| Show SOME BLUNDERS OF THE GLOBE DEMOCRAT THE globe democrat which most moat people know in ft a leading paper in st louis louie is ie very stupid sometimes in relation to the mormon Mor naon question it often dla playa ignorance concerning it that Is ia not justified at this late jaw date when there have been no BO many opportunities tuni ties for years to obtain correct information its latest latent exhibition of dense denseness deneene fB on this thie matter is the follow ing in questions from a correspondent itis it ia a mistake to suppose that polygamy la is taught by the book of mormon this book which was really nothing but a romance written by one spaulddng ing teaches nothing of the sort it was printed in 1830 but after smith discovered hat bis new religion was about to attract a number of ahe adherents rents he went extensively ten into the work of having special revelations on various subjects connected with his new faith the polygamy features were subsequently incorporated into the book or mormon but that they were not a jart part of the original scope of the wor work is a proved by the earlier editions which do n not ot contain the special revelations nude mide to the grand apostle at a later day that the book of mormon was not written by Soloi solomon noD that it was not written from tl the e manuscript which solomon spaulding wrote and which was alleged for years to have been its bash that it is not in any way or manner connected with or at similar M to anything that spaulding was ever known to write sag bas been established so go clearly and for so ao long that the repetition of the muty musty canard by such auch a paper as the globe democrat to la humiliating to respectable journalism the Maru manuscript script found ly was the title of the romance that old acquaintances of li thought was some iome what similar to the book boik of mormon they depended upon their memory which evidently was very faulty they thought seme of the names in the book of mormon such euch as an lehi nephi laman etc were used in dings story they remembered that chat it purported to have been written on rolls of parchment in the latin language and hidden in a cave the bock of mormon was engraved on metallic me tallie plates in reformed egyptian hieroglyphics and buried in a stone receptacle with instruments prepared to aid in Us its translation it does not I 1 purport to give a history tu lu any way comparable to the account said to have been given in the spaulding manuscript at As a matter of fact the manuscript found 1 has been actually a manuscript found for many years it is lu in oberlin college ohio where the globe democrat can have it inspected and contrasted with the book of mormon of which we will be happy to furnish it a copy it will rie he found totally dissimilar in bulk and contents there is no point of resemblance between the two works the story the language the theme the purport and everything else connected with the spaulding manuscript are utterly and entirely unlike the book of mormon and no sane person who sees the two works will venture the opinion that there is in or ever was anything in common tween them both are publia published bed and are open to comparison by the general pu public alic the globe democrat is equally mil taken as an to any additions whether on OB polygamy or any other subject to the original rook book of mormon the present edition is in substantially the same as the lint first except that it has been put into chapter and verse with reference notes we have no objection to criticism of the book of mormon from any of our contemporaries if they will but write from some kifft knowledge ledie of the subject the writer in the globe De democrat has never read the book he did not understand anything of what whal he be was writing about he only displayed astonishing ignorance or else a wilful intention to misrepresent we prefer to believe the former of these two propositions if the globe democrat will kindly correct the mistakes it has made on this matter we hall ball be both pleased and surprised because like other influential fluent ial journals which have been set met right on just wt such auch questions question it bam usually let the falsehood go and r ra e brained from telling a truth which would place it in the light of having havin made a blunder but it Is ig nobler to ts acknowledge an error than to in a falsification even if it Is ig at the ex e pense of an unpopular body ilk lika tais t ott cormons mormons Mor mons 11 II I |
