Show S SUNDAY U CATECHISM I 1 or of mr air david whitmer L sol 1 survivor solve of th the LI wit ofte 1 the be book of mormon why dont you on oftener answer civil ques 1 eions I one addressed you by letter mr bit chilmer liUTO crT donhou Don Dont tou DIE know are ro under ft moral possibility EV to lo do go 80 ro DO you not lot say that you bore your testimony to tile truth or the book of mormon in ID obedience to a command ment from god if god commanded you to bear tred minty dinny thet that fayck you saw MW the ilic plates isom from awell I 1 alie 1 rook lq or of mormon was tran and awl abat you saw abreast a phile anil and etc why did tit d you I 1 fo a only to havidic seen tile p plates latest ile how durst you on to disobey a of owl f billyou not benr beer toti mouy I 1 in n 1820 1829 that you abw pl ca and only jalila ji lila you now DOW testify hat but you saw other things how fa did you see sec these objects iu in the day time or in tho the night time 7 IQ in your with ith siesta SI esra pratt 11 anil nd tour mith at al richmond m mo last eryou you eay any that you oil MW tile tho plot etc by supernatural power powe r hut bill you told them lliam that your brother john ohn bad them abon to him bico by joseph smith jr IQ in ilia testimony published in ili IWO 1830 your brother sas aaa that joseph jr showed h him tin and others tho the plates but in a company pany of eight or aioo aprons pr ons in ID tho ilia naring of 01 IWU your brother john stata tho the plates were show n to lim him b by a power T are you able b a to reconcile recon cilo this digera awro in their testimony your b rother brother john Whitt lIEr and sol en other persons testify to tile world orld that they saw line lao died and hefted the plates have you ever r stated that y you it handled and aad Itt fled them or c can a 0 you affirm this nowr now were you not commanded of god to testify that you saw the plates even cien na AS my servant joseph has wen seen thein 71 dill did my servant joseph seo see these things objectively or lit in vision or both ways bayst ciflie showed them to your brothers aud and to others olli cra and they ban died and belted them then must not jr 11 bandied an and hefted them t how could you honestly that you oil saw tho the plates even as my servant joseph has seen them unless you saw them both ways as ile he must nil A 1 0 done 1 1 a TO you 0 ever stated that you saw these tile unless while under un IOU er some sort mesmeric or prefer natural influence note nore aro are one or two iwo moro more points mr you are told after afier that aou ou lime bao obtained faith and bavo seen them TI ith your eyes seen with your eyes la Is redundant aud and obtain faith and seen been ft nall ith your acs is ia slightly mixed you shall testify of them by the power anil and title til 11 you you shall do that my servant joawph jom ph smith jr me may not be desire destroyed then ou on not on only 11 saw the aliee things by the pomeroy power of god G by faith with your e elj but youre to testily or of them by the power pow cr ol of god I 1 are arc you not at liber liberty tybo to tell about these thier it 10 a letter or to 10 common con tion mr IVI litmer unless it is IB dune done by ilk poor boft or of god buethe but the gist 0 of wo I 1 0 matter mailer la in yet 10 lo come colim you are arc to testify of hum tilam by the of god that my illy servant joseph sol jr may not lot be des destroyed troed why jilly low bow is ia this mr david whitmer who could ever have harbored ho be a design ue sought or wished milled to destroy dreamed of destroying josaph smith jr jorfor for digging up plates and translating them by anni and Thu minim by tho the Li lithona Lin hona abona or ottora otherwise ISO not a soul u under uder tile thu w wide canopy mr IV V on the mr bir smith jr or any othar m whatever would have lave received any amount obaid of aid and encouragement ilk is new country unhappily so BO de dc n tin iu I 1 the matter oung H pining for some kind of an early history late cr NUT body y in search of a pedigree of a past would mr rj smith arfi rs wonderful me as a perfect godsend and would have delighted to honor bdour him baull they won would hae fairly idolized old wilA as n foible blood relation rc naoto as hark twain would my but drill a relation they would haic bac c clung i desperately to they would out HUI have enshrine 11 mormon und and the iho rest a mong among their lares larca anti and pennies and if a lineal descendant of nepal were extant would he be not have blen been proud to perch lilio him ou oil uio the t top op of his bis ancestral tree why ir nhi lnier why hadid did not mr bit joseph amith jr to exhibit this lanious famous record eeli at two bits as was waa arst stated slated he be would or even cren at four foor bits comein here orthy or why was as it not submitted to lo some bome honorable savant kivant of out our new marld altro its ita gei genuine bicos might have bavo b been aiza I 1 adud 1 11 AS there no such person to ED no the rude scrawl I 1 transcribed and sent to professor anthon and others who turned up ill their scholarly notice lit at it would have bavo speir posted to them far different did creat bad I 1 clity U y seen fl t tho b or riI oal wily why in id tile ilia a duina of r all t that balt ia ag were dot elie alic original plates have you tile the address of tile the bogal who now has these yer fr plates to JQ his bi keeping can you oot not forward ihil can aou oot dot do at least so BO muth I 1 noi birtho world tot lo 10 understand that the things you saw baw were in 10 visible w lien hen you oil abut cut late into tho wooda to arny pra about thim and aad that they were ou canio does doca not dot this story alory savor bavor of anything rather than reality do you not ste bir air that you aro are in honor and duty bound to the world to answer reasonable ques tiona lien put to you upon the nutter matter I 1 in your case ia gottlic not tho whole holo mys acry to bo be cleared up on the ground that hint you on were either cither or tha chalou toti were made tho 0 victim of a deep and carefully executed trick havo you never queried why martin harris could not and did not have haro a lew of the plates at tile ilic time limo you did dida do you oil know mr bir whitmer that martin clarris fl hams arris v m hen he be came to flani alit some dome queer thing about this matter the testimony of eight witnesses ia balc being 1 twice ice r repeated tested that joseph smith jr showe showed them the plates mho ho II hid 4 tile abe plat alalia at tho the time limu joseph smith showed allowed them to these eight airs smith in her hia tory says the plates mere curried carried to them by one of tho the ancient the tight bair ay nothing of tins this hut but simply state smith showed tile the plates to thern them if tho the plaits bad been on 0 of qu quicksilver c or ver could u I 1 boy 0 have ave b awn man any moro ere slippery whitt what kin kind it of met metal were w ED they I 1 0 an w way 8 bf mr I 1 whit mer roary IW I 1 t not of za so 11 lly kow OW mr whilmer in 01 I 1 5 I 1 w what hilt tho ilia alcen iel CIE m it DAc declare c do not noi theses serious lousch sc to p one ai ID I 1 their m make s ke it do doubtful u bufu I 1 crun 0 to honest believers in a bif Murn r I 1 whether in ph 1 bill I 1 J jr r I 1 ever r really I 1 bal bad an any Y plates I 1 MM 1 but bul a about ut did this old goot leman this illis very old gentleman really abow the plates to your wind good mother to la the cow yard 0 why should the heavenly messenger foci feel called upon to take lalio the platos plates from harmony IIan to palmyra when they had provi if been conveyed from put pal myra to harmony larmony cen compact fact slid and coin iq in a barrel 0 of beans I 1 are ou quito quite certain that was no KO Utis RIE nt this time do the die angel take the until any slid and ul at tile hie time ho a received back live plates for good aud and mile alp did the iata occur to yuu you that c sidney higdon was M playing tuu thu rolo role of moroni although moroni had on a w while bits w lieu lie appeared to you on abc road from harmony to pa be dot otherwise lc resemble higdon f was wai not the pr practice active of assumma quito quite it a i aturo in ia early mor mon monism moDi aai I 1 why is not hot the ilic revel atlin to 0 cowdery Cow dury a D ditmer so ud M 1 harris given lve injure injune in june 1621 to vowing 1 the plates plate containing the book of mormon M to be faund d in the prig of ilov inal edition ion or th lia c I 1 n eions ed in 1831 arc YOU not bare mr it IVIl luner klinl uio bod Us I 1 in the ibo book of mormon nor hylt to in tile the revelations published in 1813 N hen did ou on gist brat hear ol of tile tho aurim and im 6 haling 9 to do with mormon revelations not your importunities th iho a bouk book of 1 about ready for ilia I 1 ou nu had a view ol 01 the hie pla tetto UE i 01 afo A to 10 the iLoV 0 what In coult of the I 1 ing ho of the eleven cleven wil wit ties jcsse sesto to tho the book of mormon the original document with I 1 the 1 autographs to graphs of iho I gotre iuah la choso whoso UC Were these onlest will you not satisfy if you can le a natural curiosity on do this ile point JOU tit and state what became or of this important and could 11 lieve been handed over to tho custody ot at anglon I 1 HM it uio heads or the file mormon church permuted permitted co cowdery d 0 to keep tile the manuscript of tho the wea B book of o mormon if some ono of them had bad not au AD eldir and tile alist translation on oil what ground could either cow cowdery it cry or yourself act hitup lip a claim to this manu script t Is it nut dot too bad that thai not only the plates anti and until and Thum mini but the 1118 original translation should bo be do you not know air that mr air barfoot of the iho deseret museum would walk barefoot front from b hero ere to holob for either cither one of ili C s e ill ings desato dealto tho the statement 0 of f the salt lake aernt bews anrew that the several editions of the iho book of mormon JOr mou have never dever materially varied from tho the ong ED bool of aro am ou u I 1 not well aware mr r it Tiit it mer ita that fl t such Is not tho the truth or clem a par of the nall nail or of ilo ono of these I 1 in the iho original edition of I 1 iho dook book of mormon is not joseph smith jr spoken of repeatedly as aa lia its author anti and proprietor did not eight witnesses te testify 1 solemnly the that I 1 joseph smith jr TUBS a author autho r and proprietor or of the book of 31 mormon ormon io in calculated to lo mako make tho world oria bruni lc I 1 and convince all tho ilia honest la in heart ic nc lie not god bearing w u atness of it T if joseph smith jr did not know exactly what tho the term ati author thoi tin plied tied is it supposable that tho the Alli viso being being who it is 19 claimed directed ill him lid did not know the iho meaning incan inc of em the he n old I 1 dont you think ur mr whitmer Whitco cr there may have been some rival claimant to the author authorship still and proceeds of tho the book aad d TI it as oot not the rival claimant ri on luc history of joseph smith states a ill t veiled him in it ami to told him tin about the plates etc joseph F 1 sin fill mint before a 6 SN silt lake audience recently that this was a ml Is a take of the amanuensis awas it was noot not nephi but moroni 11 do you it know now air tiner who was this very carlo erring amanuensis of this ibis W very C LAY erroneous angel I 1 the signature Bigot turo llo moroni rouil is ia found on the title pares pages of the ilia book of mormon sla since the second edition la Is hission his sign manual attached to the original 10 your possession f finally mr whitmar timer as custodian of tho the purity and integrity of this mag icely delivered and magically guarded work will you cleme turn to the iho fourth ch chapter anle 1 0 of 1 tho the first book of an note 1 whether abeth e r tho the lamb of god la Is there called the eternal father t hur cribs or iho son of the alio eternal father i our editions very vary on this important doctrinal point iho the first that of 1830 page 32 stating that the lamb kamb ofa of bod is A the eternal father anti and saviour of the wo world rlLand and subsequent editions of the book stating that tile tho lamb of god is ilia iho conot son ot tho eternal fa father ther will you have tho the goodness to rafi r to tile tho manuscript and stess eve whether hether AS in the first edition tile theolog is that of arius arias and sidney rigdon E or that josph joseph smith art Iliva pity upon us friend for fir in our current editions all since tho the first iho typographical error here reclined makes an ini monse change or of theology flying giving two theologies theolog icis instead crone of one now ibis la alm almost as big a an oversight aa to make the iho coming comma ar larih lh BOX of tile of mormon to be I 1 in ii 1 I HUME not of a prophecy but in fulfill moot of a simp simple a comparison tito the I 1 vision fillon of all has bus become AS the ilia words of a book theirs that is settled sealed tho the divine authenticity of tile tho book of mor man m will III certainly bo be exploded unless upon receipt hereof you come promptly to tho the rescue mr it and straight ito iwori to straight questions only will satisfy the present |