| Show DATE OF THE SAVIORS BIRTH AND crucifixion SALT LARK CITY january jAnun rr esth 1887 editor deseret news 4 I 1 see in last nights EVENING NEWS hans jorgensen Joi gensen of Plea pleasant sunt grove asks a question about tile the date of the saviors birth brother pratt in a discourse delivered by him on the loth ot of april 1870 in the tabernacle says we flad find in tile the book of mormon that the ancient israelitas on this continent had a sign biga given them of the exact time tim e of the crucifixion and a revelation of the exact time ol of the saviors bavi ors birth and according to reckoning they made mada him 83 33 years and a little over 3 days old from ithe fethe time of his birth to the time he was hung upon the cross 11 brother pratt goes on to say there othere is no doubt that the year of the ancient israelites who inhabited this continent differed a little in length from our ur 1 year vear for they probably rec reckoned boned the theirs irs somewhat af after ter tie mahner of the jews at jerusalem std ar d lie jews had formed their reckon reckoning i ng from the egyptians among whom they dwelt some years the egyptians reckoned bays a s to the year but the ancient israelites on cais tiis continent to the records of the early spanish b historians 8 te rians did not that az days made up a lull full year hence at the end of every 52 years they added 13 days which is equivalent tu to adding one day to every adut years the same as we do it such were the reckoning of the ancient 83 13 years and toree three flays of their time had haa passed parsed away between the time of the saviors birth and crucifixion now these sd years and three days donld according to our reckoning lack five alve days of 33 years so acco rillas to this reckoning the anni verity of the saviors birth would be on the thell th of april besides in the revelations quoted in the article of yest yesterday erlay on page also of the book of doctrine Doe triDe and covenants we see seethe the church of christ was organized 1880 years yeara after the coming of our oar lord and savior jesus christ in the flesh lattie in the new edition of the book of it mormon 3 nephi 8 chap 2 verse is the following and now it came caine to pass the 30 aud 3rd ard year had bad passed laway iway etc in th thy oth verse aud and it came to pass in the year in the first mon thin the fourth day clay of the mouth month etc was ful fulfilled tilled the prophecy becy of Sai samuel nuel the La lawranite Laiu anite wanite who gave the sign ot of our saviors gavi saviors ors death see H helaman elaman 14 chap at verse y I 1 do ao not taink our savior was born on the ath of april and died on the same date I 1 the savior was born on the 1 ath of april and died on the oth of april in his year as the book of mormon says also see the precise date of christs crucifixion by a distinguished german scholar herr kelk copied by you from they the JV Y evening mail some time ago it is as follows I 1 A distinguished german scholar herr kelk in a recently published work considers that he lias has settled the true date of thu the crucifixion lie ile snows that there was a total eclipse of the moon concomitant with the earthquake which occurred when julius casar was assassinated on OB the lath of march B C 44 he also calculated the jewish calendar to A D 34 and the result of his ie researches searches confirms the fact recorded by the of the won derf darful ul physical events that accompanied the crucifixion his astronomical calculations also show that on the ath of april A D b 61 there was a total ehll eclipse se of the sun accompanied in all probability by the earthquake spoken of in matthew this mode of ree reckoning koping is verified by another calculation made by calculating backward from the great total eclipse of 1818 which also gives april ath as the datlof date of the new moon A D 31 As the vernal equinox of the year fell on march and the jews ate their easter lamb jamb and celebrated their feast of the passover on the following new moon anoon its it is clear april ath was identified identa fled with ith alsan 14 of the jewish ca calendar lendak which moreover was on friday the day of preparation for the sabbath and this tais agrees with the hebrew talmud so that astronomy archaeology ly and biblical history seem to unite III ih fixing the date of the crucifixion at april 6 A D 31 91 yours in the gos gospe e E J BROOKS |
