Show THE BOOK OF MORMON Rev Lamb Makes Sonic Compari sons and Attackh Its Divinity The announcement in the papers from the pulpit andbulletins that Rev Mr Lamb of the Baptist Church would deliver de-liver a lecture onThe Book of Mormon Is it from God at the Walker 9 era House unday4nij5ht was jmffipjqntjto bring together large congregation from all the various other denominations in our city The services of the evening S were commenced 5 com-menced by the choir singing a liyinn after which Rev Dr DeWift offered prayer followed by another beautiful hymn by the select singelii I The house was well hued by this time I withthose interested when Rev Mr 1 Thrall of the Congregational church introduced I in-troduced Lamb who spoke for over I an hour and a half on the subject II It is impossible to give room for more than a brief synopsis of the gentlemans I exhaustive lecture but in doing so an idea of the argument used may be obtained ob-tained lie first gave a brief review of the three lectures previously given in the Baptist Church He said when he began the investigation of the Book of Mormon he brought to it an honest desire to know the whole truth God doesnt do things as we do perfection marks everything he undertakes If the Book of Mormon I I i is the work of God there must be no mistakes i mis-takes contradictions or blunders in it The Book of Mormon was contrastou with the Bible us to its style of composition compo-sition Gods word is sharp pointel comprehensive and says more on one page than any man on earth can say in ten pages while the Book of Mormon is the very oppositerso full of repetions of awkwardly expressed sentences of useless verbiage etc that any writer of ordinary kuTcan put three of its pages into one The authors of the various books of the Bible are modestnever speak of themselves them-selves and generally suppress even their own names as authors while the very I first opening statement in the Book of I Mormon contains the words I and My some sixteen times in an egotisti I i I I cal way I The Bible is original j it borrowed from I nothing The Book of Mormon is made j j I up almost wholly of borrowed material I j a large number of its miracles and a i great many of its historical incidents are I borrowed from the Bible usually however 1 I how-ever worked over and improved upon j I until their beauty and simplicity are ie j I I stroyed The Book of Mormon is modern j I 1 in its conception and makeup A large I I I number of words and expressions found i in it are of modern origin such as the word Sam the modern nickname for Samuel the words iaculties Bible popular make game etc proving that it could not have been translated from ancient plates The speaker then exhibited a large I i canvas upon which were several Egyptian j and Hebrew characters or words showing show-ing by the large sprawling character of the Egvptviii hieroglyphics and from the 4 i testimony of the eye witnesses as to the size and number of the plates used in 1 translating the Book of Mormon that there were not enough plates all told to furnish material for onetenth part of the Book of Mormon The lecture proper was divided into i three parts FirstSome of the contradictions in the Book of Mormon Its types contra i diet the types of the Bible Its statements I regarding the Holy Ghost and his work I here in America before the time of Christ I directly contradict the positive state1 I ments of the New Testament Its statements state-ments regarding the organization of two I rival nations the Nephites and Laman ites when there were only four full grown men and a few boys in each and the huildin ° of a magnificent temple oi tim Size 31111 pattern oi Solomon Tempie by a few men and a few boys in thespace of three or four years when the temple of i Solomon required seven years and the t employment of over 160000 men Second The Book of Mormon has a peculiar way of writing prophecies As if a man today should take the New J Testament and cull out of it all the main facts in the life of John the Baptist of i Tesus Christ and his apostles writing out I the history in the exact word of the New Testament and then date it hack 500 years before Christ and csill it a prophecy r Thiid Some of the very stiun e and j Book Mor I very silly miracles of the ot moil were referred to such as cursing the Lamanites with a black skin to prevent I their becoming enticing to Gods people I and then bleaching them white again on J I their embracing the Mormon doctrine that wonderful brass ball whose spindles told them where to find wild game in hunting that naughty xompass that became I be-came balky whenever anything was done I against Gods pet Nephi and the making I of rraw meat sweet and palatable just to save them the trouble of making tires to cook it I The address was replete with points I against the divinity of the Book of Mor I monfrom the speakers standpoint and the lectures taken together are regarded bv Mormon opponents as probably tIe j hardest blow the inspiration theory of j i that work has yet received i 1 |