Show A spiritualists VIEW OF herman snow a writer on spiritualism has bas ft a seven column article in the re li journal on mormonism by the light of spiritualism the writer docs does not appear to have any tiny desire to wilfully misrepresent the mor mons 11 or the doctrines they teach hence he quotes largely from the works worl of the church and leaves the readers for the moat most part to draw their own conclusions on the subject of course like many other writers on mormonism ho be makes many mistakes he says tays latter day saints is a self assumed med title by the p people eople this title is only one part of their name and it is not self assumed the tile name was given by revelation from tile lord to tile prophet joseph smith and the tile full name of the church is the tile church of jesus christ of latter day saints this is the name by which the church waa was organized and it is the name by which every bran branch cli atthe ot I the I church has been organized the writer says what the general public called the mormon lormon A bible has ever held a subordinate position to the great claims of the latter day saints this certainly is a great error there is no book published in the english or any other language which has higher claims on the faith and credence of the Mormon people than the book of mormon it contains the fullness of the everlasting gospel and the history of gods dealings with the tile aboriginal settlers of this great continent a re to the birth and early history of joseph smith his boyhood the f first and subsequent visits of the tile angels of the lord to him the instructions he received in the tile coming forth of the book of mormon and the ush cring in of the great dispels dispensation aaion of the fullness of times these the writer calls clairvoyant visions A clairvoyant is defined tobe to be one who discerns or sees objects not present to the senses T the he object joseph smith saw was present he sensed it ho he saw it and heard it distinctly he described it minutely it was an angel of god a former inhabitant of this continent he told his name which was moroni one of f the writers of the book of mormon he conversed convened with him freely reely f and intelligently as a one man would with another concerning the great areat purposes ses the tb e lord was about to unfold for the redemption of fallen humanity they each saw heard and understood the other hentan lie quotes copiously from f rom tile history of the delivering ot tile plates to joseph by the angel the translation of the boole book of mormon M ormon by tho the gift and find power of god the delivering of the words of the book to the man that is is learned prof anthon of new york his testimony to the correctness of the translation of tho the words of the tile book which was confirmed badr by dr Mitchell the testimonies of the three it and ind of the eight witnesses which he t does not attempt to impeach I make no comment com mene says he I leave these to the intelligent reader on the internal evidence of the book of mormon he it says appears ap pears to him that no inconsiderable por per tion of the book must have had its origin orkin in ill an age not very far remote from our own but it will be remembered that lehi and his family left jerusalem some six hundred years before the first coming of christ which is now no nearly two thousand five hundred years ago still he makes the following f admission if the claims of this book are allowed then must it be adm admitted bitted that the chosen people of god of this western hemisphere have a decided advantage over their oriental orion brethren for chere here we learn lea rn in plain language langu ap all ill about the plan of eal fal which h must M have been known in all its details even at so early a date aschen as when these wandering tribes ribes were separated from tho the original jewish stock 11 mr snow speaks at considerable length of the organization of tho the Cli church the proclamation of the gospel bythe by the elders the success which attended their labors tho the settlement of the saints in kirtland ohio ohi jackson and Cal caddiell diell counties miss missouri ouri and of the bitter bitts r persecutions they cufr suffered cred in those placed places at it the hands of their enemies but from a all I these lieson this hapless people were driven by the spirit of persecution stirred they were by the sectarian acta preachers whose flocks had been distributed by the advent of this new gospel in their midst such persecutions generally culminated in a manifestation of mob law attended especially in missouri by some ome of the most shameful exhibitions of brutality and bloodshed the country has ever witnessed finally these Mormon lormon settlers who had purchased u 11 chased their lands from the tile united states government and paid for the same were driven from missouri and took refuge in illinois but even here iio lie says the mob spirit would not let them rest it wag was not long before it broke out with renewed d violence their old enemies from missouri combining and cooperating with kindred spirits who were found on the west borders of illinois the violence was now main mainly y agai against ast the prophet himself the result was that ho lie together with his brother hyrum whilst coli confined fined in the Cart carthage lie jail on a cliar charge tru C of treason I think it was were brutally murdered in prison on of the two apostles co confined in the sa same me cell ono mono was severely wounded having baving ing received four balls in his bod body y and the other escaped unharmed d this thi was on the of june 1844 but even here as in other case cases maddened violence and brutal murder did not tend to destroy stroy but to strengthen a persecuted faith adding to it the sacred val of martyrdom such pers persecution did however succeed in driving the mor mons into a distant fertile valley there to iacre increase we in numbers and power until they should become a it perplexing problem of our national life after speaking of the exodus from nauvoo the dep depriving riving them of tho the flower of their strength by the government alio in made ado a requisition upon them thein for men to aes assist them in the war with mexico the journeying of the people across the plains fill and the tile u with him is how to solve the problem he ile believes the great majority of the mormons cormons Mor mons I are sincere and that they are fully up to the average of the middle and laboring classes of the people in good sense and native capacity he thinks this question can n not ot be rightly answered excepting by those who are co cognizant nizan t of spiritual ideas as they areT are being eing revealed by the spiritualism of today tody to day dy I do not say however that even with this help such movements can be fully understood but spiritual spiritualists ests can certainly make a nearer approach to a rational solution than can others spiritualism can never solve the A Mormon formon Pro problem bem the systems are not in barmon harmony Y with each other othet is a system of c ings knockings kno knock akings ings table mappings rap pings fraudulent attempts at materialization of spirits of contradictions tra dictions many of their spirits are self convicted liars the mediums affect to speak by the spirits of some of the most vindictive characters who have lived en on earth carth in in pas past t ages spiritualism affords no permanent s satisfaction action to i its ts believers it imparts no real knowledge of mans actual future condition and leaves them in doubt as to his destiny on the tile other hand mormonism as the doctrines doctrin ea of the church ol 01 jesus christy of latter day saints are called lias has been revealed from heaven by holy angels and they are expounded to the people by apostles and prophets who speak as they are moved upon by the holy ghost they speak as men having authority tho rity and their testimonies car carry ry conviction to tile honest liones t in h heart e art who are seeking after tho the truth tr uth with a desire to t embrace it mormonism is is to be b understood it is adapted to the ca C a parities pa of the illiterate who can comprehend it as easily as can the learned it is a unity of faith fa ith tiie tile principles taught tau glit land understood by the latter day saints are the same in all the world they are one in these matters it 19 i a ft unity of spirit because they are baptized baptize by the same spirit into the same body or church and it makes them one in christ jesus wherever they tb ey go of mr snow says the vision of angela angels was a reality to ti joseph smi th t h and not a pretense of this the honest simplicity of his narrative is is anit in itself self an evidence chemor for w w nion mon problem will never tover be solved by human ida ingenuity it is too profound for human wal wi doro to solve and understand for no man mail c can an know tho things bings ot of C goil except it bo be by the spirit of god and in ill order to secure that spirit men nien must obey the gospel that god has bas revealed from heaven to the prophet joseph and his brethren they I may then corne come in poa of the spirit of truth which will guide them into all truth JOHN jonn WAI TIK zin esq proprietor tor of the tile london rece recently visited america ho ile traveled across the continent made observations took notes and ba has a returned to london lie ile expresses himself much pleased with the country and the treatment lio lie received while here her lie ile tells his countrymen that A america merica is a good country for them to emigrate to and believes that tue ancy can come I here and in a few years by industry perseverance and sobriety accumulate means enough to make them comfortable if not independent lie ile advises them to emigrate in large numbers and to make permanent settlements he is also in ill favor flavor of their becoming citizens of the united states mr walter id is well known his influence is well established at homo home and his words have weight with his countrymen so that there id is little doubt that his advice will be followed by many of them especially especial lv as times grow continually worse ill in their native land |