| Show BOOK OF MORMON AND ITS ORIGIN I Elder alder Anthony Ivins Discusses Evidence of Divine DivineAu Authenticity Au I MANUSCRIPTS FROM MEXICO of Writings tV Aro tro rc In lii Afford With lIh Portion of the Hooks Bools of Io cs c The Tho Book of ot Mormon with the tho th In external evidences of or Its Ittu divine authenticity a tI ell were ero tho tle subjects of ot an discourse by Elder Eldor Anthony W r Ivins Ivine of tho the council of ot nt II I tho tabernacle afternoon There was an nn unusually largo large attendance for tho occasion of a 1 regular service and Ivins who for upwards of un an hour waa 1111 to tn with the closest attention Tho Thu mooting meeting was WUI presided over by President John li R Winder hider tho the prelim mary inary and amid closing s consisting o ot of three selections by b tho the choir namely of ot humble birth Let LeI the tho shout for tOl or joy jO 30 and SoulS of ot ito tho Eldor Arnold Amold II U and alit Charlea Charles W V Nib Joy loy 10 offering the tho opening mid anti closing prayers Elder I Ivins read excerpts from the this word of tho Lord as contained in mu the Doctrine Covenants relative to the tho Sabbath und admonished Ute Ule Latter day Saints to observe und and hallow that sacred day 1111 in III tile the spirit and letter of or the tho commandments they tho had received con concerning concerning It UNIMPEACHABLE TESTIMONY to tho the Book Dook of ot Mormon tho tile speaker sf road rend tho the preface thereto and ud entered Into an un au extended discussion of tho the divinity of tint tho book Tho char character actor acter of ot the mon who suva gave to tho the world testimony to the effect that they tho had hind seen and handled the UIO pluto plates from which the tho work was WIlli translated and had been told by b a n heavenly hO messenger that they had tUtu been UC Jl brought forth was wun examined nod the tho fact was pointed out that tho tim ln of ot these them the o men was above reproach their friends and neighbors and no attempt had over aver been ileon made to impeach their teltI testimony loony mony mon The Saints ore lure us as firm frill end and nd consistent believers In III tho the Bible DIble us II ale ure their friends In other churches und and arc ono with them in Iti curtain certain fun fundamental fundamental In itt other othor essen essentials there thero la itu a wide divergence coca ence of oC opinion and ono one of or those dir dif differences is III tho tIm Book of or Mormon A belief In ill this tills book by hy the tile Saints brings them them Into unmarked marked con contrast contrast contrast with all other othor people and auth they thc are adversely criticized for upholding that volume as us tho the word of ot God Clod Yet thoy Iho have quite as us much testimony und oven far fUI more moTt of or Its divine divino origin than thoy they have of ot tho tue Jewish Scrip Scriptures Scriptures tures turcs TIrE THE BOOK OF MORMON The rho speaker referred to what the Book of at Mormon purports to be historically und and otherwise and its Ita strict to the tho Bible In matterS of ut doctrine was painted out It If tho book was wall the product of or the brain of ot Joseph Smith ho he must lt consistently bo be accredited with having more moore closely followed tho the Old and Now Testament than has any uny other writer Among tile the Indians of or Mexico their history and traditions Elder EJ er said ho lie lid had hll round found evidence upon evidence of Vt the tho divinity of or tho Iho ho Book of or Mormon Traditionally the tho aborigines have well defined defiled accounts counts nA of at the tho creation of or the tho earth antI of ot Its history during ulin the list first few row thousand years of or Its existence So be S and correct were wele tho the hn doug along these lines lilies In III the tho minds of or the people of Moxhe when tho tIm Cath Catholic chic olic fathers first went there that thoL the tho latter believed that thal tIle the gospel had Imd been taught upon American whores sub subsequent sequent to the tho loin of ot tho the Savior probably by b 11 St Thomas Thoma EVIDENCE DISCOVERED D Manuscripts were cra discovered In Mexico about tho tIm year eUI 1712 said Elder which wore toro adopted by b the thc peo poo plo Jle as national books containing uc no of oC the tho creation very much In Inline inline line with those given In the thu books of ot Moses These manuscripts have hlo been leen into Inlo Sp and German Germun nEd copies ate nio to bo ho found In Ill somo or of tho the big bit libraries of the world Strong parallels were cle drawn by hy Elder beliefs bellers of ot tho the people of ot Mexico co Central and antI SunLIt South America as its founded upon tradition and accounts of If tho the creation cI of the tIto earth and the Iho of ot nod Clod with Ills His chI chih Including tin the peopling of the western world its IlS contained 11 In the ot or Mormon |
