Show BOOK OF MORMON TESTIMONY in the book of mormon I 1 nophis IS 18 the purpose why this record had been carefully preserved until the time for its iti publication through the gift and power of god had come li in plainly stated the prophet was wae permitted to behold the book of the ibe lamb of god or the bible and then other books book also alio coming forth by the power of the laimos wad and the special mission of these latter was to convince the gentiles gentile and also the remnant of the need eed of my bros brethren hrenO and nd the be jews jew that the records of toe the prophet and the apostles are true itis it stated and the angel inake pak unto me saying ayling these theae set lait records which thou hang hait seen non among the establish the truth of we the farat 10 the ultimate object to Is also stated and shall ball make known to all kindreds kin dreda tongues and people that the lamb of god Is the son don of the eternal father and the savior bartor of the world and aad that hat all mon men must come unto onto him or they moy cannot be behaved bea aved P to the truth troth of the bible especially with regard to the great fundamental truth of salvo alva glen through jews C barrt arist Is the she mow ma stion ion of the book of mormon in this fe age when the wonderful record first fint bmw w brought to light the question was often asked Is 1 there any 07 need of neb mob an additional testimony the truth troth of the books of the bible was generally accepted at least leapt throughout the professedly christian world tor for a fw advanced scholars bd ad their rather uncritical followers abe evidences for the genuineness and authenticity of the sacred records were accepted as satta satisfactory factory it was therefore claimed that bat the abe additional of the inspired writers on thu continent was wag superfluous and con oot not to be credited si 91 ee ce ibe almighty cannot be supposed to do anat amas is not necessary for the salvation ot his hie children many refused to in aa book solely on 00 this bately a 11 wonderful change has taken place io in the christian world with regard to the bible the tbt attl tade to ill dow such that bat a candid student of t soared literature will be forced to daila that the mission of the book of mormon is not ot a superfluous one la 13 deed do it seems to have to ome GORDO to 90 this ab unless some such testimony as 89 atiat which this thin volume offers be sup up edw abe bible plan of salvation wilt will be a fiction and a myth to a ape neat part dart of mankind the ration gilbo schools that commenced by tta eBing tho the new testament its KB its miracles its ethics cm m to have hare changed tAc tick and aa with greater stio cees than formerly they have hare turned their attention to the old od testament Teet ament am m ng all the modern weapons weapon wibb alp result fult that an old fashioned be llever r in godda wora to becoming al a ourI oNRY in the world consider one moment what modern emes claim for the old testament they say ay did not write the boo that bear his bli name thelon the ten command menu in their original form aft a loot and the copy preserved in ex ofte is i only a rione version of them while the account of the silo giving of the ga jawon jw on the mount Is in an anven of somebody to give impressiveness to 10 the decalogue the pentateuch they say buy is chiefly a collection or of law awl ga and its history is i mostly fable anal aad there them laws law okra are not as a given to the people origins originally ilys but at as existing after a process of evolution about years jean before christ it they may have bo been framed by the priests after the attura from Baby babelonia Babylon lonia la and the name of moses forged to them I 1 lut oat to give abom authority the deuteronomy aboy lay aay is i a literary invention of the fifth century tory before christ to a somewhat earlier period belong the jagd documents cumento do of which the his hi ter tory Y of the creation and subsequent Bub sequent tente la in composed comp there were they think hi ok an and a jo je hohut atory book in palestine Pa leatine a d an several leveral edito took k to reconstruct then and put abom name to the literary production in the she ame way the writings of tbt tb are subject to vivisection by the critics critic there is harily hardly one of thega that Is 1 admitted to be aatlo the history of the buflo to te pronounced worthless worthier and as prop prophetic hetto declarations declaration afta the events they hoy predict all to Is poetry parable this attack effects effect clearly the whole bible for if the old testament is in admitted to be a were mere human produs tion the now new testament must fall too and with it the be plan of salvation me as known through the revelations recorded in these sacred eacret books its direct messages mess agea from the almighty ara fiction and ancl the lessons taught by Us its history are worthless worthies in proportion as that bi his tory lory itself li Is unreliable that this I 1 uneatable able error in regard to abe word of god la in assuming vast proportions among professed chris cannot be den denied teel rev kev J P F berrenda brenda Be He in a recent sermon germ a Q to in brooklyn Bio oklyn stated that of seventy three professors in bl germany ermany with the universities of berlin bonn breslau Bre elau halle ak K lipsig and tu to binge bine no less jaba than thirty advocate this view in thip thin country it to la represented at yale Har harvart Harva vori rJ cornelli cornell johns john hopkin union chicago u olver sity and andover it to therefore clear that while the abe now new school cannot claim superiority in the number of and learned arrayed in battles in its ita behalf yet it can claim rapid progress aa and that at present the lines are very closely drawn between error and truth it if the actuation Ku atlon be rightly under stood food it will be admitted that jut just some gome inch auch testimony for the truth of the bible BM am that supplied by the book of moran n la in the need of the he alga age and has baa it not been given la in order that the people of god la in his bie drue of important laport events shall not be drawn into the whirlpool of infidelity that the world with ti dei estrue truo biot the luter day salote batata have accepted this ebli record as from god liet them consider alder what its it peculiar mission is in and what the acceptance of that mission involves it to through the faithful ne or of the people that the testimony ball fulfill the purposes Bea for which it has hai been given |