Show THE BOOK OF MORMON A lady replies to sonk some of M mr r lambs strictures upon it vigor deseret av sews aws 1 I 1 notice in your paper pape on an article by J M K 8 tye sti nou ngon mr Lai lambs labs effort the golden den bable b e and since you admit eta essays on thlu this wonderful ui brer production W which ich i has been conceived matured and delivered by the ive no doubt masterly mind of the rev bev mr lamb will yen find room in your columns lor for a few comments of my own in his preface the author gives as one reason tor for publishing the work that I 1 I 1 there is no other book like it in existence I 1 dont think myself that I 1 ever saw treatise just like it though ive seen aeu many ipaty that had been dished up op from the same trough as that from which he got his mess which he offers to the reasoning public as something new and with this same old prelude with which so many others before him have announced to the public their intention ot of butting with the iron headed beaded ram and without any apparent concern as to whether he will bp b doomed to share the fate of his predecessors in that line he goes at it with alacrity regardless of the shattered ideas and splintered logic which is inevitably the result of a collision with this same stern irresistible stubborn fact against which so man many great lights have set themselves on only to be butted oat 1 of existence through the reaction of their own propelling force like the bully in embryo on the street who has haa the big boyll boy to back him mr lamb with the compliments of a great ex governor to so encourage him lowers his palmetto front and rushes to the attack he is sorry he had not time to give his work a thorough tho rouga review before giving it to the public im sorry too for his bis sake as there are many absurdities in it which under a careful revision he would probably have left out oat and thus saved his reputation asan as an honest and conscientious christian man which he had bad jeopardized in his haste to give the people something they th ey 11 ne need ed 11 Hin vites a reply to his arguments we providing ro viding it da be real satisfactory the reason we have not seen more of his ir logic and unanswerable sw erable arguments in the perhaps is because the honest mormon who is solicited to make answer could not conscientiously make a reply that would be quite satisfactory to the feelings of mr lamb he owns that jae he has tried to manifest a kind charitable spirit through out bis book ilmy in my opinion heis ne is just j nat as a s excusable for not doing so as the wolf was who vao tried to be good to the lamb but who could not refrain from tearing it to pieces and eating it be spase of his wolfish desires and craving mg I 1 am sorry to see mr lamb dilate so much upon the suave minner manner in which ohp th mormon people received him and his lectures he says there were I 1 no dissenting v voices 0 ices it recalls to my mind a to me most distressing incident of my girlhood days when a bevy of us girls kept a poor fool dancing for tours hours for our amusement a figure of his bis own forming his only recompense tor for his tiresome exertion being a quiet approving smile from us as occasionally to assure him his effort was appreciated and to make the scene it if possible po sible more ludicrous we required him to dance to his own music which he whistled as he performed before us among the many classes to which mr L devotes ir his effort are ministers of the gospel of the different churches who he says as ai a rule do not meet successfully the irrepressible emissaries of the tae most completely organized church upon eart hartfi 11 11 because he says the traveling mormon missionaries go 0 o forth well equipped for their work know precisely what to say and how bow to meet all the tae usual la arguments of their opponents in behalf of the people he extols I 1 thank mr L f for or his eulogy tile the elders of the church of jesus christ go forth with authority from god to preach the gospel and having the stamp of the great seal upon their license they tay are enabled to enter into any and every stronghold of the enemy upon the ea earth rth and while they honor their commission none can withstand them therefore it if you would not quail before your Mor mormon brother see that you also ha have ve a authority ut hority from a h higher I 1 gher power than that of man given you to pre preach a ph get gods seal upon your you r commission remember the old adage truth will prevail and in this great warfare between truth aud and error see that you stand on the side of truth put on the whole armor of righteousness a and d you will not be made to feel your weakness wen weakness kness in ia the presence of ota a servant of the almighty a true soldier of the cross butto but to return to the book in cibes 1 1 would like to know by what wh at authority mr lamb makes the statement that moroni was raised from the dead in the form of an angel for the especial purpose of 4 f showing mr smith where re said plates were hid and assist him in translating tran them into our language langua ge 11 by what power power was it revealed to him that this was the sole objector object ob eo of this prophets resurrection tt that the angel moroni delivered the plates from which the book of mormon was translated is true but who knows that that was the beginning and the end of his mission on the earth between forty and fifty pages of this effort of ur mr lambs is devoted to criticisms on OB the style of composition employed by the writers of the book oi of mormon the sticking point for him here is the fact that it is not written in the same compact style as the bible bibie and argues that this is a proof that it has not abe divine stamp u upon pan it his arguments here are 8 so 0 v very ery thin tain that it is almost a waste 0 of f t time ime tco otice them itis HIS an exposition of ef ness in the reverend to dipeco us to believe that god would in baking sp to all the different peoples he has placed upon the earth always employ the fame ame particular phraseology the bible is the word of god unto the jew and from the jew the gentile receives it the book of mormon is the word of god unto the sor indians the remnant of ef the house of joseph upon this B I 1 land rd to be given them through lithe the medium of the gentiles hence it is plain there is a need for it to be written rit D in a style suitable for that people nephi Is the son of lehl lehi looking downward through the lapse of ages saw the condition of the minds of his people in the day when the gospel should be restored to them saw that thai they were to be instructed by the inhabitants of this continent and aad saw the importance of writing their gospel in that style of plainness common to the gentile instead of inthe manner of langhage lan gaage peculiar to the jew in which he be had been taught from his youth and so well did lie he and ana the prophets who wrote after him succeed in their endeavors to make the gospel plain that no man even though he be a fool need err in the understanding of it the reason of his exceeding plainness I 1 is fully ally f explained in the writings of nephi and aad in the very passages the rev quotes from that prophet is sufficiently clear on this point if he would see it the things of goa god are known only by the spirit of god and that mr lamb lacks this spirit of understanding is manifest in the fact that he fails to see that the gospel of the book of mormon is the same in spirit entire as that contained in the bible the simplicity of its ita wording and numerous repetitions have cast a vail over his weak orbs arbs and though it is so thin that a child might see through yet itis sufficient to prevent the light from penetrating his darkened soul one great objection to the book and which he means to be quite clear upon is that it surpasses the bible in the number and strangeness of its miracles why he says the bible bears no comparison to it and goes on to note one miracle af after ter another as they are recorded and makes such ridiculous infamous and silly comments as shames my pen even to notice so I 1 leave them to the judgment of the reader who has patience to go through his bis stuff and it bests beats the bible in other ways he says then follows a numeration oa of the leading instances wherein he thinks the book of mormon takes the lead viz noah but one ark at the command of god jared and his brother have eight moses saw only the back parts of jehovah jar eds brother saw him face to face Abl Abi nadis face shone with a lustre equal to that of 0 moses death and burial its is not transcended by that of moses like cdaniel BD JD aniel aviel interpreted the handwriting on the wall the story of ether he be says has its counterpart in that of 01 F elijah ah and further he says the foolish that went abroad among the disciples of christ that the apostle john should not die was fully realized upon this continent for three oi out it of the twelve apostles were allowed to remain upon earth without tasting death and lastly paul knew one man who w was as caught up into the third heaven to hear unspeakable words the book of mormon dears bears record of twelve having bees been so favored and when they returned they were invested with such power that prisons could not hold them neither could they be harmed in any way 66 god 11 he says never exhibited such te tender der case for the jews in ia old testament hiss aisy k y as he did tor the Nep bites hites on this continent now let me ask why should he if mr lamb will reflect a moment he will remember that joseph was ai always ways much more favored than judah even when a boy at work with his brethren in the field god con descended to manifest his preference for him in visions everywhere trough all the history we have of him in id the bible god is nearer to him in his dealings than to his brethren after the death of jacob the history of joseph blends with that of his bis fathers fat ners family and we hear bear of him no BO more separately so far as the old testament history is conce concerned conceited ined except the reference made by the prophets we have no account anywhere of joseph bein being other than faithful to the commands mangs of the almighty then why should these especial espedal favors of his bis father be restrained from him at no time in josephs life was the fact symbolized that the glorious promises made unto him anahis and bis seed and their individuality should be swallowed up or blended with those of his brothers until their time had reached its developed stage as he had reached his mans estate before he again after his cruel separation from them in canaan blended tears with their tears in the land of egypt for the salvation of his bis fathers house has joseph been separated from the companionship of his bis brothers and brought to a goodly land and though god nas has suffered the hand of the gentile to be upon him as was the hand band of pharoah in egypt yet he has not forgotten him and he has showed himself to him in visions and by miracles as in that ancient time and again he will touch the heart of pharoah and joseph shall be brought from out of his prison the powers of darkness and shall sit upon a throne of I 1 erht attaud it and intelligence anta he be sh sag with his brethren and they the I 1 shall enjoy the bread of h bis ho house be an and the stick of joseph shall be joined joined to the stick of judah and th they e y shall be one stick according to the words wards of ezekiel before making his bis f futile atile effort against the word of god mr lamb would have done well to notice the word of warning written upon the title page of the book boo it of mormon given by the lord to all who might feel disposed to find fa it with its sacred teachings and now it if there are faults they are the mistakes of men wherefore condemn not the things of god tast ye may be found spotless at the judgment seat of christ 1 yours etc NEMO e |