| Show 1 H 11 1 HH 11 1 1 H I HH H HH HH HH H 1 lM H H II I H t I H lH I IH H H H HI I IH 1 SOLOMON SP GM AN US CR Ii i I r H H tH I II H HH Ht H Ht lIH II HIi II I Ir r FOR THE TH NEWs NEW BY LE LI fbI ROI c SNOW nth nh while on onA A r 11 i Into convel I II nister Ister ot the u I 1 E al LI topic were the theIr theU but It wa U Ir II sere talking about I r the th ro SAints lie lieI PY JY religious belief bellet belleti I n t i I I what church he heI heh h I of if UI u wee 8 Ignorant nt Ii other The Th gen genth r n I th It hOOk J ok ot Mormon lormon Mormont I Hately ikel him hImS t I e S h it t lie theu thet MI tory Ir NOVEl NOVETiA rJ 1 a 1 i P nome name ot of solomon A 1 c the 4 IT r t b 1 i vf lf the Americana I writings 1 IIi us t I L I mg ur Manuscript lie was t published b 11 V his hs story 1 tb e It t Sidney RIg with Jo Jot tI II b th IJ y I conceiVed the t rg 5 story ort ot onto the thet I a FI 1 r 1 r that had ben been benI t vie vis vier II t n m ta In a heavenly I ur r they had bad the book K II d It t the Rook Dook ot of 1 ji to conceal from deception they s 1111 I tt Spaulding f ec It Is 18 still sUlI carefully by Mormon people ts p j r r h heard ard of since JIIn Joseph Smith and 1 i MINi MT N TEnS STORY tJ r his hll story so nicely r al I 91 someWhAt con conA I V i hW w to answer him himLi himI A I i Li Ib hg Spaulding writ 1 had learned trop from I 3 1 t 4 If I t that these thee writings I 1 11 Id SlatS ago In j tn fl In the hO hOj 1 j lul I had no positive ve vet t I II a firm resolutiOn to tor toc c r at once n to 10 the readers ot of 18 fl with the tho hope that ay 11 tn t F m young oun man who t tal fa this lie that has hall and resorted o 1 t f tS II the sacred t I 31 J i 11 FaY that tile the I r oj t Dt at j e to me Is die dieb b 11 m i be ignorant con conr Lg r su U r but I do an say and andI I ha that his well wella is a from begin I i BinK E i OF MORMON MORMONt b t say ny a 11 few tew words con conr r 1 3 part ot of his story t tg K f M 1 mn was waa published d db b in r r the year 18 IO o and anda C a r December followIng I r acquainted henle the utter irn ov fur tur and 1 S Eb b to have huo conceived the tho f teg th Writings I us 1 a sacred record I Mr mg n had hed gained posses pOises 1 q f WI Ip which however Jt r hE met hou I i rIes ot or the Dook b n alread already distributed 4 c pe peo o peu u l r y of the Spaulding Hi J from the I 4 J IS 5 In discovery r I t 1 1 every one who I tar far to carefully n S J ph h F ex exi i 1 subject that have 11 za HI the Mutual Improve 1 Hr ThE Manuscript 11 4 r and C 6 ot of the our cur r tre to give n a de des dey y s ry rr f ti manuscript but butt t el T points and then r t mr fully concerning Its n and aM I S DEATH a t td ot of 1800 1100 Solomon x t I iL L c red ired to have his hll hlll l L He died be beI I 1 m g this desire 1115 iud through h the hinds of several veral publish none nOM ot of them deeming It worth the About the year lUG 1110 Mr Jr L L RIce and Mr bought the publishing ot of Mr lr IL E D 13 In Ohio The Th Manu Manuscript script was VII among the book and papers papera and with them was by Mr Itice to Honolulu where It lay lost loat to the world until the year ear 1381 when hen Mr Rice u unexpectedly found I iL Later he heI I It to Jam James II H FairchIld then president ot of the Oberlin to be kept In the library ot that institution and there It I is todaY open to the in III ot of the Tim THE CITY OF O Oberlin the county eat ot of county Ohio SA is n a beautiful village with witha a llO of about live thousand Inhabitants Very few towns In the Rut East so IO much r our garden cities In Utah as does O OberlIn The streets ar are wide c croes at right an angles anglee glee and are well shaded by trees tree The town Is clean eln and qUiet and It is II an Ideal students home Many retired people o le have taken up their homes In tills this town ot of hand handsome lame reel real dences The college authorities are somewhat oPP opposed to the students liv log Ing together In large boardIng houses they are therefore distributed among the residents ot of the town which mak makes I their surroundings more like those thOle ot of otreal I real home life lite There Thero Is a very good railway and street car service between Cleveland and Oberlin It a distance ot of about mill miles Train on the Lake Luko Shore and Michigan Southern railway make very quick time but the electric railway has hns nn hour service between Cleveland and Oberlin and Is much more convenient The care go direct to tM the rounds grounds CoLLEGE The college a is II Bote ao square Immediately Iq i tk 01 center o othe of the town Grass Orall beds aDd ad aDdwell adwell well walks make nake the ground indeed beautiful Most of the college colle buIldIngs about In number are boated here Oberlin college Is Isnow isnow now one Gt the leading educational In the country It has a membership ot of over fourteen hundred I do not kno know ot of another hool chool that has haa such an interesting hi history tory connected with Its founding as aB has ha this one In the year ear lilt IU two young men Philo Philop p Stewart and John Jolin J neither ot of Warn them having any money determined to unite their In doing seine thing to the world The They were not satisfied with the of spend pend pendIng lug Ing their lives for tor their own Welfare alone but desired to do 10 something fur tor the benefit ot of others other One da day they went out several miles Into the dt dense forest that then covered almost entire northern Ohio the they down under the historic elm thet still stands on the college grounds round and In humility prayed God to uit them III Ia their m most t pral worth worthy determination It was wal then that they chose choM for tor their motto The colony and the college The They named the ilace Oberlin after atler Frederick I Oberlin a German who had devoted his entire life lite for tor the benefit ot of men kind T Tough their object was a most noble ont one yet It how hol were thy they to IllIsh It J J 3 England the younger ot of the colonists rode on horseback o New I England and there was lu successful I In making arrangements to bu buy a por i p fr g v 2 i ij a 1 i I II t 1 F I 4 1 11 I 5 i II ck JOHN HENRY DD ot of the tbt hosi lion Formerly Filled by Janice Jamel If 11 Fairchild U u u ties ot of the land that had chosen for tor their colony colon and and nd soon loun reo re with Uh a few tew hardy bardy New England eli ens U w who ol the ground built a small log b nd there April i 1 Lw g College Collet The college pew grew wit remarkable ra rapidity In n 1 11 through a peculiar the 81 dl department of the I In Cincinnati Ift that In a body and Joined tM thi Oberlin Colle College which had to to large IUle pro proportions portions and wu wet now attracting at attention tendon from all 11 the coun countr country tr try It we 81 during and the tol fol year r President noW wu was 1 a student at t the Oberlin Cull College hie lii being th and the satt l FIRST A Au MOan llaban Hev Chas Cha 0 1 Finney were the O 0 ot of Oberlin College and ancl tn In the dIll year ear 1 lest Prof Jas Jae II 11 J became which omee he held until his hll r in t HO lr hI he heis is II till connected wit wiIt tho col It II Ir Fairchild to whom th the world II is partially fur tur the discovery ot of the S Manuscript And Into whose it was 1111 given by Mr Ir Win C nut next tilled the high an just last year tar Jt John DD who picture accompanies thi prUde article Wit was ma made l presIdent nt rehearse ot of thI ume It I Ii that the College h hu d puch a wonder wonderful ful Not Nn oal oisly l Ii th iii college di because ot of the high entrance and the sIts thoroughness ot of the instruction Itea In It its several everal de dc but sled because of the tie b oad Ico e of It It COU There Thre are ninety tM both h men end Ind wo women 0 men In the t faculty the mitt The the seminary the th the nJ ot of Ie I ih h In physical or r anti and the ech olot and paint Th Tile buildings And art are vet very tine There lire are two large buildings no now In ourse foure of er that tha I a are re to be used for or the and nd lab laboratories oratories The museum is II tn en thel Inadequate for tor the lar large thin ot or rare 1 A large build buildIng In Ing will soon loon be for tor that pur pUrpose pose foat No college R a beautiful concert hall ball But Dut on one of It the most handsome with I is the building The library has hili about II MIt thousand bound anI and over haH haf Si many lets leIs AI A can In be trOll train the cut tt it Is II an tone stone building Jl While In the a few weeks ago aiO I splat two Itay lit Ih Oberlin cc c t by my sister Most ot of tim wu was to the colle J oI At th the buildings I 1 went Ont to 0 t The MIt librarians l is II on the floor On entering the room I was with a hearty hert had bac alad been informed b by the eI the college collego that I wits 11 to visit the library The Th man ho the Im important posItion ot of librarian of the O Oberlin ool lege Ilfe library 18 I Smith Root noot he Is Alto also professor ot of lie hu a fine and andIs la Is one ot of the most moat gentle gentlemen men I have ever ml mat Al AI soon toon u aa I entered his hll office he hUt sable his hll work ork and kindly offered to spend at as much time with m me a II I desired II at ottee asked about nv father anel said 14 he had read and heard hard so much of him that hI he Will was deeply ted In the present rt t the Mormon Church AN OLD After taking me through the building showing me the extent extant ot of the I large several well w lL equipped private and nd the zoom tO l t took ok In Ink me back k to hta 1111 I 1 have hae an old hare said Id Mr Hoot which will no dl doubt In you very try much II then stepped to the library safe t awl took out a book which care up In tissue As AI Ashe he It he said x This Sa is the U I hinK a great deal dul ot of It and nd as semi ot of the Iv leaves were pretty badly woh I II I have lately had It carefully bound to It II and the I leaves all as you OU 5 lO the professor tUrning to tit th lint first pages ot of the book 11 I hive have pasted paled between silk lIk and the entire nUre now In very good condition ROUND BOUND Professor Root then banded me methe the book and told ID me I might alt tt down and end as much time look looking ing IIII It or oer u as I 1 might wish It I Ic now bound In red ret morocco the hi title is II In gilt BUt letterIng Inside this beautiful cover is II Ute the faded old menu manu script Of 01 I ices two hundred g J I turned OVer the leu leaves on one otter aUer the tho theother other redl a little her anti Ind there thero therean an I glanced over the pages There Is hardly II a line without a misspelled w hJ a o or an erasure At ier a short time Root Hoot re returned returned turned and I could sea N he was a desirous that I 1 ea Ay something bout about the fur tor I lied had not even shown the least Interest In It which surprised him tub nut But I stIll sliest nt as t I was II even lucre Inora eager eacer that lie should pea peak k Finally h he did eo 10 and these were wre his hll words PROP HOOTS Mr It I is all humbug to MY that the Book flook of Mormon Jormon baa hi an any eon oon whatever with Ith the I have read and aad compared them thern both boll wr very carefully and am fully Cully convinced that they are not It iii Any anyway WA way connected with each eath other There ThereS S ii not a proper Mme mime or an 1111 Incident In inon one on that a name or incident In iii tb the otter and not only I is there no resemblance lanct In reading matter but the styles used In the two boo books are else allO entirely different This as might be supposed afforded me much satIsfaction It II R as strong trong I a testimony III as any ny could whit for tor torud forand ud and It camp caine from en an honest mn man and that t too J from one who is II not in III any I Wa ay In sympathy with our people or our faith Yet It tl is not at all surprising that lie he should make such a statement We have hav an exact ropy copy ot or the Manu Manuscript script It II i known all ci the Manuscript Story and nd can be 11 had at the t News Anyone who bo will reed the beau beautiful eau teachings and interesting history In the Book nok of Mormon Hormon and compare compre the same tip with Ih the sIlly contents ot of the Spaulding Story will not lIot hesitate to tomake tomake make a like statement OP OF INQUIRY Professor Root told me inc that tbt lie be reo re received several everal letter every week In inquiring quiring about the manuscript In tact fact h he red read two letters to me that he hd had just received The Th writer ot of one ot of them BIked ached about the owner of the manuscript and how bow much mUth the writ writIngs Ings could be purchased for tor In the theother other letter wee 11 an aD u as to the of t tb the TO such each a hill n uy UJ tM the was faB no doubt ut It I b bIng be being Ing the original il rI tiN and that It bears bean e to the flook ot of Mormon II said to the fur Cur NoW Mr fr Sno Snow I 1 tont dont suppose you ou people would tar rare to surpo this hll man manuscript for tor It certainly will do you ou more morl where it II I is now thin then It if one of YOur In or an any Institution with jour our people possessed tt it And he Is right for tor where would be 1 a amore more mort proper place for tor It than the great t educational Institution In Oberlin and whose Ital statement ment would be accepted more mOrt readily or with more confidence then than the thai or nr th t of that Inch Thu is II surely urel the best place for tor It And then Professor toot Root is II so 10 pleasant that It I is a 11 pleasure to talk with him and I know he would only be too glad to show the manuscript to who might be interested In InIng see Ing It PI itt In n I wish h to give just 1 a avery vi very brief ot of tile the contents ot of the writings this II I not done In the at ridicule for tor simple end and ridiculous ci the II story or is III I 1 do not wish to 19 rna light of It In any ny way what I III I I II li H H 1 d I d I i g b e 4 JQ II 11 r I i ii I Ii JL 11 I I ITHE q I I THE OBERLIN RY RYThe The Cro Cm the Front Corner Indicates te the of III l nJ A So S hoot In Sate Safe Reposes e the Ule paulding Over I obJect therefore In ring directly to tte contents ot of the manuscript Is II to point out more clear clearly ly Iy the subject with which I 1 deals tb the names name thAt are used and a t or of the incidents therein contained that those thole Will ho do not read the manuscript them themselves selves may not be ignorant III as to the matter It contains and thu bile bet better tr ter Understand the endless difference between the Spaulding writings rIUn end Ind th the Hook Book ot of Mormon I here give Ive all 11 the important roper proper names that thai occur In the manuscript a toman CaPtain LuI n vr ore Tom and amock 1 Rings 1 Bambo Chiango and Ram Ham uck Prince and Princess ram r end and her friend Heil 1111 con a 5 prophet the ther seer r High L and the wise nan mn Ha ka or Lo 10 balk th the emperors and There are also allO the names I and The following rivers are alf mentioned and th the Ohm Thre large larre are given the name std Gambit The t f Ai na is natt tt a tie or er the the r 10 M The pa pad page d the Ue ln in II no wilt It af storY m Into three tin so ac ot of I In of at a crew ut of twenty Roman Itoman This occupies the first half doen ge ot of tk Manu Manuscript I script Second en an amusing slid ridic description ot of time tilt rites cere ceremonies monies and and ot of the natives of America This completes the first Ant half bait ot of the Manuscript or about pages part pan which occupies the en entin entire tire tin second half bait ot of the manuscript re lat hates a love affair with which the tory giving an ot of himself the writer tells ot of one a learned Roman naman who was Wat on his WIl |
