| Show MUST HAVE BEEN ASLEEP THE editor of the new york christian advocate appears to be in a mental sense a second edition of rip van correspondent wanted an answer from that paper in reference to the origin of the book of mormon the reason the information was desired was that a mormon mission ary was in the neighborhood where the interrogator resided tile the E ider elder was described as devout and exceedingly ingenious and so well informed that his statements could scarcely be refuted f tile the questioner wanted such facts as would enable him to put the missionary to flight the dropsy editor of the advocate avas was unequal to the task not having informed himself upon prominent current topics he betook retook himself to some of the encyclopedias from which he called the spaulding spaulddng chestnut aud aad dealt it out upon an endorsement platter to the eaber interrogator it istone is to be presumed that the christian advocate should judging from froin its name keep specially well informed upon religious topics in chis regard however it is behind the tames and greatly in the rear of purely secular ular pei als if he moss had not been allowed to accumulate upon it there would not have appeared in its columns a reconstruction of therom the completely exploded spaulding fabrication it would have known that the t he notorious story written by solomon spaulding was some time since unearthed and identified as the one f from rom which it has been so often asserted the book of mormon originated but which has no more resemblance to that sa cred volume than the editor of the advocate has to hercules if the writer of the article in that journal wishes to verify this statement in ent he can do so by paying a visit to oberlin college were the original ozi ginal spaulding manuscript was some time ago deposited exact copies co es can also be had at this office IM aad come to think ot of it we will mail one to the Advocate that its writers may nave have no need to pul esh transcripts about the origin of the book of mormon from musty volumes of unreliable cyclopedias dias those who wish to claim and insist upon another origin for the book of mormon than its real one will have to set their wits at work on a new scheme many of those who formerly insisted upon tile the correctness of the spaulding subterfuge uge have of late introduced trod a brilliant flash of silence on the subject they cannot get up an other without being compelled to eat the leek |
