| Show Book of Mormon Class at the College A largo and appreciative class listened lis-tened to the lecture of Prof Mills on the Book of Mormon last evening nt the Laltcrdaj Saints college This being the first meeting of the tines for three weeks n review of the past few festoons was taken The life and character char-acter of that noble and upright man of God the Prophet Alma formed an Interesting In-teresting and Instructive part of the review The lesson of the evening the SCth to the 43rd chapters of tho book of Alma wa then discussed Special emphasis was laid Rlclal till the whleome Ioctrln ontnln In the advice of Alma to Ills none Iolmal Shiblell And Cottonton As eldtce of tile elevating tenlney of the Book of Mormon Tills edition ItIon of Alma contain the Philosophy Of the reurrecton Inradl anti the consequence of sin 1ii such simplicity nnd plainness that he who runs may read Surpassing everything now contained In the ruble on thses subjects sub-jects both I in depth nnd clearness It harmonizes most perfectly In every expression with the Jewish record n uninspired muin could have wilttenlt The lecturer called attention to the fact th lit no Character taken from a sacred book ought to be mode the hI of a work of fiction as hag hen done In the tory known as The hlr ofHagolh The characters and tendencies ten-dencies of that story were discussed In a teachable spirit Not only does the tory weave Into nariatlve topics of Book of Mormon Interest but makes Its two lending characters vicious A wrong hoprlon of the 0U of the story might thus be created and Inns I much ns some altogether fictitious character are Intodued Into the tory those unncqualnled with the Book of 10rmon may he 11 to conld er them real when history nand fiction Are thus closely associated it becomes difcult to detel mine fact from fable The speaker deprecaled aenlnst making the characters of a second record the source of such a work und hoped that n such effort would he repeated re-peated The lecturer however said nothing that could he construed its disparaging to the million or the publisher pub-lisher of the work ns the authorship nnd publication n doubt originated In worthy mot en bill > he thought nevertheless that such literary efforts should be discouraged by those who love and revere sacred writings Th class meet again on Monday |
