| Show ETYMOLOGY OF NAUVOO Juni nallon anoil of C if ICA ct ja january a uary 29 issy editor deseret news the death of david Whit mor and his affirmation to the last of the authenticity of the book of mormon laas has set persons to talking of utah and mormonism and joseph I 1 0 seph smith fortunately I 1 ate book of f mormon contains tat as in itt own pages ample evidence evi ence of its authenticity genuineness and veracity but it must be closely studied the scho scholar larwill will find in ia it ii something some taing v 13 surprise him and he will not proceed very far when he will be reminded of the famous meeting between erasmus and sir thomas more one says yon are erasmus or nobody the other says you are more or the dia bolus it the book ot of mormon is not something ral something preter prefer there is nothing on earth or in heaven worthy of 0 around this his little book will grow a literature surpassing I 1 in u extent that no now w built on the bible it will be quoted by scholars in support of new aud and indeed old theories relative to nations races and religions li B tit we will let the book of rest real A communication of this kind will not adroit admit of handling properly one word in that wonderful book let us take the word nauvoo it la is one that is familiar to every reader in the united states and it is not unknown even in remotest earo Eia rope pe writers and speak speakers erti generally refer to this word in a way as of the fictitious language of joseph smith I 1 reading in one book the author of which professed essed unbounded philological knowledge knowledge that the word nauvoo had not a cognate in any known language living or dead tha author certainly did not nob alvo acute his researches very extensively without entering too deeply at present or to au an ano aties outside the reach of ane aver aze ee reader I 1 will say a few words on this nauvoo affair first in tae american antiquarian Antiqua ian iian of a recent date dale I 1 find the following irom from the pen of mr air tucker among the ancient egyptians divine spirit or soul considered as form ing the scheme of creation his name is by some considered logically the same with tile the egyptian tau word breath which is nal and curious analogies are traced between him and the third person of the holy trinity in the Cli christian ristian bysted HERE ARE TWO WORDS which refer to the spiritual and they bear a striking resemblance lance to nauvoo which means heavenly or and there is no doubt but anat all these are originally from the same root but there was waa at hand a word of much ro uch closer analogy and in fact relationship lation ship to nauvoo than any of those above the callic word for heaven is kauv this can be ascertained from the first irishman you meet who can speak his native tongue the word is the same in manx alaux scotch gaelic and in all the dialects of tile the old celtic tongue but as modern irish gaelic is purer and nearer the parent stem trian any of the others it answers best beat for philological purposes in this branch kauv means heaven arid and weans means heavenly in tile the lords prayer this word is used and it is one ot the tew few words ef theold the old tongue wed ed or adopted b by we early missionaries mostly all the words used in prayers and church offices are taken from latin comes from sac erdos a priest aff affrin rin mass comes from affrin nell comerf comes from rom inferno it ana so on w with ith all these words but the curious part of this is that leauv to is not celtic for the real celtic word if is Flau fias la im fact what is commonly called celtic is comi jobed ot of two different languages and what are known as semitic and indo european are both represented in it col val lency endeavored to prove prole it of purely phoenician origin and he undertook through it to interpret remnants of that language lau gnase preserved in the plays of plautus PJ autus tue me latin lalia dramatist sir william betham endeavored deavo red to prove it purely aryan these men wrote some fifty years ago and learning of this kind was then in its infancy both writers were misled from the tact that they teemed deemed it impossible that vie the old celtic could be connected with any tongue save the aboriginal one that it contains many phoenician words there Is no doubt but a language allied to the phoenician has been carrieo carried into all the british isles and along the whole atlantic coast of 0 europe and into the centre of europe by a people of oriental origin and with a religion not far removed from christianity perhaps a funo form of the jewish faith the early missionary nary would never adopt the word for heaven which is flauhaus fia fla but a word kauv which existed beside it was adopted as coming nearer the christian heaven and strange to say both words exist yet but now kauv is the off official lelal while the other is need sometimes by poets for variety or euphony bat it is not entirely to prove the existence ot of words COGNATE TO NAUVOO that I 1 am entering so far but I 1 mean to show that an oriental people spread themselves in western europe and that part of that people also colon colonized zed america I 1 will take some few indian words and names ot places not many any but just enough to show there is no accident the words calumet mo cassin mescal alaska will be sul suf for the present these words represent as many different phases of existence first ask some home irishman to repeat in his bis native ton gue 1 I promise you lie ile will say BOY calumet ga lumet and this means more than promise it is a solemn assurance emphasized with gestures of cauree there is no pipe but it means the same thing virtually in both tongues to Trie second word is macassin mo cassin ask this I 1 irishman to turn the word outside into gaelic ile he will say imah bui ask h him I 1 in to say feet feel in gaelic ile he wit will I 1 say day cassa ll 11 then you have outside the feet macassin mo cassin ask him to say the word drunk in irish ile he will say evera western man mac knows what mescal wean mean and probably mexico cornea comes from it some dictionaries put mescal as spanish but if it is used in spain it was planted there asi b by this same oriental people ask your hibernian dl dictionary to say water in gaelic he will say viage As to al everybody v cary body knows that al means cliff lt it means this this in albion and in such words we all know kaow the glaciers of alaska are nothing more than water cliffs and such would they be called by an oriental people I 1 on only ly take these few words just to SET PEOPLE THINKING and because in a letter of this kind I 1 cant go too far what I 1 have advanced here can be tested without op opening ening a book it can be shown that gaelic and he brew are also allied it can be shown conclusively that an oriental people of hebrew 0 rigin origin mingled with the ab original inhabitants ot of western europe 0 p e at sometime some time before christ and fh that 1 t perhaps centuries that a branch of this people also came to america and gave names to places and t that t many of their words survive to the thoresent resent day but literature of 0 this kind wilo will proper er ly come under the book of mormon if this book has surprises yet in store for humanity traducers Traduce rs and villi vil linera fiers of the latter day saints deem it argument enough to condemn aar mor monism I 1 by saying that the prophet joseph smith was wag unpopular and heartily disliked dislike 4 ty by all outside his bis own followers A more flimsy argument could not be propounded by an idiot or an imbecile magazine essays cyclopedia clo articles and whole volumes in countless piles have been written on joseph selta and strange to say not one contains any tangible tan gible charge that would merit for him condemnation there is a fabric of allegations unfounded unsupported and u n sustained ned before the breath of I 1 ionest honest judgment and calm reason this his fabric falls into vacancy as a snow P pile tic vanishes before an april sun run ONLY that can be sustained is hatle prayed to god and th that it his hia prayer was heard there are millions today praying to god but very few whose prayers are heard probably a very few only are worthy to be heard As to the unpopularity of great men especially those men who have been most favored of heaven every schoolboy knows all about and it is iii not to be expected that joseph smith would escape the usual fate of great men he was undoubtedly a great man and so far above bis traducers traduce rs and perjured villi flers that abathe be calls to wind mind that tine fine stanza stanz in childe harold 11 depicting the fate ot of genius au ano greatness he who ascends to mountain tops tope shall find the loftiest loft iest peaks most wrapped in clouds an antonow donow and snow ile he who icho surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the luite hate of those below though high above the bun of glory glow and far beneath the earth and ocean spread round hun him are ivy icy rocks and loudly blow contending tempests on his bis naked hoad head A and n d thus reward i the tolls toils which to those summits led CARDINAL MANNING of london england Is reported to have said that the natural rights of a citizen authorizes that citizen to steal rob or plunder before dying of hunger anyhow the statement nas has raised quite a discussion lawyers judges preachers and politicians taking part some maintain the cardinal was ri lit while others condemn him cardinal manning as is well known is one of the best educated men in england and his bis opinion is entitled to consideration many of the greatest of our american preachers have condemned the cardinal and they hold that a citizens natural rights does not warrant him to steal there is one ene thing certain no citizen subject indi vidual or human biped of any kind cl class s color 0 r pr or cree creed ought u to e 0 hunger in n any well ell regulated regular ted community and n here will ill be seen the superiority bubli sublimity ity and heavenly wisdom af mormonism or n 11 as compared with all existing religions and philosophies one of the primary duties of a mormon bishop is to see that the natural rights of all within his jurisdiction are never to the terrible alter native of starving to death or stealing it is true there are many men and i women whose improvidence extravagance and indolence almost entitle them to starve but with the tha mormon bishop these are secondary considerations side rations save the hungry mans life first no matter hoM worthless then iuva investigate sti gate him aff abw place him where the alternative will be work or starve ANOTHER magnificent characteristic of the 6 cormons mormons Mor mons is their consideration foraged for aed and infirm people lano in DO other community of the world in no other religion are the infirmities and of aged persons persona so ao hu ho manaly and charitably considered old age no MU matter whether happy contented and resigned or whether querulous captious and petulant is re specter spec ted venerated and in ia fact sub sob served this is a splendidly poetic feature of a religion how it wo would u id have moved the honest heart of t the be simple goldsmith who considered it the acme of religion and phil philosophy to help husband lifes taper to the close in salt lake city the old citizens day has become an institution an and one welt well worthy of commanding even the of mormon traducers traduce rs lire the treatment of aged persons in ia laah with that in our eastern cities towns and states state s scarcely a day passes but the papers paper i report the death or suicide of 70 year old persons neglect See how bow we treat ag ased 1 d persons here in the street the pu ceic conveyance aye even jn in the church we look upon them as old fogies bogies or fonsila who ought to die or be killed run gieror over or drowned in fact it looks as if we borrowed our custom of treating age aee from the buffalo herds of the plains or from some of the savage tribes of central ah S aca the yankee kaakee carries his bis political cut economy into the house household hoid and lip be consi considers dais it waste of corn cornmeal mew to feed his bis grandfather JUNIUS |
