| Show JI JIt I A ATTACK t s A little local sheet heet professing to bo ha but bu running over with t gall and and nud 1 i manes th the 01 6 a desires desire to attract some eatoe alien atten attention thou tion by b venomous yet ot silly Hilly on Oil ont t Mormon willem venters and anil speakers They are not nol worth north noticing In ht detail but bul butone bulone butone one of or the tho strained efforts we wilt will p i mention as on a 1 of tit the tho H a religious Ingle to KUer lader 1 II 11 H of ot the tho then n i h tl so o Fifth a tel by lw III lit I IIII f tn III the tho of Mormon Marmot the tho objector I cites the doctrine of ot Q an us taught 1 t tn In that thal book boole and ddll I t d td Alexander Campbell taught the sano t t h form orm of ot baptism m about bout twenty yearn before th the took Hook of ot Mormon appeared I Sidney Idney was vua sue Olin of ot hH his preach flU ere Anti And an as tho the record Will wee idly tilly copied by tho the gift and power of or I Udon what toots more III Ill fluor that L I the battle form tarm ot of baptism by bo Incorporated In It the tho now I t ti tr t The reference to i 1 l l I the ot of the tho Christian Uon writer i but nay may bo ho t paced assed by Ity with the tho remark i t that the tho undoubted connection of oft t 1 t t Mr with tho the production of ot that i I i ti j book rests entirely nn on rumor without the lightest substance of ot fact filet tn In Its III i It I support II U In Is like Inke toast most of tho the Chris 1 than assertion concerning the th origin of at the book utterly false e and l and nd fit nl only for tor lice Ufe u c In pulpits pulpit with n ith the tho Q 1 tk l 1 Ih t 1 1 1 fl t i and decoying decaying table fahle of ot witch which It II I l ii n part pert und and to 10 which writers writer and still clinK cling a all as absolutely tu to their Mormon theories But does doe It follow follo because Alexan tier taught ht the tho 01 ot of baptism for lor the r of at and arni was waH for lor awhile ei cd with that we the source of ut that doctrine In III the Hook ot or M o we wego wego go ItO a I little tittle further r back than IMn Campbell and ami n W H It where ho he obtAined on that doctrine doctrIne John did dla W baptize In hI Inthe the Iho and preach the of repentance tor thet thel of ot slits Ho It Is IN I written In the Now New Testament lIIk 1 11 4 also alco nl o In tho the name of at J Jesus us Christ for tor the tho remission at of t sins dins Ails AI 2 3 37 By Ity the same mima logic loslo then forerunner r and chief apostle were the authors of ot that hat doctrine both to lu Campbell anti and Joseph Nth Now low would It not bo bf consistent for tor writers und and to 10 toV V r nt by the DIP nf of those ear eor early early ly Iy expounders of ut true Irue doctrine anil adopt It II nH os part of ot r If It baptism In IH for lor the l ot of sine Finn In It ItlO darn lO H not lIot matter much touch who tn III modern times Mamas WOK was first firm lo to Its 1111 H truth hut but It does matter it n II great deal that It IL ILIs Is IH rejected h modern pro lIra 1 ll While the Iho the tho thoIn In tho thu Now av Testament con baptism they the do If II not nol believe In Inthe the tho doctrine of o the laying un on of ot for or tho gift of ot the tho Holy 1101 which Is IH H as plainly taught In ht the Book of Mor non Inon ns liS true m IH 11 s and that also ll o oh IH Is h New Testament 1 nt If It the tho look Hook nf or Mormon Is it a 1 repetition of ot why 1 hy docs does It urge till the iea of at nn un ordinance which opposes timid rejects The Hook took of o M furnishes the tho form torm and words of ot tho Iho of at baptism its III well an as Us Its and they Ih y cannot bo be found In any other book extant claiming to bo be Inspired rite rIll efforts effort of 0 clerical and to belittle the tho Hook Book of ot Mormon account tor for Its It II production pro anti distort and pervert Its 1111 teachings anti the expositions of ot Its l advocates serve nerve to 10 show the tho spirit spilt of 01 malevolence ol lIco which this the Ih opponents of at that hat hook book cherish In their hearts anti antiI In tn I furnish the honest weaker seeker after twit with additional of ot the tho divine tutu of 01 H a 1 work that no nil or other means mans of ot snick hUB hits ever Cel been b en ahlo ahle to 10 prove Is either cither untrue or 01 of lit merely human ori orl origin gin |
