{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3241", "width": "2016", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "2866", "width": "1884", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2866", "width": "1884", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2866", "width": "1884", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "The Mormon Bible\\nA FABRICATION\\nAND\\nA STUPENDOUS FRAUD\\nITS CONDEMNATION OF POLYGAMY\\nBY ENOS T. HALL\\nCOLUMBUS, O.\\nFred J. Heer, Printer", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "two copies received,\\ni-Jbrarv cf\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cRkrcsfc\\nOffice c f tu\\nDffl p 0 10\\n^glsfer of Copyrlgk,.\\nBXZbZI\\nH 3\\n52385\\nCopyright 1899, by Enos T. Hall\\nn uv* o\\nJ\\\\W 5", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "EXPLANATORY\\nliterary friend of the writer, hav\u00c2\u00ac\\ning read this booklet in manu\u00c2\u00ac\\nscript, expressed surprise upon\\nlearning that \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Book of Mor\u00c2\u00ac\\nmon\u00e2\u0080\u009d embraces more than a single\\nbook he having been misled by\\nthe title as he had seen and heard\\nit quoted, and never having seen\\na copy of the book; and therefore\\nhe suggested the preparation of an\\nexplanatory statement, for the information of\\nreaders.\\nThe title is as quoted above, though the writer\\nrefers to the book as \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Mormon Bible,\u00e2\u0080\u009d be\u00c2\u00ac\\ncause it seems appropriate, and not likely to mis\u00c2\u00ac\\nlead. The book is really a collection of fifteen\\nbooks, with the following names, and in the fol\u00c2\u00ac\\nlowing order: The First Book of Nephi; the\\nSecond Book of Nephi; the Book of Jacob; the\\nBook of Enos; the Book of Jarom; the Book\\nof Omni; the Words of Mormon (one chapter\\nonly, and containing only eighteen verses) the\\nBook of Mosiah; the Book of Alma; the Book\\nof Helaman; the Third Book of Nephi; the\\nFourth Book of Nephi; the Book of Mormon;\\nthe Book of Ether; and the Book of Moroni.\\nThe volume in possession of the writer con\u00c2\u00ac\\nsists of six hundred and twenty-three 623", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "4\\nEXPLANATORY\\npages, closely printed, and in comparatively small\\ntype, of which the \u00e2\u0080\u009cWords of Mormon\u00e2\u0080\u009d and the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cBook of Mormon\u00e2\u0080\u009d combined occupy only twen\u00c2\u00ac\\nty-four and one-half (24J) pages. The number\\nof words in the book, estimated in the usual way,\\nand not counting the foot-notes, is 336,420.\\nThere does not appear to be any logical or\\npertinent reason for having given the combined\\nfifteen books the same title as that of one of the\\ncombination the Book of Mormon. The \u00e2\u0080\u0098first\\nverse of the first chapter of Mormon\u00e2\u0080\u0099s book reads\\nas follows: \u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd now I, Mormon, make a record\\nof the things which l.have both seen and heard,\\nand call it the Book of Mormonbut this is his\\nown record only.\\nIt seems proper to add that not the slightest\\nirreverence is intended by the numerous refer\u00c2\u00ac\\nences, in the following pages, to the name of the\\nLord. These seem unavoidable because of the\\nlarge number of quotations necessarily used in\\norder to convey even a slight impression of the\\npresumptuous character of the book under con\u00c2\u00ac\\nsideration, as the whole fabrication is assumed\\nto be upon the Lord\u00e2\u0080\u0099s authority and direction;\\nand the assumption is a matter of frequent and\\nconstant repetition.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE MORMON BIBLE\\nOR\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cTHE BOOK OF MORMON 99\\nT seems to the writer that the people of\\nthis country should be fairly well\\ninformed as to what Mormonism is,\\nand how it originated. That it is a\\ndelusion, and founded in fraud, will\\nbecome apparent to any person who\\nwill enter upon an investigation of\\nthe matter; but though people may\\nand do so affirm, few indeed are\\nprepared to offer proof of the fact.\\nThe purpose in issuing this little\\nbook is to show, not only through\\ntestimony adduced soon after the\\nBook of Mormon appeared, that the\\nbook is a sacrilegious fabrication, but also to\\ndemonstrate that its fraudulent character is\\nplainly exhibited through its own contents.\\nSome time ago an Elder of the Mormon\\nChurch (Latter-Day Saints) sent to the writer,\\nthrough the mail, a copy of the Book of Mormon.\\nThe proposition to send it, as a matter of refer\u00c2\u00ac\\nence, arose through a conversation between us\\nconcerning the ruins of prehistoric cities in the\\nregion of Central America, and the assertion by\\nthe Elder that the only explanation of the origin", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nand destruction of those cities is found in that\\nbook. In searching for the explanation referred\\nto so much trash was encountered that the at\u00c2\u00ac\\ntempt to read the work systematically was aban\u00c2\u00ac\\ndoned for a time, because of its wearisomeness;\\nbut having finally found a fair starting point, the\\nsearch was continued by tracing cross-references,\\nwhich, by the way, are not only very numerous,\\nbut so arranged as to render the tracing both\\ntedious and perplexing. However, in the course\\nof perusal many gross errors and preposterous\\nstatements were found and noted; and finally the\\nnotes were so arranged as to afford a view such\\nas led to a careful examination, the result of\\nwhich is given in the following pages.\\nAccording to this remarkable book there were\\nthree expeditions to the \u00e2\u0080\u009cPromised Land\u00e2\u0080\u009d this\\nland including both North and South America,\\naccording to foot-notes designating where land\u00c2\u00ac\\nings are supposed to have been made. The first\\nexpedition started at the time the building of the\\nTower of Babel was attempted, which according\\nto accepted Scriptural chronology, was 2,247 B.\\nC., or about one hundred years after the Deluge;\\nthe second departed from Jerusalem in the first\\nyear of the reign of Zedekiah, King of Judah,\\nwhich, by the chronology mentioned, was the\\nyear 597 B. C., though Mormon chronology\\nmakes it 600 B. C.; and the third left Jerusalem\\nat the time Zedekiah was carried away captive to\\nBabylon, which was the year 586 B. C., or, as\\nstated in a foot-note, \u00e2\u0080\u009celeven years after Lehi\\nleft Jerusalem.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The first and second expedi\u00c2\u00ac\\ntions brought plates containing records; but the", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n7\\nthird did not bring records, and comparatively\\nlittle is said about the people and their descend\u00c2\u00ac\\nants. The first expedition will be designated\\nThe Jared Expedition; the second The Lehi Ex\u00c2\u00ac\\npedition; and the last The Third Expedition;\\nbut as the accounts of the second and third pre\u00c2\u00ac\\ncede the account of the first the latter being\\ngiven near the close of the book the same or\u00c2\u00ac\\nder will be observed in this review, for to treat\\nthem otherwise would lead to confusion, because\\nof the fact that the descendants of the people\\nwho came first were all destroyed before their\\nrecords were discovered by the descendants of\\nthose who came later.\\nTHE LEHI EXPEDITION.\\nThe First and Second Books of Nephi give\\nthe account of the departure of Lehi, the father\\nof Nephi, and his family, and a few others, from\\nJerusalem, their arrival at the promised land, etc.\\nNephi was the fourth son of Lehi. The elder\\nsons were Laman, Lemuel, and Sam; and there\\nwere two younger Jacob and Joseph who\\nwere born while the people were in the wilder\u00c2\u00ac\\nness. They journeyed in the wilderness eight\\nyears before they reached the sea and were di\u00c2\u00ac\\nrected by the Lord to build a ship to carry them\\nto the promised land; but they had seasons of\\nrest, and the journeying was not constant. The\\nLord chose Nephi to be the ruler, whereupon\\nLaman and Lemuel became jealous; and believ\u00c2\u00ac\\ning that the claim of their father and Nephi that\\nthey were led by the Lord was simply pretense,", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nthey became rebellious, and proposed to slay\\nthem; but the Lord spake unto them, and chas\u00c2\u00ac\\ntened them, and they turned from their anger for\\na time. Sam, on the contrary, was satisfied, and\\nsupported Nephi faithfully. Nephi was com\u00c2\u00ac\\nmanded by the Lord to build a ship, and did so,\\nthough \u00e2\u0080\u009cnot after the manner learned by men,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nbut \u00e2\u0080\u009cas the Lord had shown unto himand the\\nwork was \u00e2\u0080\u009cexceeding fine.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Then seeds and\\nprovisions were stowed in the ship, and the peo\u00c2\u00ac\\nple went on board and \u00e2\u0080\u009cput forth into the sea,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nand \u00e2\u0080\u009cwere driven forth before the wind toward\\nthe promised land.\u00e2\u0080\u009d After a time Laman and\\nLemuel bound Nephi with cords; but then the\\ntempest became \u00e2\u0080\u009cexceeding sore,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe com\u00c2\u00ac\\npass, which had been prepared of the Lord, did\\ncease to work,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and Laman and Lemuel \u00e2\u0080\u009cbegan\\nto see that the judgments of God were upon\\nthem,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and released Nephi, who took the com\u00c2\u00ac\\npass,* which worked as he desired, and guided\\nThis peculiar and remarkable compass is first\\nmentioned and described in the First Book of Nephi.\\nIt was found by Lehi at the door of his tent, the\\nmorning he began his journey into the wilderness,\\nafter leaving Jerusalem. It was \u00e2\u0080\u009ca round ball, of\\ncurious workmanship, and it was of fine brass; and\\nwithin the ball were two spindles, and the one pointed\\nthe way whither they should gO into the wilderness.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThey \u00e2\u0080\u009cdid follow the directions of the ball,\u00e2\u0080\u009d which led\\nthem \u00e2\u0080\u009cin the more fertile parts of the wilderness.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThere was writing upon the ball, which the Lord\\ncommanded them to look upon. The spindles (men\u00c2\u00ac\\ntioned elsewhere as \u00e2\u0080\u009cpointers\u00e2\u0080\u009d) worked \u00e2\u0080\u009caccording to\\nthe faith, and diligence, and heed\u00e2\u0080\u009d which were given\\nunto them; and on these also there was writing,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cwhich was changed from time to time, according\\nto the faith and diligence given unto them.\u00e2\u0080\u009d In the", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n9\\nthe ship; and he prayed unto the Lord, and the\\nstorm ceased.\\nAfter the emigrants \u00e2\u0080\u009chad sailed for the space\\nof many days\u00e2\u0080\u009d they arrived at the promised land.\\nThe place of landing, according to a foot-note, is\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cbelieved to be on the coast of Chili, South\\nAmerica.\u00e2\u0080\u009d They then began to till the earth, and\\nto plant the seeds they had brought, which did\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cgrow exceedingly,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and they \u00e2\u0080\u009cwere blessed in\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2abundance.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The last verse of ch. 18, i. Nephi,\\nreads as follows: \u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd it came to pass that we\\ndid find upon the land of promise, as we jour\u00c2\u00ac\\nneyed in the wilderness, that there were beasts in\\nthe forests of every kind, both the cow and the\\nox, and the ass and the horse, and the goat and\\nthe wild goat, and all manner of wild animals,\\nwhich were for the use of men. And we did find\\nall manner of ore, both of gold, and of silver, and\\nof copper.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Readers will please bear in mind\\nwhat is said here about animals, because of what\\nis stated concerning them further along.\\nIn course of time Lehi, the father, died; and\\nthen the anger and rebelliousness of Laman and\\nLemuel increased, because Nephi, being a\\nyounger brother, ruled over them, and they pro\u00c2\u00ac\\nposed to slay him. Nephi was warned by the\\nLord, and directed to depart from them and flee\\ninto the wilderness, which he did; and he took\\nwith him his family, his brother Sam and his\\nfamily, Jacob and Joseph (the younger brothers),\\nBook of Alma is the statement that it was called\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cLiahona\u00e2\u0080\u009d by the fathers, \u00e2\u0080\u009cwhich is, being inter\u00c2\u00ac\\npreted, a compass; and the Lord prepared it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d There\\nis more concerning it in the same chapter.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nhis sisters, Zoram and his family, and others.\\nThey journeyed in the wilderness for the space\\nof many days, when they pitched their tents. The\\nplace was called Nephi, and the people were called\\nNephites; and they prospered exceedingly. This\\nwas thirty years from the time the expedition left\\nJerusalem eight of which, it will be remem\u00c2\u00ac\\nbered, were spent in the wilderness, before they\\nsailed. The people that were left behind by\\nNephi became followers of Laman, the eldest\\nbrother, and were thereafter known as Lamcm-\\nites; and \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe Lord God did cause a skin of\\nblackness to come upon them,\u00e2\u0080\u009d because of their\\niniquities the color being referred to elsewhere\\nas \u00e2\u0080\u009cdark,\u00e2\u0080\u009d instead of black. Ever after there\\nwas enmity between them and the Nephites, and\\ndisastrous wars between them were common.\\nFurther along we shall find more about the\\nLamanites.\\nTHE THIRD EXPEDITION.\\nAs has already been stated, the people of this\\nexpedition did not bring records. According to\\nthe account of them, which is in the Book of\\nOmni, their descendants were discovered in the\\nland of Zarahemla by Mosiah, King of the\\nNephites, who was warned by the Lord that he\\nshould flee out of the land of Nephi,* with as\\n*An explanatory foot-note reads as follows: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe\\nland of Nephi is supposed to have been in or near\\nEcuador, South America. The land of Zarahemla is\\nsupposed to have been north of the head-waters of\\nthe river Magdalena, its northern boundary being a\\nfew days\u00e2\u0080\u0099 journey south of the Isthmus.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n11\\nmany of his people as would hearken unto the\\nwarning. They were led by the power of the\\nLord through the wilderness until they came to\\nthat land. The people they found were called\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cthe people of Zarahemla.\u00e2\u0080\u009d At the time Mosiah\\ndiscovered -them they were very numerous,\\nthough they had had many wars and serious con\u00c2\u00ac\\ntentions. They had dwelt in this land ever since\\nthey had been brought to it from Jerusalem by\\nthe hand of the Lord. Their language had be\u00c2\u00ac\\ncome corrupted, and Mosiah and his people could\\nnot understand them; but Mosiah caused that\\nthey be taught in his language; and though they\\nhad denied the existence of their Creator, \u00e2\u0080\u009cthere\\nwas great rejoicing among them because the Lord\\nhad sent the people of Mosiah among them, with\\nthe plates of brass which contained the record\\nof the Jews.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The name of their king was Zara\u00c2\u00ac\\nhemla, and \u00e2\u0080\u009che gave a genealogy of his fathers,\\naccording to his memory.\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd it came to pass\\nthat the people of Zarahemla and of Mosiah did\\nunite together, and Mosiah was appointed to be\\ntheir king.\u00e2\u0080\u009d There is nothing more to be said\\nconcerning the people of this expedition the\\ntime of their departure from Jerusalem having\\nalready been stated.\\nTHE JARED EXPEDITION.\\nThe Book of Ether gives an account of this\\nexpedition to the promised land. This consisted\\nof \u00e2\u0080\u009cJared and his brother and their families, with\\nsome others and their families, from the great\\nTower, at the time the Lord confounded the lan-", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nguage of the people, and sware in his wrath that\\nthey should be scattered upon all the face of the\\nearth.\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe brother of Jared being a large and\\nmighty man, and being a man highly favored of\\nthe Lord,\u00e2\u0080\u009d Jared said unto him \u00e2\u0080\u009cCry unto the\\nLord, that he will not confound us that we may\\nnot understand our words.\u00e2\u0080\u009d This Jared\u00e2\u0080\u0099s brother\\ndid, and the Lord had compassion upon them.\\nJared then made a request of his brother to inter\u00c2\u00ac\\ncede in like manner in behalf of their friends,\\nwhich he did, and the Lord had compassion upon\\nthem and their families, and their language was\\nnot confounded. And then, upon request of\\nJared, his brother cried again unto the Lord, in\u00c2\u00ac\\nquiring as to where they should go if driven out\\nof the land. \u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd it came to pass that the Lord\\ndid hear the brother of Jared, and had compassion\\nupon him, and said unto him Go to and gather\\ntogether thy flocks, both male and female, of\\nevery kind, and also the seed of the earth of\\nevery kind, and thy families,* and also Jared, thy\\nbrother, and his family, and also thy friends and\\ntheir families, and the friends of Jared and their\\nfamilies. And when thou hast done this thou\\nshalt go at the head of them down into the val\u00c2\u00ac\\nley, which is northward, and there will I meet\\nthee, and I will go before thee into a land which\\nis choice above all the land of the earth.\u00e2\u0080\u009df Then\\n*A foot-note referring to this clause reads as fol-\\nlbws: \u00e2\u0080\u009cFrom this verse it is seen that the brother\\nof Jared had a plurality of families.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nt A foot-note reference from this quotation states\\nthat \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe Lord brought them upon the western coast\\nof North America.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Another, more specific, on\\nanother page, says \u00e2\u0080\u009con the western coast, and prob\u00c2\u00ac\\nably south of the Gulf of California, and north of the\\nland of Desolation, which was north of the Isthmus.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n13\\nfollow other promises and directions; and they\\njourneyed through the wilderness \u00e2\u0080\u009cto that great\\nsea which divideth the lands,\u00e2\u0080\u009d where they dwelt\\nfour years, when they were directed to build\\nbarges according to the instructions of the Lord,\\nwhich they proceeded to do. The barges \u00e2\u0080\u009cwere\\nsmall, and they were light upon the water, even\\nlike unto the lightness of a fowl upon the water\\nand they \u00e2\u0080\u009cwere exceeding tight, even that they\\nwould hold water like unto a dish, and the bottom\\nthereof was tight like unto a dish, and the ends\\nthereof were peaked, and the top thereof was\\ntight like unto a dish, and the length thereof was\\nthe length of a tree, and the door thereof (when\\nit was shut) was tight like unto a dish.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThere were eight of these barges.. But they\\nwere so tight that it was observed that there\\ncould be neither light nor fresh air within, and\\nthe Lord was again appealed to; and the Lord\\ndirected that a hole be made in both the top and\\nthe bottom of each, which were to be \u00e2\u0080\u009cunstopped\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nto admit air, but stopped in case of flooding.*\\nThen Jared\u00e2\u0080\u0099s brother called the attention of the\\nLord to the fact that there was no light in\\nthe barges; and the Lord said unto him \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhat\\nwill ye that I should do that ye may have light\\nAn explanatory foot-note referring to this re\u00c2\u00ac\\nmarkable description reads as follows: \u00e2\u0080\u009cBoth of these\\nair-holes, when stopped, were water-tight. Sometimes\\nthe vessels were under water; sometimes they may\\nhave turned bottom upward; when riding upon the\\nsurface the uppermost air-hole, at times, could, with\\nsafety, be opened.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Doubtless the quadrupeds aboard\\nhad plenty of lively exercise. And apparently there\\nwere swarms of honey-bees aboard. (See Book of\\nEther, Chapters 2 and 6.)", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nin your vessels? For behold, ye can not have\\nwindows, for they will be dashed in pieces;\\nneither shall ye take fire with you, for ye shall\\nnot go by the light of fire/\u00e2\u0080\u0099 etc. Whereupon\\nJared\u00e2\u0080\u0099s brother went forth unto a mountain, \u00e2\u0080\u009cand\\ndid molten out of a rock sixteen small stones,\\nwhite and clear even as transparent glass.\u00e2\u0080\u009d*\\nThese stones he carried to the top of the moun\u00c2\u00ac\\ntain, and then called upon the Lord, asking the\\nLord to look upon him in pity, and to touch the\\nstones with his finger, \u00e2\u0080\u009cand prepare them that\\nthey may shine forth in darkness,\u00e2\u0080\u009d so that the\\nbarges might be lighted in crossing the sea; and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cthe Lord stretched forth his hand and touched\\nthe stones, one by one, with his finger; and the\\nveil was taken from off the eyes of the brother of\\nJared, and he saw the finger of the Lord.\u00e2\u0080\u009d After\\na little time the Lord showed himself fully to\\nJared\u00e2\u0080\u0099s brother, because never before had any\\none come before him with such exceeding faith\\nas was exhibited by him; and the Lord declared\\nthat never before had he shown himself unto\\nman.f Following immediately is the statement\\nthat all this must be written, in language which\\nthe Lord would confound, and sealed up, along\\nA foot-note referring to- this sentence reads as\\nfollows: \u00e2\u0080\u009cFrom this it is evident that the art of mak\u00c2\u00ac\\ning glass was known at that early period.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nf A foot-note referring to this remarkable incident\\nreads as follows: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe broher of Jared saw the pre\u00c2\u00ac\\nexistent spirit of Jesus, which afterward was enclosed\\nin a* tabernacle of flesh and bones. When the Lord\\nappeared unto Adam and the righteous, and unto\\nEnoch and the people of ancient Zion, it was probably\\nby vision, and not by a full view of his personage,\\nas was given to the brother of Jared.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n15\\nwith two stones which the Lord gave Jared\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nbrother, which he said would, in due time, \u00e2\u0080\u009cmag\u00c2\u00ac\\nnify to the eyes of men\u00e2\u0080\u009d the things written.\\nThe next proceeding was to place one of the\\nsixteen stones in each end of each of the eight\\nbarges; and then \u00e2\u0080\u009call manner of food\u00e2\u0080\u009d for the\\npeople, and \u00e2\u0080\u009cfood for their flocks and herds, and\\nwhatsoever beast, or animal, or fowl, they should\\ncarry with them,\u00e2\u0080\u009d was put aboard the barges,\\nand the people then went aboard. And \u00e2\u0080\u009cit came\\nto pass that the Lord God caused that there\\nshould a furious wind blow upon the face of the\\nwaters, toward the promised land, and thus they\\nwere tossed upon the waves of the sea before the\\nwind.\u00e2\u0080\u009d They were \u00e2\u0080\u009cmany times buried in the\\ndepths of the sea, because of the mountain waves\\nwhich broke upon them, and also the great and\\nterrible tempests which were caused by the fierce\u00c2\u00ac\\nness of the wind;\u00e2\u0080\u009d but \u00e2\u0080\u009cthere was no water that\\ncould hurt them, their vessels being tight like\\nunto a dish, and also they were tight like unto\\nthe ark of Noah.\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd it came to pass that the\\nwind did never cease to blow toward the promised\\nland while they were upon the waters\\nand thus they were driven forth.\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd no\\nmonster of the sea could break them, neither\\nwhale that could mar them; and they had light\\ncontinually, whether it was above the water or\\nunder the water.\u00e2\u0080\u009d After they had been upon the\\nwater \u00e2\u0080\u009cthree hundred and forty and four days\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nthey landed upon the shore of the promised land.\\nA foot-note here states that the landing was \u00e2\u0080\u009con\\nthe western coast, and probably south of the Gulf", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nof California, and north of the land of Desola\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, which was north of the Isthmus.\u00e2\u0080\u009d*\\nANIMALS.\\nThe writer has not found an explicit state\u00c2\u00ac\\nment that domestic animals were taken aboard the\\nbarges of the Jared expedition; but it is de\u00c2\u00ac\\nclared that the Lord commanded the brother of\\nJared to gather together their flocks, both male\\nand female, of every kind, as already stated, and\\nof course so faithful a servant did not fail to\\nobey the commandment. And when the barges\\nwere prepared for the voyage, food for their\\nflocks and herds, and whatsoever beast, or animal,\\nor fowl they should carry with them was taken\\naboard. Therefore there is no escaping the in\u00c2\u00ac\\nference that domestic animals of every kind were\\ncarried to the promised land. And we find that\\nsoon after arrival they possessed \u00e2\u0080\u009call manner of\\ncattle, of oxen, and cows, and of sheep, and of\\nswine, and of goats, and also many other kinds\\nof animals which were useful for the food of\\nman; and they also had horses, and asses; and\\nIn an article headed \u00e2\u0080\u009cExposition of Mormon-\\nism,\u00e2\u0080\u009d written by a Protestant clergyman of Salt Lake\\nCity, and published in 1882, the writer, in referring to\\nthe claim of the Mormons as to the first inhabitants\\nof the Western Hemisphere, states the claim to be\\nthat \u00e2\u0080\u009cthey came as colonists from Palestine, across\\nBehring Straits, into America\u00e2\u0080\u009d; and no mention is\\nmade of more than one expedition. Evidently this\\nis simply a random declaration, for it is absolutely\\nat variance with the foregoing statements, which are\\ntaken directly from the \u00e2\u0080\u009cBook of Mormon,\u00e2\u0080\u009d or the\\nMormon Bible.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n17\\nthere were elephants, and cureloms, and cumoms\\nall of which were useful unto man, and more\\nespecially the elephants, and cureloms, and\\ncumoms.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nReaders will now please refer to what is said\\nof animals in connection with the people of the\\nLehi expedition, on page 9. Those people did\\nnot take animals with them, but they found in\\nthe promised land \u00e2\u0080\u009cbeasts in the forests of every\\nkind, both the cow and the ox, and the ass and\\nthe horse, and the goat and the wild goat, and\\nall manner of wild animals which were for the\\nuse of men.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nWe have now reached a point from which\\nreaders may see clearly what it is proposed to\\nshow that the fraudulent character of the\\nMormon Bible is exhibited through its own con\u00c2\u00ac\\ntents, as, for instance, in this: If the statements\\nas to the animals mentioned were true, what be\u00c2\u00ac\\ncame of their descendants? Surely no candid,\\nthoughtful, and unprejudiced person will claim\\nthat they were all destroyed. If they existed in\\na wild state, as it is claimed they were found by\\nthe Lehi expedition, why should they not have\\ncontinued to propagate and exist And the same\\nquery is pertinent as to those claimed to have\\nbeen brought to the country by the Jared expedi\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, for some of them would have escaped, and\\nbecome wild, as is the case with horses and cattle\\nin the far West at the present time. But history\\ntells us that when Columbus discovered America\\nthere was not a horse, nor an ass, nor a cow, nor\\na goat, nor a hog, in all the country. The nearest\\napproach to the ccuv was the buffalo, and the\\n2MB", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nonly animal bearing any resemblance to swine\\nwas the diminutive peccary, which is not a true\\npig at all. The only sheep was the Rocky Moun\u00c2\u00ac\\ntain variety, which never was and never will be\\ndomesticated, for it will inhabit no part of the\\ncountry except mountains. That there were no\\nelephants need not be stated. As to \u00e2\u0080\u009ccureloms\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nand \u00e2\u0080\u009ccumoms,\u00e2\u0080\u009d if it were not for the declaration\\nthat they were useful creatures we might class\\nthem with a mythical ravenous beast which a\\njocular Irish friend of the writer declares ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nisted in Ireland in ancient times, called the \u00e2\u0080\u009cJob-\\nberwock.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nINDIANS.\\nThe writer of this ridiculous book doubtless\\nthought it necessary to account for the existence\\nof the American Indian; and so we are told in\\nthe Second Book of Nephi that the Lamanites\\nthe followers of the rebellious Laman were\\nsubjected to a curse, and that, though they had\\nbeen \u00e2\u0080\u009cwhite, and exceeding fair and delight\u00c2\u00ac\\nsome,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe Lord God did cause a\\nskin of blackness to come upon them.\u00e2\u0080\u009d And in\\nthe Book of Alma we read that they \u00e2\u0080\u009cwere dark,\\naccording to the mark which was set upon their\\nfathers, which was a curse upon them because\\nof their transgression, and their rebellion against\\ntheir brethren;\u00e2\u0080\u009d also, that \u00e2\u0080\u009ctheir heads were\\nshorn; and they were naked, save it were skin\\nwhich was girded about their loins, and also their\\narmor which was girded about them, and their\\nbows, and their arrows, and their stones, and\\ntheir slings, etc.\u00e2\u0080\u009d In the Book of Mormon a", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n19\\nfoot-note to the seventh chapter reads \u00e2\u0080\u009cLamanites\\nor Indiansand the same explanatory foot-note\\nis found in the Third Book of Nephi. In the\\nBook of Enos it is stated that \u00e2\u0080\u009cthey became wild,\\nand ferocious, and a bloodthirsty people, full of\\nidolatry and filthiness, feeding upon beasts of\\nprey, dwelling in tents, wandering about in the\\nwilderness, with a short skin girdle about their\\nloins, and their heads were shaven, and their skill\\nwas in the bow, and in the cimeter, and in the\\naxe; and many of them did eat nothing save it\\nwas raw meat.\u00e2\u0080\u009d In the Book of Jarom is the\\nstatement that \u00e2\u0080\u009cthey loved murder, and would\\ndrink the blood of beasts.\u00e2\u0080\u009d But in the Third\\nBook of Nephi there is the astonishing declara\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, concerning some of them who had united\\nwith the Nephites, that \u00e2\u0080\u009ctheir curse was taken\\nfrom them, and their skin became white like unto\\nthe Nephites; and their young men and their\\ndaughters became exceeding fair.\u00e2\u0080\u009d And in the\\nBook of Alma it is declared that this curse was\\nremoved from the Lamanites of four provinces\\nand three cities, \u00e2\u0080\u009cwho were converted unto the\\nLord.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nPOLYGAMY.\\nRecent events having brought forth a vigor\u00c2\u00ac\\nous and general protest concerning the matter of\\npolygamy, attention should be invited to what\\nis said upon this subject in the Book of Jacob, in\\ncontrast with the later revelation of Joseph\\nSmith, the modern prophet. A large portion\\nof the second and third chapters of this book is\\ndevoted to very severe condemnation of the prac-", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\ntice, and to admonition and .warning against it.\\nIn pursuance of \u00e2\u0080\u009ca strict commandment received\\nfrom God,\u00e2\u0080\u009d Jacob (one of the younger sons of\\nLehi) addressed his people in the temple \u00e2\u0080\u009ccon\u00c2\u00ac\\ncerning their wickedness and abominations.\u00e2\u0080\u009d He\\nspoke first of their pride because of riches, and\\nthen of their \u00e2\u0080\u009cgrosser crimes,\u00e2\u0080\u009d including poly\u00c2\u00ac\\ngamy, of which, after referring to the fact that\\nthe Nephites \u00e2\u0080\u009cseek to excuse themselves\\nbecause of the things which are written concern\u00c2\u00ac\\ning David, and Solomon his son,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he said:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cBehold, David and Solomon truly had many\\nwives and concubines, which thing was abomin\u00c2\u00ac\\nable before me, saith the Lord; wherefore, thus\\nsaith the Lord, I have led this people forth out\\nof the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine\\narm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous\\nbranch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.\\nWherefore I, the Lord God, will not suffer that\\nthis people shall do like them of old. Wherefore\\nmy brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word\\nof the Lord; for there shall not any man among\\nyou have save it be C ne wife, and concubines he\\nshall have none; for I,, the Lord God, delightcth\\nin the chastity of women, saith the\\nLord of Hosts. Wherefore, this people shall\\nkeep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts,\\nor cursed be the land for their sakes.For\\nbehold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow and\\nheard the mourning of the daughters of my peo\u00c2\u00ac\\nple in the land of Jerusalem yea, and in all the\\nlands of my people because of the wickedness\\nand abominations of their husbands; and I will\\nnot suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n21\\nof the fair daughters of this people, which I have\\nled out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up\\nunto me, against the men of my people, saith the\\nLord of Hosts; for they shall not lead away\\ncaptive the daughters of my people because of\\ntheir tenderness, save I shall visit them with a\\nsore curse, even unto destruction And now\\nbehold, my brethren, ye know that these com\u00c2\u00ac\\nmandments were given to our father, Lehi\\nwherefore ye have known them before; and ye\\nhave come unto great condemnation, for ye have\\ndone these things which ye ought not to have done.\\nBehold, ye have done greater iniquities than the\\nLamanites, our brethren. Ye have broken the\\nhearts of your tender wives, and lost the confi\u00c2\u00ac\\ndence of your children, because of your bad ex\u00c2\u00ac\\namples before them; and the sobbings of their\\nhearts ascend up to God against you. And be\u00c2\u00ac\\ncause of the strictness of the word of God, which\\ncometh down against you, many hearts died,\\npierced with deep w r ounds.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cWherefore, ye shall remember your children,\\nhow that ye have grieved their hearts because of\\nthe example that ye have set before them; and\\nalso, remember that ye may, because of your\\nfilthiness, bring your children unto destruction,\\nand their sins be heaped upon your heads at the\\nlast day. O my brethren, hearken unto my word;\\narouse the faculties of your soul; shake your\u00c2\u00ac\\nselves, that ye may awake from the slumber of\\ndeath; and loose yourselves from the pains of\\nhell, that ye may not become angels of the Devil,\\nto be cast into that lake of fire and brimstone\\nwhich is the second death.\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd now I, Jacob,", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nspake many more things unto the people of Nephi,\\nwarning them against fornication and lascivious\u00c2\u00ac\\nness, and every kind of sin, telling them the awful\\nconsequences of them.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe foregoing is quite wholesome reading; but\\nit appears not to have been satisfactory to the\\nmodern prophet Joseph Smith, the original head of\\nthe Church of Latter-Day Saints, for on the 12th\\nof July, 1843, he gave forth the new revelation\\njustifying polygamy. It is said that this was\\ndone to pacify his wife, who was bitter in her\\ncomplaints of his conduct, and to silence the ob\u00c2\u00ac\\njections of the Saints.*\\nIMMENSE NUMBERS SLAIN.\\nNot many years elapsed after the arrival of\\neither expedition until dissensions began, which\\nresulted in factions and wars, with many dis\u00c2\u00ac\\nastrous results and heavy losses. War was of\\nsuch frequent recurrence that the unbelieving\\nreader must wonder that the writer of tft^ fabu\u00c2\u00ac\\nlous history shows a constant and surprising in\u00c2\u00ac\\ncrease in population. Except in two instances\\nIn 1894 the writer became acquainted with a\\nyoung man in Utah who stated that his father went\\nto that country from the East, accompanied by his\\nwife; that in course of time he married five other\\nwomen, while his lawful wife was living; that in the\\nsix families there were thirty-six children; and that\\nhe was the youngest child of the lawful wife, and\\nthe only one of the thirty-six not baptized according\\nto the requirement of the Mormon Church the omis\u00c2\u00ac\\nsion in his case having been in pursuance of a request\\nof his mother, on her death-bed, he being then an\\ninfant.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n23 T\\ndefinite losses are not stated, though in some\\nplaces it is declared that so many were slain that\\nthey could not be numbered. The exceptions are\\nthe following:\\nIt is related in the Book of Mormon that in\\na single battle between the Nephites and the\\nLamanites (factions of the descendants of the\\npeople of the Lehi expedition) there were slain\\ntwo hundred and thirty thousand (230,000) of\\nthe former all except twenty-four who were in\\nMormon\u00e2\u0080\u0099s portion of the army, and \u00e2\u0080\u009ca few who\\nescaped into the south countriesand after the\\nbattle those who had escaped into the country\\nsouthward were hunted by the Lamanites and de\u00c2\u00ac\\nstroyed, as were also all the others save Moroni,\\nthe son of Mormon. The loss of the Lamanites\\nis not stated. The text indicates that this great\\ndestruction in battle was of men only, though\\nin preceding conflicts women and children had\\nnot always been spared. However, \u00e2\u0080\u009call the re\u00c2\u00ac\\nmainder\u00e2\u0080\u009d of the Nephites had been gathered to\u00c2\u00ac\\ngether preceding the battle, and the women and\\nchildren, and the men also, were filled with ter\u00c2\u00ac\\nror when they beheld the great number of the\\nLamanites; and as subsequently \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe Lamanites\\nhunted the Nephites dbwn, from city to city, and\\nfrom place to place, even until they were no\\nmore\u00e2\u0080\u009d (as declared by Moroni, in finishing his\\nfather\u00e2\u0080\u0099s record,) it follows that the women and\\nchildren were all destroyed, notwithstanding it\\ndoes not appear that they were destroyed during\\nthe battle.\\nThis battle occurred at the hill \u00c2\u00a9t Cumorah,\\nwhere the two armies met pursuant to prear-", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nrangement; and in this hill which a foot-note\\nstates is in Manchester, Ontario county, New\\nYork, Mormon, who was becoming old, \u00e2\u0080\u009chid\\nup (preceding the battle) all the records which\\nhad been entrusted to him by the hand of the\\nLoid,\u00e2\u0080\u009d save a few plates that he gave to his son\\nMoroni. This was three hundred and eighty-four\\nyears after the coming of Christ so stated.\\nSubsequently Moroni finished the records of his\\nfather, and hid them in the earth presumably\\nwhere the others were hidden, though not so\\nstated. This is declared by Moroni to have been\\nfour hundred years after the birth of Christ. And\\nit was the time fixed by prophecy, found in the\\nBook of Alma, for the extinction of the Nephites.\\nIn the Book of Ether we find that in a war\\nbetween factions of the descendants of the peo\u00c2\u00ac\\nple of the Jared expedition (referred to in the\\nBook of Moroni as \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe people of Jared\u00e2\u0080\u009d) there\\nwere slain, in the course of one war, up to a cer\u00c2\u00ac\\ntain time, \u00e2\u0080\u009ctwo millions of mighty men, and also\\ntheir wives and their children\u00e2\u0080\u009d\u00e2\u0080\u0094and these of one\\nside or faction only. A foot-note states that \u00e2\u0080\u009cin\u00c2\u00ac\\ncluding wives and children the numbers, very prob\u00c2\u00ac\\nably, must have been from ten to fifteen millions.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe loss of the other faction is not stated. An\\neffort for peace was then made, but it was not\\nsuccessful, and the war was continued. Finally,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009call the. people, upon all the face of the land, who\\nhad not been slain,* save it was Ether\u00e2\u0080\u009d (who\\nwas a prophet, and apparently was preserved as\\nhistorian,) both factions, it is stated were\\nThe clause \u00e2\u0080\u009cwho had not been slain\u00e2\u0080\u009d is a correct\\nquotation.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n25\\ngathered together at the hill Ramah, which, a\\nfoot-note states, is the same hill called Cumorah\\nby the Nephites. This gathering together of all\\nthe people required four years. \u00e2\u0080\u009cMen, women,\\nand children were armed with weapons of war,\\nhaving shields, and breast-plates, and head-plates,\\nand being clothed after the manner of war, they\\ndid march forth one against another to battle.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAfter two days of conflict the commander of one\\nfaction proposed peace, and offered to surrender\\nthe kingdom; but \u00e2\u0080\u009cSatan had full power over\\nthe hearts of the people,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and the next morning\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cthey went again to battle.\u00e2\u0080\u009d They fought three\\ndays more, and all were slain save fifty-two of one\\narmy and sixty-nine of the other. The fighting\\nwas continued, and at the close of the next day\\nthere were thirty-two survivors of one side and\\ntwenty-seven of the other \u00e2\u0080\u009clarge and mighty\\nmen, as to the strength of men.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The fighting\\nwas resumed next day, and after three hours they\\nfainted with the loss of blood; and when suffi\u00c2\u00ac\\nciently recovered, the men of one party endeav\u00c2\u00ac\\nored to escape, but they were overtaken the next\\nday, and fighting was resumed, when all were\\nslain except the two leaders of the armies, and\\nfinally one of these slew the other by cutting off\\nhis head, and then the victor \u00e2\u0080\u009cfell to the earth,\\nand became as if he had no life.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Therefore it\\nappears that the people of Jared were all de\u00c2\u00ac\\nstroyed.*\\nThe leader who \u00e2\u0080\u009cfell to the earth, and became\\nas if he had no life,\u00e2\u0080\u009d was Coriantumr; but, according\\nto the Book of Omni, he did not die then. In the\\naccount of the uniting of the people of Mosiah and", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nIn all this there appears quite a compre\u00c2\u00ac\\nhensive arrangement by the inventor of the\\nstories, of course. The battle which resulted in\\nthe destruction of the people of Jared, and that\\ndn which the Nephites were destroyed the lat\u00c2\u00ac\\nter including, of course, the descendants of the\\nthird expedition, who united with them in Zara\u00c2\u00ac\\nhemla were fought at the same place. It\\nshould be borne in mind that the people of Jared\\nhad been annihilated before the Nephites learned\\nanything about them.* Therefore when the\\nNephites were exterminated the only people pre\u00c2\u00ac\\nserved were the iniquitous Lamanites, upon\\nwhom the Lord, long before, had caused a dark\\nskin to appear, as a curse, because of their wick\u00c2\u00ac\\nedness \u00e2\u0080\u009cIndians,\u00e2\u0080\u009d as explained. The result,\\nit will be observed, corresponds with real history\\nthe people of Zarahemla (the descendants of the third\\nexpedition) appears the following: \u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd it came to\\npass, in the days of Mosiah, there was a large stone\\nbrought unto him, with engravings on it; and he did\\ninterpret the engravings by the gift and power of\\nGod. And they gave an account of one Coriantumr,\\nand the slain of his people,; and Coriantumr was dis\u00c2\u00ac\\ncovered by the people of Zarahemla, and he dwelt\\nwith them for the space of nine moons. It also spake\\na few words concerning his fathers. And his first\\nparents came out from the Tower, at the time the\\nLord confounded the language of the people; and the\\nseverity of the Lord fell upon them according to his\\njudgments, which are just; and their bones lay scat\u00c2\u00ac\\ntered in the land northward.\u00e2\u0080\u009d There is no statement\\nas to who prepared this record. And it is not ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nplained how Coriantumr managed to reach the land\\nof Zarahemla, in South America, from the battle-field,\\nwhich, as has been stated, was in the country that\\nis now Ontario county, New York.\\n*See pages 7 and 25, and also foot-note on page 35.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON 27\\nin one particular that when Columbus arrived\\nthere were no white people in America. But\\nit should be noted that this great destruction,\\neven to annihilation, as well as preceding wars\\nand other great calamities, were pursuant to\\nprophecy, and because of the great wickedness\\nand abominations of the people; and yet the\\nLatter-Day Saints are prospering, and rapidly in\u00c2\u00ac\\ncreasing numerically, notwithstanding many of\u00c2\u00ac\\nfences truthfully charged against them, including\\npolygamy and the Mountain Meadows massacre.\\nCALAMITIES. ANCIENT MOUNDS.\\nIn the Book of Ether we find the following:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd there was great calamity in all the land,\\nfor they [the prophets, who had been put to\\ndeath,] had testified that a greater curse should\\ncome upon the land, and also upon the people,\\nand that there should be a great destruction\\namong them, such an one as never had been\\nupon the face of the earth; and their bones should\\nbecome as heaps of earth upon the face of the\\nland except they should repent of their wicked\u00c2\u00ac\\nness.\u00e2\u0080\u009d They did not \u00e2\u0080\u009chearken unto the voice of\\nthe Lord,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and the prophecies were fulfilled. A\\nfoot-note here states that the heaps of earth re\u00c2\u00ac\\nferred to are now \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe ancient mounds of North\\nAmerica.\u00e2\u0080\u009d This is simply monumental trash.\\nThe author of the foot-note must surely either\\nhave counted largely upon the ignorance and\\ncredulity of persons who might read it, or have\\nbeen very ignorant himself in regard to these\\nmounds.*\\nThis account relates to the people of Jared.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nGREAT DESTRUCTION.\\nIn the Third Book of Nephi is an account of\\nfar greater destruction than the foregoing, but in\\nthis there is no reference to the ancient mounds.*\\nThis also was in fulfillment of prophecy, which\\npertained to a period of darkness that was to\\ncome upon the land for the space of three days\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094both the destruction and the darkness to serve\\nas signs of the death of Jesus Christ. The de\u00c2\u00ac\\nstruction occurred about a third of a century\\nafter the birth of Christ, which event was six\\nhundred years after Lehi left Jerusalem with his\\nexpedition, according to Mormon chronology;\\nand according to a foot-note \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe darkness com\u00c2\u00ac\\nmenced when Jesus expired.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The darkness fol\u00c2\u00ac\\nlowed immediately after the destruction referred\\nto; and preceding it there was \u00e2\u0080\u009ca great and ter\u00c2\u00ac\\nrible tempest;\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cterrible thunder that shook the\\nwhole earth;\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cexceeding sharp lightnings such\\nas never had been known in all the land;\u00e2\u0080\u009d and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cwhirlwinds,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and \u00e2\u0080\u009cgreat quaking of the whole\\nearth.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Sixteen great cities (named) were de\u00c2\u00ac\\nstroyed six by fire, one was sunk into the\\ndepths of the sea, three were sunk and then wa\u00c2\u00ac\\nters appeared where they had been, one was cov\u00c2\u00ac\\nered up and a mountain appeared on its site, and\\nfive were covered up by or sunk into the earth;\\nand the inhabitants were destroyed with them.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd many great and notable cities were sunk,\\nand many were burned, and many were shook till\\nthe buildings thereof had fallen to the earth.\\nThe account that follows is attributed to the\\nNephites.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n29\\nand the places were left desolate/\u00e2\u0080\u0099\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd there were some cities which remained, but\\nthe damage thereof was exceeding great.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The\\nland northward suffered more than that south\u00c2\u00ac\\nward,* \u00e2\u0080\u009cfor behold the whole face of the land\\nwas changed, because of the tempest, and the\\nwhirlwinds, and the thunderings, and the light\u00c2\u00ac\\nnings, and the exceeding great quaking of the\\nwhole earth; and thus the face of the\\nwhole earth became deformed.\u00e2\u0080\u009d And all this\\nwithin \u00e2\u0080\u009cabout the space of three hours.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nOTHER CALAMITIES.\\nAfter one long period of prosperity, and free\u00c2\u00ac\\ndom from war, during which the Lord had poured\\nout blessings because of the righteousness of the\\nrulers and the people, \u00e2\u0080\u009cthere began again to be\\nexceeding great wickedness upon the face of the\\nland;\u00e2\u0080\u009d whereupon a curse came upon the face\\nof the land, as foretold by the prophets. There\\ncame a great dearth upon the land, for there was\\nno rain upon the face of the earth, and the people\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cbegan to be destroyed exceeding fastand there\\ncame forth poisonous serpents, which poisoned\\nmany of the people, and the flocks did flee from\\nthe serpents toward the land southward; but\\nmany animals perished by the way, though some\\nescaped; and the people, who followed after the\\nflocks, fed upon the carcasses of the dead. The\\nLord then caused the serpents to cease to pursue\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cNorthward\u00e2\u0080\u009d and \u00e2\u0080\u009csouthward\u00e2\u0080\u009d are explained in\\na foot-note as meaning North America and South\\nAmerica.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nthe flocks, and that they should hedge up the way,\\nso that the people could not pass. Whereupon the\\npeople, then seeing that they must perish, began\\nto repent, and to cry unto the Lord; and when\\nthey had \u00e2\u0080\u009chumbled themselves sufficiently before\\nthe Lord\u00e2\u0080\u009d he sent rain upon the face of the earth,\\nand so saved them from famine.\\nWhen such awfully disastrous natural phe\u00c2\u00ac\\nnomena as have been described are considered,\\nalong with many destructive wars, and also\\ndrouth, and famine, and poisonous serpents, there\\nis enough to excite wonder that there were sur\u00c2\u00ac\\nvivors sufficient to constitute such immense\\narmies as were engaged in the final conflicts\\nand especially so when the fact is contemplated\\nthat there were no accessions by Way of immigra\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion from the Old World, and that the immense\\npopulation all descended from the few persons\\nclaimed to have composed the expeditions men\u00c2\u00ac\\ntioned.*\\nIn the First Book of Nephi it appears that the\\nLehi expedition consisted of Lehi and his family\\nself, wife, and six sons (two of the sons being young,\\nhaving been born in the wilderness after the family\\ndeparted from Jerusalem); Zoram, who had been a\\nservant of Laban (at Jerusalem), whom Nephi slew\\nin order to secure certain record plates (see foot-note\\non page 41); and the family of Ishmael, in which were\\nhis widow, two sons, and five daughters the father\\nhaving died in the wilderness. Ishmael\u00e2\u0080\u0099s sons had\\nfamilies, four of his daughters married sons of Lehi,\\nand the other married Zoram the marriages having\\noccurred in the wilderness. (Where the members of\\nLehi\u00e2\u0080\u0099s family are specified, daughters are not men\u00c2\u00ac\\ntioned; but in the Second Book of Nephi it is stated\\nthat when Nephi fled from Laman and Lemuel, in the\\npromised land, he took his sisters with him.) The", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n31\\nApparently what has already been shown is\\nsufficient as to what this preposterous book por\u00c2\u00ac\\ntrays through its own contents. Readers will dis\u00c2\u00ac\\ncover numerous matters to which special atten\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion has not been invited, but which are so plainly\\nopen to adverse criticism as not to require par\u00c2\u00ac\\nticular designation.\\nPLATES AND TRANSLATION.\\nProbably a majority of people who have heard\\nof the Mormons have heard also that plates con\u00c2\u00ac\\ntaining the fabulous records upon which their\\nchurch claims to have been founded were declared\\nto have been discovered where they had been hid\u00c2\u00ac\\nden in the earth, and that the records thereon\\nwere translated into the English language in a\\nmysterious way; and it seems to be the under\u00c2\u00ac\\nstanding generally that the plates were of gold,\\nthough there is no authority in the Mormon Bible\\nfor this except as to one lot of twenty-four, as is\\nshown in this account.* It seems advisable,\\ntherefore, to present a statement concerning them\\nas comprehensive as possible within reasonab le\\nthird expedition is referred to in a foot-note as \u00e2\u0080\u009ca\\nsmall colony from Jerusalem.\u00e2\u0080\u009d (See Book of Ether,\\nCh. xi.) The Jared expedition consisted of Jared\\nand his brother and their families, and \u00e2\u0080\u009csome others\\nand their families,\u00e2\u0080\u009d friends of Jared and his brother\\npresumably not a large number, as otherwise the word\\nsome would not have been used.\\nIn the \u00e2\u0080\u009cTestimony of Eight Witnesses\u00e2\u0080\u009d printed\\non the leaf next following that containing the title-\\npage of the book, these witnesses declare simply that\\nthe plates had \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe appearance of gold.\u00e2\u0080\u009d But this\\nhas no bearing in the matter.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": ".3*2\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nlimits. The accounts pertaining to them are quite\\nmystifying; and cross-references referring to\\nthem throughout the book are so numerous as to\\nbe both perplexing and tedious, and probably\\nwere so intended.\\nThe first mention of records is at the begin\u00c2\u00ac\\nning of the account of the Lehi expedition from\\nJerusalem. Apparently Lehi, the head of the ex\u00c2\u00ac\\npedition, kept a record. Then Nephi, his son, not\\nonly made from this an abridged Account, but also\\nanother account, entirely his own, upon plates\\nmade with his own hands.\\nThe next plates mentioned were those taken\\nfrom the treasury of Laban, at Jerusalem, as\\ndescribed in a foot-note on page 41 follow\u00c2\u00ac\\ning. These are stated to have been of brass. If\\nthe claim as to the discovery of plates were true,\\nthese would have been of the number found, for\\nLehi prophesied that \u00e2\u0080\u009cthese plates of brass should\\ngo forth unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and\\npeople who were of his seed; wherefore, he said\\nthat these plates of brass should never perish,\\nneither should they be dimmed by time.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cWherefore it was wisdom of the Lord that we\\nshould carry them with us as we journeyed in the\\nwilderness toward the land of promise.\u00e2\u0080\u009d And\\nin reading it is found that they were preserved,\\nand hidden with the rest.\\nThen comes the account of the first lot of\\nplates made by Nephi in pursuance of a com\u00c2\u00ac\\nmandment of the Lord, which was very soon\\nafter arrival at the land of promise. These were\\nmade of ore, but the kind of ore is not stated.\\nThen he received a commandment that \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe min-", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n33\\nistry and the prophecies, the more plain and\\nprecious parts of them,\u00e2\u0080\u009d should be written upon\\nthese plates. The accounts of all the plates and\\nrecords referred to so far are found in full in\\nthe First Book of Nephi.\\nIn the Second Book of Nephi is an account of\\nanother set of plates, in part as follows:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd thirty years had passed away from the\\ntime we left Jerusalem.* And I, Nephi, had kept\\nthe records upon my plates which I had made, of\\nmy people, thus far; and it came to pass that\\nthe Lord God said unto me: Make other plates;\\nand thou shalt engraven many things upon them\\nwhich are good in my sight, for the profit of thy\\npeople.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThen there was the record of Mormon, which\\nhe called the Book of Mormon. And further as\\nto Mormon\u00e2\u0080\u0099s work: It appears that when he was\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cabout ten years of age\u00e2\u0080\u009d Ammaron went to him\\nand said unto him that when he should reach the\\nage ?f \u00e2\u0080\u009cabout twenty-four years\u00e2\u0080\u009d he should go to\\na hill called Shim, in the land Antum, where he\\nshould find all the sacred engravings, deposited\\nthere by him; that he should take the plates of\\nNephi unto himself, and engrave upon them what\\nhe should observe, and leave the remainder. This\\nMormon did; and subsequently, fearing the\\nLamanites would discover the remainder and de\u00c2\u00ac\\nstroy them, he went to the hill and took them\\nalso. Then he made an abridgment from the\\nThis would be twenty-two years, or somewhat\\nless, after arrival in America, for they were in the\\nwilderness eight years.\\n3 MB", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nplates of Nephi, and with this he put some \u00e2\u0080\u009csmall\\nplates\u00e2\u0080\u009d found among the records.\\nAll the records mentioned pertained to the\\nNephites, and they were passed from one ruler\\nor prophet to another, the several custodians hav\u00c2\u00ac\\ning added to the engravings. In the Book of\\nHelaman it is stated that \u00e2\u0080\u009cthere are many books\\nand many records of every kind, and they have\\nbeen kept chiefly by the Nephites; and they have\\nbeen handed down from one generation to another\\nby the Nephites.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Finally, it appears in the\\nWords of Mormon that all these records came\\ninto his possession; and then in the Book of\\nMormon it is stated that, preceding the great\\nbattle in which the Nephites were exterminated,\\nMormon \u00e2\u0080\u009chid them up in the hill Cumorah\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nstated elsewhere to be in Manchester, Ontario\\ncounty, New York all except a few that he\\ngave to his son Moroni; and upon these Moroni\\nfinished the record of his father, and then hid\\nthem up.\\nBeside the records of the Nephites, there was\\na record of \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe people of Jared,\u00e2\u0080\u009d who came from\\nthe \u00e2\u0080\u009cGreat Tower.\u00e2\u0080\u009d This record was on twenty-\\nfour plates \u00e2\u0080\u009cof pure gold,\u00e2\u0080\u009d found by an exploring\\nparty of forty-three men sent out by King Limhi,\\nthough they were not sent for that purpose*\\nThey were found in a land that had at one time\\nbeen densely inhabited, but was then a land of\\ndesolation, where bones of dead people and beasts,\\nruins of buildings, etc., were found in great\\nWhere first mentioned these plates are declared\\nto have been of pure gold, though they are referred to\\nin another chapter of the same book as \u00e2\u0080\u009cplates of ore. ,y", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n35\\nquantity. These plates, Moroni (the son of Mor\u00c2\u00ac\\nmon) states, were used by him in writing the\\nBook of Ether, which, he says, is an abridgment,\\nand does not give \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe full account, but a part\\nof the account, from the Tower down until that\\npeople were destroyed.\u00e2\u0080\u009d* And he did not use\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cthe first part of the record, which speaks con\u00c2\u00ac\\ncerning the creation of the world, and also of\\nAdam, and gives an account from that time even\\nto. the Great Tower;\u00e2\u0080\u009d but, he states, \u00e2\u0080\u009cthey are\\nhad upon the plates, and whoso findeth them, the\\nsame will have power that he may get the full\\naccount.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe beginning of this record, as given, pre\u00c2\u00ac\\ncedes the departure of the people of Jared for\\nthe land of promise; but the record was brought\\nwith them, for the plates were found in this land.\\nFollowing is the account:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd it came to pass that the Lord said unto\\nthe brother of Jared, Behold, thou shalt not suf\u00c2\u00ac\\nfer these things which ye have seen and heard\\nto go forth unto the world until the time cometh\\nthat I shall glorify my name in the flesh; where\u00c2\u00ac\\nfore ye shall treasure up the things which ye have\\nseen and heard, and show it to no man. And be\u00c2\u00ac\\nhold, when ye shall come unto me ye shall write\\nthem, and shall seal them up that no one can in\u00c2\u00ac\\nterpret them; for ye shall write them in a lan-\\nFrom this it appears that this people were de\u00c2\u00ac\\nstroyed prior to the destruction of the Nephites, for\\nthey had been destroyed when the Nephites discov\u00c2\u00ac\\nered the plates. This may be verified also by another\\nreference in the Book of Ether, by two references in\\nthe Book of Alma, three in the Book of Mosiah, and\\none in the Book of Helaman.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nguage that they can not read. And behold, these\\ntwo stones will I give unto thee, and ye shall seal\\nthem up also with the things which ye shall write.\\nFor behold, the language which ye shall write I\\nhave confounded; wherefore I will cause in my\\nown due time that these stones shall magnify to\\nthe eyes of men these things which ye shall\\nwrite.\u00e2\u0080\u009d* \u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd the Lord commanded\\nthe brother of Jared to go down out of the\\nmount from the presence of the Lord, and write\\nthe things which he had seen; and they were for\u00c2\u00ac\\nbidden to come unto the children of men until\\nafter that he should be lifted up upon the cross.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nIn the Book of Mosiah it appears that this\\nking (into whose custody had come these records,\\nand also all the records pertaining to the Nephites,\\nand all the things which had been preserved)\\ntranslated the records on the twenty-four plates\\nof gold, by means of the two stones mentioned\\nthe stones being \u00e2\u0080\u009cfastened into the two rims of a\\nThe discovery of these plates by the Nephites\\nappears to have been quite fortunate, as it resulted\\nnot only in bringing together the records of the people\\nconnected with the expeditions of Lehi and Jared,\\nbut also in the recovery of the two interpreting stones,\\nthrough which all translations are assumed to have\\nbeen made, and which, it appears, were hidden again\\nafter Smith was through with them, to be brought\\nforth in due time for further translations.\\nAnother remarkable interpreting stone is men\u00c2\u00ac\\ntioned in the Book of Alma. This was prepared by the\\nLord for his servant Gazelem, to be used in discov\u00c2\u00ac\\nering \u00e2\u0080\u009csecret works,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and \u00e2\u0080\u009cworks of darkness, and\\nwickedness, and abominations.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n37\\nbow/\u00e2\u0080\u0099* These stones were called \u00e2\u0080\u009cinterpreters\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cand no man can look in them except he be\\ncommanded, lest he should look for that he ought\\nnot, and he should perish.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAnd there is this also as to translation:\\nMoroni says of the record he made to finish that\\nof his father that \u00e2\u0080\u009cnone can have power to bring\\nit to light save it be given him of God;\\nand blessed be him that shall bring this thing to\\nlight, for it shall be brought out of darkness unto\\nlight, according to the word of God; yea it shall\\nbe brought out of the earth, and it shall shine\\nforth out of darkness, and come unto the knowl\u00c2\u00ac\\nedge of the people; and it shall be done by the\\npower of God.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Doubtless this refers to the in\u00c2\u00ac\\nterpreting stones.\\nFinally, in the Second Book of Nephi, and also\\nin the Book of Ether, the plan for bringing forth\\nthe records is developed. In the former, Nephi\\nrefers to a sealed book, in which shall be \u00e2\u0080\u009ca reve\u00c2\u00ac\\nlation from God, from the beginning of the world\\nto the ending thereof.\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cThis book shall be de\u00c2\u00ac\\nlivered unto a man,f and he shall deliver the\\nwords of the book.\u00e2\u0080\u009d But a portion of it he shall\\nnot deliver, for that part shall be kept \u00e2\u0080\u009cuntil the\\nown due time of the Lord.\u00e2\u0080\u009d This book consists\\nof the hidden plates so stated in the Book of\\nEther. In both these books it is stated that the\\nrecords shall be brought forth in the presence of\\nthree witnesses, and, says Nephi, \u00e2\u0080\u009cnone other\\nAnd there was another record that he trans\u00c2\u00ac\\nlated engravings found on \u00e2\u0080\u009ca large stone brought\\nunto him.\u00e2\u0080\u009d (See foot-note on page 26.)\\nt Explained in a foot-note to be Joseph Smith, Jr.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nsave it be a few according to the will of God, to\\nbear testimony/\u00e2\u0080\u0099 In the Book of Ether is the\\ndeclaration that \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe testimony of the three, and\\nthis work, in which shall be shown forth the\\npower of God, and also his word, of which the\\nFather, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost beareth\\nrecord and all this shall stand as a testimony\\nagainst the world at the last day.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Then in the\\nfront of the Mormon Bible are two certificates\\none by three and one by eight confessed witnesses\\ntestifying to the bringing forth and translation\\nof the records.\\nAnd this is not all, for in Second Nephi it is\\ncommanded that the plates shall be sealed up\\nand hidden again, to remain till the time shall\\ncome when the part not translated shall be re\u00c2\u00ac\\nvealed to the world. Therefore it appears that\\nthere is to be another book.\\nSurely any person of sound intellect should\\nbe able to see that all this is simply outrageous\\nand sacrilegious stuff and nonsense.\\nTESTIMONY AS TO FABRICATION.\\nAttention will now be invited to testimony\\nadduced only a few years after the Mormon Bible\\nwas published.\\nIn 1840 a work was published at Painesville,\\nOhio, (near which place, at Kirtland, the Mor\u00c2\u00ac\\nmons erected their first temple,) by E. D. Howe,\\nentitled \u00e2\u0080\u009cHistory of Mormonism,\u00e2\u0080\u009d which gives\\nalmost conclusive evidence that the historical por\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion of the Book of Mormon, or Mormon Bible,\\nwas written by one Solomon Spalding. From this\\nwork the following facts are derived:", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n39\\nMr. Spalding was born in Connecticut in\\n1761, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1785,\\nand, having failed in mercantile business, re\u00c2\u00ac\\nmoved in 1809 to Conneaut, Ashtabula county,\\nOhio. About the year 1812 his brother John vis\u00c2\u00ac\\nited him at that place. He gave the following\\ntestimony concerning his brother Solomon\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nwork:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cHe then told me that he was writing a book,\\nwhich he intended to have printed, the avails of\\nwhich, he thought, would enable him to pay all his\\ndebts. The book was entitled \u00e2\u0080\u0098Manuscript\\nFound,\u00e2\u0080\u0099 of which he read me many passages. It\\nwas an historical romance of the first settlers of\\nAmerica, endeavoring to show that the American\\nIndians are the descendants of the Jews, or the\\nLost Tribes. It gave a detailed account of their\\njourney from Jerusalem, by land and sea, till they\\narrived in America, under the command of Nephi\\nand Lehi. They afterward had quarrels and con\u00c2\u00ac\\ntentions, and separated into two distinct nations,\\none of which he denominated Nephites, and the\\nother Lamanites. Cruel and bloody wars ensued,\\nin which great multitudes were slain. They\\nburied their dead in large heaps, which caused\\nthe mounds so common in this country. Their\\narts, sciences, and civilization were brought into\\nview, in order to account for all the curious an\u00c2\u00ac\\ntiquities found in various parts of North and\\nSouth America. I have recently read the Book\\nof Mormon, and to my great surprise I find nearly\\nthe same historical matter, names, etc., as they\\nwere in my brother\u00e2\u0080\u0099s writings. I well remember\\nthat he wrote in the old style, and commenced", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 THE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nabout every sentence with \u00e2\u0080\u0098And it came to pass/\\nor \u00e2\u0080\u0098Now it came to pass/ the same as in the Book\\nof Mormon; and, according to the best of my\\nrecollection and belief, it is the same as my\\nbrother Solomon wrote, with the exception of\\nthe religious matter. By what means it has fal\u00c2\u00ac\\nlen into the hands of Joseph Smith, Jr. I am un\u00c2\u00ac\\nable to determine.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n(Signed) John Spalding.\\nMr. Henry Lake, of Conneaut, stated:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cI left the State of New York late in the year\\n1810, and arrived at this place the first of January\\nfollowing. Soon after arrival I formed a co\u00c2\u00ac\\npartnership with Solomon Spalding, for the pur\u00c2\u00ac\\npose of rebuilding a forge which he had com*\\nmenced a year or two before. He very frequently\\nread to me from a manuscript which he was\\nwriting, which he entitled \u00e2\u0080\u0098Manuscript Found/\\nand which he represented as being found in this\\ntown. I spent many hours in hearing him read\\nsaid writings, and became well acquainted with\\nthe contents. He wished me to assist him in get\u00c2\u00ac\\nting his production printed, alleging that a book\\nof that kind would meet a rapid sale. I designed\\ndoing so, but the forge not meeting our anticipa\u00c2\u00ac\\ntions we failed in business, when I declined hav\u00c2\u00ac\\ning anything to do with the publication of the\\nbook. This book represented the American In\u00c2\u00ac\\ndians as the descendants of the Lost Tribes, and\\ngave an account of their leaving Jerusalem, their\\ncontentions and wars, which were many and\\ngreat. One time, when he was reading to me\\nthe tragic account of Laban, I pointed out to him\\nwhat I considered an inconsistency, which he", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n41\\npromised to correct; but by referring to the Book\\nof Mormon I find, to my surprise, that it stands\\nthere just as he read it to me then.* Some\\nmonths ago I borrowed the \u00e2\u0080\u0098Golden Bible/ put\\nit into my pocket, carried it home, and thought\\nThis statement relating to Laban probably refers\\nto the slaying of Laban by Nephi, the following\\nsynopsis of which is gathered from the First Book\\nof Nephi: A short time after the departure of Lehi\\nand his family from Jerusalem into the wilderness\\nthe father had a dream, in which he was commanded\\nby the Lord that his sons should return to Jerusalem\\nand obtain from Laban \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe record of the Jews, and\\nalso a genealogy of his forefathers,\u00e2\u0080\u009d which were\\nengraven upon plates of brass. The sons called upon\\nLaban, but he refused to surrender the records. They\\nthen went to the land of their inheritance and gath\u00c2\u00ac\\nered together their gold, and silver, and precious\\nthings (abandoned by the family on departure for the\\nwilderness), which they offered to exchange with\\nLaban for the records, but he refused, though he kept\\nthe property, and sent his servants to slay them, but\\nthey escaped; whereupon an angel of the Lord spoke\\nto them, and directed that they go again to Laban\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nhouse, and promised them that the Lord would deliver\\nLaban into their hands. Then they returned to Jeru\u00c2\u00ac\\nsalem, but all remained without the walls save Nephi,\\nwho went to Laban\u00e2\u0080\u0099s house, and found him lying\\nupon the earth, near the house, drunken with wine;\\nwhereupon the Spirit \u00e2\u0080\u009cconstrained\u00e2\u0080\u009d Nephi to slay him,\\nand when he hesitated the Spirit commanded him so\\nto do, saying unto him that the Lord had thus deliv\u00c2\u00ac\\nered Laban into his hands. Therefore he \u00e2\u0080\u009cobeyed\\nthe voice of the Spirit, and took Laban by the hair\\nof the head and smote off his head with his own\\nsword\u00e2\u0080\u009d, which he had taken from Laban when he\\nfound him. He then dressed himself in Laban\u00e2\u0080\u0099s gar\u00c2\u00ac\\nments, girded Laban\u00e2\u0080\u0099s armor about his loins, pro\u00c2\u00ac\\nceeded to the treasury, spoke to the servant on guard\\nthere in the voice of Laban, and by this deception\\nsecured the records; and the servant (Zoram) joined\\nthe expedition.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nno more of it. About a week after, my wife found\\nthe book in my coat pocket, and commenced read\u00c2\u00ac\\ning it aloud as I lay upon the bed. She had not\\nread twenty minutes till I was astonished to find\\nthe same passages in it that Spalding had read to\\nme more than twenty years before, from his\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098Manuscript Found.\u00e2\u0080\u0099 Since that I have more\\nfully examined the said \u00e2\u0080\u0098Golden Bible,\u00e2\u0080\u0099 and have\\nno hesitation in saying that the historical part of\\nit is principally, if not wholly, taken from \u00e2\u0080\u0098Manu\u00c2\u00ac\\nscript Found.\u00e2\u0080\u0099 I well recollect telling Mr. Spald\u00c2\u00ac\\ning that so frequent use of the words \u00e2\u0080\u0098And it\\ncame to pass,\u00e2\u0080\u0099 and \u00e2\u0080\u0098Now it came to pass,\u00e2\u0080\u0099 rendered\\nit ridiculous.* Spalding left here in 1812, and I\\nfurnished him means to carry him to Pittsburgh,\\nwhere he said he would get the book printed, and\\npay me; but I never heard any more from him,\\nnor of his writings till I saw them in the Book\\nof Mormon.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n(Signed) Henry Lake.\\nThe testimony of six other witnesses is printed\\nin this \u00e2\u0080\u009cHistory of Mormonism,\u00e2\u0080\u009d all confirming\\nthe main facts as given in the foregoing state\u00c2\u00ac\\nment. Mr. Spalding, it appears, was vain of his\\nwritings, and was constantly showing them to\\nhis neighbors, so that reliable testimony to the\\nsame general facts might have been greatly mul\u00c2\u00ac\\ntiplied.\\nThe foregoing testimony, and the statement\\nthat follows it, are reproduced from Henry\\nHowe\u00e2\u0080\u0099s \u00e2\u0080\u009cHistorical Collections of Ohio,\u00e2\u0080\u009d origin-\\nThe frequent recurrence of these clauses through\u00c2\u00ac\\nout the book is quite monotonous, and renders the\\nreading of it exceedingly tedious.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n43\\nally published in 1848. From other reliable\\nsources it is learned that Mr. Spalding, after\\ngraduation at Dartmouth in 1785, was ordained,\\nand preached for three or four years, and then\\nabandoned the ministry and engaged in mercan\u00c2\u00ac\\ntile business at Cherry Valley, New York this\\nbefore he came to Ohio in 1809 5 and that he went\\nto Pittsburgh, as stated, and subsequently re\u00c2\u00ac\\nmoved to Amity, Pa., where he died in 1816. As\\nto the disposition of the manuscript, his widow\\npublished a statement in 1839 declaring that he\\nhad entrusted it to a printing establishment in\\nPittsburgh in 1812, with which one Sidney Rig-\\ndonf was connected; that Rigdon copied it; that\\nafterward it was returned to Mr. Spalding; and\\nthat, soon after the return, Mr. Spalding died.\\nThe widow preserved it till after the Book of\\nMormon was published, when she sent it to Con-\\nneaut, Ohio, to be compared with that book. In\\nher statement she said she was sure that if her\\nhusband were living nothing would grieve him\\nmore than the use made of his work. This is the\\naccount generally accepted as to the disposition\\nt In Howe\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Historical Collections of Ohio it is\\nstated that this man Rigdon \u00e2\u0080\u009cresided in Pittsburgh\\nabout three years, and during the whole of that time,\\nas he has since frequently asserted, he abandoned\\npreaching, and all other employment, for the purpose\\nof studying the Bible; and that soon after he left\\nPittsburgh \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe Smith family began to tell about find\u00c2\u00ac\\ning a book that contained a history of the first inhab\u00c2\u00ac\\nitants of America,\u00e2\u0080\u009d etc. In the Appendix to this\\nvolume additional facts concerning Rigdon may be\\nfound. Doubtless he added largely to the work- of\\nSpalding, changing it from nonsensical remance to-\\nsacrilegious fraud.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nof the manuscript; but a more specfiic statement\\nfollows.\\nIn Scribner s Monthly for the month of Au\u00c2\u00ac\\ngust, 1880, may be found an interesting affidavit\\nby Mrs. M. S. McKinstry, the only child of Mr.\\nSpalding (dated April 3, 1880), in which is in\u00c2\u00ac\\ncluded a statement concerning the disposition of\\nthe Spalding manuscript. Mrs. McKinstry states\\nthat in 1834 a man named Hurlburt called at her\\nhome to see her mother, who resided with her,\\nwith a view of securing the manuscript. He\\nstated that he had been a convert to Mormonism,\\nbut had given it up, and desired to \u00e2\u0080\u009cexpose its\\nwickedness.\u00e2\u0080\u009d He stated also that he had been\\nsent by a committee the purpose being to com\u00c2\u00ac\\npare the manuscript with the Mormon Bible.\\nMrs. McKinstry states that her mother mistrusted\\nHurlburt, but as he had brought a letter to her\\nfrom her brother, (a lawyer of Onondago Valley,\\nNew York,) requesting her to loan the manuscript\\nto him for the purpose stated, as he was desirious\\nto \u00e2\u0080\u009cuproot the Mormon fraud,\u00e2\u0080\u009d she reluctantly\\nconsented, after Hurlburt had repeatedly prom\u00c2\u00ac\\nised to return it. The manuscript was never re\u00c2\u00ac\\nturned, and Hurlburt would not answer letters\\nrequesting compliance with his promise. The\\nwriter of the magazine article that embraces the\\naffidavit, and by whom the affidavit was prepared,\\nunder Mrs. McKinstry\u00e2\u0080\u0099s dictation, states that\\nthere was a rumor that Hurlburt sold the manu\u00c2\u00ac\\nscript to the Mormons, and that they destroyed\\nit.\\nThe following account of Joseph Smith, and", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n45\\nthe publication of the Mormon Bible, appears\\nin Ahe Historical Collections referred to:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cJoseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism,\\nwas- born in Sharon, Vermont, December 23,\\n1805, and removed to Manchester, Ontario\\ncounty, New York, about the year 1815, with his\\nparents, who were in quite humble circumstances.\\nHe was occasionally employed in Palmyra as a\\nlaborer, and bore the reputation of a lazy and\\nignorant young man. According to the testimony\\nof respectable individuals in that place Smith and\\nhis father were persons of doubtful moral char\u00c2\u00ac\\nacter, addicted to disreputable habits, and, more\u00c2\u00ac\\nover, extremely superstitious, believing in the ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nistence of witchcraft. They at one time procured\\na mineral rod, and dug in various places for\\nmoney. Smith testified that when digging he had\\nseen the pot or chest containing the treasure, but\\nnever was fortunate enough to get it into his\\nhands. He placed a singular looking stone in his\\nhat, and pretended by the light of it to make\\nmany wonderful discoveries of gold, silver, and\\nother treasures deposited in the earth. He com\u00c2\u00ac\\nmenced his career as the founder of the new sect\\nwhen about the age of eighteen or nineteen, and\\nappointed a number of meetings in Palmyra for\\nthe purpose of declaring the divine revelations\\nwhich he said were made to him. He was, how\u00c2\u00ac\\never, unable to produce any excitement in the vil\u00c2\u00ac\\nlage. But very few had curiosity sufficient to\\nlisten to him. Not having means to print his\\nrevelations he applied to Mr. Crane, of the So\u00c2\u00ac\\nciety of Friends, declaring that he was moved by\\nthe spirit to call upon him for assistance. This", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46\\nTHE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\ngentleman bid him go to work, or the state prison\\nwould end his career. Smith had better success\\nwith Martin Harris, an industrious and thrifty\\nfarmer of Palmyra, who was worth about $10,000,\\nand who became one of his leading disciples. By\\nhis assistance 5,000 copies of the Mormon Bible\\n(so called) were published, at an expense of about\\n$3,000. It is possible that Harris might have\\nmade the advances with the expectation of a\\nprofitable speculation, as a great sale was an\u00c2\u00ac\\nticipated.\\nCONCLUSION.\\nIn conclusion, there is this to be said concern\u00c2\u00ac\\ning the apparent tendency of the organization\\nnow known as the Latter-Day Saints: Its ad\u00c2\u00ac\\nherents exhibit an intense devotion to their church,\\nand they have always manifested impatience of\\nrestraint from any other authority; and this has,\\nnot infrequently, extended not only to intolerance,\\nbut even to open defiance.* This disposition to\u00c2\u00ac\\nward exclusiveness toward church rather than\\nState government is probably due to what is\\nfound in their Bible, in which the experiences of\\nthe fabled ancient inhabitants of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cpromised\\nland,\u00e2\u0080\u009d whether favorable or adverse, are attrib\u00c2\u00ac\\nuted to the direct authority or intervention of the\\nLord. A recent instance of their open defiance of\\nlaw is found in the election, last autumn, of the\\npolygamist Roberts to the United States Con-\\nFor a statement showing the conduct of the\\nadherents of the church, from the organization of the\\nchurch throughout a period of thirty years following,\\nsee Appendix to this volume.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n47\\ngress; and a recent practice in the line of evasion\\nor defiance of law, according to reports that ap\u00c2\u00ac\\npear to be reliable, is that of going beyond the\\nlimits of the State of Utah to consummate poly\u00c2\u00ac\\ngamous marriages.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX\\n4* M B", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX\\nJt 2*\\nFor the information of readers desiring to\\nknow something further of the early history of\\nthe Mormons, the following brief statement is\\ngiyen:\\nThe church was organized at Manchester, New\\nYork, in the spring of 1830, with only a few\\nmembers. Early in 1831, in pursuance of a reve\u00c2\u00ac\\nlation promulgated by Joseph Smith, all the mem\u00c2\u00ac\\nbers removed to Kirtland, Ohio, where the mem\u00c2\u00ac\\nbership increased largely, and a temple was built.\\nSubsequently Smith and Sidney Rigdon made a\\ntrip westward, with the view of selecting a place\\nbetter suited for headquarters. They chose the\\nvicinity of Independence, Missouri, and then re\u00c2\u00ac\\nturned to Kirtland, where they remained three or\\nfour years, to make some money, as they stated.\\nThey started a bank, of which Smith became pres\u00c2\u00ac\\nident and Rigdon cashier. A large amount of\\npaper money was issued, which was believed to\\nbe of little, if any, real value, but nevertheless it\\nwas circulated throughout the surrounding\\ncountry. They were charged with fraud in this\\nand other matters, and in the spring of 1832 they\\nwere taken from their beds by a number of men,\\nand tarred and feathered. In 1838 the bank\\nfailed, as people had expected, and the two men\\nfled the country secretly, and in course of time\\nreached the new headquarters in Missouri, where", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52\\nTHE MORMON. BIBLE, OR\\nmany of their people had already gathered, includ\u00c2\u00ac\\ning numerous converts brought from Europe,\\nwhere the church had sent missionaries. These peo\u00c2\u00ac\\nple had already become involved in serious quarrels\\nwith earlier settlers, who charged them with mur\u00c2\u00ac\\nders, the burning of houses, and plundering, and\\nthey were driven from that locality. They went\\nto another county, but were soon in trouble there\\nalso; and in conflicts which resulted a number\\nof people were killed. Then came dissensions\\namong their own people, and several men aban\u00c2\u00ac\\ndoned the organization. These deserters openly\\naccused Smith of various crimes. Late in the\\nyear their conflicts with other people became so\\ncommon that there was danger of civil war.\\nMilitia were called out by the governor of the\\nState, and Smith and Rigdon were arrested upon\\ncharges of treason and other serious crimes.*\\nThe Mormons, not being sufficiently numerous to\\ncontend against the state troops, agreed to leave\\nthe state if permitted to depart without molesta\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion and they were given this privilege. They\\ncrossed the Mississippi into Illinois, where they\\npurchased land, and settled. Rigdon, who had\\nbeen released from jail, accompanied them, but\\nSmith, who had not been released, escaped from\\njail and joined them. Application for a charter\\nfor a city, to be named Nauvoo, was made to the\\nlegislature of Illinois, and the charter was granted\\nthe terms of the charter being quite liberal, as,\\namong other privileges, the organization of a\\nAffidavits were made by some of the men who\\nhad abandoned the organization that a part of Smith\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nprogramme wa\u00c2\u00a7 to take possession of the State.", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n53\\nmilitary force was permitted. Of this military\\norganization Smith appointed himself lieutenant\\ngeneral. A grand temple, i2o by 80 feet in di\u00c2\u00ac\\nmensions, was erected, and the city attained a\\npopulation of 10,000.\\nUnder the heading \u00e2\u0080\u009cPolygamy\u00e2\u0080\u009d (page 32) it\\nis stated that on July 12, 1843, Smith promul\u00c2\u00ac\\ngated a new revelation, authorizing a plurality of\\nwives. This resulted in much excitement, and\\nin- 1845 the heads of the church publicly denied\\nthe new doctrine; and it was not till 1852 that\\nthe truth was openly admitted. Meantime, how\u00c2\u00ac\\never, in consequence of gross conduct on the part\\nof Smith and others, several men whose wives\\nhad been insulted quit the church, and started a\\nnewspaper at Nauvoo called the \u00e2\u0080\u009cExpositor\\nAs the name indicates, the purpose was to ex\u00c2\u00ac\\npose such conduct as is referred to, which the\\nproprietors proceeded to do; but in the spring\\nof 1844 Smith raised a mob and destroyed the\\nprinting establishment. The proprietors fled to\\nthe county seat, and had warrants issued for the\\narrest of Smith, his brother Hyrum, and several\\nothers. The warrant for Smith\u00e2\u0080\u0099s arrest was\\nserved, but he refused to recognize the authority,\\nand the arresting officer was driven from the city.\\nThe Mormons armed for resistance, and the\\nmilitia were ordered out. The governor of the\\nState finally induced Smith and his brother to\\nsurrender, and they were taken to jail. Although\\na guard was placed to protect them, the jail was\\nsurrounded at night, by people who were deter\u00c2\u00ac\\nmined to end the lawlessness of the Mormons,\\nand both prisoners were killed by shooting into", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 THE MORMON BIBLE, OR\\nthe jail. Brigham Young became Smith\u00e2\u0080\u0099s suc\u00c2\u00ac\\ncessor. In 1845 legislature repealed the act\\nchartering the city of Nauvoo; and in 1847\\nYoung, and a considerable number of the peo\u00c2\u00ac\\nple, removed to Salt Lake; but the main body re\u00c2\u00ac\\nmained at Nauvoo, where trouble continued. Fin\u00c2\u00ac\\nally the city was bombarded, and the inhabitants\\nwere driven away; and in 1848 most of them\\nemigrated to Salt Lake. In 1849 a convention of\\nthe Mormon settlers in the vicinity of Salt Lake\\nwas called, a legislature chosen, and a constitu\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion was adopted, with the design of securing the\\nadmittance of that country as a state of the Union\\nthe name chosen being \u00e2\u0080\u009cDeseret.\u00e2\u0080\u009d* But Con\u00c2\u00ac\\ngress refused to admit the proposed state, and,\\ninstead, organized the country into a territory, to\\nwhich was given the name Utah. The President\\n(Fillmore) appointed Brigham Young, the head\\nof the church, to the office of governor of the\\nterritory, and he also appointed other necessary\\nofficers; but the next year the judge so appointed\\nwas frightened out of the territory by threats of\\nviolence, and government authority was defied.\\nYoung was then removed from office, and a suc\u00c2\u00ac\\ncessor was appointed, who proceeded to the terri\u00c2\u00ac\\ntory accompanied by a battalion of troops; but\\nafter remaining at Salt Lake through winter he\\nresigned, without having undertaken to exercise\\nthe functions of the office, and he and the troops\\nAccording to the Book of Ether, \u00e2\u0080\u009cdeseret,\u00e2\u0080\u009d as\\ninterpreted by the people of Jared, was the name of\\nthe honey bee. Hence the name chosen for the pro\u00c2\u00ac\\nposed state, which, so applied, was explained to mean\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cthe land of the honey bee.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3047", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "mormonbibleafabr00hall_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE BOOK OF MORMON\\n55\\nretired to California. After they left, Young de\u00c2\u00ac\\nclared that no power other than the Almighty\\ncould prevent him from governing the country.\\nOther territorial officers appointed by the Presi\u00c2\u00ac\\ndent arrived after the troops had gone, but they\\nwere defied and terrified; and in 1856 an armed\\nmob of Mormons entered the U. S. court room\\nand compelled the judge to adjourn the court sine\\ndie and then all the officers, except the Indian\\nagent, were obliged to leave the territory. Then\\nPresident Buchanan appointed another governor,\\nand sent an army of between two and three thou\u00c2\u00ac\\nsand men to sustain him, and to protect the other\\nofficers in the discharge of their duties. When\\nYoung learned that the troops were coming, he\\nissued a proclamation forbidding them to enter\\nthe country, and ordering his people to arm and\\nstop them. The Mormons captured and de\u00c2\u00ac\\nstroyed many of the army wagons laden with\\nstores, and stole and drove away about a thou\u00c2\u00ac\\nsand cattle that were being driven in the rear of\\nthe army. Before the troops reached Salt Lake\\nValley winter came on, and their progress was so\\nimpeded by cold and snow that they were obliged\\nto go into winter quarters. 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