| Show THIRD ARTICLE ON THE MEXICAN MESSIAH HAVING in articles which appeared in the issues af ft tuesday and wednesday presented the paints joints of the mexican tradition in relation to the fair god and shown the unreasonable inference of dr daly that that personage and st brendan the p priest a riest were one and the same individual we will endeavor to state the position of the latter day saints sainte on the subject it to is to be found in the book of mormon a record of the ancient inhabitants of this continent originally engraved upon metallic plates kept and handed down from father too to son until about years yeara after christi christ when it was buried in the earth by mormon an american prophet it was brought to light in these them days through the instrumentality of joseph smith the founder under the almighty of the church Jh of of jesus christ of latter day saints by whom it was translated by the power of god glod this remarkable book explains that the present aboriginal remnants of this continent sprang from hebrew stock in proof of this fact mr haines author of a voluminous work entitled the american indian has presented an array of evidence that is simply overwhelming wh the first colony by command of god wj left jerusalem for this part of the world years before christ the head of it was a prophet named lehi a lineal descendant of manassah Mana asah he was accompanied by his children and a few others I 1 or dr daly shows that the traditions of the mexicans when cortez landed proved that their progenitors were familiar with biblical lore including the story of adam and eve the flood and the tower of babel the book of mormon shows that the first colony brought the jewish records with them after lehi and those who accompanied him had left idt jerusalem some members of the company were sent back to procure i these theme records from a relative named juban jlaban after encountering a num aber berof of obstacles the under undertaking jas flnoy andly crowned with undertaker success I 1 nephi ill iii chap the knowledge among ong the mexicans in relation to the tower of babel probably resulted to lome me extent also from their fore forefathers fath ors paving ving been in possession of a record df a race who inhabited this continent IM ulterior to the lauding flauding of leeps olony lony 0 they came direct from the re eton I 1 where the tower was built about he 0 time of the confusion of tongues at t through wars ware and strife became not the chief point however Is to eh the identity of Q lord kingsbury bury states that it referred to tu ifft t himself not that he setti actually ally f kited t ed this continent but that 19 ancients on this land had eard rd of him and it became be traditionally believed that a I 1 had bad actually been personally a this V 7 and promised to return but why mald d he not visit this part of the world indeed there is not the slight Q t ground for separating the identity 41 the fair GW god of the wean tradition from the personality t the savior in this connection we quote the hordof of jesus himself as placed on ecord in n the tenth chap of john terse and other sheep I 1 have which are not of this fold them also I 1 must bring and there shall b be one fold and one shepherd if this meant anything it is that there was another people whom the savior in the prosecution of his ministry proposed to visit and enlighten the book of mormon presents the verification of that statement after an account of the land havi having ug been visited with great destruction at the time of the crucifixion because of the wicked ness of the people the record gives the details of the personal advent of christ to this land we here introduce a quotation from iii nephi 2 chap and now it came to paw pass that there were a great multitude gathered together of the people of nephi round about the temple which was in the land bountiful and they were marveling and wondering one with another and were chewing one to another the great and marvelous marve loua change which had taken place and they were also conversing about this jesus christ of whom the sign had been given concerning his death and it came to pass that while they were thus conversing one with another they heard a voice as if it came out of heaven and they cast their eyes round about for they understood not the voice which they heard and it was not a harsh voice neither was it a loud voice nevertheless th eless and notwithstanding it being a small voice it did pierce them that did id pierce to the centre noo insomuch much that there was no part of their frame that it did not cang cause e to quake yea it did pierce the them m to the very soul and did cause theli their hearts to bu bum and it came to paw pass that again they heard the voice and they under stood it not and again the third time they did hear bear the voice and did open their ears to hear it and their eyes were coward the sound thereof and they did look steadfastly towards heaven from whence the sound came and behold the third time they did understand the voice which they heard and it said unto them behold my beloved son in whom I 1 am well pleased in whom I 1 have glorified my name hear ye him 8 and it came to paw pass as aa they understood they cast their eyes up again towards heaven and behold they saw a man descending out of heaven and he was clothed in a white robe and he came down and stood in the midst of df I 1 hem and the eyes of the whole multitude were turned upon him and they durst not open their mouths even one to another and not what it meant for they thought it was an angel that had appeared to them came to pass pan forth his hand and unto the people kably behold sayin bayink lam I 1 am jesus christ whom the prophets testified shall come into the world and behold I 1 am the light and the life of the world and I 1 have drunk out of of that bitter cup which the father hath given me and have glorified the father in taking upon me the sins of the world in the which I 1 have suffered the will of the father in all things from the beginning this striking picture coincides in every detail with the tradition in id relation to the latter was described as aa white bearded appareled in a long robe and from no soua has baa it ever been learned that he was accompanied oom compa panted nied by companions there is also a striking coincidence between the foregoing narration and the following quotation from dr dalys daly Is article I lord ird rd kingsborough Kingsboro makes the suggestion that was no other than christ himself and in support of this maintains that the phonetic rendering in the mexican language of edthe the two words jesus christ would be as nearly as possible quetzal clatl ll 11 A considerable portion of the book of mormon following that containing the account of the sudden appearance of our lord relates the fact of his placing his identity beyond doubt with the people by exhibiting the marks of the spikes received at his crucifixion it givel a description of the way in which he established christianity being in form and genius a of what he instituted in palestine it also tells of many wonderful works performed by him the labor of sal was prosecuted after his departure by men whom he called and commissioned to represent him thus fulfilling his words found in the tenth chapter of st john it ought to be stated that the tradition is not confined to mexico but exists more or less among the tribes located all over the continent it is probable that it had more or less to do with the recent expectation of the coming of messiah to the aborigines it includes this anticipation of the future coming of a deliverer which anticipation caused the mexicans to be deceived by the appearance of cortez cortex as they imagined that he was the fair god glod returned according to promise to reestablish establish re a new and brighter era em among the people tradition and discovery afford unanswerable proofs of the authenticity of the book of mormon the difficulty in the way of men arriving at the truth in matters of this kind is that they as a rule conclude that the record is a fabrication without investigating it and there are an none more blind than those who are am not willing to see |
