| Show THE SPAULDING manuscript I T w r the old story about the book at 0 mormon being identical with omon spaulding manuscript beela threadbare long ago its refal faction re being an easy matter among pea people who would listen to the evid evidente ther thereon eov but there are still many people so 80 ignorant of the facts and ao bound by prejudice as to place reliance in the story in dime 41 me however athe the a spaulding notion fiction will find its ita level even among persons persona not lully fully informed iDt ormed on the subject while the book of mormon will advance steadily to its hirut cruft position in the of the people that of a eacret record ol of the AA n clent inhabitants of america ba as ahw bible Is such each a record of people dwelt on oa the eastern continents apropos of the discussion of this sub eab we reproduce the following from the kertland staff correspondence ot et the cleveland dealer appeared api eared in that paper on oa april 7 prof wright of oberlin was waa in land monday afternoon he delivered a lecture in willoughby the same evex evening prof wright came to 10 examine the demae temae and get certain information to place 1111 the archives of his college relative to th we lae 1 history of the latter day saints prof wright W right said the spaulding manuse I 1 which for forty years was believed bar y some obie to be the work that joseph smith t coped the book of mormon from is ia lamooc A among the archives of oberlin college VM jr fie says the belief about the book P cir mormon being copied from the T manuscript is absurd hesayo he says griere y is absolutely no similarity in the two iwo documents |
