Show I A OF OP HISTORY V t Ono Onn of ot the strangest of ot American religious phenomena vh is I the Use rise of ot tho the Mormons Aa An A early caily as ISiO ISlO Joseph Joceph JosephI 1 I Smith of Now New York n a native ot or Ver Vermont Vermont er ermont mont began to tu luve mo visions vl und and to tP dream dreams In 1827 ho lio professed to have havo somo golden re revealed revealed revealed to him hint by nn an tinge the tho Inscriptions tione of which lie ho published In 1830 a 1 aa al alft a n new flew revelation front flom heaven heWen Hi 11 called It The Hook Book of at Mormon or The Tho Bible This book bouk Imd bini been bien copied ns as the weight of evidence clear clearly ly Iy Indicates indicate mann from n a manuscript In a 1 printing oin office e by un tn of t tine tho named who wan now Itow In league with It had been written by hy Solomon Spaulding of o Con Cent IK nut Ohio und WIS Va a ry of the tho ancient Inhabitants of Ameri America merl meri meriCa I ca who were ero to lo bo IJo descendants of the tho ten hn lost of or Israel On Oil the tho publication of The rile Hook Book of Mol Mar Mormon mon mom Smith hud bOll Ills his Three Witnesses IH who solemnly declared that an nil angel mud had to tl them al nico o that the new lIew religion now by Smith was the tho true and only but buti J 1 i these men afterwards quart tied with Smith and that their testimony mony Was wa falso false tine the whole scheme echeme a 1 fraud The Tho foregoing la Ia u a from frou Elsons History lory of till the United cl States published l by y one of ot tho the most reputable In title this country W Wo We It fo u II show ghow how much reliance Is la to be bei i cell uP of if aliened tile hb recent events If IC tho tue history of moro atoro remote occurrences they offer orrI t tn to tho tue and Mr foi i text te t In III I the tine of the tile conn coun country t t j try Is a nil unfounded u II as that Which we have IVl cited nuch lIuch work works might as R well vell bo ho olto to the tho names or Bround over onI ns tie pulp for more marc truthful and they wo would thereby be ho put IUt putto putto to better lie Itc I use thud to tho gent cn en eral erat reader Tho 1110 author of this neW now history of o otho the tho United States Slates has hue not taken tolen i nary m ry pains t to 10 find out oUI ou tim tho facts con the tie subjects subject on Ott which ho tie but has hns culled that which ho ns n history tram front i mon man in t sources end particularly from a t notoriously untruthful work worl known knolln ns as asS S the Story of the Mormons To begin with Joseph JoKeph Smith Sith of New NewYork NewYork Ne York Tork York never called tho the Hook Book of Mormon The rho Golden Ool cn Bible that Is a n title lotho work by Its Is opponents Next tho story about Manuscript round Found end and lIe Its having been copied as ns a the Hook of o Mormon Is te 1 a n bit of fiction which ne demolished fully seventy years yearn ago when It woe vins lS invented by hy an nn apes apos apostate tate front from who was vas e ex ec for tor iTou Immorality Th proofs of his hi falsehoods furnished nt at the time of his hIli publication of ot u a vork that thaI tins has done dono long service for and lecturers who have no desire for tho the truth vero em amplo and They v ero ro Ignored however by b tho the million era en of the tho Mormons wh the tit th story became they the could not not account for tor the origin of the Hook Boole of ot Mormon upon any ny other hypothesis u they th y n the evidence n c of ot th the translator of the lie Book of or Mormon Mornion and all allor of or tho th sc who bore to to that which God revealed to theta them concerning It ItIn ItIn ItIn In later Inter years however how er the original manu manuscript written by Solomon SpauldIng Ing viii 1 dl discovered and anti brought ht to light by Prof of or Oberlin ColUgo College nd It fl IB It pow now preserved 11 In the tho t hI library of ot that Institution In Ohio Ohto This Is ns as much n II matter of history as ns any actual event that has ha occurred during tho tim last of or n II century U It tints hux proved to a n positive demonstration that tho Hook flook of Mormon Mornion did II not originate front from the tho Spaulding story etory stor That Book flook Do ok does doe not state that Tim Tho Inhabitants of America vert vem descendants ot or tho the ten lost tribes of o Israel but declares the very ver contrary There Is no ito similarity between the mis miserable erable manuscript written b by and the Hook Book of Mormon II orman either In mat matter mattee ter tee or diction Neither Is itt related r to the theother other In III any Iny mann manner r whatever Both Iloth have been I en published and widely circulated and anybody t pretending to t writs rIto hl tory who In ts not 1101 aware of ot lI these e e facts h is I 1 a 1 very poor authority on any anything anything thing minting rotating to the thc progress of affairs In III this great grent country The Tho same may my be bo wild In regard to Mr Ir I on reference ref to tho the Win es eti II lie He cool coull have hn learned shut they the te by looking at nt tho prefix e to tho the Hook of It Mormon In Inseal seal of ot going coIn I to II a n notoriously tile III work ho lie copied hi hl er Ir He lie would hais found that tho i Md nothing about 1 tin th t hi true rue I and only lii iy but b u t ly I gave th their lr testimony to that I revealed In to them theft concerning the tho Hook maui the oh which It wa wu originally written Further If It h lie hud had u ed rommon II in iii to tn tt at atlie atthe the th lie he h would have ha e learned that ench Ilch of lIf those persons who are atu now jiow 1011 dec bore bor solemn wittiest to 10 the Hie truth of or th their lr testimony until their ery very last moments upon earth They were excommunicated from front the tha I Church for entice but Jul they th maintained tho the truth of ot their testimony concerning the Hook Honk of ot Mormon during full all their and with their dying are nio other ml In lit III ii JoI ons oll Ills tory of o thu United States derived mount sources but hut vvo wa wado do nut care tHre to tha thu fur further further ther except to 10 draw w attention lu tu a 1 couple Cf f which when cum cured re further pi proof of If lh the v vein veni m I city Ity 1 of ot lh ih I hI lit lie says wiy MIl In I ls 1143 3 Smith that thet h he hall had I II I ed a new revelation malting It II lawful for a n man to 10 have liaw more than ono onto wife I This was AH U the of It 1 i ithe the tile Mormon or 1 In Ina Ina a later Inter he remarks rt Joceph Jo South Smith tho the founder of or the Church of Jesus Christ of or Saints was vas tint hOt a II polygamist and nil lil al of at his hl utter wore were In III favor of ot monogamy And titi 1111 that Is the kind of pabulum pub published to the world as n part of ot the III tory tor of the tho United We need neeJ add no more 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