| Show A LAMB TO THE PLEASANT gro GROVE VE march 1887 editor deseret news A pamphlet recently came into my hands entitled book of mormon Is it god being a lecture delivered in the first baptist church Salt Sait lake city by rev M T lamb the rev bev gentleman takes the negative side of the question and endeavors to prove that the rook book of mormon is a modern human production the most of his arguments were produced by the condemners of tue the book of mormon mor mora a than forty live five years ago and successfully met and refuted at the same time by its advocates as I 1 well remember in perusing his lecture a few thoughts occur occurred ed to my mind which I 1 submit he condemns the book of mormon because ol 01 the buu bungling gling manner in which it is written which to my mind is a strong proof that it was writ some other age and under different circumstances than now exist had IT ii been a modern production it would exhibit the modern style of composition terseness etc he claims that its bad composition awkward use of words and formation of sentences excludes all idea of divinity and labors long and bard on this ar argument ament in which he proves the fears Or of moroni to have been well grounded and recorded nore than four fourteen teer hundred years ago t iee book of mormon ether chapter 12 verses 26 25 and 26 thou hast bast also made our words powerful and great ven even that we cannot write them wherefore ore when we write we behold our weakness and stumble because of the placing of our words and I 1 fear lest the gentiles uen tiles shall mock at our words and when I 1 had bad said this the lord unto tinto me ine saying fools mock but they shall mourn he condemns the book of mormon because it is unlike the bible again he condemns condee ns it because it is too M much uch like the bible it has too much bible in it the reverend gentleman is frank enough to admit that its moral precepts are good he claims that the book of mormon is a modern production because it contains con taing modern words that were not used in the hebrew or egyptian languages such as faculty popular etc now it appears to me that in translating a record from an ancient language into a modern tongue the translation would be in the words of the modern language no matter who made the words or where they came from if not so it would not be understood booi he says and the first word that attracted attracted my attention at the very beginning of the book was the name or of gehis third son sam I 1 said to myself sam sam sam well really here is a boy boysia six hundred years before christ who has the hona bona fide yankee nickname for samuel there is certainly nothing hebraic about hiis tiis name the bev ev gentleman refers us to the bible the most ancient of all books written in pure hebrew as eminently divine a boos book we all revere now in looking into this good old book one of the first things that attracts my attention is an account of a dodly man by the name of Jacob who lived about eleven hundred and fifty years before gehis day and he had four contemporaneous wives who had twelve sons SODS who stand at the head of the twelve tribes of israel and one 01 ol the boys he be named daw dan the modern yankee nickname for daniel now to so follow the example of the rev gentleman we might yay bay dan dan dad dan well really here is a boy seventeen hundred bundre daud and fifty years before christ who has the bona fide nickname of daniel Is there an anything thing hebraic about this name abow how is this for antiquity now this sam of the book boo of mormon according to that record is a descendant ol of joseph dans brother and in this connect tion he be is a nephew of dan of the bible I 1 also find in that good old book boo kRev Bev chap that the new jerusalem is to come down f irom god and will have twelve gates of pearl and that the name of this dan of the bible will be written on one of the gates and I 1 have no doubt but buthis his nephew sam of the book of mormon will be a resident of that city JOHN joan BROWN |
