Show I 1 THE I 1 to T atae the ed editor ifor of the vice in thi the lf Hyder ness I 1 SIR As you have commenced using gAlie lie co columns or of your paper against the people called latter day saints or mormon and in your last two numbers have violently attacked ahem either with your own pen or by adopting the wicked and malicious 0 writings of others perhaps your sense of jus justice tice and honest hones regard tor for fair play will induce you to admit this also I 1 confess that it is humiliating to ask even justice at the hands ai on one e who to be our foe but our press which we have ordered from eurove has not yet arrived riv d and we are compelled to ta apply for the use of your your colu columns which il tr under existing c circumstances I 1 1 r uius wa w think you cannot I 1 I 1 either honorably or righteously I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 deny us your k our per personal eopal ri remarks am arks prefixed i to the judges report published jn in your houi last issue ismuel we I 1 pass p over oe I 1 T their tone and style speak 16 hr th themselves surely sorely when you wrote wrote that article your your pen v quit must have been dipped in a L decoction ot of gall and borin worin wormwood wood the heralds article as transferred transi erred to your columns we answered we think conclusively to every candid mind the whole story is an unmixed outrage aganet an innocent inno ceAt people and is coln completely plemely refuted by the american papers themselves it is the last edition of the old slanders which have been published against uri u time after time for years past but we console ourselves with the promise of the savior blessed are ye when mn m n shall hate hale you and shall reproach you and nd shall oui on y your our name as evil for the son bon of mans sake but woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you luke vi 22 26 the first part of your adopted article published in the pre previous ious number cout contains ains a strange com mingling of all suits soils of speculations atter alter that you contess conless our wu superior mechanical skill and untiring i industry stry then to exhibit the gross absurdity ot of our theology you say that tile the latter day saints believe that god is a material intelligent personage p assessing 0 both body and parts here then thea aleast we find you stumbling ibling on a wint point in what you are pleased to term mormonism Mormont Mur monism sm and add a very important point it is too tor for all religions whether true or false tire are founded on either true or false notions ot of deity but bat why not deall ul on that point and prove it false and by that means put to moi monism in australia why did you merely touch it and then fly off in in a tangent gent t as if you had burned your fingers why did you leave it without note nole or comment anil ana turn directly for refuge to that lona ago exploded false hap 4 the 9 for forgery do you not know thin that the book ot oi mormon was received as as aai a divinely inspired record by hundreds in tile the city of long alter the fabe was tump ti eWd froni from both press press and pulpit do not know higdon was appointed by joseph smith in 1844 1644 to take the chaice of the congregation gre gation of latter day saints in that cuy city and that he did so both before and alter the martyrdom of joseph smith and that he is is still inear there if you do not su sir I 1 do I 1 know th that t one of the largest congregation fr chat we ever had a in in america was in in the elty city of and when sidney rigdon went there in n 1844 he went went in in the character of a mormon preacher and an advocate or the book of mormon as a record of eternal truth and there or near there lie he remains I 1 presume to tins this day why did riot not the prefers of th the e different religious societies i es located iu in that eity city iwho who were losing more diore or less of their members by the i preaching of our elders hl ders g go to to tw that mr patterson and his hia workmen referred to in the spaulding fable who it lasi is said iid were well acquainted witia the notorious fact that said rigdon biad copied a reverend gent lemans romance ron tance and convert converted d it into the book of mormon and obtain from them a statement to that effect and confront air ri it igdon 9 d n there and then lace face to face when you QU have answered that question we will ask ak a few more until then w we reler eler I 1 you to our 0 or communication to the empire of the ath of march the latter pait of your adopted article is made up mostly ot of the vilest slanders against the llie character of joeph jo eph simle slanders w inch have been printed years yeara ago ago and copies copie lia liae hae e been multiplied by thou ands both in in Ani erica and in drope I 1 yet ohp latter day have flourished I 1 it all ali and now number their hundreds of thousands 1 I it k is id certainly singular that thai more vian lian twenty two 1 yeas years bitter experience has not convinced the religious world that in in every attempt to blacken the character ol 01 joseph smith or his friends they have invariably inva missed their object and blackened their own instead and that calumny and abuse has uniformly been ineffective weapons in in opposing the progress of and its sure and certain result is that they revert back and like a mighty avalanche they fall upon the heads of their orators with it weight that is at once terrible and overwhelming then wit why y continue to use weapons so futile and tatul latal why continue to use falsehood and chicanery to the utter rejection of truth and i honesty why all this everlasting dodging of the real questions the real issues 0 the Mon faith why did you not when you came in in contact with the most important fundamental principle of our religion attack it like a scholar and a gentleman and not fill out your article with base ribaldry and abuse I 1 but sir we do not intend to let you off of so easily so pray come back and show ebow us our er error the latter day saints confidently proclaim then their theology aup boldly assert that the true and living god is a being possessing both body and parts we believe that because we cannot either a ally ily or rationally believe the contrary we believe it because we cannot conceive it possible to be otherwise we believe it because the scriptures declare it to be the fact wt wb have searched the bible through several times but could nover never find fidd even a single text that said that god has neither body parts parta or passions as modern so called orthodoxy expresses it but we do faid filid that he is not only represented as having both budy body and parts but it is is positively declared that he has hag them hem who is is the lord jesus christ 1 Is he be not god john says jno i 1 that he is is god did dia me lie not raise raise lus his body irom from the dead anti and take it to heaven with him jf if so then theil gud I 1 has a body and consequently parts for every I 1 whole is is made up of parts whether in n heaven or on oil I 1 god is a spirit A spirit ilas as much cueba a substance I 1 usan as any other substance though diffident different in kind and if a substance lie he has a lody body because there cannot be a substance without a body and if he has a body lie has parts because no bod body y can evict without wiLljo uj ciji when god created man he created him in his o own on n image and likeness not iti his moral ii image for the bible nowhere speake of gods goda having a moral image and indeed such a thing as a moral image never adver did and never cad can exist exception except in th the vain imaginations of leak learned ned theologians tuis who in searching after god aid edby have at last ii ascertained that he hb has neither body parts or passions that he is an immaterial being wh w v ih hard word in plain english means NOTHING when the lord showed himself to moses in the tabernacle of the congregation hi he aia saw thou rhou canet not deeply I 1 JACK tor for there shall no mant man see my fa face ce and live and the hwd said behold a P place lace by me and thou upon a rock and it shall come to pass that while my zloty by I 1 that I 1 will put theet nto a clift of the rock and will cover coter thee with my HAND while I 1 pass by aud and I 1 will take away my I 1 hand q sh ahalt jh seemy ee ayi BACK PARTS but my face shall not be seen exodus 20 2023 again A gai ll 11 isaiah says p vi 12 1 2 that he aa lord upon I 1 ft 4 throne stephen saw the heavens We avens opened a and 14 the savior standing ut at the ight r hand of gobi acts acis vii 56 john also saw him bim and test fied that he was clothed with agan nent down dewia to ahe axx and girt irta bout about the WAIST with a golden gir dle die B his is ii and hia HAIRS ai were white jibb wool as white as snow JIVES were as flame of fire fife and kis jya ye FEET ET like onto into fine briix if they were ere burned in a burnace iurna ce and ap his 0 U the sou sound adot 01 many waters and he nad i nhia nh right band b and seven sean sian st arsand and butof his ak if W bof f I 1 a sharp two edged ii sword ord and his eti countenance ice ciui 46 as the sun alv hey i i 13 16 1 1 I 1 I 1 the bible is admitted ad by christaan Christa Sn io tobe 6 gejl own awn book and that aa i f sacred ilae red pages page s editia contain ditl true account of his person his nature llis his character r r and his perfections jf iso so why not take tabe the aa a N count as it stands therein recorded and d believe tasos to be what he really is a wag being possess possessing in i g both body dj and partap it is certain that the accie ancient nt 1 i patriae achs or apostles never neve r i taught that god was pin an amina alii aerial being baini and their I 1 theolog theology rp was van taught them by 03 god himself bim self and by his holy angels and shiely they ought to have known if such was ape the cai case e but they never used the term immaterial or aay iky term equivalent to it the llie honor of the discovery of the immateriality ot of god was reserved for the ancient pagan phin philosophers and modern uninspired theologians the 0 lo 10 ga i ns did god ged deceive the inspired ancl ancients i onesby ly mini mam himself unto them by assuming bertaina taina appearances es arid and then leave he fie ea moa 04 era to find outtie oat the aih e M ev I 1 1 was it cofas not as aas easy y for 60 d i V d ais ho holy 1 I y angel I 1 or ar for his and apostle to say that god is immaterial poss possessing jiing neither body parts or passions pa selous as for modia modern uninspired divines to flay it yes verila veri lv therefore the fiam elat 9 it item t ln modero m a dern theology j that material go d had bad to assume certain material 4 cakl appearances in order to truly tr y reveal himself to rationed rational bein beings 91 a falls to the ground I 1 the latter day b ay saints believe behe e in i j n the th personality arsa alita 0 of f god and d if godin boais person he be it iii a substance and if a substance that iff d material for the reason that all substances ari are ink aerial an immaterial im imma matera teral substance is ii a contradiction in in terms material means f weans means nothing an immaterial substance ce nevet never I 1 did or ever can exist except in the learned dog mas man of modern false faiths and we make bold to U say that the monstrous NOTHING was iris lit vented by those who had turned common senj sense A wa ws ou 0 of f doors and who considered every rational baeff wrong because it was rational hence we find a cod common saying among the leia learned ned that Scrip scripture tuii and reason are opposed to each other when thy fact is that the scriptures an and d reason reason are re no opt op posed to baeli each other at alli all wt hut it I 1 t is our learned dl at vinet vines that ire are opposed to both bolh scripture an anil re reasons 41 W they have personified nothing and called it god they have assigned tu to it all those holy and ia sacred belonging to the true and living they have educated the rising generation iii irith tw Bi belief that it is god so that millions milli uns believe it and monstrous as aa the fiction if 6 I 1 but glory be to the lord god of ot i moses of Isai isaiah alig of zachariah chanah Za of stephen and of john and of all the former and tile latter saints I 1 for he has again manifested himself to hia hi people even edeli in these obige last days dayi and one communication from hian H lihas has given us iii more ate light more understanding nifa abr truth than all ahe the theolo theological speculations ol of uninspired divines put together and finally be being ng commissioned P of god I 1 we I 1 solemnly call upon you sir air and all who aty may read deax this letter tj i I 1 to b believe lieve repent t and he be li baptized altize d W u I 1 be nai name n t of J jesus e tor the ibe remission of sins ans that iw you may inay receive t the he gift of f Ihei oly ghost anda v sa saved vedin in the kingdom of god I 1 I 1 lam am sir 1 1 1 I 1 C W WANDELL I 1 r 7 may 4 1 1 I 1 no 66 Pitt streetS sydney adney I 1 I 1 11 |