| Show SHOULD RECOGNIZE TRUTH there is published in pennsylvania a paper called the christian ELa teli man whose editor in chief to te rev bev david mcallister me A ulster D D LL D the publication has for to its motto christ rod and country but notwithstanding the series of initials to indicate the edi editor tora erudition and the idea z pressed in the motto the columns colum nit of the abe peper paper in licate leoate that iti writers have not dot yet learned to recognize the facts of ancient american history as ae they are teeing constantly demonstrated demonet rated by arch geological research or the abe great 11 guib attl that christ maui ested soy any particular nicular inter fat in the inhabitants inhabitant of this halt half of the world at the period of its HIB appearance to in the meri manuian ulan of time nor does its assumption of patriotism approach that in the abe book of murm moran n by a european writer woo remarked concerning it ahat at it has one distinctively american feature in claiming for christ a oetter reception on that continent than w wae as accorded him on the eastern hemisphere for wilen he visited america aaret tie he was wae received and wor shipped ss as the risen lord instead of being sentenced to hang upon the abe arose in its issue for january alth the christian statesman gakias come lorne corn menta upon the ad mission of arab as ae a 8 ate and refers to abe publication jn in he NEWS or of a discourse dethe livered by amorton elder bider Inthis city in athe the claim is ia majo maae that tile the book of mormon is the biblo bible of the american conti continent neut then our pennsylvania extemporary proceeds the preposterous claim rests on this math which ii ic seems strange that any set of men and women can be induced induce du to credit creda when our savior ha haa performed his mission in the land of judeane Jude aHe came over to this land of america he tow told the people of jerusalem that he had other sheep that were not of that lold fold and that he must visit them alo aio that I 1 hey might hear bear his voice and he would bring them and they L t should hould become one people so tie he came over here and held bela several notable conferences with the people he taught them the same gospel that he had taught laught in the land of jerusalem he appointed twelve disciples here and ga gae e them instruction endowed them wa lh the Pele priesthood Abood etc in the course of time when the people became wicked spin again alter after having had a long period ot 01 tho b greatest happiness of any people on a cole celebrated rated prophet by the name rf of Mori bon fion a righteous man distin suit am ng his people for his virtues bis intelligence and his bis power of priest boody received instructions from the lor i to write the history of his people in an abridged form before destruction should come upon them he ha did so and wrote wroe it upon plates ot of pure gold and in the called the reformed egyptian a language lo haN gnage guage which the people knew very very wj well stid and he be beina a prophet and having j hw abd Thum mim hid il ii up wi h plates es so that in due time those these sate should come forth and the means to interpret the record on them the dave dm Ve is full of the same kind of cred ohms vash which goes to make up the ii yiem hemf of mormonism niam juat why a christian should rie de Al pance as aa a myth the fulfillment fulfilment of a 8 of the lord that he would other sheepy aehee eh ee 1 that he taught beai the same gospel he declared vw IT essential to the salvation eal of those 1 juopa judas that he called died disciples plea to i othow him that he instructed a rec aw fd to be kept of his hie or that atreo aben the people became wicked des 4 lo came upon tham does not noi pear clear certainly ceita it la Is not cou con fedot fee at ot aud as aa to the 46 credulous which eh goes to make up M r BeDlam 7 it to ia in bellev believing irig fart did exactly what he sai li E would do da and also that the obus and ordinances ht taught at ac in the first century of the Ofte tiao era are equally essential for 1 of ahoise who live in the ath century mormonism cm deep oot conjure up such myths myth as the out id wrecking of s me Obria tian eacker aber of early centuries to ao ac ant na for the evidences of a former ow ledge ge of christianity on this X aal L ic 19 taked the consist record authenticated by divine DIVID witness not less leas fully n to JB jbv tb new testament Teat ament account ol of we JS ministry it Is OD ishoo with the lord fiord insisting that thai JH till still possesses the power which him to paul and gave to tb john the revelation on the of atmos P our professed chris wend might be greatly benefited u ft a sincere and thorough in that would open its mind to revelation and a jhb wae groat truths which the lord Is if ty ding in th s dispensation of his hie bitterness bigotry and are not C rist like |
