Show tha september bumler of nf the file american Historic Hist oncil il magazine Maea zinc published b the society in new yolk is of mole moie importance to members of the mormon chinch chuich than thal any other public that has re reached imbed this table in months in it is to te le found the firt of a series of rr on the congin ot the batok beok of mormon b B H roberts robert this genes is in ansei ansidei to a 1 number of articles from the pen of theodore eder once i i lawyer havyer of silt salt lake city notorious in utah more for his per ni cilous hostility to mormons cormons and mormonism and his issuance of a periodical called Lu cifers lantern than for any greatness as a lawyer mr r roberts takes the ground of justification for replying ing to the der articles bec becque tue of the high standing of the american historical magazine in which the articles ip geared also as a further reason for a reply is the attitude of schroeder that his series is an exhaustive treatise of the real mal origin of the book of mormon chich aich schroeder claims to to have been the old spaulding dins mth a theory which has been exploded time and time again mr roberts makes the point that instead of an exhaustive treatise on this theory it is real really y a specious plea made for the purpose of twisting the spaulding theory to fifthe fit the plea of schroeder and to move all obstructions out of the way of this specious plea the third justification given by mr roberts is the claim made mada by der that the actors who participated in the origin of the book of mormon are all dead and that therefore no new evidence is likely to be discover ed and that all the evidence directly affecting either 4 side ide of the controversy contro ersy has been introduced and received the series will be well worth orth fol following loNNing and those interested can get the magazine by addressing the publishers given above abode |