld and in the next ; it authorized some to have

n the umber of ten . and set forth that those women who S P H S M TH P GAM S T JO E I A OL Y I . 35 would not all o w their husbands to have more wives than one should be under condemnation of God . AN E LAW J . Sworn and subscribed to before me this fourth day of

. 1 8 . . ERT STER R . , 44 . F . May A D OB D O , J P ( 9 ) Testimony of Austin Cowles To all whom it mav concern : Forasmuch as the pub lic mind has been much agitated of late by a course of procedure in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day

Saints , by a number of pe rson declaring against certain doctrines and practices therein ( among whom I am one ) , ° t it is but mee that I should give my reasons , at least in part , as a cause that led me to declare myself . 1 8 In the latter part of the summer of 43 the patriarch ,

Hyrum Smith , did in the High Council , of which I was a member , introduce what he said was a revelation given through the prophet ; that Hyrum Smith did essay to read the said revelatio n in said council ; that according to h i s re ading there was contained the follow ing doctrines :

first , the sealing up of persons to eternal life , against all sins , save that of shedding innocent blood , or of con senting thereto ; second , the doctrine of plurality o f wives , “ or marrying virgins ; that David and Solomon had many w ives , yet in this they sinned not , save in the case of h Uriah . T is revelation , with other evidence that the a foresaid heresies were taught and practiced in the church , determined me to leave the offi ce of first counsellor to

as the president of the church at Nauvoo , inasmuch I dared not teach or administer such laws . An d further

W . deponent said not . AUSTI N CO LES

t te o I l l i n o i s H an co ck Co u n t . S a f , y To all whom it may concern : I hereby certify that 36 THE M OR MON WA TERLOO

' the foregoing certificate was sworn an d s ubs cr ibed to

1 8 . before me this fourth day of May , 44 R ERT “F STER OB D . O , J . P .

’ ‘ l n t S tate o I dw a Wa e l o Co u . f , p y

I , S . E . Adler , a notary public within and for said county and state , do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of an article published in the

o o . Nauvoo Exp sitor , dated Nauvo , Ill , Friday , June 7 , f 1 8 . 1 . 1 44 , Vol , No , and a fidavit published therein , the same being compared by me from said publication . I n te stimony Whereof I herewith s et my hand and d 1 O 8 . national seal , at ttumwa , this 3 day of July , 99

. . DLER . S E A , Notary Public

D s nt i 1 0 . e er et S e Testimony of Lorenzo Snow . The

n l n i en 2 1 8 Week l N ew s S e t . y pp , Dec 9 , 99 , Salt Lake City , Utah :

TH E R H ET SE H ON L RAL A RR AGE P OP JO P P U M I . I wish to relate in full a conversation that I had with the prophet Joseph Smith , concerning the principle of celestial marriage . I feel it my duty to do this , as there , ar e now but few persons living who heard from the prophet ’s own lips his views and testimony concerning

s o w this principle . By doing , however , I do not ish to convey the ide a that plural marriages are now being contracted by saints anywhere in the world , but to the contrary I d o most solemnly testify that during my ad ministration as president o f the church n o such mar r i a es to g have been contracted , neither my knowledge have any such marriages been contracted since the mani

festo was issued by President Wilford Woodruff . “ 1 8 n In the month of April , 43, I retur ed from my A ‘ European mission . few days after my arrival at ’ , S Nauvoo when at President , Joseph mith s house , he J OS P H S MI TH P OL YGAMIS T E A . 37 sa to id he wished have some private talk with me , and requested me to walk out with him . It was toward even

w 0 11 ing . We alked a little distance , and sat down a large log that lay on the bank of the river ; he there ex t plained o me the doctrine of the plurality of wives . “ H e said that the Lord had revealed to him , and com m an ded him to have women sea led to him as wives ; that h e ' foresaw the trouble that would follow , and sought to turn aw ay fro m the commandment ; that an angel from

’ heaven appeared before him with a drawn sword , threat en in g him with destructi o n u n less h e went forw ard and o beyed the command . “ H e then told me that my sister Eliza Snow had been s ealed to him as his w ife for time and eternity . “ He further said that the Lord would open the way , an d I should have women sealed to me as wives . This

o w as c nversation prolonged , I think , one hour or more , in which he told me many important things . “ I solemnly swear before God and the holy angels , as

o I hope to come f rth in the morning of the resurrection , a th t the above statement is true . “ I know that Joseph Smith was a true pro phet of the

. s aw living God I testify that he and spoke with God , hi s and with Son , Jesus Christ . The Lord gave me this living testimony and it has been burn ing within my soul

n ever since I received it . I o w give it unto the whole w orld . I not only testify to all mankind that Joseph t Smith was sen of God , and that the work that was - e w as Go d stablished through him the work of , but warn al l the nations of the earth concerning the predictions made by the prophet , and testify in most solemn manner that I know them to be true . L REN Z S N o O O w . M A T 38 THE M OR ON W ERLOO .

’ 1 1 m . Names of eight of Smith s wives , fro records in

: Salt Lake City, Utah

No . 1 . . Emma Hale , lawful wife B e NO. 2 . a Louisa Beman , daughter of Alv and Betsy

Y . 1 8 1 man , born in Livingston County , N . , Feb . 7 , 5;

1 8 1 . married to Joseph Smith April 5, 4 2 No . 3. Eliza Snow ; married Joseph Smith June 4 , 1 1 84 .

Nos . 4 and 5. Emma and her sister Eliza Partridge ; f a to 1 8 . m rried Joseph Smith 43, Heber Kimball o ficiating N 6 to o . . Zena D . Huntington ; sealed Joseph Smith

2 1 8 1 . O . ct 7 , 4

. 1 8 . . O No 7 live Guy Frost ; seale d to Joseph Smith , 43

8 . 1 8 . No . Mary Laurance ; married to Joseph Smith , 43

s o After his death h e married Brigham Y ung .

1 2 . 1 8 1 In Nauvoo , in 4 , while that talented scoundrel and libertine , Dr . John C . Bennett , and Joseph Smith o were drawing up that notorious Nauvo charter , Elder ’ o w w h o co n fiden H ard Coray , was at that time Smith s

w as tial clerk , states that he present when Smith and Bennett were constructing the charter ; that Bennett o b “ ” ected o j to certain clauses as being too str ng, to which

: Smith replied We must have that power in our courts , for this work will gather of all mankind ; the Turk with

to his ten wives will come Nauvoo , and we must have ” ’ laws to protect him with these wives . Beadle s Hist . , 2 p . 7 .

’ ’ o Als Governor Ford s testimony in Beadle s Hist . , p . “ 8 auvo o 1 8 2 : 7 , speaking of N in 4 , and Smith His elders w ere now instructed that the time had arrived when seven women should take hold of one man ; that n o woman could be saved unless united to a husband in a spiritual

— sense . She must accept prostitutio n or damnation and , ” th e system was o n e of complete concubinage . S P H S M TH P OL YGAM IS JO E I A T . 39

The two young Smiths who lately made a raid into

s o Utah ( continue the Govern r ) ought to know , as every

o f o intelligent person does know , that the will J seph

o s an Smith was absolute in Nauvo , and all the councils , h edr im s and priests in the city could never have estab l i s h ed e polygamy there , i f he had but shook his littl finger

t . a . . 8 it Beadle , p 7 We a th e h ve given these twelve testimonies , because ; s e R C . is o lo ud in denying that Joe Smith ever pra t 0 0 f iced polygamy , making $5 blu fs if it can be proven , tc n e . In our discussio with Elde r C . J . Hunt in Sac City we challenged him to deposit his $50 0 in the bank

an d ! - there , to turn it over , if three fourths of the audi ence would decide that we had proven Smith a po l y ga ff w a 0 0 s a . mist , but the $5 blu he rd of no more We have

e much mor testimony on this point , but we deem this

ffi 1n a su cient for the present , what we want to be small book . m a The blighted ho es , the broken hearts , and the degr o n o t dati n that grew out of this Satanic system , must to th e be laid wholly Brigham Young , for Joseph Smith , m o founder of Mor nism , started the whole iniquitous s ecr eti sm e system , with its , oaths , polygamy and crim n o f all ki ds . R CHAPTE V .

R N L T S AND WAR M O MO PO I IC .

o We als claim that Smith was a false prophet , and his church a false church , because he sought political power , and drilled troops for war, and fought against i h s enemies . This was following the practices of the Church of

R w w ome , that has al ays sought political po er , and has built up her system with the carnal sword , as under

R o - Constantine , Edwin VI , Charlemagne and other man C l em perors . onstantine c aimed to have seen the sign of the cross in the heavens , by which sign he should

conquer . So he took the cross and the carnal sword , and went out to convert the world to the Romish church . In the fifth century the bishop of Rome assumed l o be

w the ear of Christ , and , assuming the powers of the age “ ” to . come , began to wield the rod of iron The harlot “ ” w oman Babylon began to ride the beast , or civil power , and to use the civil power in persecution of the saints ; the inquisition after a time was established in Spain and

other Catholic countries , and during these dark ages of Rome ’s glory martyrs were tortured and “ w slaughtered by this false political church . The oman was drunken with the blood ' of the saints and martyrs of ” 1 1 8 Jesus . Rev . , ch . 7 and .

Jesus refused to accept political power , when Satan f “ M . o : o fered it to him . Lu . 4 He als said to Pilate y

kingdom is not of this world , or my servants would

o fight ( like R mans and Mormons did ) . John

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2 M M T 4 THE OR ON WA ERLOO .

‘ fo r o Nauvoo Legion drilled his troops bl odshed , and announced himself as a candidate for President of the

United States .

s a And we would y here , that if , as Smith and his

missionaries taught , he was sure he would be elected ,

w as . then he a false prophet , for he was not But if he f simply ran for o fice , not expecting to get it , knowing the ridicule that w ould be heaped upon him by his ene

a mies , then he was simply fool . 88 The historian tells us , on page , how the Whigs and Democrats , who had each been seeking the favor of the Mormons to get their solid vote , found that the Mor mon sect was for sale every day and hour of the day , and that they were uncertain until the last hou r of the election . How that after Smith had been two years in

0 1 f Illin s he controlled votes , and that the o fices of the county were virtually his gift , and a man could h i scarcely reach Congress without s will . This accounts for the great privileges given the Mormons in that N au

- 1 8 0 1 . voo charter by the Democrats , then in power , in 4 4

It was done by them to conciliate the Mormons , and to secure their vote , and yet Smith and his follow ers voted “ for the Whigs by revelation . ’ 1 1 At last , as Governor Ford records , pp . 3, Beadle s

Hist . , Joe Smith dies , shooting at his enemies , but the mob dispatched him w ith four bullets through his body ; “ 1 1 6 and , p . , the spiritual wives of the prophet filled the city with their cries , but his lawful wife Emma was quiet ” n and resig ed .

Thus Smith lived the life of a libertine , and died the ! death of a desperado , shooting at his enemies A shame u ful life , and a disgracef l death . 3 I must here remark that the most biased and o -n e-sided

as history that I have ever read is Mormon history , writ M O M N P T CS AND AR R O OLI I W . 43

ten by Mormons . When God writes up the history of David or Solomon he shows up both the good and the bad , and does not j usti fy the evil in them . But Mormon writers not only Show up only the good in Smith and their system , but misrepresent the facts , and thus deceive many good and honest people . They represent the chief crime of Mormons as being that they were abolitionists ,

when history convicts them of murder , treason , robbery , ff counterfeiting , stealing , and almost every o ense in the catalogue of crime ! They represent their church as ’ being like the first church , persecuted for righteousness ’ th e sake , when fact is it was persecuted for deviltry s ’ sake . The first church was j ailed while innocent . Smith s church was j ailed while guilty ; and official records still show their conviction and guilt . See any Encyclope dia or

Standard History on Mormonism .

Nor have we ever yet seen a history of Smith , written

a by Mormon , that told about Smith wounding three

. 1 8 . men in his death at Carthage , Ill , in 44 Why this ? partiality , and fear of telling the whole truth

These two lines of argument , alone , on politics and

war , as practiced by Smith and his church , are of them selves sufficient to convince any student of the true Chris

tian system , as established and taught by Jesus , that

Smith was a false prophet , and his church , and the fac

o r tions int which it is now split , are all false , counte feit

systems . R CHAPTE VI .

— R ON S E CRE TI S M . AS NR MO M M O Y . We learn from history that Hyrum Smith was an

w Arch Mason , and Joseph Smith was ell up in the higher

degrees o f Masonry , and that , in Nauvoo , Smith got a

charter to run a lodge among his people , and that nearly

every male member was initiated into it , until he added

to it some of his own peculiar ideas , and the Masons

revoked the charter . Hyrum Smith had left the Masons o after the b ok of Mormon came out , as it denounces

ti s m 1 s ecr e . ( Beadle , p 5 5 but a fterward that he assisted Joseph in initiating the “ Saints ” into these secret

degrees in Nauvoo . The book of Mormon condemns

many things that Smith and his whole church practiced . ’ In Joseph Smith s j ournal , as written by the prophet

1 8 2 o f himself in 4 for John Wentworth , proprietor the

D em o cr at Chicago , we read “ to Passed over Montrose , Iowa , in company with

General Adams , Colonel Brewer and others , and wit n es s ed the installation of the officers of the Rising Sun O Lodge of the Ancient rder of York Masons , at Mont

rose , by General James Adams , deputy grand master of ’ Illinois . Then follows Smith s prophecy of the saints going to the Rocky Mountains and building

cities there and becoming a mighty people there , etc . ’ 1 2 - 1 2 See also Beadle s History , pp . 5 9 , how ( speaking ’ 1 8 of 44, right after Smith s death ) that the Mormons w ere bound to obey their ch u r ch officers by the most a bsolute oaths . How between the citizens and Mormons M M S E CRE TI S M — M A S OR ON ONR Y . 45

H terrible riots and skirmishes took place . ow blood was shed and lives were lost . How a horrible crime was per

etr ated p in Lee County , an d the perpetrators traced directly to Nauvoo . How a dozen Mormons swore that . C the accused was in another ity at the time , yet their

s o testimony was contradictory , and the testimony s o

plain against them , that the murderers , two brothers

named Hodges , were convicted and hanged at Montrose , o I wa . Ho w Governor Ford w as more an enemy to the

- anti Mormons than to the Mormons , and tried to make

h i s their case as favorable as possible in records , yet

1 26 the Mormons never ceased to abuse him ( pp . , “ ” - 60 : See Tell It All , by Mrs . Stenhouse , pp . 353 3

h i s Joseph Smith , the prophet , and very many of early

O . associates , belonged to the Ancient rder of Free Masons When he was initiated into the mysteries of that society and what position he attained to , I do not know ; but one thing is certain , that when he , under the influence of peculiar fanaticism , endeavored to engraft upon Free Masonry some of his own peculiar ideas of the new religion , he and those connecte d with him were publicly disavowed by the lodges in the West . The idea of a bond of brotherhood , secret and indissoluble , seems ever

’ ” to have been present in Joseph s mind . Here I quote some clauses from the oath taken by

' o f M as o n r Arch Masons , in this seventh degree y , as given “ ”

F O . in ree Masonry Illustrated , by Jacob Doesburg , f certified by four a fidavits , from men who had taken these oaths and degrees , to be a true and accurate exposure . “ h o ath Paragraph 5 in t e . : I furthermore promise and swear that I will assist a companion Royal Arch Mason , w 1n f w his hen engaged any di ficulty , and ill espouse 6 THE M M WAT 4 OR ON ERLOO . 0

s o cause far as to extricate him from the same , whether

he be right or wrong . “ I furthermore promise and swear that I will keep

all the secrets of a companion Royal Arch Mason , when ” communicated to me as such , without exception . “ Paragraphs 1 2 and 1 3 read : And this I most s o l

em n l y and sincerely promise and swear , with a steadfast f resolution to per orm the same , without any hesitation ,

mental reservation , or secret evasion of mind whatever ; binding myself under no less a penalty than that of hav

o ff ing my skull smote , and my brain exposed to the

s u n scorching rays of the meridian , should I ever know

’ i n gl y violate this my Royal Arch Mason s o bligation .

So help me God , and keep me steadfast in the due per

fo r m an ce of the same . “ ‘ Captain of Host : In token of your s 1n cer ity of pur

i n po se , these solemn engagements , you will kiss the Holy

’ Bible now open before you . ( Each kisses the Bible . )

And now , dear reader , whether you follow Smith or any other leader that has taken such as the above oaths ,

I as k you to decide if such leaders represent Jesus and ” “ h is followers who taught Swear not at all ; In secret I have said nothing Men love darkness rather than ” “ light because their deeds are evil ; Have no fellowship u with the unfruitf l works of darkness , but rather reprove “ them Be not unequally yoked with unbe lievers ; fo r what part hath he that believeth with an infidel ? Where fore come out from among them , and be ye separate , ” and touch not the unclean thing , and I will receive you ; “ Blessed is the man that standeth not in the way of Sin ” ners ; nor sitteth in the seat of the scorner . M ORM ON S E CR E TI S M - MAS ONR Y 47

’ s ecr eti s m w as No ; Smith s , if there nothing else , would brand him a false prophet, and his system , according to

M . . . u his own book ( B , p a murdero s system , built ”

bv . up the devil , the father of lies Herein is seen his own inconsistence as also in his denunciation of po l y ga

M . my ( B . , p . and his secret practice of the same , as we have abundantly proven . R CHAPTE VII .

T H E ENDOW ENT H SE M OU .

Not satisfied with the iron - clad and sacrilegious oaths m and rites of Masonry , Smith added yet a ore ungodly system of s ecr eti sm to his so called restored kingdom ” as of God , known the Endowment House . The R . C . ’ s o quote Gen . 5, in Smith s called inspired translation

s ecr eti s m of the Bible ( which attributes to Cain , as Smith has added it to the book of Genesis ) as proo f that Smith did not introduce the Endowment House system and

Masonry . They try to throw all the blame on Brigham Young for s ecr eti s m and polygamy ; but hundreds of old Mormons have testified to Smith himself having intro du ced both ; although Brigham added some to the Endow “ ” ment system , as the oath to avenge the death of Smith proves . We quote from Smith ’s own words in the temple in 0 1 8 6 a O s . Kirtland , hio , March 3 , 3 , published in Hist

1 ° o s . . . 2 w of J Smith , Will Star , Vol 5, p 7 7 While ait

— ing , I made the following remarks that the time that we were required to tarry in Kirtland to be en do w ed

i s would be fulfilled in a few days , etc . Hence here the

Endowment House in Kirtland in 1 836 . “ ”

. 6 8 ff In Times and Season , Vol 5, p . 9 , Elder Woodru ,

s O . 1 1 1 8 writing from Salem , Mas , under date ct , 44 , at a ’ time when Sydney Rigdon s claims were still agitated ; said “ Has the prophet Joseph found Elder Rigdon in his councils when he organized the quorum of the twelve , a

48

0 THE M M WAT 5 OR ON ERLOO .

Deep silence pervades the room . Dim light . Attend ants co mmunicate by signs o r low whispers ; They r e

1 . move the r shoes Men are led to a room on right , and w omen to left , where they are bathed by proper attend f ants o their own sex . Then they have a new name whispered to them . In another room they are anointed

to i s with oil , symbolize Holy Spirit . The candidate

- fitti n then dressed in a sort of tunic , or loose g garment , supposed to shield him from the devil , poison and all “ 8 y : be harm . ( Here , p . 4 9 , Beadle sa s It is generally l iveed that Joe Smith took o ff hi s tunic the morning he w ent to Carthage and that he would not have ” been killed if he had retained it . Mrs . Stenhouse , who went through the Endowment House with her husband ’ shortly after Smith s death , also says in Tell It All , “ - i n p . 360 : This close fitt g garment ( tunic ) was to pro te t c . from disease , bullets , the dagger and death itself It has been said that Joseph Smith carelessly left o ff

o f h i s d this garment , on the day eath , and had he not done s o the rifles of the assassins would have been harm ” less to him .

We leave the reader to j udge if Mormons , at the time ’ of Smith s death , would have talked thus about the tunic put on in the Endowment House by Smith , if Smith had

o its kn wn nothing about this secret system , with blas ph em o u s p er s o n ificati o n s of Jehovah and its diabolical

oaths .

The characters personifying Jehovah , Jesus , Michael ,

et c. , in the Endowment House , act out the successive

steps in the creation of the world . They place the can

didates on the floor and close their eyes , and pretend to A create dam and Eve . They slap them to vivify them ,

and stand them upon their feet . Satan enters and de

ceiv o 1s es them . Loud groans foll w , and Satan cursed , ND OIVM E N T H S 51 THE E O U E .

and wriggles out of the room hissing . The candidates kneel , and take a solemn oath to preserve the secrets

inviolably , to obey the priesthood in all things , and the men sw ear that they will take no woman unless given them by the presidency of the church . A grip and key o w rd are given , and the first degree of the Aaronic

r k in ' hi s priesthood is conferred . The penalty for b ea g t oath is to have their blood spilt as an atonement for their

sins , etc .

They pass into a darker room , where they are caused to stumble over blocks and furniture ; persons are heard “ ” “ ”

H i s . calling , ere is light , There light , etc , and a con

e o n test go s among those who call themselves Catholics ,

P r es b ter 1an s . Methodists , Baptists , y , etc The sectarians

pull the candidates about till they are quite exhausted , till they are ready for the second degree of the Aaronic priesthood . They then j oin hands , kneel in a circle , and “ k o ta e another solemn oath , the penalty of which is thr at ” ea r to bas h em cut from ear , with other disgusting and p

ous details we have not space to notice .

Tw o other estates or degrees are passed through , with oaths and penalties of “ bowels slit across and entrails fed ” to swine , etc . , if they ever violate their oath or reveal

these secrets , etc . Th e third degree or estate as conducted immediately ’ a fter Smith s death , as testified to by many who went

s ee 6 through it ( Beadle , pp . 49 , contains an oath , W taken hile candidates lie upon their backs upon the altar,

w with a razor or large knife at their throats , that they ill

avenge the death of Joseph Smith , and bear eternal hos til ity to the government of the United States for the murder o f the Prophet ; that they renounce all allegiance

they may have held to the government , and hold them

o selves abs lved from all oaths of fealty , past or future ; THE M M WA TE 52 OR ON RLO O . that they Will do all in the 1r po wer to overthrow the go v

er n m en t . , and teach their children the same They are then declared acceptable to God , and the second degree

l hi z dek o n of M e c a priestho d is conferred . They are the the passed behind veil .

The system seems to be based upon Masonry , the mys “ ” 1 o ter es of the Middle Ages , Paradise L st , by Milton ,

e and the pagan po ts on Elysium , hades , etc .

I f our readers still think Smith a true prophet of God , and the restorer of the full gospel and of Christ ’s true h e o c urch , let him fancy J sus and the ap stles instituting

r b such a blasphemous drama , with its oaths and hor i le penalties , and I think he will , if honest , have to change

s ecr eti s m his mind . Jesus condemns , oaths , and all works

r i s n done in darkness . This s ec et m of itself is s ufli ci e t to

h is o condemn both Smith and church , th ugh parading “ “ under the name of Saints and the o nly true church on ”

. . C. . . the face of the whole earth D , p 4 R CHAPTE VI II .

TH R H H — H E M N R . ST R AL O MO C U C I O IC .

The word Mormon , it is claimed , means bugbear or . i ’ horrible fr ght . As this is the name of Smith s chie f

book , the church was given this name by g entiles , and es is still thus designated , although they call themselv “ ” “ Latter Day Saints . Still , Mormon church is all the name they had for three years after their birth as a

church . ’

. . 2 : B eadle s Hist , p 4 At a conference assembled at O 1 8 Kirtland , hio , May 3, 33, they repudiated the name

of Mormons , and adopted for the first time that of Latter ” Day Saints .

Joseph Smith himself , in a brief account of the origin 1 8 2 of Mormonism , published by John Wentworth in 4 , entitles his autobiography “Joseph Smith ’s Account of the O rigin of ‘ Mormonism ’ Hence they were called Mormo ns from 1 830 till “ Th en they to o k th e name The Church of Jesus Christ ” ’ 1 8 of Latter Day Saints . After Smith s death in 44

various factions sprung up , led by Sydney Rigdon Wil

liam Smith , brother of the prophet ; James J . Strang ,

Lyman Wight and George Miller and others , and finally

1860 . 1 0 in , at Amboy , Ill , about 5 men , who had chiefly

been followers of some of the apostate factions , met and ’ as ordained Joseph Smith , the prophet s son , the presi “ o f n ew f efi o n dent a ag , called The Reorganized Church ” of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints . At present the ’ church consists of three warring factio n s called -by gen

~ B r i h am ites Hedr ick ites . tiles g , Josephites and THE M M O WAT L O 54 OR N ER O .

The migrations of the church from it s birth till the present are approximately as follows : 6 The church was organized at Fayette , N . , 1 8 0 s ix O 3 , with members , all Smiths but liver Cowdery

. 1 and Joseph Knight Left in 1 83 . O 1 1 8 . Headquarters next in Kirtland , hio , in 3 A por o 1 8 ti n of them were driven out in 33, and the main body 1 1 2 left in 838 . In 83 Brigham Young j oined them at

Kirtland , and was ordained an elder . There was also a

1 8 1 1 8 - 8 body of them in Independence , Mo . , from 3 to 34 3 , when they w ere expelled from there .

They settled next at Far West , Clay County , Mo . , in 8 8 1 . 1 8 34 The troubles here , in 3 , resulted in a small

civil war between gentiles and Mormons , which resulted in the Mormons being driven out by mobs , in the winter

1 8 8 - o f 3 9 .

w as . Their next settlement at Commerce , Ill , which

1 8 . r em am ed they called Nauvoo , m 39 They there till

111 1 8 Smith was killed 44 , a fter which troubles grew

1 8 6- worse , until in 4 7 they fled for the West . They

a Co u n c1l ff stopped in Iow a year , chiefly at Blu s , and

to i n 1 8 6 a portion of them got Salt Lake City , Utah , 4 ,

m 1 8 — 8 and the m a body got there in 47 . We will not here enter into much discussion as to the

h e doctrines of t church , which we will notice when exam ining the Book of Mormon and doctrine and co ve

' nants . Also what we have passed over already o n the character of the Smith family ; Smith a polygamist , Mor m o n se cr eti s m s uffi politics and war , and Mormon are cient to undermine the claims of any of the Mormon C factions to being the true church of hrist , and their

w u h ar s o n o divisions also rite their mene , tekel , p up n their “ whole mushroo m system ; for a house divided against ” can itself not stand . H R C APTE IX .

TH E TR E H RCH AND T H E FAL E U C U S .

The teaching of Mormons is , that the true church of i s Christ a Visible organization , with apostles , prophets , pastors , teachers , etc . , and gifts of tongues , healing , etc . ,

1 . 1 2 . as shown in Eph . 4 and Cor We will not here discuss whether there should be such a visible system or not ; suffi ce it to Show that Mormons do not possess h‘ the gifts of which they boast , and that the true churc is no visible organization now on earth .

1 The true church is all the called out sanctified sa nts , h of the C ristian age , in resurrected capacity ; the church h t e e . of firstborn , whose names are written in h aven 2 H . 1 2 ebr : 3. They have been chosen in Christ from the fo undation of the world . Eph . Their names ’ have been in the Lamb s book of life from the o un datio n

h . of t e world Rev . Those who by one spirit have

1 . 1 2 1 2 been baptized into one body . Cor , 3, 7 . Who

o 2 . w rship God in spirit and in truth . John 4 They

to s in — an in are baptized , by death , into Jesus Christ visible body . Rom . Gal . They are members ’

w . of the church , hich is ( not a sect , but ) Christ s body

Eph . This body is not organized till the resur

- 1 1 1 8 . 0 . rection . Rev . ; Thess It will con sist of all in this age who call upon the name of the

. 1 . Lord Jesus Christ in truth , both theirs and ours Cor

It is built upon the foundation Christ , and the old

- 22 . apostles and prophets ( not successors ) . Eph .

No man can add a member or law or iota to it . God THE M M O WATE RL o 56 OR N o .

if s builds it , and adds every member to . Act .

He draws all its members in . John God grants all its members repentance to the acknowledging of the ’

2 . 2 i . s truth , Tim 5 It by figure called Christ s

- o E h. 1 8 . . : body , of his flesh and b nes p 5 33 “ ” All i ts members are enemies to the world ; they love “ ” “ not the world are not conformed t o the world ; o f ” “ one spirit ; perfectly j oined together in the same mind ” an d in the same j udgment ; follow the Lamb whither ” “ soever he goeth without spot or blemish or any such ” “ ” “ thing ; as sheep among wolves ; use spiritual weapons ” “ ” “ and armor ; love their enemies ; do good to tho se who hate them “ resist not evil avenge not them ” selves ; and are bound together only by love . No com n o r ments are necessary to prove that neither Mormons , any other visible organization on earth , meet this stand i . s n 1 ard No can enter this body . Cor . All its members are made perfect through grace and pardon , an d only w hile they keep thus pardoned are they in the body . Hence Judas , Ananias , Simon Magus and other a postates are not members of the true church , though

at one time members of the visible church . The true ’ church is Christ s body .

Members of the Mormon churches , who are in good

- o u s e standing in their church kingd m , drink , tobacco ,

o dance , fight and swear , and s me kill and steal and lie . “ 2 M r s 282 0 . See pp . and 5 in Tell It All , by Sten

house , how Brigham Young attended theatres and balls .

How , for appearance sake , he danced a short time with

each wife , but most of the night with his favorite wife

. H Amelia ow Mormon prophets , apostles , elders and deacons danced and drank and smoked and j ested at

night . How Brigham had the picture of an eye over “ n H his whisky store , and the Sig above it , oliness Unto

8 THE M M WA T 5 OR ON ERLO O .

and I go in for the sword of the Almighty being u n ”

sheathed , not only in word but in deed , etc . Read any history on the wild rantings of Mormon

an d preachers and their crimes and licentiousness , the h onest reader will easily discern between the true church

and the false . And the Utah church is the only true

Mormon church , as we shall prove farther on . ER CHAPT X .

T H E R N G FT T N G E MO MO I OF O U S .

In the pr 1m 1tive Christian Church the gift of tongues

' was for a sign to the unbelieving world , to convince

. 1 them of the truth . Cor . On Pentecost men of various nationalities heard in their native tongue , by 1 - 2 : 1 2 . miracle , the wonderful words of life . Acts This

’ cli u r ch w o u l d gift , while possessed by the , obviate the n s o ecessity of any translation of the Bible . But not w ith Mormon tongues : Their missionaries had to study the language of the people where they went to preach “ 1 6 h o w in foreign countries . See p . 3 in Tell It All , “ f the greatest di ficulty of Mr . Stenhouse , and other Mor m o n n missionaries , was lear ing the language of their ” prospective converts . And yet the church claimed the gift o f to n gfies ! As an example of Mormon tongues we quote from Tell Al l ” 6 . 68 : It , pp 7 , “ A fter prayer and singing , and listening to very fer v ent addresses from some of the elders , Brother Seely e had d livered a most impassioned speech , and had hardly concluded when Sister Ellis , who was sitting near me , gave evidences of being in an abnormal condition of mind , which to me was painful in the extreme . Her hands

e were cl nched , and her eyes had that wild , supernatural glare which is never seen but in cases of lunacy or i n tense , feverish excitement . Every one waited breath s s h e s a lessly , li tening to catch what might y ; you might 60 M M T THE OR ON WA ERLO O .

have heard a pin drop . Then s he began to speak ; or

. t rather , emitted a series of sounds They seemed o me

o chiefly the repetition of the same syllables , s mething like ’ “ l e 10 m a a child s repeating la , la , la , , ; , ma , ma , mi , ma ” e dele , dele , dele hele , follow d by a number of sounds

strung together , which could not be rendered into any

shape by the pen . I have since , in the far West , heard old Indian women crooning weirdly monotonous and out l an di sh ditties which resembled the prophetic utterances

of Sister Ellis . “ I now know that these extraordinary displays are

by no means confined to Mormonism . People o f a cer

tain temperament have , in all ages , when excited by reli

i o u s g frenzy , given painful illustrations of this mental disease ; as the student who remembers the Convulsion ” aires of the middle ages ; the Munster Ana Baptists of ’ m Luther s time , and the various emotional sects of ore ”

modern times , will abundantly bear me witness . Mrs . Stenhouse adds that w hen Brigham Young first met

Joseph Smith , that he spoke in tongues , but that he hiS afterward discouraged the practice of t gift .

’

n . In He ry Howe s Hist . Coll from the Great West ,

1 8 22 published 54 , on p . 3 , we read of the law passed

’ ‘ 1 8 im by Smith s council of Nauvoo , in 43, making it

o r prisonment for life for any person , with without ff process , to attempt to arrest the prophet for any o ense growing out of the Missouri diffi culties ; and $ 1 0 0 fine for any one to serve a process in Nauvoo with o ut the signature of the mayor The historian also gives a specimen of ton gues as it fell from the prophet Smith ’s lips on a sacramental occa

o f sion , which was upon the tongues Saints for months “ : Ak s o n afterwards , as follows man , oh ; oh man , ah H M M G F T F T G S T E OR ON I O ON UE . 61 n e co m m en e M il k ea , en holle goste en esac , Jeremiah ,

Ezekiel , Nephi , Lehi , St . John . But t h e Mormon gift of tongues i s of no value to them when they go as missionaries to foreign lands . It is not a manifestation for the world , but occurs at excitable gatherings of Saints . It is of no value to them nor to any

° one else as an agent to assist in carrying the gospel t0 all the world . It is not even a good counterfeit of the true gift given the primitive church . R CHAPTE XI . R N S GNS MO MO I . That the sick have at times been healed among Mor

as S r itual mons , a result of prayer and faith , as among p i s ts , Christian Scientists , Catholics and all other sects , and t out of all sects , we will not deny ; but hat Mormons possess any special gift of healing or of miracles above any other church or people , we do positively deny . They cannot compete at all in the number of testimonials of

’ Do i e . w s healings with Christian Scientists , Dr followers , ’ o r with Dr . Pierce s Pleasant Purgative Pellets , or many ’ other patent medicine nostrums . Dr . Fahrney , of Chi

h as bo n efide cago , the biggest book in the world full of testimonials to cures of all kinds of diseases thru his proprietary medicine . ’ u s We have before Zion s Ensign , published at Inde

n den c . . 1 0 e e . p , Mo , by the R C ( issue of May , in w hich we read of thirteen sick saints . No mention is 6 made of any miraculous healing by faith , but , on p . , “ ” there is an advertisement of Incurable heart disea se ’ ! “ cured by Dr . Franklin Miles Special Prescription Two dollars and fifty cents worth of this medicine sent free .

Hundreds of incurable cases of heart disease cured , etc . In our own experience we know of but four cases where

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R . the C . elders have anointed the sick and prayed for

. O them , and these all died soon afterward ne of these C was an Eld . Thomson , who died at olo , Iowa , about two - be s years ago . S o we would recommend would suicide to

Mormon an o in ti n gs and prayers .

6 2 M M OR ON S IGNS . 63

- o o ff An ex Morm n of C uncil Blu s , Thos . Pilling, told

w h o me of a big man named Smith , cured many diseases at among the Mormons by manipulations , which he “

. 82 tributed to his own power ; and in Tell It All , p ,

fo r Mrs . Stenhouse tells how the elders , nearly three

an o in tin s hours , with prayers , g , passes and manipulations , worked with a Sister Armstrong until they were thorough l y exhausted , which did wonderfully help Sister Arm

strong . But how different these methods from those of Jesus ! and the apostles in the primitive church See Matt .

- 1 . 20 . 5; Lu . Matt Mk . ; Matt

- 1 9 ; Acts etc . o Mrs . Stenhouse tells of the Morm ns , on the way from

England , dying of cholera , while their gifted elders kept

o ut l away from them , looking for themselves . Bead e tells h o w the death rate per capita in the sixties in Salt Lake City ( th ough in a very healthful climate ) was more O than twice that of the state of regon , and greater than

i r that o f New York , or any c ty no th of the Gulf states ; and that for several years the mortality among children in Salt Lake City was greater than in any othe r city in

- America , pp . 373 374 .

But the lack of power among Mormons , right before

i s f um our eyes , su ficient to condemn them , so I deem it necessary to give much space to their false claims on this

line .

Jesus never failed in an attempt to heal the sick , an d

when the apostles did once fail to cast out a devil , Jesus

did not throw the blame on the man who was possessed , ” for lack of faith , as modern divine healers do , but he

threw the whole blame upon the apostles . Matt . 1 7 . R n CHAPTE x .

TH E TR E R N H R H I N TA H B U T N O A TH R T U MO MO C U C U , U O I Y

I N I T.

15 ffi r The Mormon church a wonderfully o ce ed church .

M el ch i zadek There are two priesthoods in the church , the

an d the Aaronic or Levitical . The highest offi cers in the church are the president and

tw o . his counsellors , called the quorum of three

riv o ne Next comes the twelve apostles , presided er by

w h o i s president of the twelve .

Then comes the first seventy , with seven presidents , n f - a d one o these is president of the seven . Then other

s eventies below the first seventy .

Then the patriarch , whose chief work seems to be to ft give blessings at from fi v cen ts to a dollar each . f Then the elders , deacons and lesser o ficers . See D . C . 1 2 Section 0 4 and 1 4 . ‘ d . . . 22 8 1 0 1 1 an C 8 . . . In D , pp and 3 3, or Sec 4 , par

1 2 ar tw ev . e Sec . 4 , p 4 , how the apostles form a quorum ,

equal in authority to the first presidency , and the first

seventy form a quorum eq ual in authority to the twelve .

' Hen ce th r ee , quorums of equal authority , at least in the

absence of the superior quorum .

1 6 . . 6 . 1 0 0 s ee . C. . Now D , p 3 , or Sec , par 4 , Revel

1 1 8 1 . given Jos . Smith , January 9 , 4 “ I give unto you , my servant , Brigham Young , to be

w president over the twelve traveling council , hich twelve hold the keys to open up the autho rity of my kingdom

upon the four corners of the earth , and after that to send

66 H ORM T T E M ON WA ERLOO . the Saints who were present testify that he was tran s fi ur ed g before them into the person , voice and all of n Joseph Smith . So powerful was his reasoning that whe the vote w as taken nearly all voted to sustain Brigham 2 and the twelve against Rigdon . See Mill . Star , vol . 5,

- . 2 1 6 2 1 . pp , 3 3 In the afternoon the conference convened again , and Brigham again presented the claims of the

w . w as . t elve Rigdon invited to speak , but declined At Rigdon ’s request the question of supporting the twelve

as w first put . Th e question was put to all the quorums and th e whole congregation at once , and the whole congregation voted , and unanimously elected Brigham and the twelve to lead the church .

w as It matters not though Joseph Smith called a seer , l hi k t M e c za de . prophe , priest , etc , yet he had laid it down as a rule that he nor no other man could be president of

C. . c w . . the hurch ithout the vote of the church See D , p “ — M a 6 : 2 . 4 , or Sec 7 , par 4 y servant Joseph shall be p pointed to preside over the conference by the voice of it for all things must be done in order , and by common con ” sent in the church , by the prayer of faith .

'

88 . 1 0 . 1 1 C. . 2 Also in D . , p , or Sec 4 , par , we learn that it requires a unanimous vote to carry a decision . So

’ Brigham s appointment to lead the church m et every r e q u i r em en t of Mormon law .

Yet the R . C . or Josephites claim that the death of ’

Smith , and Brigham s apostasy , disorganized the church , and that it was reorganized in 1 860 . Just as though the death of Jesus and the apostacy of Judas would have de stroyed Christ ’s church ! O r the assassination of our

President , or his impeachment , would disorganize the ’ United Sta tes government ! Y et Smith s bo ok of revela 1 e 8 C. . s e . tions itself is against them . See D . , p 9 , or 3 , T M M H H H 6 THE R UE OR ON C UR C IN UTA . 7

2 par . , Behold , the kingdom is yours , and the enemy ” 6 “ . 2 8 s ec 1 0 . shall not overcome Also p . 9 , . 5, par , What

s a s a I y unto you , I y unto all the twelve rebel not against my servant Joseph the keys which I have given unto him and also to youward shall not be ” m 2 . 2 1 . 8 . . s ec taken fro him till I come Also p 3 , 7 , par , “ The keys of this kingdom Shall never be taken from you , while thou art in the world , neither in the world to come ; nevertheless , thru you shall the oracles be given to

s o another ; yea , even to the church . And they were

as . given to Brigham and the twelve shown above Again , “

. s ec 6 . . : p 79 , 34 , par Zion shall rej oice upon the hills

( of Utah , I suppose ) , and flourish ; and Israel Shall be

1n saved mine own due time . And by the keys which I have given shall they be led , and no more confounded at i . n o t s all Fear , little flock , the kingdom yours u ntil I c o me .

C w o And yet the R . . uld make Smith a false prophet , by teaching that the church was confounded after Smith ’s death , and the kingdom of God stopped by Brigham

. 1 860 Young , till a few apostates met at Amboy , Ill , in , and “ reorganized ” God ’s kingdom !

. d C . . r an 1z R . . . . S o e The C J L D , although partially g 1 860 before , did not have its prophet and president until

6 1 860 as April , , and therefore its birth a full fledged sect may be dated from that point . This conference was

- Z k i r k . b . ew . called y H . Gurley and Reuben N Mr Gur

a . ley , ssisted by Wm Marks , presided at this conference , and Jason Briggs claimed to have a revelation that the

seed of Joseph Smith , the prophet , should lead the church . 8 See Life of Jos . Smith , p . 57 .

o Young Joseph , as he is called ( now of Lamoni , I wa ) ,

went to this conference at Amboy . He made a speech ,

as after which it was moved that he be received a prophet, 68 M M WAT THE OR ON ERLOO .

: the successor of his father . The motion was carried by

unanimous vote , after which Mr . Gurley arose and said : “ Brother Joseph , I present this church to you in the name of Jesus Christ . Mr . Smith accepted the present .

Now , we wish to speak of these three principal men at o that Amb y conference .

M w Wm . arks had been a follo er of Sydney Rigdon , ’ after Smith s death , in recommending him as a guardian l . n vo . . 6 2 of the church See Times and Seaso s , v , p 9 , l . v o 2 2 1 and Mill Star , . 5, p . 5 l v . . He afterward wrote for Times and Seasons , o v , p

2 . 1 8 : and 74 , dated Nauvoo , Dec 9 , 44 After mature candid deliberation I am fully and satisfactorily con ’ n d m n vi ce that Mr . Rigdon s clai s to the preside cy of the church of J . C . of L . D . S . are not founded in truth . I have been deceived by his specious pretenses , and now feel to warn every one over wh o m I have any influence Th e to beware of him and his pretended revelations . twelve are the proper persons to lead the church . ’ o ff In 1 864 this Wm . Marks went with Wm . Strang s faction , which at first settled in Wisconsin , and later in h i hi ’ M c an . Beaver Island , in Lake g Here Strang s fol l o w e r S were accused of theft and other crimes , and

Strang was killed , and his faction soon broke up . See

’ ’ l 1 8 Tu l l ed e s vo . . Saint s Herald , 35, p 7 , and g History 6 2 o s . . . of J Smith See also p 9 of Times and Seasons , v o l . v , where the prophet Joseph Smith called Marks a traitor and a Judas in 1 843.

‘ w h o Yet this apostate , and Judas , had once said that t the welve , headed by Brigham , were the proper persons

r eo r an iz to lead the church , was one of the chief men in g 1 860 ! ing the church , and ordaining young Joseph in ’

Zenas H . Gurley had been a president in Strang s fac tion . See the Life of Jos . Smith , Josephite ed . p . 595, THE TR M MON H CH IN TAH UE OR C UR U . do e where Gurley admits that the apostl s ordaine d by Wm .

Smith were without authority , because it was a faction .

We ask M r . Gurley what then becomes of his authority to ordain young Joseph ? How can the lesser ordain the

? Ho w greater can a man with no authority confer. upon another the highest authority on earth ? How can some thing come out of nothing ? Who gave Gurley the church he presented to young Joseph ? Surely it is an axiom that no man can give what he does n o t himse lf possess !

B w as w h o As to riggs , he also an apostate had been a follower of Wm . Smith , the b rother of the prophet , and n e 1 0 arly all these 5 , who attended the Amboy conference , had been followers of some faction , and all were outside o f the true Mormon church , which we have proved went with Brigham Young to Uta h . ’ H l 1 vo . . 1 0 . 8 In the Saint s erald , 4 , No , p 5 ( a

Josephite paper ) , in a report of a conference held at ’

Galland s Grove , Shelby County , Iowa , president of con “ M acIn to sh : ference , John , is reporte d as saying When ever individuals Claiming auth o r itv under the church as d - s organize by the first Joseph , become member of any au faction , they immediately become divested of all r th o ity .

I f s o w au , the whole reorganized church is ithout th o r i ty . E m o . . In y discussi n with ld J W . Wight , at Kalo ,

w v 1 0 1 . E . Io a; No ember , 9 , I referred to the above ld Wight declared that he was not bound by every individual statement made at their district conference . Afterwards , when I . tw itted him about Brigham carrying the keys of

m . their kingdo to Utah , Eld Wight forgot himself , and “ E m a said : Would ld . Crowe have you believe that a n 0 THE M O MON WAT LO O 7 R ER . still had keys after he had apostatized ? bid Judas still retain his keys after he fell ? ”

No , Eld . Wight , of course not . Neither did Marks ,

Gurley or Briggs after their apostacy . Then where is ? the R . C . authority An d if young Joseph got his authority thru previous blessings , revelations , etc . , why ordain him in 1 860 ? But an unanswerable argument against the authority of the R C . is based upon the precedent laid down by

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Smith himsel f , that the church of Christ had been dis C organized in the early centuries of the hristian era , and

a hence all authority had left the e rth , and that the only way that that authority could be restored w as by an opening of the heavens , as it were , by which Christ and an d angels , and Peter , James John and Michael and r c John the Baptist , and othe supposed heavenly o cupants , came down to Smith and gave him all the keys or authority necessary to restore the full gospel— the true i church or kingdom of God , and to appo nt and clothe with

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i i th r i f . d v n e au o ty all the o ficers of this kingdom See D . 6 6 1 62 s ee . 2 . C. . , p , , or

’ S m ith an d But the R . C . claim is , that the death of , a ’ r Brigh m s apostacy , again disorganized the chu ch kingdom .

’ Then we challenge them to show by what means th e ' n r t church could , agai be resto ed withou the opening of er heaven again , and the appearance of those heavenly p

n a es W to ! s o g again , ith the lost keys earth We here qu o te from an old ex - Mormon of Council 28 1 0 0 ff . Blu s , Thos . Pilling, as given the writer , Nov , 9 “ What of the reorganized church ? ” “ Pilling The very name is shallow . The church

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could not be d isorganized . Nearly every member holds

' h Fir o f . t e st some fice I f Presidency , or quorum of three , H T M M N H CH I TAH 1 T E R UE OR O C UR N U . 7

w were all killed , the twelve being next in authority ould take charge till the First Presidency was filled by a vote O of the church at the next conference . r if the twelve e F wer all killed , and no irst Presidency , the seventies

o . would come in , till the last seventy was destr yed To disorganize the church would be impos sible till the last

e w as memb r killed . The lower ones would be lifted up

till the last m an was gone .

S o s a w we y , with Mr . Pilling , if any one ould be a true ” th Latter Day Saint he must unite with e U . C .

C. Another line of argument that is in favor of the U . is found in the prophecies applied to Mormons by both “

I sa . : r e Smith and the Saints , such as 35 The deserts ” Oi ci n j g and blossoming ; Micah 4 , The house of the ” n Lord being established in the top of the mou tains , etc .

. C. . 1 2 2 1 s ee . ar . See also D , pp 5, 3 and 339 , or ( 49 , p 5;

1 0 8 s ec. 1 1 0 . . 6 sec , par . ; , par “ But before the great day of the Lord shall come , Jacob

shall flourish in the wilderness . Zion shall flourish ’ o upon the hills , and rej oice up n the mountains , and shall be assembled together unto the place I have appointed . “ In the barren deserts there shall come forth pools of living water ; and the parched ground shall be no

longer a thirsty land . “ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of

them that bring glad tidings of good things ( polygamy ,

s a etc . , and that y unto Zion , Behold , thy God

reigneth . 3 3 It is easy to see that the above revelations to Smith

have not been fulfilled in the R . C . at Lamoni , Iowa ; but ’

to s o m e . . may be , , extent , applied to the U C ’ : But to those who can discern the serpent s lie , Gen . 3 4 ,

1 and who know that man 5 wholly mortal ; Gen . Job - 8 i s 1 Cor . 4 , 53; and that immortality a 2 THE M M WAT 7 OR ON ERLOO .

C . 1 gift of God thru Jesus hrist ; Rom Tim .

w etc . ; and that the dead are unconscious bet een

P 1 6 s . r d h death and the resurrection ; 4 :4 ; Eccl . 3 and 9t

. 8 chs ; Isa . 3 , etc . ; to such as discern these Bible truths ,

n r 13 the whole Mormo autho ity proven a delusion . Most r of this authority or keys came f om the dead , who know

. . h 6 1 0 . nothing Eccl , Peter , James , Jo n , and B John the aptist , a headless man ; Adam and the I a o s . patriarchs , who died , and are now ign rant ; 1 1 : a and have not yet received the promises ; Hebr . 39 ; p ear ed o p to Joseph Smith , and gave him his most imp rtant

. 6 1 2 . . C 6 keys D . , pp . , Neither can Mormons claim that these worthies have h ad h e h as a resurrection in t past , for that heresy been ’ 2 already condemned by Paul . Tim . No , Smith s keys to the M el ch izade k and Aaronic priesthood all cam e ’ o ! from sp oks , or dead men s ghosts But Brigham

o ff Young either stopped this kingdom of God , or ran a ! “ with all the keys to Ut h A marvellous thing , and a wonder , sure ; brought about by God talking to Smith th ru his hat !

As m to the Aaronic priesthood , probably S ith never “

1 2 1 8 . read , Hebr . , ; etc ; For the priesthood

being changed , there is made of necessity a change also

of the law . For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and

u n p r o fitabl en es s thereof . “ s a eth In that he y a new covenant , he hath

made the first old . Now that which decayeth and waxeth ” w old is ready to vanish a ay . The Aaronic priesthood has long ago finished its im

perfect , typical work , and has been superceded by the

— higher priesthood of Christ the M el ch izadek priesthood .

Th e two cannot exist contemporaneously . Hebr .

R C HAPTE XIII .

M RM N— R EF TL NE TH I S R MA N CE B OOK OF O O B I OU I OF O .

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The Book of Mormon , according to Smith s testimony ,

i s a m r e translation fro golden plates , engraven with

formed Egyptian characters , that Smith first learned

b . 2 1 1 82 . 22 a out from an angel , on Sept , 3, and on Sept , 1 82 7, the angel is said to have delivered these plates to

Smith for translation , which translation was finished and

1 8 0 . published , and the Mormon church organized in 3 The plates are said to have been hidden in the hill O Cumorah , in ntario County , New York , by Moroni , son

20 . D . of the Nephite prophet Mormon , about 4 A , where

22 1 82 they remained till Sept . , 3, when an angel showed

them to Jos . Smith , Jr . They are said to have con tai n ed an abridged account of the history o f the La man

ites ( Indians ) and of the Nephites , who were destroyed a bout 40 0 A . D . The plates also contained the gospel

and prophecies of this people . 3 c o The re ord purporting to c me from the plates , as

o found in the Bo k of Mormon , also tells of a people

ar edi tes w h o called J , came from the land of Nimrod ,

C. 220 0 . after the confusion of tongues , about B , who

built barges and brought animals , seeds , etc . , to this con i t n en t . ar edites These J , like the Kilkenny cats , about 60 0 an d B . C . fought until they destroyed one another ,

. the prophet Ether alone was left , and he had no posterity

- - 1 2 R . . . 8 See B M Ether, par . 7 , and 9 ( pages 53 3 eorg B O K O F M M N— B R IE F O UTLINE O OR O . 75

The j ourney of the Jar edites is supposed to have been from the tower of Babel , northward to the valley of N m o . F r i rod , in Babyl nia rom there no di ection is men tio n ed h an d o f the , only that they were guided by the o t Lord , cr ssed many waters ( supposed to be waters nor h “ ” o f a the Mediterrane n Sea , as the Great Sea is men

n s ea r tio ed ) . On the shores of this they dwelt for fou ” b years , built arges , and caught fish , birds and animals , “ a which they put into eight small barges , the length of ” “ ” Mo r ian cum er tree , and sailed from ( supposed to have “ ” n been Spain ) , and in 344 days landed upon the easter

220 0 . C. coast of Central America , about B , as above

60 B . stated . They destroyed one another about 0 . C

- M . 0 2 . B . See . , pp 5 533 This expedition is supposed to account for the ruins and other archaeological evidences of an ancient civiliza tion found upon this continent . The book also tells of a second colony that came from Jerusalem shortly after the destruction of the Jar edites 60 0 . R ( about B who first came south to the ed Sea , and then traveled southeast in the wilderness of Arabia , R bordering on the ed Sea , till they came to where a river R emptied into the ed Sea , which they called the River

Laman , after one of their brethren . They still traveled

h r sout east , in the bo ders of the Red Sea , and then nearly O e eastward . This would land them in man , in astern

. H Arabia ere they dwelt eight years , and then con “ s et th e structed a ship , in which they sail toward prom ” ised land . The account is vague indeed , but Mormons s uppose that they sailed away across the Pacific Ocean ,

a past Australi , and landed on the western shore of South 6 1 M . 2 America . ( See B . . , pp , 3, 33, 3 , 4 and This people called N ephites and Lamanites are s aid to T E M M AT 76 H OR ON W ERLO O .

' n s o n o f o s e h have been descendants of Ma asseh , J p , who t M . 2 1 hi es . . . . e was sold into Egypt B , p 3 The N p are M said to have all been destroyed by the Lamanites . B . . ,

0 0 . . p 494 , about 4 A D The Lamanites are made the

n te 26. a ces r s . . 0 of our American Indians pp 3 , 5 H ER C APT XIV .

TH E WI TN ESSES TH E P LATES E xAM I N ED OF .

n in the The testimony of the three witnesses , as give o i s first part of the B ok of Mormon , as follows “ an d Be it known unto all nations , kindreds , tongues t people , unto whom this work shall come , hat we , thru r a s the g ce of God the Father , and our Lord Jesus Chri t , have seen the plates which contain this record , which is a e hi record of the people of N p , and also of the Lamanites , their brethren , and also of the people of Jared , who came from the “ tower of which hath been spoken ; and we also know that they have been translated by the gift and power of God , for his voice hath declared it unto us ; wherefore we know of a surety , that the work is true . And we also testify that we have seen the engravings which are upon the plates ; and they have been shown

o . unt us by the power of God , and not of man And we declare with words of soberness , that an angel of God came down from heaven , and he brought and laid before

sa w en our eyes , that we beheld and the plates , and the gravings thereon ; and we know that it is by the grace of F God , the ather and the Lord Jesus Christ , that we beheld and bare record that these things are true ; and it is

1n marvelous our eyes , nevertheless , the voice of the Lord commanded us that we bare record of it ; wherefore to be o bdi en t c unto the ommandments of God , we bear testi mony of these things . And we know that if we are faith

w e d ful in Christ , shall rid our garments of the bloo of all be e o f men , and found spotless before the j udgment s at

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h i m in . Christ , and shall dwell with eternally the heaven s

And the honor be to the Father, and to the Son , and to

H i s the oly Ghost , which one God . Amen . OL VER WDER I CO Y, DAV D WH TM ER I I , M R ARTI N HA RIS . e w Th n follows the testimony of eight itnesses , which is S 1m 1l ar i s t , only that Smith said to have shown hem the

plates and engravings instead of an angel . Four of these f witnesses are Whitmers . Three are of the Smith am

— — i ily all interested parties and one s Hiram Page . When it is remembered that no revelations were to be

received by the church , only those given thru Joseph

. C. . 1 0 Smith , while he lived and proved faithful ( D , p 7 ,

or Sec . 43) and that none of these witnesses could read

s ee s ee what was on the plates , if they did them , we that

C. 2 2 6 . their testimony is worthless . D . , pp . 4, 5 and 3

o w They testify to what they did not , and could not , kn when they testify that they had seen the plates which con

i n ta ed the record of the Nephites and Lamanites . To kn ow this they must have been able to read what w as on s the plates , and to have watched these plate during the

s ee m whole translation by Smith , to that he used the ; or else they must have compared them accurately with the

Book of Mormon after it was printed , to know that the n ot do two were identical . This they did not and could ,

1s hence , their testimony here null and void . As to their testimony that an angel of God came down

° . fir s t from heaven and showed them the plates , etc , , they could not know that the angel came from heaven unless they had been there when the angel left . But if the angel

i s simply came from the atmospherical heaven , this the

an d location of Tartarus ( according to the best scholars ) , “

of the fallen angels , and of the prince of the power of the T F H P A T S XA M D WI NES S O T E L E E INE . 79

. 2 6 2 . air Read Eph . Peter Jude : Cor and Matt .

When they testify that this angel was an angel of God ,

w they testify to what they did not kno . The Boo k of c ’ Mormon , given by this angel , tea hes the devil s lie , and

M . an endless and horrible hell ( B . . , p and other

1 . . doctrines of devils . Tim Rev Paul warns us against believing even an angel from heaven that brings a perverted gospel , plainly implying that an angel

s s . might ometime do o Gal . So this testimony is

i s n null and void , till the Book of Mormon wholly reco ciled with Bible teachings , which never can be done . On the following important points let us examine and cross - quest ion the witnesses : ? 0 1 . When was this angelic visit N answer here . ? 2 . Where did it take place No answer .

3. Did the angel appear to you all three at the same ? time N 0 answer here .

4 . Were you in heaven when the angel left there to ? 0 know that he came from there N answer . Ho w do 5. you know whether it was an angel of God , or Satan transformed into an angel of light , or one of the ’ ? devil s angels No answer . ? 6 . w as Could you read what on the plates Answer ,

No . Only Joseph the prophet could read and translate

m . C. s ee . . 2 2 s ec. 2 ar . the ( Proof D , 9 , or pp 4, 5, and 7 , p

2 . , or p h 7 . Then how could you testify that you knew that t e plates contained a record of the Nephites , Lamanites , and Jar edites ? And how could you tes tifv that the Book of Mormon is a true translation from these plates ? As you

w testify here to hat is false , as you did not know whereof f o r you a firm , and could not kn w it , you testimony is null

‘ “ n d a d . o Go void Also y ur testimony to the voice of , 80 H M M WAT T E OR ON ERLOO .

‘ the g race of God , etc . , has no weight with Gentiles , and u it yo r whole testimony must be thrown out of court , as O is too disconnected , indefinite and bviously false to stand n before any intelligent and u biased civil court . We will now examine the witnesses as to their r el i abil ity , truthfulness and reputation for veracity and honesty . Already in Chapter I II we have given extracts from the testimony of 64 neighbors of the Smith family ( and the o f book qu ted from gives 75 names ) , who a firm that the ‘ S m ith s w er e intemperate , profane , untruthful , destitute of moral character , and not to be believed under oath , etc .

- 8 1 1 . Mormonism Exposed , pp . 3 3 4

O 1 80 . O As to liver Cowdery , he was born in 5 rdained to the Mel ch i zadek priesthood by John the Baptist and

D 2 s 26 8 . . 6 ee 1 0 C. . . Peter , James and John , 3 ( , p , or , .

1 8 8 . par . Fell away from the church in 3 Was tried 1 8 . 8 and expelled for cause In 4 returned to the church , “ 1 8 0 j oining the Utah body . Died in 5 ( according to ’ Beadle s Histo ry ) a miserable drunkard .

David Whitmer w as born 1 80 5. He was dissatisfied 1 8 8 and negligent and expelled from the church in 3 , and

as never reunited with it . It w rumored that he had b ut denied his testimony , he publicly denied this in the

R 2 1 88 1 . ichmond Conservator , March 5,

w as 1 8 . Martin Harris , the other witness , born in 7 3 H e furnished the money for the publishing of the Book

' of Mormon . He went west with the Utah Saints in

1 8 . 1 870 . But he died apart from the church in 75 That Harris was avaricious and unreliable is proven by

. s everal witnesses . But we will j ust mention two

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8 o . O . , n pp 39 , 399 of Mormonism Exp sed by Wm

, Kirby , we have a testimony from Abagail Harris wife ’ w as of Martin Harris brother , that she both an eye and i n ear witness to this statement , made her house , when

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b thru Jos . Smith , this chief witness to seeingthe plates y m an an angel was a wicked , a servant of Satan , and a o liar , who had broken the m st sacred promises before God ,

h i s etc . Certainly , then , testimony to seeing the plates an d the angel i s weighty ! R CHAPTE XV .

TH E LATES N EVER LARL SEEN R SED P OCU Y O U .

8 O . fir s n p 3 9 of Mormonism Exposed we have , t , f from Peter Ingersoll , an a firmation in reference to the bo alleged ok of plates , that Smith had told him that he had no such book , and that he believed there never was such a b o ok .

o . 1 h Als on p 39 , Willard Chase testifies t at Smith had told one of his neighbors that he had no such book, but had told the story to deceive the d— d fool ( meaning

Chase ) , to get him to make him a chest .

Next , that Smith never used the plates if he had them ,

e we quote from his wife , Emma Smith , as testified b fore one of he r sons , and an Elder Kelly , of the R . C . ( See “ ” to F . rom Palmyra Independence , p “ Your father s at with his face l n h is hat and the stone in it , dictating hour after hour . He had neither manu script nor book to read from . The plates lay on the table , wrappe d in a linen tablecloth . I had o nce felt them .

They seemed pliable , and rustled with a metallic sound .

Without either seeing the manuscript , or having any por to tion of it read him , he would begin after meals where ” he left o ff and dictate to me hour after hour .

This testimony proves that Smith n ever ' us ed what pur w m ported to be plates , rapped in the tablecloth , or E ma would h aves een them when Smith was transferring them to his hat . There was nothing used but the stone and H the hat . er testimony that there were plates in the

i s h e tablecloth has no weight , s nce had never seen them , TH E M M WA T 84 OR ON ERLO O .

l i only claiming to have felt them thru t e tablecloth . H ence , if Smith had anything on plates he never used the plates , but got the whole book out of the stone in his hat . H ’ o . Hence ar se the expression , e s talking thru his hat s aw o That the witnesses never these plates , in an cular ’ o o sense , we will pr ceed to prove from Smith s purp rted revelations , at the time of writing the Book of Mormon .

- - D . 1 ee 2 C . s . We learn from . , pp 5 4 , or 5, that about 1 1 6 the time that Mrs . Harris stole the pages of matter , written by Harris for Smith , that Harris must have ’ threatened Smith s life if he would not show him the “ h as plates ( yea , even the man in whom you have trusted ” sought to destroy you , and now Smith gets another 1 82 revelation , March , 9 , from which we copy a few ex

- . 1 1 8 . C. tracts . See D . , pp 4 “ o Behold , I say unt you , that as my servant , Martin

Harris , has desired a witness at my hand , that you , my

' w h ich o u servant Joseph have got the plates , of y have testified and borne witness that you have received of me ; an d you ( Joseph Smith ) have a gift to translate

the plates , and I have commanded you that you should pr eten d to no other gift until my purpose is fulfilled in

‘ this ; for I will grant unto you no other gift until it is

finished . “ Verily I say unto you , that woe shall come unto the inhabitants of the earth i f they will n o t hearken unto my

words ( thru Smith ) for hereafter you shall be ordained , and go forth,an d del ive r my w ords unto the children of

. o men Behold , if they will not believe my w rds ( thru

o Smith ) , they would not believe you , my servant J seph , if it were po ssible that you could show them all these

things which I have committed unto you ( the plates ) . n n And I , the Lord , comma d him , my serva t , Mar H s a tin arris , that he shall y no more unto them concern P A T S N V O A N S D 8 L E E ER CUL RL Y S EE OR U E . 5

s a ing these things , except he shall y , I have seen them , and they have been shown unto me by the power of God

( s ee w identical words in testimony of three itnesses ) , and these are the words he shall say ; but if he deny this he will break the covenant which he has before covenanted

i s with me ( probably thru Smith ) , and behold he con d n ed n o w em . And , except he humble himself , and acknowledge unto me the things that he h as done that are

o wr ng, and covenant with me that he will keep my com m an dm e n ts ( as given thru Smith ) , and exercise faith in me ( without sight ) , behold I say unto him , he shall have no such Views ( of the plates ) for I will grant unto him

o no Views of the things of which I have sp ken . And if

a this be the case , I command you , my servant Joseph , th t

s a n o r you shall y unto him , that he shall do no more , ” trouble me any more concerning this matter . ( Hence lose the money he had invested in the book , doubtless . ) How plain a cas e of bulldozing 13 this s o - called revela tion ! The strongest testimony that Harris i s to rece ive is the alleged word of God thru Smith that he has plates .

I f Harris will not believe this , before seeing any plates , he

o a w uld not believe if he s w them . He must exercise faith in the words of God thru Smith , or he never shall s ee the plates , and do no more in the matter , nor trouble

s a Smith any more . He must y no more about wanting

s ee h as to plates , only that he seen them , and if he will not keep this command— to s ay that he has seen them be

e — h e h as for seeing them broken a previous covenant , and ! never shall have any such views So Harris , rather than m lose the oney invested in the book , testified that he had seen them , for we have already proven him avaricious ,

a . r e wicked , servant of Satan and a liar Yet it did not quire m uch searing of the conscience to s ay : I have 86 H M M WA T T E OR ON ERLOO . seen them by the power of God after th e ' fo l l o w i n g ex planati o n to Cowdery Cowdery had als o desired to s ee the plates from which he had written s o much for Smith without having seen m s o the , as usual Smith gets a revelation for Cowdery .

C. . 2 2 2 o r s ee . 8 . See D . , pp 3, 4, 5, and 9 “ O s a o liver Cowdery , verily , verily , I y unt you , that assuredly as the Lord liveth— even s o sure shall you r e cei ve a knowledge of whatsoever things you shall ask in o r e faith , with an h nest heart , believing that you shall ceive a knowledge concerning the engraving of old

w records ( on the plates ) , hich are ancient , which con tain those parts of my scripture of which have been spoken , by the manifestation of my spirit ; yea , behold , I will tell you in your mind and in your heart by the Holy h G ost , which shall come upon you , and shall dwell in ” your heart . “ Behold this is the spirit o f revelation , etc . , and , e therefore , whatso ver you shall ask me to tell you ( about plates , by that means ( in your mind and heart by the Holy Ghost ) , that will I grant unto you , and you shall have knowledge concerning it ; remember that with o ut ’ faith ( in God s words thru Smith ) you can do nothing . k as . do Therefore , in faith Trifle not with these things ; not ask fo r that which you ought not ( rem ember Cowdery had been asking to s ee with his eyes the plates ) as k that Go d you may know the mysteries of , and that you may

o w translate , and receive kn ledge from all those ancient reco rds— and according to your faith shall it be done unto you All this shows that Cowdery never s aw the plates o s aw cularly , or with any o f the five senses , but simply them in his mind and heart by the Holy Ghost and faith . “ ” So it w as doubtless by this means that Harris could ' S D 8 P LA TES NE VER O CULA RL Y S EEN OR U E . 7 also testify that he had seen the plates with the eyes of

hi s his mind , while natural eyes never beheld them ; and personally , I am inclined to the belief that evil spirits had s m u o ething to do with del ding all of these men , that a o strong delusion might come to the w rld , thru a dark

— r o . o m behind a blanket , and a dark hat smile who will

s ee But we , from the above , that Cowdery had a promise to translate , i f he asked God in faith . It seems ,

o s o fr m the revelations , that he honestly did , but God

v w s o ga e him no ords , so he failed ; Smith gets another ’ revelation for Cowdery , which reveals Smith s own

° tr l a i n 2 f an s t . 0 o : . C. method nicely , as follows ( D , pp 4 ,

s e 25 or e .

o u o . s u Behold , y have not underst od You have p

o it n o p sed that I would give unto you , when you took

s a o thought , save it were to ask me ; but , behold , I y unt you , that you must study it out in your mind ; then you

as k an d must me if it be right , if it is right , I will cause t that your bosom shall burn within you ; herefore , you s hall feel that it is right ; but if it be not right , you shall o have no such feelings , but you shall have a stupor of th t that shall cause you to forget the thing which i s wrong ;

i s therefore , you cannot write that which sacred save it be given you from me . “ No w o w , i f you had kn n this ( like Smith did ) you could have translated ; nevertheless it is not expedient that ” “ 2 you should translate now , etc . Par . , Behold , the work which you are called to do is to write for my servant ” Joseph .

So Smith here reveals his own way of translating , “ wh ch that no plates were used , for he studied it i “shows out in his mind , j ust as every novelist and romancer do es . As to the burning in the bosom and stupor of t hot , these come naturally , at times , to every writer THE M M AT R O 88 OR ON W E LO . in proportion to h i s interest or lack of interest in his

m . O n o t the e r , if miraculous , why should God inspire

Cowdery right at first , and thus save waste of time , and the necessity of a miracle ? Who cannot see thru the scheming and fraud of these purported revelations ? Noth

w ing is given to satisfy the natural senses of the itnesses . Everything is to be seen in their mind and heart by the Holy Ghost ! Hundreds of religious fanatics are to -day su ff ering under similar delusions which they attribute to “ the Holy Ghost . To the law , and to the testimony , if

n o they speak not according to this , it is because there is ” I s a light in them . .

2 ee . 1 C. O . s . n pp 3 , 33, or 5, D , we have a revelation to

o s ee C wdery , Harris and Whitmer , that they shall all

— the plates only by faith hence not ocularly . To save space we will omit more comments on the plates and wit

as nesses , the reader by seeing the gist of the matter here can form hi s own conclusions and add his own com

ments . In reference to a stone and manuscript found recently

. o a near Dongola , Ill , by Marshall Penr d , we give few extracts from a correspondence between Mr . Penrod and 1 0 1 A . J . Eychaner , of Gladbrook , Iowa , 9 . The ques as tions by Eld . Eychaner were answered by Mr . Penrod follow s ° Wh ere and by whom found ?

B No v 2 1 0 0 . Ans . y Marshall Penrod , . 3, 9 What was the size of the stone ?

Ans . Length , 35 inches . Width , 3 inches . Thick n 1 at ess , 5 inches center , but thinner toward the edges ,

with a hole in one end plugged up by a cedar plug . ? Was there any writing on the outside of the stone

w Of Ans . The riting on the outside the stone was cut

into the stone , and filled with gold , in English letters

0 THE M M A T 9 OR ON W ERLO O .

’ o ’ bors of Smith s , that Joe Smith t ld many false and con

fl icti n g stories about those plates , none of which can be dep ended upon . B As to the origin of the ook of Mormon , our opinion is that it originated with Smith , assisted by Cowdery , and “ s educ1n s 1r 1ts probably the inspiration of fallen angels , g p ” and doctrines of devils , whom Paul warned us might

t 1 . . . :8 bring us a perver ed gospel Gal , 9

The theory o f the Spaulding manuscript is well known , an d would require to o much space here ; and as it would o n ly account for a portion of the h istorical part of the

w Book of Mormon any ay , we omit it , although we think ro m it p bable that Smith got ideas fro it . H R C APTE XVI .

TH E RN E T H E ARE DI TE S T A M ER CA JOU Y OF J o I .

We will n o w notice some features of the Jar edite ex

n p editi o already referred to in Chapter XII I . This rec

- d o . 0 0 r . . o is found in the Bo k of Ether , pp 5 533 B M

22 0 . Abo ut 0 B C . it is supposed they came from Baby lonia to the western coast of Spain , from whence they were driven by the wind , in barges they had constructed , to the eastern coast of Central America . This would be a distance of about miles . The record says that 1 the e were eight barges , small and light , about the length of a tree . I f measured by the trees of Spain they would n o t be very large . Yet what was brot to America in the s e barges is supposed by Mormons to account for

o ! th e whole fl ra and fauna of America It says ( p . 50 2 ) that Jared and his brother “ did gathe r together ” their

flocks , both male and female , of every kind , and also seed o f the earth of every kind and the families of ’ Jared s brother ( hence he was a polygamist ) , and the friends o f Jared and their families ; and they did lay snares and catch fowl of the air , and they did prepare a vessel in which they did carry with them the fish of the id w waters ; and they d carry with them deseret , hich by interpretation is honey bee ; and they did carry with them

swarms of bees , and all manner of that which was upon ” the face of the land , seeds of every kind .

A fter being in America for some time , it says ( p . “ that they had all manner of cattle , of oxen , an d cows , and o f sheep , and of swine , and o f goats , and also many other

9 1 2 THE M M WAT 9 OR ON ERLOO . manner of animals which were use ful fo f the foo d of

man ; and they also had horses , and asses , and there were

cu r el o m s n n zen s elephants , and , and c ; all of which were

cu r el o m s useful unto man , and more especially the and ”

ea m o n s .

In my discussion with Eld . Wight , he suggested that the cu r el o m s and cum o n s might have been those pre

o historic monsters , like the mastod n , etc . We could not help w ondering o f what especial use they could be to

m an , and how many pairs of them could get into a small , t 0 ! . . . light barge , about the leng h o f a tree P 5 4 B M

1 On p . 5 0 we learn that Jared and his brother did pre

o pare food for the flocks , herds and every beast they to k

unto them . This would also occupy considerable room

in the barges , as they were 344 days or almost a year ,

upon the ocean , before reaching the promised land . P . 1 3 0 B . M . As a result o f this deportation of animals from Eu

r e o n 60 0 op , when the Nephites landed America , about “

B . C. , they found upon this continent , beasts of the

o forest of every kind , b th the cow and the ox , and the

as s an d , the horse , and the goat , and the wild goat , and

al l manner of wild animals , which were for the use of ”

m n . . . a . . P 43, par 45, B M s The barges that brot over all these animals , seed ,

o . pr visions , etc , were so constructed that some of the Jar edites w o uld have to stay with the anim als i n each

. 6 . . h . 0 barge to supply air to t em . ( See p 5 4 , par , B M ) ‘ o And th e Lo rd said unto the brother of Jared , Beh ld ,

th o u shalt m ake a hole in the top thereof , and a hole in the bottom thereof ( of the barges ) and when thou sh alt r e suff er for air , thou shalt unstop the hole thereof and

i w , ce ve air . And i f so be that the ater come in upon thee F H I ARE DI TE S AM A JO URNE Y O T E TO ERIC . 93

n o t behold , ye shall stop the hole thereof , that ye perish ’ in the flood .

Notice that no plug is mentioned . Simply a hole to be ’ ik . l e th e unstopped , and stopped up Maybe old Jared ,

hi s fi hero of Harlem , stopped it with nger or stood with o hi s his f ot on the hole in the bottom , and head against ! the hole in the top But however it was done , it was lucky for th e cur el o m s and cum o n s that the Lord told the brother of Jare d to stop up the hole when the water began r a e to pour into the barge , or he surely would neve h v guessed as to what to do about it ! be The barges could not have windows , or they would

dashed to pieces . So the Lord touched eight small r dit s o a e es . s stones , they gave light to the J The barge “ sea w e were to be like a whale in the midst of the , hil ”

0 . mountain waves dashed upon them . P . 5 4 “ And it came to pass that they were many tim es buried

s ea s in the depths of the , because of the mountain wave that did break upon them , and also the great and terri ble tempests which were caused by the fier cen es s of the wind . And it came to pass that when they were buried in the deep , no water could hurt them , their vessel being tight like a dish— o n both top and bottom— and the wind did never cease to blow them toward the promised lan d . 1 P . 5 0 .

w e There is no parallel bet een these barges , diving lik ’ a whale , and Noah s ark , which quietly arose and floated upon the water , with no particular destination . Neither is there any force or truth in the shallow argu he ments of some Mormons , that if Smith wrote this , wonderfully prophesied of our modern submarine boats . t - What parallel is there between hese dish like barges ,

without machinery to propel themselves , and completely at the f n mercy o the wind and waves , and our great moder M ORM ATE RL 94 THE ON W OO. O s ubmarine boats that dive and propel themselves by n icely adj usted and complex machinery ? r a o n a We must pronounce it a clumsy om nce , par w h it Mother Goose , or Jack and the Bean Stalk , when ar edites we think of J , horses , elephants , mastodons , “ ” w a o f s rms bees , and asses , all in light barges , diving s ea under the , and rolling and dashing during tempests , o for ab ut a year , while being driven by the wind toward “ ! the promised land , a distance of about miles Nor doe s it help the matter to s ay that the Lord pro tected the beasts fro m rolling over one another in this driving and dashing . The Lord does not take the most ffi di cult and absurd way possible to do anything, and then work a miracle to save his creatures , when no miracle is necessary . ar edites But after all this trouble , the J divided into hi . S z r i 60 0 . C Co an tum r two factions , about B , led by and . who gathered together , men , women and children , and

fought for many days , sleeping on their swords at night , in and ris g each morning to resume the slaughter , until

o n e the two leaders alone were le ft , and they destroyed a nother . The prophet Ether alone was left on this des o

a e n o r . l t continent , and he had poste ity R CHAPTE XVI I .

K T Z L Y TH E BOO OF MORMO N OPPOSED o OO OG .

The book of Mormon i s proven to be a false record

a o from the st ndpoint of zo logy , because it pretends to account for the animals of America from the theo ry that ar dites they were brot here from Europe by the J e . But in order for this to be true the animals of Am erica

s must be the same a those of the Old World . We read M on p . 43, B . . , that when the Nephites came here they “ found all manner of w ild animals which were for the ” us e of man . We wonder if they found the kangaroo and other animals peculiar to Australia here ? O r are they of no use to man ?

e . a Below we quot from the Inter Encycl . on the faun of America as follows : “ ° The llama and alpaca are peculiar to South Ame rica .

The chinchilla is peculiar to Chili , and the bison to North

m e . A rica The American possums , with a pouch for their y oung , were obj ects of great curiosity to the first Euro ”

ar di . . e tes peans who visited America ( The J , I suppose ) The m o nkeys of America are altogether different from those of Asia or the rest of the world . There are no ape s in the eastern world resembling the chimpanzee or bab boons o f America , and long and prehensile tails O are never found on monkeys of the ld World . American monkeys have no cheek pouches like those of

O . ve the ld World In the animal kingdom , as in the g etable , all seemed new to Europeans . The common hive bees were unknown in America until introd uced here T E M M W T 96 H OR ON A ERLOO .

. a r edites fro m Europe . ( And yet the J had brought

w 220 0 . s arms of honey bees here B . C “ There are numerous birds in America found in no other part of the earth ; as the humming bird , toucan , etc . , etc .

Rattlesnakes , glass snakes , bullfrogs and alligators are entirely peculiar to America . And yet the Book of Mormon would account for ani mals , fowls , and even fish of America , as all coming here ! from Europe in eight barges , the length of a tree In reference to the numerous animals and plants of

Europe , not found in America , we refer the reader to any encyclope dia . Hence the Book or Mormon is false from the stand o point of z ology , for it is certain that the bison was never brot here from Europe , nor many other ani

n t mals peculiar to this co n ti efi .

M AT 98 TH E M OR ON W ERLOO . ter Raleigh first introduced tobacco into Engl and from

America . Hence these did not come from Europe nor

as o . Asia , the Bo k of Mormon teaches There fore , it is

as o o a o . a false record, pr ven fr m b tanical standpoint CHAPTER XIX .

K TH E BOO OF M ORMO N NOT SUSTAI N ED B Y ARC HAEOLOGY.

The Book of Mormon and L . D . S . try to account for

a n d c1v1l izatio n the ruins , other evidences of an ancient ar found on the American continent , from this colony of J

o 220 0 . C. edite s who came here in those barges , ab ut B , an d 0 who all perished about 7 0 to 60 0 B . C . But we will proceed to show that these ruins can all be accounted fo r from a people who were still alive on this co ntinent when it w as discovered by Colum bus in 1 2 49 A . D . “ In 1 Lost Atlantis , by Donnelly , on pp . 349, 35 and

354, we have the following from other historians and anti q uar i an s :

: To l ti cs Desire Charney says The were farmers , raised fruits , grains , and wove cotton . Their religion

— an n was s imple . They made use of the T much ( ancie t S ign of the cross . They were fair , robust and

o . bearded , and s me had blue eyes “ The Aztecs ( who were still here in 1 492 ) had pro r es s ed : g thru three modes of writing picture , symbolic and phonetic . They had recorded laws , political annals , o n mythology , chronology and astronomy . They wrote cotton , skins , cloth , and a composition of silk and gum , an d they also made a species of paper , soft and beautiful , m fro aloe . o e They wrote p try , cultivated oratory and rhetoric and had theatrical performances . Prescott is quoted in the same w ork 10 0 OR M ON T THE M WA ERLO O .

That they ( the Aztecs ) should be capable of accu r atel y adj usting their festivals by movements of the beav

en l o y b dies , and fix the true length of the tropical year with a precision unknown to the great philosophers of

antiquity , could be the result only of a long series of nice

O and patient bservations , evincing no slight progress in

civilization . “

They had bridges , forts , temples , palaces , and gigan

tic pyramids , all ornamented with wonde rful statuary , as m ” h the ruins in Central A erica still testify . ( These are t e

ar edites ruins that Mormons attribute to the J , who utterly ~

perished B . C . “ s ee At Palenque , Central America , we in the ruins of

their ancient buildings , arches resembling those of ancient ” Greece . “ Mexico under European rule has never again risen t to he r former standard of refinement , wealth , prosperi y

or civilization . “ Here ( in Mexico and Central Am erica ) w e find in .

an d i l as s w ar e the ruins beautiful vases , and sculpture , g ,

an d an d : and porcelain , bronze , and gold , and silver ,

copper , and tin ; and metallic candlesticks , and masonry , and bricks , and cement like that of ancient European na ” o ti ns .

d an d M r . Donnelly a ds that Central America Mexico ,

hi h er de r ee in the time of Columbus , enj oyed a g g of

civilization than did Europe . Where then is the Mormon romance that would account for these ruins from a race that became extinct 60 0 ? B . C. Mormons talk of nothing having been written on m ’ American archaeology , in English , previous to S ith s

— time 1 830 . But all could read of the arts and civiliza tion of the Toltecs and Aztecs a century before Smith ’s

R CHAPTE XX .

TH E BOO K OF MORMON OPPOSED TO ETH NOLOGY .

The Boo k of Mormon teaches that the Indians of America have all descended from one race of people the second colony that came over to America from Jeru 60 0 salem , about B . C . These descended from one Lehi ,

s o n who was a descendant of Manasseh , the of Joseph , M 2 1 . who came out of Egypt . B . . , p . 3

After being in America some time , they divided into two nations , called Nephites and Lamanites , named after

60 0 . two sons of Lehi , who came over to America B . C

‘ B w er e al l ut as before stated , the Nephites destroyed by

the the Lamanites , and the Lamanites became ancestors

Am r ican t h e of our , Indians . I f this is true Indians

a . should be much alike in color , features , langu ge , etc , and m u o n st sh w a Israelitish origin . In color they must be alike , for the Book of Mormon teaches not only that the be Lamanites were cursed with a skin of blackness , and came a dark and loathsome people , but also that all who mixed with them should receive the same curse— a black M . . 6 1 skin B . , pp . 5, 49 . But let us see ”

. o . 1 : n Mr D nnelly says , in Lo st Atlantis , p 97 Whe science is able to disabuse its mind of the M o r to n ian theory , that the aborigines of America are all red men , and all belong to one race ( as the B . M . teaches ) , we may hope that the confluence upon the continent of f ff widely di fering races , from di erent countries , may come e to be recognized and intelligently studied . Th re can be

1 0 2 B K OF M M P P S D To THNO G O O OR ON O O E E LO Y . 10 3 n o doubt that red , white , black and yellow men have un ited to form the original population of America . “ r R H . . P ichard in his esearches in Phys ist , of Man ”

I . 2 . . 6 1 8 1 . : kind , Vol , p 9 , pub , 4 , says “ It is easy to show that the American races show nearly as gr eat a variety in this respect as the nations of the

O . ld World There are among them many white races ,

with a florid complexion ; and also tribes that are black , or

o f . an a very dark hue Their stature , figure d countenance ” is almost equally diversified .

. . 1 8 John T Short , in North America of Antiquity , p 9 , “ : says The Menominees , sometimes called white Indians , formerly occupied the region bordering on Lake Mich

o e . w igan , ar und Gre n Bay Their hiteness early attracted

the Jesuit missionaries , and was often commented upon ” by travelers . l 1 0 . E x l . o . R R . . o r . . . Se e foot note , p 7 , V II I , U S p R — oute Union Pacific . “ Many o f the Indian s of the Zuni ( New Mexico ) are

white . They have a fair skin , blue eyes , chestnut or

- auburn hair , and are quite good looking . They claim to

- be full blooded Zunians , and have no tradition of inter i ” marriage with the whites o any foreign race . “ ”

I . . Catlin , in Indians of North America , Vol . , p 95, “ says : A stranger in a Mandin village i s first struck with the di fferent shades of complexion and var 1o us colors at of hair which he sees in the crowd about him , and is , ‘ ’ once disposed to exclaim , These are not Indians . “ There are a great many of these people whose co m ' as l i ht - a r plexion is g as half breeds , and among women p

i l ar l t cu y there are many whose skins are almost white , w ith most pleasing symmetry and proportion of features ,

e s w ith hazel , gray and blu eyes , and a mildness of expre 1 0 THE M RM WA 4 O ON TERLOO . sion of modesty of demeanor which r en defed them ex ” ceedin gl y beautiful and pleasing .

“ ‘

. . 1 : Dr Goodrich , in Universal Traveler , p 54 , says

The modern Peruvians , in the warmer regions of Peru , are as fair as the people of the south of Europe .

’ F a h is erdin nd Columbus , in describing father s voyages , describes the inhabitants of San Domingo as fair and beautiful .

' R e th e Mo rm o n t h o f - eader , wher then goes eory the

Indians having all sprung from Lehi , who was of Israel itish n origi , and later from the descendants of his son

' a n w o s ter it w er e al l h S in L ma , hose p y cursed wit a k of o e e blackness , that was to foll w th m in all future g nera ? n tions The i telligent reader can j udge .

We also claim that there is n o thing in B . M . to show that any of the posterity of Ephraim ( the brother of

A et Manasseh , son of Joseph ) ever came over. to merica , y to Mormons apply the blessing of Ephraim these Indians , “ ” and call the B o ok of Mormon the stick of Ephraim !

“ ” ‘ The multitude of nations of Gen . was to come a s h . We from Ephraim , not Manas e have ch llenged Mor ~ r mons , and they have neve met it , to prove from the

“ B ‘ ‘ ’ . M . that Ephraim s posterity ever come to this conti ’ to w m s o - nent , or sho from any of S ith s called inspired w orks a plain sta tem ent t hat either an Indian o ri Smith

himself had come from Eph raim . Hence , if their book

. k n . is a stic at all , it is the stick of Ma asseh See Ezek

- 2 n . . 3, applied by Mormons to the j oini g of B M

“ 1 M . . 2 . to our New Testament . Also see B . , p 3 We will

treat these prophecies under their own head later . e 5 That Smith con s idere d himself a gentil , see Morom

M . statement , on page 3 of B . , where it speaks of the ab ridged record of the Nephites and Lamanites ; written

H ER C APT XXI .

THE RNE TH E NE H I TES JOU Y OF P .

a The trip of the Nephites to America in ship , about

60 0 . C. i s o B , , if possible , more prep sterous than that of

ar edites 220 0 the J B . C .

M . 2 1 Lehi , a descendant of Manasseh , B . , p . 3 , had dwelt at Jerusalem ; but because of the destruction of the

city by Nebuchadnezzar being at hand , the Lord com m an ded M . . . 1 2 . him to flee into a wilderness B , pp . ,

So he and his wife and four sons , Laman , Lemuel , Sam

and Nephi , fled into the wilderness . We learn from

M . B . , p . 3, that they first went south of Jerusalem to the

Red Sea . They dwelt on the borders of the Red Sea

R ed S ea for some time, near a river that emptied into the , , w M hich they called the river Laman . B . . , pp . 3, 4 . Here the Lord told Nephi of a choice land he would

e h i bring them to ( America ) . But N p was told that he b must go ack to Jerusalem for some brass plates , or rec M . . . S o ords of the Jews B . , p 5. . Nephi and some of

the r eco r d his brethren went up to Jerusalem for . , and

they got to the walls of Jerusalem by night . The breth

ren hid while Nephi crept toward the house of Laban ,

who had charge of them . Laban was lying on the earth

drunk , and the spirit told Nephi to slay him , which he ’ ’

. did , with Laban s own sword Then Nephi put on Laban s a armor and simulated the voice of Laban , and comm nd

!

ed a servant to give him the plates of brass . The servant ,

thinking it was Laban , his master , did so . Thus he brought the plates , and also Zaram , the servant , to his

- 1 1 . M . . father . B . , pp 7

n w . Thus the story ope s ith murder , deceit and robbery 10 6 H N F H P H T S 10 T E JO UR E Y O T E NE I E . 7

F n R rom this orthern end of the ed Sea , this people we will call Nephites , travele d southeast down along the Red

Sea till they came to a place they called Shazar . From ” — i z . . i v . here they still kept on n the same direction , S E

This would bring them pretty well south in Arabia . From here they travel “nearly eastward ” till they got to a land 6 . O they called Bountiful . P 3 . This would be man , in

. H e eastern Arabia , which borders on the Arabian Sea er

. . 6 . they constructed a ship Pp 3 , 37

After gathering fruit , meat , seeds , honey , etc . , they went down into the ship , with their wives and families , and all the book tells us as to the direction they took is “ that they put forth into the sea , and were driven forth ” “ w 1 before the ind towards the promised land . P . 4 . And

s aCe after we had sailed for the p of many days , we did ” a rrive to the promised land . P . 43.

as C Now , they sailed from the Arabian Sea , they ould “ ” as not have sailed westward toward the promised land , the continent of Africa lay between them and America . ” e So , as they had been traveling eastward , Mormons hav “ r ” concluded that they sailed in this same di ection , across “ ” O th e Pacific cean , to the promised land , and landed on western coast of South America ! This was abou t the longest route they could have taken

- to - o r America . About two thirds around the earth , by sailing vessel from to miles ! Would the Lord have sent a ship miles or more when he could have reached America in miles , from Africa to South America ; or when ships could reach

o America , across Behring Strait , fr m China to Alaska , by sailing about fifty miles ? We will n o w present evidences that the Indians have come from Mongolians , Africans , f o r Polynesians , and a mixed race from lost Atlantis , n e which w e h ave al r eady given some evide c . CHAPTER XXI I

FR W H EN E A E T HE ND AN S OM C C M I I .

’

See Hill s Practical Encycl . Some ethnolo gists teach

that the Indians are a mixture of Mongolian , Polynesian an d “ . Caucasian They have long, straight black hair, scanty beard , receding forehead , and dull , sleepy eyes ;

‘ - full , compressed lips , face broad across the cheeks facial angle 75 degrees , 5 degrees less than the average Euro

‘ pean . Complexion varies from dar k br o w n to almost

— a i s white somewhat reddish tint common . They believe

n in the transmigratio of souls through animals . ( Like

— n the Egyptians E d . ) They have o idea that acts Of this ” n u life have any con ection with fut re happiness . The reader will See that nearly every point in this de scription is opposed to the Indian having an Israelitish a “ origin , as the B . M . te ches . The happy hunting ” ground of the Indians shows the relation of h i s faith to the Elysian fields of Delight of heathen nations .

’ o Next we give s me extracts from Chambers Encycl . on Indians : Professor No r k en s j o l d traced in the Tch uk tch i s I n dians of northeast Siberia traces of the Mongols of Asia , and the Eskimos and American Indians “ The theory that has the balance of repute in its favor is that the American Indians are derived from the M o n

P o l n es e gols and y , who ferried or drifted across Behring ” Strait . O d ur rea ers . will also remember reading in several n in e ewspapers recently , when our soldiers were P king,

R CHAPTE XXIII .

L ST ATLANT S O I .

o But from whence came the Toltecs , Aztecs and ther fair - skinned Indians ? We believe that the lost conti

— — nent Atlantis solves this problem . This large island ,

d o with its surrounding islands , forme alm st a complete bridge , from Africa to South America , in the remote

s o an d past ; that people from southern Europe , Egypt other parts of Africa could cross over to South America with but little sailing .

See Inter . Encycl . “ — A Atlantis vast island , of ancient tradition , lying in O E the Atlantic cean , described by Plato and an gyptian

as priest picturesque and beautiful , with a great people

w as s u bm er ed i n upon it , and great civilization , which g the o cean by an earthquak e — The Canary Islands are s up

i s posed to be the remains of this ancient island . This supposed to have been that great unnamed island spoken ” i n i s D o do r u s Ar o b u . of by Pliny , and

o We will now give some extracts fr m Atlantis , by D o nnelly “ - Solon , the great law giver of Greece , who lived about

1s 1t 60 0 . V . . C B , had went on a from Athens to Egypt

Cr itias While there he talked with an Egyptian priest ,

who gave him a history of Atlantis and its pe ople . ( This visit of Sol o n to Egypt is also recorded by Plutarch . ) “ l Solon commenced a history of At antis , but never

— - o 0 0 . C. finished it . Plat who lived 4 B added some L A T A T S 1 1 1 OS T L N I .

historical facts he had gathered to it , but died before he

Cr itias finished it . had told Solon much about Atlantis ,

its of its mighty people , great civilization , and advance

its . ment in working metals , art , sculpture , buildings , etc How they had Conquered most of western Europe and ‘ ’ — o th e ~ o o s ite Asia , and als parts of pp continent now ,

P — eru , Central America and along the Mississippi and also attempted to conquer Egypt and Greece ; but Greece broke her power , and soon after the island sunk in one night . “ Plato tells of hot Springs and cold springs o f Atlantis , such as still abound in the Azores — surviving fragments of this once vast continent . “ This island formed a w ay between the pillars of Her

‘ cules and the opposite continent— America “ Its connecting ridges bound together Brazil and Af rica , and barriers of rock and mud still make some of those portions of the Atlantic Ocean impassible to ships . “ ‘

0 0 . Plato speaks ( 4 B . C ) of a passage from Atlantis , west to the Opposite continent So he or Solon knew o f

Am er 1ca 1n their time . “

Atlantis had fruits , flowers , hot springs , fragrant

e trees , beautiful buildings , and archit cture , and carvings , and statues , and working in metals , and reaping and gath ering twice a year or oftener . Great bridges , writing and

arts , long before Christ , and working in gold and ore . “ P o s edo n Their great king, , had ten sons . Each o f these ten sons were abso lute sovereigns in his part of the island . They had power to pardon or execute ; but all ’ l P o s edo n s an fo lowed regulations , and consulted one other before war . ( Much like our Indians . ) “ The worship of Atlantis was sun and hero worship ,

P o s edo n and these kings w ere deified after death . was

as o d s ea w as worshipped Neptune , or g of the , and pic 1 1 2 M M AT THE OR ON IV ERLO O . tu r ed as holding a three - pronged scepter in a war chariot drawn by horses . “ Among the animals of Atlantis were horses , cows , sheep , goats , hogs , etc . and among grains were wheat , rye , oats , barley , etc . “ The cities were lighted by a red light from orichalcum ,

e o . n xt to gold , kn wn only now in name “ This isle formed the foundation of the mythological ‘ ’ ‘ ’ Elysian fields of delight , happy hunting ground , etc . ,

e of the heathen po ts . “

Numerous ancient historians refer to Atlantis , such

o Ael i an Tim o t as Plato , Solon , Egyptian priests , Pr clus , , g

Her o do enes , the Gauls , Marcellus , Homer , Plutarch and tus the oldest of historians . “ Says Donnelly : The Atlantic Ocean was named after this island , and Atlanta was named after Atlas , this great ’ a king s oldest son . We have the Atl s Mountains on the w western coast of Africa , nearest to this island , and hen Columbus disco vered America there was a city of Atlan Of o on the coast of Darien , and a race pe ple in Central

America called Aztecs , and another race in Africa near ” the Atlas Mountains called Atlantes . How comes it that we have Atlas Mountains an d an

Atlantes race in Africa , and a village Atlan and an Aztec race in America if there had never been an isle Atlantis lying between ? 1 1 Th e Ok an a au s In On p . 7 Atlantis it says : g a o dians have a tradition that long g , when the sun was n o S co m al t bigger than a star , their medicine woman , , ruled over what appears to have been a l o st island . Peace S co m al t w as on the island was destroyed by war , and s o angry th at she rose up in wrath and dro ve the i n h ab

i n Off ta ts to one end of the island , and broke the piece s ea of land they stoo d upon , and pushed it into the , and

R CHAPTE XXIV .

A N Lo - SRAEL G I .

i s M . . t While there a vague intimation in B . , p 59 hat “ ’ ” i n Smith is an Israelite from the fruit of Leh s loi s , who . s o n it cam e from Manasseh , of Joseph , of Egypt , yet is n o t w clearly stated , and conflicts with other places , hich make Smith a gentile , as we have given reference in the

C . . 2 2 last of hapter XX . See preface to B . M and pp 4, 7, 0 0 2 3 , 5 3 and 5 4 . The above pages teach not only that Smith w as a gen “ w h o c tile , but that the American people , mo ked at the

B . were gentiles We give two quotations from

. 2 0 pp 4 and 3 , B . M

And then shall the fullness of the gospel (the B . M . )

o th e come unt Gentiles ( American people ) , and from the

Gentiles unto the remnant of our seed ( the Indians ) , and at that day shall the remnant of our seed ( Indians ) know

o -f that they are o f the house Israel , and that they are the covenant people of the Lord ; and then shall they kno w and come to a knowledge of their forefathers , and also to ” a knowledge of their Redeemer . “And it came to pass that I beheld many multitudes of be Gentiles upon the land of promise ( America ) , and I

th e held the wrath of the Lord that it was upon seed of.

e my brethren ( the Indians ) , and they were scattered befor

e n - the G ntiles (A glo Saxons and Spanish ) , and were w as smitten . And I beheld the Spirit of the Lord , that it u O pon the Gentiles ; and they did prosper , and btain the land for their inheritance and I beheld that they were A G - IS A ' 1 1 N LO R EL . 5

w hite , and exceedingly fair and beautiful , like unto my ” people ( the Nephites ) , before they were slain . f These quotations from the B . M . are su ficient to show

that Joseph Smith regarded the Indians as Israelites , and Anglo — Saxon s and other white races who settled America

to be Gentiles . And if these were Gentiles , they could not be o f Israelitish origin ; and as Smith himself sprung

m - o from these sa e Anglo Sax ns , he must also have been

a Gentile . Mormons try to claim that it was revealed t o Smith

. C. . w . after ards that he was an Ephraimite See D , pp “

1 66 26 2 1 22 . : , 9 , 3 and 3 The first says The rebellious

are not of the blood of Ephraim , wherefore they shall be ” plucked out . There is nothing definite here as to what people are

from Ephraim . In the other reference it says : In the barren deserts

o there shall c me forth pools of living water , and the

parched land shall no longer be a thirsty land . And they shall bring forth their rich treasures unto the children

of Ephraim , my servants , and then shall they

w fall down and be cro ned with glory , even in Zion , by n the hands of the serva ts of the Lord , even the children

of Ephraim .

Here again only the U . C . could claim to be the subj ects

of this revelation . It could have no application to the d h R . C . But it oes not elp them out , either , seeing that

- other parts of the B . M . makes all Anglo Saxons Gentiles .

It simply sets the B . M . against itself .

n C . . 26 m I D . , p 9 , we read that Mor ons are the chil f o . dren of Israel , and of the seed Abraham But as

they are a mixture of many nations , this could only mean 26- 2 . o in a spiritual sense , as in Gal 9 , where all th se 1 1 6 M M T THE OR ON WA ERLO O .

’ baptized into Christ are made Abraham s sized by baptis mal adoptio n and faith . Hence this text proves nothing

for natural descent . We now give a few of the hundreds of argume nts that could be produced to show that instead of the Indians

- being from the ten lost tribes , that Anglo Saxons are

n those tribes . This truth alo e is enough to utterly under

i . s . mine the cla m that the B M is a true record , and

Le t worthy of the confidence of Christian people . the reader notice how none of these prophecies will fi t the

- Indian , but all fit the Anglo Saxon race .

1 . The ten tribes of Israel were to be a multitudinous “ w h o u people , wo ld blossom and bud , and fill the face of ” I s a . : N the earth with fruit Gen . umb .

2 e . All oth r races were to die out before them . Jer . ,

S ee As an example of fulfillment , the aborigines

New be of Australia , Tasmania and Zealand dying out

- o o fore the aggressive Anglo Saxons . And we l k for the same in America . i 3. They were to be above all other nations , in pra se , name and honor . Deut .

They were to abolish slavery . Isa . Isa . 9 .

- 5. They were to be the money lenders . Deut . r 6 . They we e to mix among the Gentiles . Hosea l . a 7 They were to fall into ido atry , as all our foref thers

to have done , Hosea but were afterwards serve

8 . the true God . Hosea 8 : They were to inhabit the islands northwest of Pales

— . 8 1 2 . tine Brittain . Isa 3, , 9 , h to o f . w 9 T ey ere to be the light the Gentiles earth .

Isa . 1 to 0 . Their native land was become too small to hold 2 them . Isa . 0 .

M T 1 1 8 THE M OR ON WA ERLO O . O

’ 2 w - 4 . They ere to be God s battle axe , to break up other o n o s p wers , and weapon formed against them was to pro I s a 2 22 - 2 . 0 N 2 : per . Jer . ; umb . 3 5.

2 5. Israel were to be scattered among all the nati ons of s the earth . Deut . Ezek . Hosea Amo I a 6 : 28 s . . Jer . 4 ; etc To these twenty -five prophecies we could add many pages of argument from history , names of places , per sonal names , tradition , etc . , to prove that British , Scandi n avio n s , Germans , and nearly all Protestant races , are de s cen dan ts of the ten tribes ; but we wish a condensed work , and here simply refer the reader for more information on

. this subj ect to Prof . C . A L . Totten , New Haven , Conn . w e The knowledge that ourselves are from Joseph ,

Manasseh and Ephraim , deals a deathblow at the Book of w Mormon , that would make these prophecies , as ell as

ur r . o histo y , fit to the sluggish Indian CHAPTER XXV

M R N S SED T T H E LE I N D TR N E O MO I M OPPO O BIB OC I . H EAVE N AT DEAT H — IM MORTALITY— ETERNAL

L FE— T H E S L A ND T H E SER ENT ’ S I OU , P FALSEH D OO .

M . 1 6 1 1 Th . . . : e In B , p 4 , par , we read demands of divine j ustice doth awaken h i s immortal soul to a lively ” sense of his own guilt .

28 1 1 o . 0 Als p , par . , that they are raised to dwell at

- the right han d of God , in a state of never ending happi ” ness .

. 2 : Also p 545, par . I soon go to rest in the paradise of God , until my spirit and body shall again reunite , and

to I am brought forth triumphant through the air , meet you before the pleasing bar of the great Jehovah , the ” eternal j udge , of both quick and dead . Amen .

( Written by Moroni A . D . “

o . 86 6 . : Als p 3 , par And land their souls , yea their

o imm rtal souls , at the right hand of God , in the kingdom

s it of heaven , to down with Abraham and Isaac , and with

Jacob , and with all our holy fathers , to go no more out . 1 See also revelation given Joseph Smith January 9 , “

1 8 1 C. 0 . : 4 , D , p 3 3 David Patten , who is with me at

a n d this time , also by servant , Edward Partridge , and

also my aged servant , Joseph Smith , S r . , who sitteth

with Abraham , at his right hand , and blessed and holy is 62 1 0 2 0 . C. . he , for he is mine . See also D , pp , 3, 49 , 3 3, 1 3 7 , etc . THE RM TER O O 120 MO ON WA L . 0

Now , on going to heaven at death , the Bible is directly

o opp sed to Mormonism , as the following scriptures Show “ ” David is not ascended into the heavens . Acts

No man hath ascended into heaven , but he hath come “ 1 down from heaven . John 3 : 3. Whither I go ye cannot

. I . 0 sa come John See also Hebr 35, 39 , 4 ; .

Joshua Lu . Matt . Matt .

. 22 P s . 1 2 Prov ; 37 ; Pet . Tim .

. . . etc. Col Rom Jer Man , as a whole , must wait till resurrection for reward and glorification .

1 As to the immortality of the soul , see Tim .

R . 1 . 2 . 1 om Cor 54 ; Tim Tim . M These scriptures are directly opposed to the B . . , as they teach that we must seek for it ; that the Lord Jesus alone hath attained to it ( God always being excepted ;

1 . r es u r r c ,Cor and that we receive it only at the e

t f t . o r o m i s e tion For e ernal life is now but a matter p , and

'

C . 6 2 2 a gift of God through Jesus hrist Rom . i 3; Tim . 1 Titus John Matt .

Col . etc . A l s . . opposed to these , the B M teaches that eternal ife is a natural inheritance of both saint and sinner ; and

i s h i s a thus Jesus robbed of gre t work and ,chief mission

— on earth to give life to man . i M . m Also , as opposed to the B . , that all men possess

o r i t mortal souls , deathless ent ties , the Bible teaches hat can souls are born , fatten , can be destroyed with a sword ,

die and go to the grave , and are redeemed from thence

22 . : . only at the resurrection . Proof Gen ; Ex

Levit . Jer . Job Joshua

E . b . P s a . o Ex . zek J Psa 22 Ho w ff 1 . 2 : . 5; Gen 7 ; 7 , etc di erent , indeed , i s this Bible soul from the soul of Mormonism !

1 22 M M A TE RL THE OR ON IV OO.

old - time heresy that the resurrection is past already ( 2

Tim . is taught by Smith , and that the dead go h i s 1 . . before the living , which Paul denied in day . Thess

See on the unconscious state of the dead the follow

: 6 6 1 0 . 1 : . ing scriptures Psa 4 4 ; Eccl , ;

- 22 P s a 1 . ; . 7 ; Job

- - 1 1 2 8 1 1 . 5; 9 3 ; Isa . 3 ; John Hence Smith

h i s . got chief keys from the dead , who know nothing

That the spirit returns to God at death we admit . It was with God a s a portion of the energy or universal

spirit of God , before our existence , from all eternity , and ’ returns to the same condition after man s death . It was ’ not man s spirit before his conception and quickening . It

o w n is not his after death . Man has no spirit of his a fter ’ death . It is not man s spirit that raises his body at the ’

1 . resurrection , but God s spirit . Rom . Cor Psa 0 44 ; . 3 . P R CHA TE XXVI .

T H E R N GOD D ED MO MO I .

The absurd and blasphemous d o ctrine that the Great Creator of the universe died is plainly taught in many

. . . 1 . 1 places in the B M See p 47 , or Mosi “ e i s For , behold , the tim cometh , and not far distant ,

O w ho w h o that with power , the Lord mnipotent reigneth ,

n was , an d is from all eternity to all eter ity , shall come d own from heaven , among the children of men , and shall dwell in a tabernacle of clay , and shall go forth amongst

o men , w rking mighty miracles , such as healing the sick , raising the dead , causing the lame to walk , the blind to

10 f receive their sight . And , , he shall su fe r temptations , and pain of body , hunger , thirst , and fatigue , ff even more than man can su er , except it be unto death

s o for behold , blood cometh from every pore , great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations

of h i s people . “ 1 : Par . 4 And he shall be called Jesus Christ , the Son

of God , the Father of heaven and earth , the Creator of

all things , from the beginning ; and his mother shall be

Io called Mary . And , , he cometh unto his own , that sal

vation might come unto the children of men , even through faith on his name ; and even after all this they shall con

sider him a man , and say that he hath a devil , and shall

scourge him , an d shall crucify him . And he shall rise

the third day from the dead ; and behold , he standeth to

1 23 12 ‘ THE M M N B L 4 OR O WA T R O G . O j udge the world . Also his blood ato n eth for the sins of those who have fallen by th e transgression of ” Adam . 1 2 See also p . 7 , Mosi . God himsel f shall come C down among the hildren of men , and shall redeem his people ; and because he dw elleth in flesh he shall be called the Son of God ; and having subj ected the flesh to the will

: of the Father , being the Father and the Son the Father because he was conceived by the power of God ; and the Son beca use of the flesh ; thus becoming the Father an d : ‘ G o d l the Son and they are one , yea , the very eterna Father of heaven and earth suff ereth himself to be mocked , scourged , and cast out , crucified and slain an d satisfied the demands of j us ” tice . 1 See also p . 3 5, Alma And now the plan of mercy could not be brought about except an atonement

ato n eth should be made ; therefore , God himself for the sins of the world , to bring about the plan of mercy , to appease the demands of j ustice , that God might be a per

e . fe t , j ust God , and a merciful God also “ Now repentance could not come with men , except th er e ' w ere th e a punishment , which also was as eternal as

f o f life o f the soul should be , a fixed opposite to the plan ” h a l n es s . pp , which is as eternal also as the life of the soul

~ The reader will s ee that the above quotations prove the a B . M . do not teach simply the death of the body or t ber n ael e that God took , but the death of the Great Creator , who too k the tabernacle of clay ! And yet his Voice w as - 2 heard in America while he was dead ! P . 439 44 and 0 a 47 . It teaches that the Gre t Creator himself was ff tempted of the devil , su ered , and was crucified , and died to satisfy the j ustice of his own law , which , of o ! ree c urse , he gave foreknowing all things Hence for th

1 26 T M R M T HE O ON WA ERLO O .

' : 0 2 h i s Ow n but i ven 5 3 , 3 , how even words were not his , g

him by the Father . The unity of the father is very plainly taught in the

I s a 1 scriptures . See . Cor . Eph . “ Also there is one mediator between God and man , the ” 1 man Christ Jesus . Tim .

Jesus is not the Creator of the old world , but of the “

new . He is the head of the church , who is the begin

fir s t- — ning , of the new , eternal creation , and the born not — l 1 Co . 1 : 8 . naturally but to the new , eternal nature .

He is not the creator of the earth , and Mars , and Jupi

o w ei s ter , but of the new principalities and p , that shall

. 1 : 1 6 yet rule in the earth Col . . The old creation is tem

2 . poral , and the new order of things is eternal . Cor The old Adamic stock are but figures of the true

Adamic creation , that shall be accomplished through

. 1 Jesus , by the resurrection . Rom Phil . Cor

The blindness of Smith , in confusing the old and

h as new creation , led to some of these blunders . Jesus w as not even the Christ till anointed at his baptism ( Acts Luke neither will he be the Almighty

God and Everlasting Father ( Isa . until he raises

his children from the dea , when they also will be gods .

1 John Phil . Such ridiculous teachings of the Creator and Jesus as

those we have noticed from B . M . could only emanate

from a spiritually drunken and befogged mind ; which , i f

1n s 1r ed th e p at all , was inspired from devil and his angels , who would like to make the world believe that the Great

Creator could die , and be held under his power for three “ ” but days ; and yet , that man does not surely die , is in R . e his present animal state a God , and hence needs no deemer nor resurrection ! Thus nullifying both future

m . resurrection and j udg ent , as taught in the scriptures

- - - 1 1 : 1 1 1 . 2 : 1 2 . 2 Tim . Rev . 5 9 ; 5; Matt 5 3 4 R CHAPTE XXVI I .

TH E H RR LE H ELL OF R N S O IB MO MO I M .

The following extracts from the B . M . show something of the Mormon hell . M . . . 1 : B , p 3 That awful hell prepared “

. w for the wicked P . 54 : They are carried a ay captive ” 2 down to the eternal gulf of misery and woe . P . 7

Their torment is as a lake of fire and brimstone , whose ” h as flames ascendeth up forever and ever , and no end .

That lake of fire and brimstone , which is endless tor “

. . : ment P 73 And , in fine , woe unto all those who

: die in their sins for they shall r eturn unto God , an d be ” o h ld his face , and remain in their sins . “ 6 r . 1 : e P 4 Therefore , if that man repenteth not , and m ain eth and dieth an enemy to God , the demands of di vine j u s t1ce doth awaken his immortal soul to a lively sense of his own guilt , which doth cause him to shrink from the presence of the Lord , and doth fill his breast

n i s u n with guilt , and pain , and a guish , which like an

' quenchable fire , whose flames ascendeth up forever and

. n o w ever And , I say unto you , that mercy hath no claims on that man ; therefore , his final doom is to endure ” - n a never endi g torment . “ 2 r P . 83 : Their to ments shall be as a lake of fire and

w . brimstone , hose flames ascendeth up forever and ever

s a Then I y unto you , they shall be as though there had been no redemption made ; for they cannot be ’ redeemed according to God s j ustice and they cannot

i s . die , seeing there no more corruption 1 28 M M T THE OR ON WA ERLO O .

. 2 . : re Also p 47 , par 4 And he that endu th not to the end , the same is he that is hewn down and cast into the m fire , fro whence they can no more return , because of ” the j ustice of the Father .

1s Here endless torment with a vengeance . Misery in

ff a h as a lake of fire , and su oc ting brimstone , that no end . And all this torture of a portio n of poor humanity right ! O be fore the face of God the Father h , what a father this makes of our Creator ! This is the sinner ’s final d oom , and mercy has no claim on him , and neither has

fo r j ustice , they cannot be redeemed , because of the j ustice of the Father ! What a hideous nightmare ! What a cloud to draw over “ the face of him whose name is love , and whose anger ” “ n endures but for a moment , but whose mercy e dureth “ i ” , h s an ear th l forever and who pitieth children like . y ! father What a relic of barbarism , to have a God that is not a fit example for his children to imitate , and a mon ster that cannot forgive or extend mercy without the blood of the innocent as a substitute for the guilty ! And then to talk of an eternal life o f misery being a j ust pen alty for the sins of a life that is but a vapor , that appeareth ! for a little time , and then vanisheth away There is no such teaching in the Bible as endless tor ment . Every one who has looked up the definition of

w ai o n ian the Hebrew and Greek ords olam , aion , and such words , rendered forever , everlasting , and eternal in our “ ”

Bible , kn ow that they mean a hidden period of time , “ ” “ ” - an age , age lasting , or may mean eternal . But the variableness of the mean ing of these words makes it impossible to prove endless punishment or end e less li fe from them . Then , as the Bible teach s that all t the race that will exist will vet be in one place , and tha , a place of h appiness ; we see the absurdity and blasphemy

R CHAPTE XXVIII .

TH E R N H ELL C NTRASTED W TH TH E LE H ELL MO MO O I BIB .

’ The Mormon hell is a place for disembodied spirits be fore the resurrection . The Bible hell is either ( I ) tar

o be - tar o , supposed by scholars to our atmosphere , where the fallen angels are , to whom Jesus preached , after his

r resurrection , during the forty days befo e his ascension .

— . C. . 88 1 1 . 1 . 2 1 2 See D , pp and 9 Also Pet ; Pet . 6 1 - 1 0 6 : . Jude ; Gen . ; Job See also apocryphal

w ar t r o o . t a book of Enoch This ord occurs but once , and men are never threatened with a place there . 2 . The only word in the Old Testament rendered hell

- is sheol . This is rendered grave thirty one times , and

- hell thirty one times , and pit three times . Jacob went down to sheol with his gray hairs . Gen . Job wanted to go there to escape wrath until his ap pointed time . Job The wicked are there ’ ’ P s a 1 . 8 . in silence . David s soul and Christ s 1 6 soul went there at death . Psa . ; Animals

- N . and horses go there . umb . 34 ; Psa There i s tr utl: no work , device nor knowledge there , and can not reach tho s e in sheol . Eccl . Isa . Men 1 1 in death behold neither God nor man . Isa . .

l di s em It is always bodies that go to sheo , and never d bo ied spirits . See Ezek . how the dead , and their w eapons of war , all go to sheol , and their swords are laid

. under their heads . This sheol is to be finally destroy ed

Hosea Therefore sheol is the grave , and the gen eral death state of all dead bodies till the resurrection .

1 30 1 1 M H vs B B H . M OR ON ELL . I LE ELL 3

3. The equivalent for sheol in the Hebrew is ha des in P the Greek . Proof : s a . Acts Hades occurs

eleven times in the New Testament . Everything in hades h as . is dead , and not yet been j udged . Rev But Christ being raised from the dead has the keys of the f o s ea . . tomb and the whole death state , and earth Rev 1 1 Y : 8 . es , it is always this body , in the Bible , after death — b that is cast into hell never the spirit , as taught y Mor

mons . The church comes out of th is hades at the resur ’ rection . Matt . I . Cor . Christ s soul or

person went to hades in death . Acts

i s The body of the rich man of Lu . represente d

as in parable lifting up its eyes in hades in torment , while th e dead beggar is represented as being carried to Abra ’ ham s bosom . This parable shows the contrasted desti

nies of the rich Jewish nation and the Gentiles , and the

ten tribes , who later became adopted into the family of

2 i s Abraham . Gal . 9 . Neither spirit nor soul men ti o n ed in this narrative .

This hades is to finally be destroyed in the second death . 1 Rev . 4 . Nowhere in the Bible are spirits of dead

men said to go to hades or hell , as the Book of Mormon

Th e teaches . Mormon hell is the old pagan hell of the

dark ages .

4 . Another word in the Bible rendered hell is Gehenna , t which is a proper noun , and wrongly ranslated by the

comm on noun hell . It is the name of the valley south of

w o Jerusalem , here once fires burned continually to c nsume the off al of the city ; but this hell is now being plowed u by the Arabs , and the fires are exting ished , although

they may be rekindled at the j udgment . It also is a place

of bodies , not spirits .

2 0 . See Matt . 9 , 3 ; and Mk 45, 47 ,

w where the body , eyes , hands and feet are threatened ith 1 2 T 3 THE MORMON WA ERLO O .

“ o s dul Gehenna . See Matt . where b th , or life , and

o body are threatened with destructi n in Ge henna . See

i s also Luke 5, where , after the body killed , it is cast in Gehenna for consumption .

1 1 Hence , the punishment of sp r t entities of the dead , in o a fiery hell now in existence , is unkn wn to the holy scrip

i s o tures of truth , and a fable of pagan inventi n , and a relic of superstition and heathen barbarism . We chal lenge any scholar on earth to find such a hell in the in r spi ed scriptures of truth .

1 THE M M N WA T O 34 OR O ERLO .

: chapter Zechariah says I lifted up mine eyes again , and

looked , and , behold , a man with a measuring line in his

hand . Then Zechariah said to the man : Whither goest ? ” thou And he said unto him , to measure Jerusalem . “

And , behold , the angel that talked with me

w ( Zechariah ) ent forth , and another angel met him , and

h im Zech a said unto , Run , speak to this young man (

riah ) , saying Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns with ” out walls , for the multitude of men and cattle therein .

This needs no comment to any analytical mind , as hav “ ” ing no reference to Smith as this young man , who was h shown t ese things . The idea is too shallow to be worthy of further notice . S T H TH E EL AH MI IJ . 6 As to Mr . Smith being the Elij ah of Mal . , and the messenger of the covenant of Mal . we simply ask the reader to read thes e chapters and s ee that Smith did H “ not do the Elij ah work . e did not turn the hearts of children to parents or of parents to children , but the polygamy and s ecr eti sm he intro duced has done j ust the

as - opposite , many a broken hearted Mormon wife can ’ “ ”

ten h o u s e s o . M r s . S testify . See bo k , Tell It All

Neithe r was he a swift witness against sorcerers , adul

t r r s Sw . e e , false earers and oppressors ( Mal but was himself one of them , as we have abundantly proven . “ ” Neither did he purify the sons of Levi — the Jewish “ — . v . priesthood 3, nor restore the tribes of Jacob See

Ecclesiasticus 48 . Neither has he restored all things— not even the lost No d t gifts of the church . Matt . , it is evi ent hat Smith ’s system is a counterfeit of the true church— a fo rm

. o f godliness , without the power of which they boast B LE P P CI AP P LIE D B Y S 1 B I RO HE ES MORMON . 35

TH E EVERLASTI N G S P EL G O .

. H M r unt , like all Mormons , also claims that M r .

Smith proclaimed to the world the messages of Rev .

7 , which they claim brought about a complete res t r i n o a . 6 1 t o . C. . of the primitive gospel See also D , pp , 80 222 , , where Smith claims that he was preaching the restored gospel— the everlasting gospel— am o ng the na

tions , and that the hour of j udgment had then come . On these claims we would remark first that th e ai o n Dia l o tt 1 ion glad tidings , ( g ) , of Rev . 4, could not refer to the gospel of Christ restored , for the two messages are

w as entirely distinct . The gospel of Christ glad tidings

of a kingdom , preached first to the Jews , and after that f u to the ten tribes and Gentiles , to take out o ficers , to r le

- in the future kingdom of God . Matt . 9 ;

- 20 1 I 1 0 . ; Acts 9 ; Cor . Rev . , etc 1 But the messages of Rev . 4 , are glad tidings only to “ ha s the righteous . First ; that the hour of j udgment ” ’ come . This was not preached in Jesus time , and there e fore is not a “restored gosp l , but is a distinct message

for the end of this age , and not yet announced ; for part of the saints will be caught away from the earth be fore “ ” that j udgment , with its unmixed wrath begins . Rev .

Gen . Matt . Rev . etc . ’ The second angel s message , as contained in this age

s lasting gospel , announce the fall of the mystical Babylon

1 . o f Rev . 7 This could not be a restored gospel , for

— Babylon the church of Rome , and her daughters . . the Protestant sects— had not y et arisen when Jesus did his

1 s preaching . Neither does Rev . 7 show Rome of the pa t ,

but a resurrected Papacy in the coming hour of j udgment .

8 1 2 . See Rev . , Hence the folly of calling this a “ ” 80 6 1 . 2 . o . restored g spel . See D . C . p , par ; also pp

an d 222. M R l W l A L 1 6 THE . O V O O W . 3 , TER O

The third announcement of this age l as tirig go spel is a t warning agains the mark of the beast , and the unm ixed

Go d w wrath of , hich cannot be till our mediator has left

i s e heaven . For while Jesus in heav n there will always be some mercy mixed with wrath . It is in that coming hour of j udgm ent that men will call and God will not

. s o answer This is yet future , and is that boycott of

to R - 1 8 nations referred in ev . , when no man can buy or sell unless he can give the sign . o r mark of that secret confederacy of the dragon , beast and false prophet — R ussia and all Catholicism , and Turkey and China - i . s against Anglo Israel This beast a future confederacy , and th e mark not yet given , hence Smith did not preach

- this pa rt of the age lasting gospel . See on the futurity 1 6 1 1 20 of this work , Rev . ; 4, 5; ; t 8 1 2 1 6 c. , , ; e

H K I G T E STONE N DOM .

We will now briefly analyze the claim that , Mr . Smith ,

five with others , by comman d of the Lord , organized

a . 6 1 8 0 m D n . April , 3 , the kingdo ( church ) of etc ,

8 1 6 2 1 . as o . . . als taught in D C pp 37 , 7 ; 7 ; 3 , etc ’ F — 1 8 0 irst that Smith s church , organized 3 , is not this

w e stone kingdom , claim , from the fact that the stone kingdo m does not exist contemporaneo us with earthly

civil governments , but breaks them in pieces before it

- begins to grow and fill the earth . Just as Medo Persia

- P . succeeded Babylon , and Greece succeeded Medo , an d ’ Rome succeeded Greece ; s o Christ s kingdom succeeds

s . . this Roman co s m o . Dan 35 ’ Seco nd z— That Smith s church is not the stone is proven by the suddenness of the smiting of the image by d the stone , and the su den scattering of earthly govern

ff . . m en ts , like cha by the wind Dan The Mor

R CHAPTE XXX .

T H E SEALED K BOO .

- . . 8 1 0 2 . In B M pp 9 , Smith claims , and his followers “ ”

. . I s a 2 teach , that the B M is the sealed book of . 9 . That “ this was the marvellous work and wonder ; and the “ ” m “ ” voice fro the dust , etc . That the learned m an

I . Y h . . o m referred to was Prof Anthon , of N , to w the words o f the book were delivered in 1 828 ; and that the “ ” w as unlearned man Joseph Smith , who translated the “ ”

o M . sealed b ok , the B . , and that a little while after the o o sealed b ok came forth Palestine was to bec me fruitful , etc .

. 2 s ee The careful reader of Isa 9 , will easily that this “ t chap er refers to a past attempted invasion of Ariel , the ” h A t e . city where David dwelt , or Jerusalem , by ssyrians ’

See Smith s bible dictionary , and commentary by Jamie s o n , Fausset and Brown , on this chapter , and its fulfilment

C. 1 6 . as recorded in II Kings 9 , when about 99 B , Sen n ach er ib , king of Assyria , was on his way to besiege Jeru to salem , but the prayers of Hezekiah caused the Lord send his angel , who destroyed of the Assyrian hosts in one night , which caused the remainder of the o f army to withdraw to Nineveh . This destruction “ ” Assyrians was the marvellous work and wonder r e ferred to by Isaiah , and not the B . M . “ ” The voice from th e dust re fers to the later des o la i s r e r e tion of Jerusalem . When in ruins , her voice p sented as being like that of a ventriloquist , speaking from the dust . The images employed show Jerusalem hum 1 38 H S D OK 1 T E EALE BO . 39

bled to the dust yet finally triumphing over her enemies .

h o w S ec V . 4 , it is Jerusalem , not the Book of Mormon ,

- . 1 2 that speaks from the dust See v . 7 how it is the Vision of the multitudes that fight against Jerusalem that

is blinded , and that to them , and even to the Jewish lead

er s H o , the ebrew prophecies are as a sealed bo k . It is

1 0 . sealed to them because of their spiritual blindn ess . v . This sealed book may also include some prophecies that n o t could be understood at that time ; as Dan . 9 ,

o o which was sealed up till the time of the end , or the b k “ : 1 - 6 - 1 of seals referred to in Rev . 5 ; 3, which no man

in heaven , nor earth , nor under the earth , was able to “ — open , or to look upon until Christ the lion o f the ” tribe of Judah opened it , after his second coming .

Ch .

w We kno , therefore , that Smith never opened this

sealed bo ok .

to v 1 As the Mormon interpretation of . 7 it is yet a

very little while , and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruit ”

ful field , etc . , that a little while must be but a few years

o after the sealed b ok came forth , and that the early and - latter rains were but recently restored to Palestine . We “ ” quote a few texts to show what a little while may be i n

the sight of God . “ n Yet o ce it is a little while , and I will shake the

a he vens , and the earth , an d the sea and the dry land . And

I will shake all nations , and the desire of all nations shall

come , etc . This was written years ago , and the

littl e While is not y et fulfilled . Fo r yet a little while and the wicked shall not be nor

P s his place . . This was written years

ago , and is yet unfulfilled . 1 0 R 4 THE MORMON WA TE LO O .

s Again a little while and ye shall ee me . John

un ful This was written over years ago , and is yet

filled . “ O as o ne day is with God a th usand years , and a thou

2 . : sand years as one day . Pet 3 8 . Hence the whole Mormon interpretatio n of this text is Ac farfetched , and an obvious perversion of scripture .

to n o r u n cording the prophet Isaiah , neither the learned learned could read the sealed b o ok ; hence Smith could n o t o read it , i f this prophecy referred to him , as M rmons teach .

1 2 O 4 THE MORMON WA TERLO .

‘ ’ t or book of that day , was rolled . The con ents of this

passage shows clearly how this word is used here , and it ‘ ’ i s the same w ord translated sceptre in the passage quoted ‘

. P s in Heb from . The sceptre of thy kingdom ’ is a sceptre of righteousness .

It i s the ordinary term for the sceptre of royal rule .

‘ The two sceptres in this p r o ph ecy ar e j oined together in the prophet ’s hand to indicate the ultimate union of the o uda two kingdoms of J and Israel again , in the power “ ” “ a d O n potency of the All Controlling ne , and is the ” ” ho pe of Israel for which Paul was called to account .

am ei s o n J , Fausset and Brown , in their commentary , “ ” “ s ay on the word stick as used in Ezek . stick alluding to Num . , the tribal rod . The union of the two sticks was a prophecy in action of the brotherly union

r e- I which is to unite the ten tribes and Judah . ST CK of '

SEP H HAND P HRAI . JO in the of E M Ephraim , of the the descendants of Joseph , had exercised the rule among “ ” ten tribes ; that rule symbolized by the stick was now

w to be withdra n from him , and to be made one with the ’ ’ o other , Judah s rule , in G d s hand under one coven

— ant , and one king Messiah .

s ee . 1 : 2 The reader will by reading Num 7 , that the chil dren of Israel were to take a rod for each prince of th e twelve tribes , and to write upon it the .name of that prince , ’ and Aaron s name upon the rod of Levi . ’ Aaron s rod budded , which showed that his tribe got

- o . : 1 6 26 the priesth od So in Ezek . 37 , the sticks , or rods , or sceptres , upon which the words recorded were written , symbolized the union of the two houses — Israel and

d — o r Ju ah , under one king , the Christ under one rule . We give below an important statement sent us from a . r that eminent Hebrew scholar of Chic go , Emil G Hi sch ,

'

e . 1 6 1 0 1 . dat d Chicago , Dec , 9 S ICK S 1 THE TWO T . 43

Elder W . L . Crowe , Stratford , Iowa “ EAR I R — D S The ( Hebrew ) word used in Ezek .

etz o d . is , meaning tree , and then piece of w o As the con o to text sh ws , the direction to the prophet was take two

— . in pieces of wood and write on them the name , etc the manner Of writing on lots that w ould be placed in an i s n urn . Certain it that it has o connection with a scroll o r book .

Yours truly ,

I L I H . RS EM G H C . s ee H e We , therefore , that the ebr w word rendered stick

e n o and sc ptre , simply mea s a piece of wo d . The Greek translators understood that the piece of w o od sometimes

o meant a sceptre , and sometimes merely a piece of w od ,

s o such as was used to write upon when casting lots , and rendered the word etz by h r abdo s in the Greek ; and this Greek word w as rendered by our English translators stick and sceptre . But all three authorities above agree that the word h as n o connection with a scroll or book as Mormons teach . We s um up the follo wing points against the Mormon interpretation o f this scripture as applying to the union of the Book of Mormon and the Hebrew bible

First : The sticks have no reference to books at all , d but were simply rods , or sceptres , or pieces of woo . Second : The writing was not upon a parchment or th e scroll rolled upon sticks , but upon sticks or tribal rods , l on which no scro l w as rolled . Third : The writing on the stick of Judah was not the

O New : ld nor Testament , but simply these words For

Judah and for the children of Israel , his companions .

Also , the writing on the stick of Ephraim was not about

ar edites L , , , ehi , Nephi the J their barges full of bees ele

h an ts m as tado n s . p , , asses , etc , but the prophet Ezekiel 1 44 THE MORMON WA TERLO O .

vi a : s tells us j ust what was written upon it ; For Jo eph ,

k h i s the stic of Ephraim , and for all the house of Israel to companions . How dare men add the whole B . M . these words ?

: Fourth These two sticks or sceptres , were j oined to ’ an d in gether in the prophet s hand , they became one ’ Ezekiel s hand , before the eyes of representatives of both 8 houses , circ . 5 7 B . C . It i s well known that representatives of all of the ten ’ tribes , j ust previous to Judah s captivity in Babylon , e j oined themselves to Judah , because they had the templ

o An d th ese and true priesth od under their j urisdiction . . w h o ever remained with Judah . Hence Ezekiel , lived and r prophesied du ing the captivity , could hold the two sticks

“ before the eyes of both houses . See as proof 2 Chron . 1 1 8 3, ; Ezra I 1 1 I I : . . James ; Pet ; , etc Hence these two sticks did not come together since

’ “ 1 8 0 e Smith s time , in 3 , for they were j oin d together about

587 B . C . Fifth : The meaning of these two sticks coming to gether was not the j oining of two books together , for God himself tells us the meaning ; therefore listen to God “And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee , saying , Wilt thou not show unto us what thou mean est by these ?” n o The after mention of the sticks , and their uni n , the “ Lord says : Behold I will take the children of Isra el from

h be er among the heathen whit er they gone , and will gath them on every side , and bring them into their own land “ And I w ill make them one nation upon the mountains of Israel ; and one king shall be king to them all and they shall be no more two nations , neither shall they be divided ” into two kingdoms any more at all .

1 46 H M T E MOR ON WA TERLO O . s a th e r th y , that , if truth springing out of zaa i s to be h taken literally , then , any explorer , who as ever dug up n i scriptions or ancient records , on stone , metals , or pot ter y , could apply this prophecy to himself as truthfully

. Yes as Smith could , and more properly ; for we must admit that the earth has , in recent years , yielded up many ancient inscriptions and relics that confirm the truth of the scriptures . But any one who reads this Psalm with j udgment and

s ee m i s sober reason , will that the Psal not only highly

a an d figur tive , but prophetical of the future age reign of t “ Christ on earth , af er the Lord has brot back the cap tivit y of Jacob , and has forgiven all their iniquity . Was

i n 1 82 i . this 7 , when Sm th claimed to dig plates out of the earth ? Did righteousness and peace literally meet then

? 0 and kiss each other N , nothing of the kind took place

' at that time .

e It is obvious to every unbiased , analytical mind , in r ad a an d ing this Ps lm , that Mercy and Truth are personified

as R i hte represented in beautiful imagery meeting, and g o u s n e s s ar e r tw o and Peace , in figure , epresented as

‘ women who meet and kiss each other . Truth springs out R i hte of the earth , in the resurrected saints ; and the g o us n es s o n of God looks down smilingly from heaven , , a kingdom of peace and love and praise ; where a king then t an d us reigns in righ eousness , and executes j udgment j

2 P s 2 . . tice on earth . Isa . 3 ; . 7 ; Jer Matt re When this is fulfilled , Israel and Judah have been

- united in their land , under their long expected Messiah , and the earth is full of the knowledge of the Lord as the

I sa 6 . 6 . waters fill the deep . Ezek . 3 ; Amos 9 ; 5; Habak

It would be no more inconsistent to say that this latter “ d e text , the earth shall be full of the knowle g of the O ICK S 1 THE TW S T . 47

Lord , means that it shall be full of buried books , than “ ” s a u to y that , Tr th springing out of the earth , means a o ! bo k of plates , which Smith claimed to have dug up It would be no more ridiculous than this Mormon inter ” r etatio n s a hi s p , to y , that , truth shall be thy shield “ means a book of plates over the breast ; or , that , truth ” i s o fallen in the street , means that someone had thr wn a book of plates , a stone , and a hat out of an upper window t in o the street , for horses and men to trample under foot !

Adventists , Dowieites , Mormons , and many other sects , “ ” by such interpretation , can find everlasting gospels , ” “ ” beasts , horns , etc . , to j ust fit and apply to their par

i l w t cu ar ork . Truly we live in an age when many are “ 1 ” “ saying Lo here and 0 there . To the law and testi m ony , if they speak not according to this testimony , it ” is because they have no light in them . R CHAPTE XXXII .

“ ’ S ITH S I N S P IRED TRA N S LATI N TH E I LE M O OF B B .

’ The title of Smith s Bible is : The Holy Scriptures

o f translated and corrected by the Spirit Revelation , by

r . . 18 Joseph Smith , J , the Seer ( The book we quote from R - issued by the e organized church ) . In the Preface we read : This work i s given to the church of Jesus Christ of a L tter Day Sain ts , and to the public , in pursuance of the o d commandment of G . “ As concerning the manner o f translation and corree

M S S . tion , it is evident from the , and the testimony of

those who were conversant with the facts , that it was o d ne by direct revelation from God . “

1 8 0 2 1 8 . It was begun in June , 3 , and finished July , 33 1 80 Joseph Smith was born in December , 5, and was , 28th at the finishing of the M S S . of the work , in the year

o f his age . “ It is declared in the Book of Mormon that ‘ many plain and precious parts have been taken away from the

e hi 2 . bible . I Book N p or p . 5 “ This declaration is fully sustained by the following qu o tation s from history relative to tr an s m i s s w n of the ” Bible . o o St . Jer me makes frequent mention of additi ns , cor

rections , and subtractions made in the versions of the ” Septuagint by Origen .

Dupin is quoted at length in the Preface , and also other “ authorities that : It cannot be said for certain that all

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1 0 OR 5 THE M MON WA TERLOO . apostles of t h e La mb and shall make know n the plain and precious things which have been taken away from ” them . As proof that Smith was to supply that which was lack

o ing in the scriptures , his publishers also quote fr m D . C . “ 22 Sec . , par . 9 or p . 59 , that in a day when the children

w as of men shall esteem my ords nought , and take many of them from the book behold I will raise up another a like unto thee ( Moses ) , and they sh ll be had again ” among the children of men ; among as many as believe .

26 . 2 . 2 . See also D . C . Sec . , par ; and Sec 4 , par 5 and

I . . 5, how this bible and the B M contain the fullness of the gospel . o 2 1 8 0 as See als par . 4 , of Revelation to Smith , June , 3 , ’ published in first part o f Smith s translation ; the promi se

o of God , that Smith w uld restore the last parts of the bible . With these high claims be fore the reader of a bible “ ” “ o translation given by commandment of God , . d ne by “ 1 8 0 an d fi i s h ed direct revelation from God begun in 3 , n “ “ 1 8 33, to make corrections ; to supply many plain and ” o — precious things taken away fr m the book the bible ; , and to supply “ sacred books of the bible lost thru care ”

. o lessness , etc , we pr ceed to prove to every reader with

an iota of intelligence , that Smith is a false prophet , a forger , a liar , and blasphemer . First : Smith does not restore the precious book of

2 I : 1 8 Jasher , quoted both in Sam . and in Joshua

: b al Second He does not supply the ook of Enoch , 1 though he quotes from it in Jude 4 . Third : He does not Supply the precious prayer of

2 : 1 8 . Manasseh , referred to in Chron . 33 There are other

n o i spired bo ks that have been lost , but Smith has supplied o n t one of them . S I H ’S R S I O F H I M T T AN LA T ON T E B BLE .

’ : n Fourth The inco sistence of this forger is seen in D . “

. . . : C Sec 5, par where he quotes Clear as the moon ,

s un and fair as the , and terrible as an army with ban ” n ners , from Canticles and the he throws the book , ! ” from which he quotes , out of his inspired translation The reader of this Song of Solomon will s ee from mar gi n al references that many inspired writers quote from

’ it , thus endorsing it as an allegory of Christ s church,

: . . 88 . 28 F . ifth In D C Sec , or p 4 , Smith says of the “ A o ch r h a p y p , that it contains many things that are true , a a and m ny interpolations th t are not true , but that the

i s spirit will manifest the truth to the reader , and that it m mostly translated correctly , and therefore it is not eces ” sary to translate it . What an obvious subterfuge i s this ! I f the spirit could manifest the truth to each reader of the Apo ch ry

w the pha , could he not do so ith all rest of the bible , and then an “ inspired transl ation ” would be unnecessary ? Mormons also claim to possess the gift of tongues which would obviate the necessity of any bible translation . Acts

1 . Cor . Rom 2 1 to Sixth . Smith adds 9 verses the pentateuch , which seem to be added chiefly to sustain the Mormon theory

m e n that , beasts , and even the vegetable kingdom , were a i l n cr e first cre ted spir tually , heaven , before they were ated naturally , and that Jesus assisted the Father in this

: creation ! This directly conflicts with Paul , who says “ t w That was not firs which is spiritual , but that hich is natural ; and afterward that w hich is spiritual . “ The first man i s Of the earth earthy ; the second man ” is the Lord from heaven .

It is sown a natural body ; and raised a spiritual body .

- 1 Cor . 57 . THE WA O MORMON TERL O .

Seventh : Smith also retains in his inspired tra n s l a ” tion many texts that are known frauds to the bes t schol

ar s . : Among these we would mention John 5 4, that fable i s about the angel troubling the waters , which left out of

R . V . a , marked s spurious by Griesbach ; omitted by Mill an d Tischendorf Meyer calls it a legendary addition ;

B o : l omfield says It savors of Jewish fancy , and it is lack ing in five of the most ancient M SS . Almost the same may be said of other interpolations which Smith retains ; “ s 1 . Th uch as John Rev e word God in Rom . h ’ s 1 . . S Tim etc , is retained in mit s tran lation

' ‘ tho ugh not in the original .

F e r al ifteen tim s the wo d familiar spirit occurs , “ ” o though the w rd spirit is not in the Hebrew nor Greek .

n as tr m h — i I am 8 e o ut o n S . The Greek word is g 7 , ,

1 . 9 ; Levit . Chron . Levit Deut .

2 K 21 :6 I s ings ; a . and The w ord simply means a belly speaker or ventriloquist . See

Septuagint and Hebrew . Eight : Smith renders the Hebrew word sheol j ust as

- - tim es r a e - o n A . v e in the . V thirty one g , and thirty times

— a n n hell , and three times pit ma ifest inco sistency , copied

from the A . V . a Nine . The eleven occurences of hades in New Test

V . e ment are also copied from the A . , and rendered nin

O 1 . o n e times hell . nce rendered grave in Cor and ” change made in Acts 2 Where he renders it prison ! Ten : Smith also retains all the inconsistent render

ba to ba ti s m a ings of the A . V . on p , baptizo , p , and baptis

mos . Where it refers to the ordinance of baptism it is a transferred and transliterated baptist , b ptize , baptism ,

etc . , which the King James translators did to hide its o n meaning , and the mode of baptism . Yet the ly three

ba to o R . o ccurrences of p , Luke J hn and ev

1 H O O 54 T E M RM N WA TERLO O .

— Matthew end of world conclusion of age . Dia l Craik , g and Totten .

— Matthew strain at a gnat strain out a gnat . R .

V Totten , Young , Syriac , Douay and Craik . Filter — Di a l out g .

In John Smith and A . V . make Jesus whip out both men and animals from the temple . How much more ’ reasonable Craik s version , that he simply whipped the beasts out , and ordered the men out .

: 8 John 5 3 , ye have never heard his voice at any tim e nor

— a seen his shape Did ye never hear his voice at n y time ,

s ee — Dia l nor his shape Craik and g . Acts whom they slew and hanged on a tree

e — C Dia l whom they slew by hanging on a tre raik , g ,

— . e . Douay , Syriac Slew , having hanged on a tre Young Acts we took up our carriages— w e put up our

— i — e D a l . baggag Craik , g and R . V Vessels Young . Of At the time the King James translation , carriage meant baggage , or anything carried , but when Smith w i n o th er rote his inspired translation , to correct mistakes ‘ versions , carriage meant a buggy or vehicle to ride in .

h i s So , according to Smith , Paul took buggy up in his ! hand , or on his back , and went to Jerusalem

”

Acts And when they had taken up the anchors , they committed themselves unto the sea— and h av1n g cut

— Off I s ea . the anchors , they let them go nto the Griesbach ff Di a l o . . in the Greek , g and Craik ; casting , R V Romans Make the faith of God without effect

f o d — make void the faith ulness of G Craik . Annul the

— i l fidelity of G o d D ag .

1 Cor . Set them to j udge who are least esteemed in the church — Do you set them to j udge who are of no

— P— l Dia . account in the church Congregation Craik, g , R

V Syriac and Young . ’ S I S S I OF ' I 1 M TH TRAN LA T ON THE B BLE . 55

i The manifest blunder of Sm th and A . V . here needs no

comment .

2 h o Cor . For we are not as many w corrupt

Go d — F the word of . or we do not , like many , adulterate

— f the word of God . Craik and Greek text . Tra ficking the

— B i l w o rd of G o d ag . P hil l ipi an s Having a desi r e to depart and be with Christ — Having a great desire for the ' returning and

— l . Di a being with Christ g . Galf Which things are an allegory — Which

d — — i l D . things are allegorize Craik . Allegorical . ag

o — R . V1 C ntain an allegory . , Syriac and Young .

— Phil . Be careful for nothing B e anxious about n o thi n é— Di l a u . g Craik , g , Syriac and Yo ng Be not soli

cito u - s . Douay .

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1 :2 . P r h . Col . 3 eac ed to every creature under heaven

— In n — all the creation under heave Craik , Greek text ,

V . Douay , R . , Syriac and Young .

1 . Thess . Not prevent those who are asleep

— i . e D a l . Not precede or anticipat Craik , g , R V and

Young .

s — 1 Tim . Supposing that gain is godlines That

— go dliness is gain ; or a source of gai n Craik . Suppos

n — Dia l ing piety to be gai g and Young .

1 Tim . For the love of money is the root of all

— — I f B i l . . s O . a . evil a root all evil Craik , g R . V and

Young .

H w 1 : 1 n — ebre s 4 . Who shall be heirs of salvatio Who

— . V shall inherit salvation . Craik and R Are to inherit

— l a salvation Young and Diag . Receive the inherit nce of

— salvatio n Douay . 2 Peter Until the day dawn , and the daystar 1 6 THE WA 5 MORMON TERLO O.

s — n arise in your heart Until the day daw , and the day

— . etc star a rise In your hearts knowing this , Craik .

Dia l g is similar . Exodus But every woman sha ll borrow of her e o neighbor , and of her that soj ourn th in her h use , j ewels of silver , and j ewels of gold , and raiment ; and ye shall put them upon your sons , and upon your daughters ; and ye Shall spoil the Egyptian s — But every woman shall as k

— . o of her neighbor , etc D uay and R . V .

s ea Judges Ashe r continued on the shore , and

hi s s — abode in breache Sat still at the haven of the sea , an d — R s . abode by his creek . V Reader , notice the double blunder in the above . Judges And the Lord was with Judah ; an d he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain ; but he co uld

o ut not drive the inhabitants of the valley , because they had chariots of iron . Is it possible that both the Lord and Judah could not

h ad drive out the inhabitants of the valley , because they

' iron ch ar iOts ? A correct rendering should show that

w as Judah , thru fear of iron chariots , forsaken of God s o that he (Judah ) failed to drive out the dwellers of the H va ey . The read er of Smith ’s Bible translation will easily see “ ” e o r that instead of it being by direct rev lati n f om heaven ,

m . V . it is a bold plagiarism and forgery , copied fro the A ,

w even to numbers in chapters and verses , ( except here he o adds some of his own theories to the bible ) , and als , a that most of the blunders of the A . V . are copied verb ’ e to tim by Smith , with Jehovah s sacred nam forged this

conglomeration of blunders . s o s a Luke And Jesu said unt him , verily I y in unto thee ; t o day s halt thou be with me Paradi se.

H R C APTE XXXI II .

I NDEX TO BOO K OF M ORMON A N D TO BOO K OF DOCTRI N E

A ND C ENA NTS N SO E I P RTANT P I N TS OV , O M M O O .

- - 0 Pre existence , trinity and God dying B . M . pp . 44 , 7 , I I 75, 47 , S7 ,

Jesus speaking while dead , and appearance in America h i s 0 . after ascension to heaven . B . M . pp . 439 , 444, 47

w . . The dead in heaven , and conscious hile dead . B M pp

I s r e An awful and endless hell , from which there no

. 1 2 2 1 0 1 6 1 demption B . M . pp . 3 , 3 , 54 , 7 , 73, 4, 4 , 49 ,

20 1 0 Against Universal salvation B . M . pp . 5,4

6 28 1 1 86 . . 1 8 : . . Immortal souls B M pp 4 , , 3 4, 3 , 39 Pre ’ n . 2 8 . existence of man s spirit D . C . p 3 , I spired transl

2 : 6 1 1 1 2 Gen . 5, , 9 , , , etc . i t . . 1 1 s ecr e s m : . . Against and oaths B M pp 395, 5 4, 5 5 i m In favor of s ecr et s and oaths . Practices as published in this book and others . Endowments in Kirtland in

1 8 . . 28 34 . D C . p 4 .

1 1 1 1 8 . : . . . Against polygamy B M pp 4 , ’ ’

i 2 . t : . 0 In favor of , p 5 , Jared s brother s families Also practices of Smith as published herein . 2 Smith a Gentile : B . M . p . 3 in frontispiece also pp . 4, 2 0 6 0 0 2 7 , 3 , 4 4 , 5 3, 5 7, 5 4 1 66 26 : ...... Smith an Israelite B M p 59 and D C pp , 9 ,

. . 0 2 1 26 . : . The Indians from Manasseh B M pp 3 , 3 , 5 1 2 The Indians to be converted . D . C . pp . 7 , 73, 5.

1 58 I D X K F E 1 TC. N E TO BO O O MORMON , 59

. . . 2 2 8 . Against strong drink D C pp . 9 , 35

D . . 6 1 Smith sells it and drinks it . . C p , and testi

i n monies this book .

’ Smith uncertain as to whether he was God s servant or il ’ . 1 2 the dev s D . C . pp . 33 , 33 . e 8 . Smith liv d great and died great . D . C . p . 34

Contrast with testimony herein contained .

. 1 6 . s . C. . ee Stealing j ustified D p 5 Practised , His tory . I f enemy repent and come asking forgiveness ; forgive

0 x . 2 1 him until 7 7 D . C . p . 5 . I f your enemy smi‘ te you or attempt to kill you the third time , if you reward him according to his works , vou

- . . 2 . . . . e are j ustified D C p 50 . Self d fense j ustified pp

Mormon preachers to take no purse nor scrip nor two

o . . . 8 20 . c ats D C pp . 5 , 9 This command revoked by

. 6 Jesus Luke 3 .

Mormon preachers have the Holy Ghost , which gives

s o them at the very moment , the words of God to speak ,

1 1 2 . that they cannot be confounded . D . C . pp . 7 , 53

— Zion the New Jerusalem , to be built at Independence , ’

Mo . A cloud to rest upon it , and God s glory to fill it

2 . 6 1 0 20 2 0 . . . when built . D . C . pp . 4 , , 3 Also B M pp 4 5, 526 8 1 0 8 1 6 2 1 Advantageous revelations . D . C . pp . 9 , , 5, 4 ,

- i 0 1 . r tes . . Ja ed and barges . B . M pp 5 533 Their de

1 - struction . pp . 53 533. - des tr c 1 . u Journey of Nephites . B . M . pp . 44 Their

- 2 2 . tion by the Lamanites . pp . 3, 49 495, 533, 543 6 1 l . . . . . Lamanites cursed with a b ack skin B M pp 5, 49

- tw . 8 1 0 . o s . Sealed b o ok . B . M . pp . 9 3 The stick p 59

- . 6 . f 2 . 8 1 o . . Stone Dan D C . pp 7 , 7 ' 1 60 THE MORMON WA TERLOO .

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. ; . 6 1 C . 80 1 0 0 Everlasting gospel preached D pp , , ,

222 .

. . . 1 C . . Contention is of Satan D p 3, 444

. . . C . . 6 Much contention in the R C Zion D pp 35 , 359 ,

The Book of Mormon and the bible to stop all co n ten

tion , and to establish peace . B . M . p . 59 .

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. . . 8 1 8 1 20 Signs to follow this work D C 7 , 4 , 57 , 7 , 1 3 3.

Revelations and writings favoring the Utah chu rch .

. 1 6 2 1 2 8 2 1 6 . . . a Keys D C 7, 3 , 9 , 99 , 3 Twelve of equal u

th o r it 2 8 . . 88 y to First Presidency , pp , 3 3 Consent of the

church , p . 64. No enemies to prevail against Zion , pp .

8 1 2 2 6 . o . 7 , 79 , 9 , 34 , 4 A work in the desert and m untains 1 2 2 6 26 2 1 D . C . pp . 5, 5 , 3, 3 , 339 . ’

. . 6 1 62 Smith s keys from the dead D . C . pp , . 2 The only true church on earth . D . C . pp . 4, 5 . Arose

8 0 . . 1 3 , p 37

a . Harris a wicked man , a serv nt of Satan and a liar

6 8 . D . C . pp . , 7,

- 1 1 8 . Harris bulldozed by Smith . D. C . pp . 4 Cowdery sees plates in his mind and heart by the holy

2 2 . ghost . D . C . pp . 3, 4 Cowdery told h o w to translate the plates study it o u t

— 2 2 in your min yet forbidden to do it . D . C . pp . 4 , 5.

The three witnesses only to s ee the plates by faith .

2 - D . C . pp . 3 37 .

END .

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