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The Mormon Waterloo 
 
 BEING A CONDENSED AND CLASSIFIED ARRAY OF TESTIMONY AND ARGU- 
 MENTS AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHET, JOSEPH SMITH, HIS WORKS, 
 AND HIS CHURCH SYSTEM AND DOCTRINES, BASED 
 UPON STANDARD HISTORY, SCIENCE, THE BIBLE, 
 AND SMITH AGAINST HIMSELF 
 
 BY 
 
 ELDER W. L. ROWE 
 
 ST. PAUL, NEB. 
 
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Bancroft Library 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 PREFACE 5 
 
 ABBREVIATIONS 7 
 
 I. JOSEPH SMITH HISTORICAL 9 
 
 II. SMITH'S PROPHECIES fc 19 
 
 III. CHARACTER OF THE SMITH FAMILY 29 
 
 IV. JOSEPH SMITH A POLYGAMIST 32 
 
 V. MORMON POLITICS AND WAR 40 
 
 VI. MORMON SECRETISM MASONRY 44 
 
 VII. THE ENDOWMENT HOUSE 48 
 
 VIII. THE MORMON CHURCH HISTORICAL 53 
 
 IX. THE TRUE CHURCH AND THE FALSE 55 
 
 X. THE MORMON GIFT OF TONGUES . . . . : 59 
 
 XL MORMON SIGNS 6* 
 
 XII. THE TRUE MORMON CHURCH IN UTAH, BUT No 
 
 AUTHORITY IN IT 64 
 
 XIII. BOOK OF MORMON BRIEF OUTLINE OF THIS RO- 
 
 MANCE .' 74 
 
 XIV. THE WITNESSES OF THE PLATES EXAMINED 77 
 
 XV. THE PLATES NEVER OCULARLY SEEN OR USED 83 
 
 XVI. THE JOURNEY OF THE JAREDITES TO AMERICA 91 
 
 XVII. THE BOOK OF MORMON OPPOSED TO ZOOLOGY 95 
 
 XVIII. THE BOOK OF MORMON OPPOSED TO BOTANY 97 
 
 XIX. THE BOOK OF MORMON NOT SUSTAINED BY ARCH- 
 AEOLOGY 99 
 
 XX. THE BOOK OF MORMON OPPOSED TO ETHNOLOGY. ... 102 
 
 XXI. THE JOURNEY OF THE NEPHITES 106 
 
 XXII. FROM WHENCE CAME THE INDIANS 108 
 
 XXIII. LOST ATLANTIS 1 10 
 
 XXIV. ANGLO-ISRAEL 1 14 
 
 XXV. MORMONISM OPPOSED TO THE BIBLE IN DOCTRINE 
 
 HEAVEN AT DEATH IMMORTALITY ETERNAL 
 LIFE THE SOUL, AND THE SERPENT'S FALSE- 
 HOOD 119 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 XXVI. THE MORMON GOD DIED 123 
 
 XXVII. THE HORRIBLE HELL OF MORMONISM 127 
 
 XXVIII. THE MORMON HELL CONTRASTED WITH THE BIBLE 
 
 HELL 130 
 
 XXIX. BIBLE PROPHECIES APPLIED BY MORMONS TO THEIR 
 WORK THE "YOUNG MAN" SMITH SMITH 
 THE ELIJAH THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND 
 
 THE STONE KINGDOM 133 
 
 XXX. THE SEALED BOOK 138 
 
 XXXI. THE Two STICKS 140 
 
 XXXII. SMITH'S INSPIRED TRANSLATOR OF THE BIBLE 148 
 
 XXXIII. INDEX TO BOOK OF MORMON AND TO BOOK OF DOC- 
 TRINE AND COVENANTS ON SOME IMPORTANT 
 POINTS 158 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Having studied Mormon literature considerable, and 
 other literature relating to that system for public de- 
 bates that I have held with the reorganized branch of 
 that church system and having gathered together much 
 evidence that I regard as unanswerable against what I 
 regard as a dangerous delusion, I have felt the need of a 
 book that was "boiled down," and that had each subject 
 so classified that the busy investigator can turn at once 
 and read under its proper heading some forcible argu- 
 ments against this system ; so I have here attempted such 
 a work. 
 
 I expect criticism, and do not claim infallibility, but I 
 believe that many of the arguments contained herein 
 have never been, and never can be, fairly refuted. 
 
 We have no fears as to the result of inquiries from 
 the general public who heard our debate for sixteen 
 nights at Sac City, Iowa, December, 1900 ; nor from the 
 general public who heard our sixteen nights' debate at 
 Kalo, Iowa, November, 1901. 
 
 We believe that this book will be valuable to all who 
 have any contact with "Latter Day Saints" especially 
 those who have not the time to wade thru long histories 
 and various encyclopedias, and Mormon literature 
 and also that the forcible testimony herein may save 
 some honest souls from being led away by a fake 
 prophet's works and a counterfeit church. 
 
 To save space, and to avoid too large a book, in some 
 places we give the testimony in substance, as found in 
 the work referred to, or extracts from such works, which, 
 
 5 
 
6 PREFACE. 
 
 when enclosed in quotation marks, are substantially as 
 found in the work quoted from. The explanation of ab- 
 breviations appears on another page. 
 
 May God use the truth herein contained to undermine 
 false systems, to save the honest from delusion and bitter 
 disappointment, and to advance truth, which alone sancti- 
 fies, makes free, and saves. W. L. CROWE. 
 
ABBREVIATIONS. 
 
 C. J. C. L. D. S. means, "Church of Jesus Christ of 
 Latter Day Saints," now the name of the Mormon church 
 in Utah. 
 
 U. C. means this Utah church. 
 
 R. C. J. C. L. D. S. means, "Reorganized Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints," sometimes called 
 Josephites. 
 
 R. C. means this Reorganized Church. For the sake of 
 brevity we sometimes speak of all who believe in the 
 book of Mormon as "Mormons/' 
 
 The Mormon books referred to in this work are those 
 of the reorganized church, published at Lamoni, Iowa. 
 
 B. M. means, Book of Mormon. 
 
 D. C. means, the book containing Joseph Smith's rev- 
 elations, called Doctrine and Covenants. 
 
 Inspir. Transl. means, Smith's so-called inspired trans- 
 lation of the Bible. 
 
 What we simply' call "Beadle," or "Beadle's Hist." is 
 entitled, "Life in Utah, or Mysteries of Mormomsm and 
 Polygamy," by J. H. Beadle, published by the National 
 Pub. Co., Chicago, 111. 
 
 Inter. Encycl. means, International Encyclopedia. 
 
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CHAPTER I. 
 
 JOSEPH SMITH HISTORICAL. 
 
 Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was born 
 Dec. 23, 1805, at Sharon, Vermont. His parents, Joseph 
 and Lucy Smith, were regarded by their acquaintances as 
 indolent, illiterate, superstitious and unreliable. 
 
 In 1815 the family settled near Palmyra, N. Y. All 
 acquaintances of the Smith family agree that young 
 Joseph avoided physical labor, that he spent much of his 
 time witching for water, digging for treasure, and spin- 
 ning yarns. The balance of his time seems to have been 
 fairly well occupied in reading. As J. H. Larned says, 
 in Hist. Ready Ref., pub. 1895, "He read comprehensive- 
 ly, and as he advanced in reading and knowledge he as- 
 sumed a spiritual aspect. He frequently perused the 
 Bible, and became quite familiar with its contents. 
 
 "The family were regarded as indolent, whisky drink- 
 ers, irreligious and shiftless. 
 
 "In 1819 young Joseph found a glassy, transparent 
 stone, dug out of a Mr. Chase's well, thru which he 
 claimed to see hidden treasure, and things too wonderful 
 for mortal vision, hence he shaded his face with his hat, 
 < into which he put the stone, and then his face in the hat. 
 This stone was what Smith afterwards called his 'urim 
 and thummin/ by which he pretended to translate the 
 book of Mormon from gold plates, which he claimed to 
 have been given him by an angel/' 
 
 That this stone was Smith's "urirn and thummin" see 
 also Beadle's Hist. pp. 22, 23. Also Willard Chase's tes- 
 
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 timony, as found in "Mormonism Exposed," by Wm. 
 Kirby, pp. 389-395. Nearly all encyclopedias testify to 
 the same. 
 
 On Sept. 21, 1823, Joseph Smith claims to have seen 
 an angel, who informed him that he was chosen of God 
 to bring forth the fullness of the gospel, and to restore 
 the true church. The angel also told him of the aborig- 
 ines of America, and of hidden plates containing a his- 
 tory of their laws, wars, religion, etc. 
 
 On the morning of Sept. 22, 1827, the angel is said to 
 have delivered these plates into the hands of Jos. Smith. 
 
 On April 16, 1829, Smith claims to have first met 
 Oliver Cowdery, who afterwards acted as his scribe in 
 this so-called translation of plates. Three thousand 
 copies of the Book of Mormon were published by Pom- 
 eroy Tucker, and given to the world in 1830. 
 
 On April 6, 1830, the church was organized at Man- 
 chester, N. Y., with six members; Jos. Smith, Jr., and 
 his father, two brothers and Oliver Cowdery and Jos. 
 Knight. This is what Smith and Mormons regard as 
 the restoration to earth of the true church or Kingdom 
 of God. D. C. pp. 4, 37, 52. 
 
 The first conference of the church was held at Fayette, 
 N. Y., June i, 1830. Some Whitmers and a few others 
 had then been added to it. The same year, in August, 
 Sydney Rigdon and Parley Pratt joined the church. 
 Rigdon believed in the literal fulfillment of prophecy, and 
 the soon-coming of the Lord, and had been teaching as 
 a Campbellite, faith, repentence, and baptism by im- 
 mersion. He and Pratt are admitted to have been two 
 of the ablest historians and biblical scholars of that time, 
 and many claim that much has been added to the Book 
 of Mormon since the first issue which Smith got from 
 these men. 
 
JOSEPH SMITH. HISTORICAL. IT 
 
 The "Saints" next settled at Kirtland, Ohio, in 1831. 
 Smith soon after had the revelation that the final gather- 
 ing place of the saints was to be in Jackson county, Mis- 
 souri, near Independence. Smith and a portion of the 
 Kirtland saints went to Missouri that year, and another 
 revelation located the site of the New Jerusalem, Zion, 
 and temple, in Independence ; the temple site to be 300 
 yards west of the court house in Independence. 
 
 Smith was part of the time in Independence, Mo., and 
 part of the time in Kirtland, Ohio. He took up the study 
 of Hebrew in Kirtland in 1836, under a learned Jew, 
 who had joined the Mormons. There was continual 
 trouble" between Mormons and Gentiles, as all history at- 
 tests. See Beadle's Hist. pp. 30-40. 
 
 In the fall of 1837 Smith's "wild cat" bank, engineered 
 by himself and Rigdon, failed under circumstances which 
 created great scandal, and the prophet had a revelation to 
 depart to Missouri. Smith and Rigdon left "between 
 two days," and their creditors pursued them 100 miles; 
 but in the language of Smith's Autobiography, "The 
 Lord delivered us from the hands of our persecutors." 
 
 Smith found a terrible commotion and strife in his 
 Zion, at Far West, Mo., in 1838. Many had apostatized 
 and brought serious charges against Smith, and leading 
 saints, of treason, conspiring with the Indians, counter- 
 feiting, cattle stealing, secret murder, polygamy, etc. 
 Cowdery, Harris, L. E. Johnson and others were cut off 
 from the church. Here the Danite band was organized, 
 which took their name from the suggestion in Gen. 49 : 
 17 "Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the 
 path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall 
 fall backward." Their mission, all history attests, was 
 to follow quietly and secretly apostates and enemies of 
 Mormons for revenge. The Mormon doctrine of blood 
 
12 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 atonement is that the shedding of the blood of an apostate 
 is his only means of future salvation. 
 
 The main bodies of the Mormons were driven from 
 Kirtland and Independence in 1838, and settled in Far 
 West, Mo. Their stay of about a year there was fraught 
 with trouble. The Mormons attacked the militia near 
 Richmond and killed two of them. The latter returned 
 the fire, killing the Danite leader, "Captain Fearnot," or 
 D. W. Patton. The Mormons then rose en masse and 
 drove out all the officers not of their faith from Davis 
 county, and burned and plundered the town of Gallatin, 
 driving out the inhabitants. These troubles, and con- 
 tinual strife, led Gov. Boggs to issue the order that "the 
 Mormons should be expelled from the state, even if it 
 was necessary to exterminate them/' 
 
 Gov. Boggs was shot in the head thru his window. 
 Porter Rockwell, a notorious rascal and bosom friend of 
 Smith's, was suspected of the attempted assassination, 
 as he was absent that night, and Smith, when asked 
 where he was, replied: "O, just gone to fulfill 
 prophecy." The Mormons were bound together by most 
 terrible oaths as Masons and the leaders by the endow- 
 ment house oaths, so that it was next to impossible to 
 convict them. Hundreds of their secret confederates 
 would swear them clear. See Beadle's Hist. p. 65. 
 
 Jos. and Hyrum Smith and forty others were held for 
 trial for "treason, . murder, robbery, arson, larceny and 
 breach of the peace." The evidence proved them guilty 
 of most of the charges, but on April I5th Joseph and 
 some others escaped from their guards and fled to 
 Quincy, 111. 
 
 Their next settlement was at Commerce, Hancock 
 county, 111., which they called Nauvoo. They began to 
 build up this place in 1839, their number then being about 
 
JOSEPH SMITH. HISTORICAL. 13 
 
 12,000. In about eighteen months they had erected 2,000 
 dwellings. The facts thus far mentioned are gathered 
 from encyclopedias and standard histories. 
 
 Beadle says, page 65, "Hundreds of licentious villains, 
 cut-throats and robbers made their way to Nauvoo, were 
 baptized into the church as a convenient cover for their 
 crimes, and made that their secret headquarters. Prop- 
 erty stolen far up the river, or east of the city, was run 
 thru or concealed in the western bayous, or hastily dis- 
 posed of to innocent purchasers, so that the owners gen- 
 erally found it among the Mormons. The criminals were 
 traced directly to Nauvoo, but once within its charmed 
 circle all power to punish them was gone. 
 
 'Their secret confederates were ready to swear them 
 clear; too often the cry of 'persecution' was sufficient to 
 mislead really honest Mormons, and cause them to de- 
 fend the guilty who claimed the name of 'Saint/ 
 
 "Another cause of popular hostility was that the Mor- 
 mons would vote solidly at the dictation of a few men/' 
 P. 67. 
 
 Among other causes of popular hostility to the Mor- 
 mons, Beadle and other historians mention the introduc- 
 tion of polygamy into Nauvoo, and the doctrine of the 
 "Saints" to take \vhat they wanted from the Gentiles, 
 which they did. Beadle, p. 66, and D. C., p. 165. 
 
 Other causes were the difficulties with the Mormons 
 over delinquent taxes and a complication of difficulties 
 that grew out of the powers given to Smith thru that 
 notorious Nauvoo charter, drawn up by that shrewd 
 scamp, Dr. John C. Bennett, and the wiley Smith, and 
 passed by the Democratic legislature of 1840-41. The 
 Democrats and Whigs had both been courting the Mor- 
 mon vote, and to conciliate them the legislature passed 
 this charter without calling the ayes or noes in either 
 house. Beadle, p. 69. It gave Smith all the powers the 
 
14 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 Southern states had asked for when the subject of state 
 rights was discussed in 1828-1834. As Gov. Ford says: 
 
 "It was proposed to re-establish for the Mormons a 
 government within a government; a legislature with 
 power to pass ordinances at war with the laws of the 
 state; courts to execute them with but little dependence 
 upon the constitutional judiciary, and a military force at 
 their own command, to be governed by its own laws and 
 ordinances, and subject to no state authority but that of 
 the governor. * * * The mayor was at once the 
 executive power, the judiciary and part of the legislature. 
 The common council, in passing ordinances, were re- 
 strained only by the constitution. * * * A city gov- 
 ernment under the charter was organized in 1841, and 
 Joe Smith was elected mayor, with a force of 3,000 well- 
 drilled troops of his own at his command, of which he 
 was the lieutenant general." Beadle's Hist., pp. 69-80. 
 Those who came to Nauvoo in search of stolen prop- 
 erty were followed by the "whittling deacons/' arrested, 
 fined, or followed by the "Danites." They received mys- 
 terious warnings written or stained with blood, dropped 
 in their way or found under their pillow, and dire was 
 their fate if they heeded not the warning. Many such 
 disappeared and were never heard of again, says Gov. 
 Ford. 
 
 As an example of how Smith abused the powers 
 granted him by the Nauvoo charter, we give some ex- 
 tracts from Gov. Ford's official records, as published in 
 Beadle's Hist., pp. 89-92: 
 
 "In the winter of 1843-44, the common council (of 
 Nauvoo) passed some further ordinances to protect their 
 leaders from arrest, on demand from Missouri. 
 
 "They enacted that no writ issued from any other 
 place than Nauvoo, for the arrest of any person in it, 
 should be executed in the city, without an approval en- 
 
JOSEPH SMITH. HISTORICAL. 15 
 
 dorsed thereon by the mayor (Smith) ; that if any public 
 officer, by virtue of any foreign writ, should attempt to 
 make any arrest in the city, without such approval of his 
 process, he should be subject to imprisonment for life, 
 and that the governor of the state should not have the 
 power of pardoning the offender without the consent of 
 the mayor. 
 
 * * "Owners of property stolen in other counties 
 made pursuit into Nauvoo, and were fined by the Mor- 
 mon courts for daring to seek their property in the holy 
 city. To one such I granted pardon. Several Mormons 
 had been convicted of larceny, and they never failed in 
 any instance to procure petitions, signed by 1,500 to 2,000 
 of their friends for their pardon. 
 
 * * "To crown the whole folly of the Mormons, in 
 the spring of 1844 Joe Smith announced himself as a 
 candidate for the President of the United States. His 
 followers were confident that he would be elected. Two 
 or three thousand of his followers were immediately sent 
 out to preach their religion and to electioneer in favor of 
 their prophet for the presidency! This folly at once 
 covered that people with ridicule, in the minds of all sen- 
 sible men, and brought them into conflict with zealots 
 and bigots of all political parties. * * * He insti- 
 tuted a new order of priests, who were to be priests and 
 kings temporally and spiritually. These were to be his 
 nobility, who were to be the upholders of his throne. He 
 caused himself to be crowned and anointed king and 
 priest far above the rest, and he prescribed the form of 
 oath of allegiance to himself, which he administered to 
 his principal followers. * * * and reinstituted the 
 Danite Band, who were sworn to obey his orders as the 
 orders of God himself." 
 
 We continue with a few extracts from Gov. Ford's tes- 
 timony, as published by Beadle, pp. 92-117 : "Smith now 
 
16 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 became more tyrannical among his disciples * * * !>.. 
 permitted no one but himself to have a license for the 
 sale of spirituous liquors * * * he attempted to take 
 the wife of William Law, one of his most eloquent, tal- 
 ented and principal disciples, for his spiritual wife. Law 
 was then one of Smith's first counselors and a learned 
 and talented man. William Law and his brother, Wilson 
 Law, and some others, then rebelled against Smith's au- 
 thority. They designed to enlighten their brethren thru 
 a paper which they issued (called the Nauvoo Expositor, 
 from which we quote further on some affidavits. ED.), 
 but they never issued but one number ; before the second 
 could appear the press was demolished by order of the 
 common council, and the conspirators were ejected from 
 the Mormon church/' 
 
 The Governor says of this trial, as published by the 
 Mormons themselves, that it was altogether one of the 
 most curious and irregular trials ever recorded in the 
 annals of any civilized country. That it does not appear 
 that William or Wilson Law or others then tried were 
 permitted to appear or say anything. That no jury was 
 called or sworn, nor were the witnesses required to give 
 their evidence on oath. The counselors stood up one 
 after the other, and some several times, and related what 
 they pretended to know, and one has difficulty in deter- 
 mining whether the proceedings were more the result of 
 depravity or insanity. The trial resulted in the convic- 
 tion of the press as a public nuisance. The Mayor 
 (Smith) was ordered to see it abated. Smith issued his 
 warrant to the city marshal, who, aided by a portion of 
 the Legion, proceeded to the obnoxious printing office 
 and destroyed the press and scattered the type'. 
 
 This lawless destruction of property, affecting the lib- 
 erty of the press, so dear to the American people, led 
 
JOSEPH SMITH. HISTORICAL. 17 
 
 . Ford to send some state troops to bring Smith 
 to justice and to enforce order, and the Governor, him- 
 self came to Carthage, 111., to examine into the com- 
 plaints. The Governor concluded that the proceedings 
 of Smith and his council were illegal and irregular and 
 not to be endured in a free country. 
 
 On the 23d or 24th day of June, 1844, Joseph and 
 Hyrum Smith, and his counsel, and others, came into 
 Carthage and surrendered to the constable, on charge of 
 riot. They were all discharged but Joseph and Hyrum 
 Smith (and some who volunteered to stay with them), 
 who were held on the charge of treason. 
 
 It was while in prison in Carthage that a large mob 
 gathered, overpowered the guards and shot Joseph and 
 Hyrum Smith, on June 27, 1844. 
 
 As Gov. Ford narrates it: "An attempt was made 
 to break open the door, but Joe Smith, being armed with 
 a six-barreled pistol, furnished him by his friends, fired 
 several times as the door was bursted open and wounded 
 three of his assailants. At the same time several shots 
 were fired into the room, by some of which John Taylor 
 received four wounds and Hyrum Smith was killed. Joe 
 Smith now attempted to escape by jumping from the 
 second story window, but the fall so stunned him that he 
 was unable to arise, and being placed in a sitting posture 
 by the conspirators below, they dispatched him with 
 four balls shot thru his body." His age at the time of 
 his death was 38 years and 6 months. 
 ) "Thus fell Joe Smith, the most successful impostor of 
 modern iimes. His lusts, love of money and power al- 
 ways led him to studying present gratification and con- 
 venience, rather than the remote consequences of his 
 plans. * * * 
 
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 "He was full of levity, even to boyish romping ; dressed 
 like a dandy, and at times drank like a sailor, and swore 
 like a pirate." Gov. Ford in Beadle, pp. 113, 114. 
 
 In Inter. Encycl., 1890 ed., we read : "After Smith's 
 death there was much confusion in the church. Sydney 
 Rigdon, the only remaining member of the First Presi- 
 dency, aspired to the leadership, but the twelve unani- 
 mously elected Brigham Young as leader." 
 
 Brigham had joined the church in Kirtland in 1832, 
 and was president of the twelve apostles at the time of 
 Smith's death in 1844. 
 
 Utah was explored in 1845, an d the first Mormon emi- 
 grants started for there from Nauvoo in 1846. They 
 stopped a year in Iowa, chiefly at Council Bluffs, and ar- 
 rived at Salt Lake in 1847. The main body of Mor- 
 mons got to Utah in 1848. Nine of the apostles went 
 with Brigham Young to Utah. 
 
 So the migrations of the Mormons were from Fayette, 
 N. Y., to Kirtland, Ohio. Then to Independence, Mo. 
 Then from both of these places about 1838 to Far 
 West, Mo. Then to Nauvoo, 111. Then to Salt 
 'Lake, Utah, and, according to Smith's revelations, 
 the last and final gathering place is back to In- 
 dependence, Mo., which is the site of the New Jerusa- 
 lem of Rev. 21, and from which they are to be never more 
 removed. D. C, pp. 78, 140, 202, 203. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 SMITH'S PROPHECIES. 
 
 1. In "Voice of Warning," pp. 129-131, W. W. Blair, 
 under title, "Joseph Smith a Prophet of God," speaks of 
 Joseph Smith prophesying of social, political and moral 
 corruption ; of how iniquity would abound, and wars and 
 rumors of wars prevail, and crime abound, and earth- 
 quakes, floods and storms destroy human life, the discon- 
 tent of laborers, etc. 
 
 How blinded indeed must a people be who attribute the 
 gift of foreknowledge to a man who, parrot-like, repeats 
 over these predictions of old prophets uttered and written 
 for over 1800 years ! These prophesies can all be found 
 in the bible : in Matt. 24, Lu. 21,1 Tim. 4, 2 Tim. 3, James 
 5, Revelations and the old prophets, and have been the 
 subject of comment by students of prophecy from the be- 
 ginning of this Christian era, and particularly since the 
 days of Martin Luther. 
 
 2. Mormons dwell much upon Smith's prophecy that 
 his name would be spoken of for both good and evil 
 among all nations. 
 
 But with the following he had at the time of uttering 
 this statement, and the great claims he was making, it 
 required no prophet to announce this, as our readers can 
 easily see. Every false prophet that ever had any fol- 
 lowing has been spoken of both as good and evil. 
 
 3. But what Mormons regard as Smith's most wonder- 
 ful prophecy is found in the back of D. C. p. 32, "Revela- 
 tion given to Joseph Smith, Dec. 25, 1832; but first pub- 
 
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20 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 lished in the Pearl of Great Price, in Liverpool, England, 
 in 1851." (Hence first published nineteen years after 
 Smith is said to have received it and seven years after his 
 death.) Below we give this so-called prophecy: 
 
 "Verily, thus sayeth the Lord, concerning the wars that 
 shall shortly come to pass, beginning at the rebellion of 
 South Carolina, which will eventually terminate in the 
 death of many souls. The days will come when war shall 
 be poured out upon all nations, beginning at that place; 
 for behold the southern states shall be divided against the 
 northern states, and the southern states shall call upon 
 other nations, even the nation of Great Britain, as it is 
 called, and they shall also call upon other nations, in order 
 to defend themselves against other nations ; and thus shall 
 war be poured out upon all nations. And it shall come 
 to pass, after many days, that slaves shall rise up against 
 their masters, who shall be marshalled and disciplined for 
 war. And it shall come to pass that the remnants that 
 are left of the land shall marshal themselves, and shall 
 become exceeding angry, and shall vex the gentiles with 
 sore vexation ; and thus with the sword and by bloodshed 
 the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn ; and with famine 
 and plague and earthquakes and the thunder of heaven, 
 and fierce arid vivid lightning also, shall the inhabitants of 
 earth be made to feel the wrath and indignation and chas- 
 tening hand of an Almighty God, until the consumption 
 decreed hath made a full end of all nations ! and the cry 
 of the saints and the blood of the saints shall cease to 
 come up into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth from the 
 earth, to be avenged of their enemies. Wherefore stand 
 ye in the holy places, and be not moved, until the day of 
 the Lord come ; for behold it cometh quickly, saith the 
 Lord. Amen." 
 
SMITH'S PROPHECIES. 21 
 
 In our examination of this alleged prophecy it is not 
 necessary to notice famines, earthquakes, thunder and 
 lightning and Indian uprising, such as had been before this 
 time, and have been ever since; so we will simply notice 
 the slave trouble, and the war that was to begin at South 
 Carolina, as these are all the points in this "prophecy" 
 that can be regarded as foretelling anything. 
 
 Barnes' U. S. History, p. 50, tells us that slavery was 
 first introduced into the U. S. in 1619, when twenty ne- 
 groes were sold by a Dutch trader to the colonists. "From 
 this circumstance, small as it seemed at the time/' says 
 the historian, "the most momentous consequences ensued. 
 Consequences that long after rent the Republic with strife, 
 and moistened its soil with blood." 
 
 Thus for 223 years before Smith's prophecy the slavery 
 question had been preparing the way for a division be- 
 tween the North and South. 
 
 In the same school history, pp. 172, 173, on the "Mis- 
 souri Compromise," we read of the bitter discussions of 
 1821 (eleven years before Smith's "prophecy), as to 
 whether Missouri should be a free or slave state, and 
 whether slavery should be prohibited in all territories west 
 of the Mississippi river and north of parallel 36 degrees 
 30 minutes, the southern boundary of Missouri. 
 
 As another example of how present and past events cast 
 their shadows about Smith in 1832, we refer the reader to 
 what is known as the "Nullification Act" of that year. 
 
 See Student's Encycl. p. 579, how, in 1828, Jackson was 
 elected President of the United States and Calhoun Vice 
 President. How Jackson stood for the federal union, 
 and Calhoun for state rights. In 1830, at a banquet, the 
 President gave his famous toast : "The federal union it 
 must be preserved ;" to which Calhoun replied : "Liberty 
 is dearer than union." 
 
22 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 "The protective tariff bill passed in 1832 was very dis- 
 tasteful to South Carolina, and she declared the law un- 
 constitutional within her boundaries. This became known 
 as the 'Nullification Act.' " 
 
 See also Life of Jackson, by J. S. Jenkins, p. 263, where 
 we learn that the convention assembled in South Caro- 
 lina in 1832 declared the acts of 1828 and 1832, in refer- 
 ence to certain tariffs and imposts, to be unconstitutional, 
 and that attempts to enforce them otherwise than thru 
 civil tribunals would be resisted by the citizens of South 
 Carolina, and would be deemed inconsistent with longer 
 continuance of South Carolina in the Union ; and that the 
 people of said state would hold themselves absolved from 
 all obligations to maintain or preserve their political con- 
 nection with the people of other states ; and would forth- 
 with proceed to establish an independent government, and 
 do all the acts that sovereign states have a right to do. 
 
 Now, if Smith did in this same year, 1832, make such 
 a prediction as the above, was it wonderful? When 
 South Carolina had threatened to secede from the Union 
 that same year, was it a marvelous prophecy to predict a 
 revolution beginning with that state? 
 
 And yet, if Smith ever made such a prophecy, it was 
 not published to the World till after he had been dead 
 seven years and nineteen years after Smith is said to 
 have made it! In 1851, when this "prophecy" was first 
 published, it required no prophet to predict a war between 
 the North and South, beginning at South Carolina. But 
 the fact of waiting nineteen years before publishing such 
 an important prophecy, shows, either that Smith was 
 afraid it might not come to pass, so waited awhile to 
 watch developments, or else that it was a forgery of 
 1851 that Smith had nothing to do with. 
 
SMITH'S PROPHECIES. 23 
 
 As to war being poured out upon all nations, begin- 
 ning with South Carolina, this has failed of fulfilment. 
 We think that the blowing up of the Maine would be a 
 more probable starting point for that last war that is to 
 involve all nations. 
 
 4. Another prophecy, which, although published by 
 the Board of Publication of the R. C., yet is so much in 
 favor of the U. C. that the publishers and saints of that 
 faction would be glad to do away with it, is as follows: 
 
 "I prophesied that the saints would continue to suffer 
 much affliction, and would be driven to the Rocky Mount- 
 ains. Many would apostasize (strange!), others would 
 be put to death by our persecutors, or lose their lives in 
 consequence of exposure and disease, and some of you 
 will live to go and assist in making settlements, and 
 build cities, and become a mighty people in the midst of 
 the Rocky Mountains." 
 
 This prophecy is found in Tulledge's History of Jo- 
 seph Smith, issued by the Board of Publication of the 
 R. C. J. C. L. D. S., Piano edition of 1880. 
 
 It is also found in Joseph Smith's Journal, under date 
 of Aug. 6, 1842, as published in Mill. Star, Vol 19, p. 630. 
 
 Also in Mill. Star, Vol. 23, p. 502, we learn that Smith, 
 before his death, appointed one Hyde to ask Congress 
 for permission to settle a colony of his people in Oregon 
 or California, and instructed his twelve apostles to ap- 
 point a delegation to explore in the region of the Rocky 
 Mountains for a good location. 
 
 Also in the account of the arrest and death of Joseph 
 Smith, by Willard Richards, appears the following: 
 
 "Sunday, 23 (1844), at daybreak, arrived on the Iowa 
 side of the river. Sent O. P. Rockwell back to Nauvoo 
 with instructions to return the next night with horses 
 
24 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 for Joseph and Hyrum ; pass them over the river in the 
 night secretly, and be ready to start for the Great Basin 
 in the Rocky Mountains." 
 
 These testimonies are sufficient to show that before 
 Smith made this wonderful prophecy, that he saw that 
 his people would have to flee from Nauvoo, and had in 
 mind a settlement in the Rocky Mountains somewhere. 
 It also shows that the well known thug and murderer, 
 Rockwell, was Smith's bosom friend till the last. 
 
 We would also remark on this prophecy that if the 
 saints did go to the Rocky Mountains and become a great 
 people there, then the R. C. organized at Amboy, 111., 
 1860, is not the true Mormon Church, for they did not 
 fulfil this prophecy. 
 
 On the other hand, if the saints did not go to the 
 Rocky Mountains, then Smith was a false prophet, for 
 he predicted and planned that they should do so. Yet 
 the R. C. claims that Brigham Young was the Judas, 
 and that many of the Utah "saints" are devils! If so, 
 where is the Prophet Smith? 
 
 But as the genuineness of this so-called prophecy is 
 proven beyond a doubt, it proves Smith a false prophet 
 from the fact that upon those "saints" who went to the 
 Rocky Mountains has been fastened beyond a doubt 
 some of the most disgraceful and diabolical crimes that 
 have ever darkened the pages of history. 
 
 We give below a few instances, taken chiefly from 
 Beadle's Hist., pp. 155-195: 
 
 "A band of horse and cattle thieves was organized in 
 1846 under the control of Orson Hyde, and a band of 
 counterfeiters were sent into Missouri." 
 
 The crimes against emigrants en route for California 
 who stopped in Salt Lake, or went thru "Zion," were so 
 numerous that in California 500 affidavits were selected 
 
SMITH'S PROPHECIES. 25 
 
 and published and circulated in the East. A copy of this 
 book is still to be found in the library at Sacramento. 
 It tells of the most terrible treachery of Mormons, bogus 
 legal actions against emigrants, fines which stripped them 
 of all they had, followed and secretly murdered, etc. 
 How in suits between Mormons and Gentiles the Gen- 
 tiles invariably paid all costs, and fines of from $100 to 
 $500 for slight misdemeanors. How Gentiles were re- 
 viled in court by Mormon judges. How Willard Snow 
 boasted in his court that "the time was near when he 
 would judge the Gentiles for life and death, and then he 
 would snatch their heads off like chickens in the door- 
 yard." 
 
 Almon Babbit, having quarreled with Brigham, started 
 across the plains in 1855, an d was murdered "by Indians 
 who spoke good English." 
 
 In 1852 Lieut. G. M. Creuzfelt and eight of their 
 party were massacred near Sevier Lake by Indians. 
 Apostate Mormons say it was by "painted Mormons." 
 
 A Mr. Tobin had difficulty with Brigham. He and 
 his party were attacked at night on the Santa Clara and 
 six of their horses shot, but they escaped, with many bul- 
 let holes thru their clothes, by abandoning their bag- 
 gage. Not an arrow was fired at them. 
 
 Brigham Young stated in the tabernacle that he "had 
 hitherto protected emigrants passing thru his territory, 
 but now he would turn the Indians loose on them." He 
 also said that "if any man proved a traitor, or attempted 
 to shield his own when the day came to burn and lay 
 waste, he should be sheared down ; for judgment should 
 be laid to the line and righteousness to the plummet." 
 Beadle's Hist., pp. 178, 179. 
 
 But of the long catalogue of crimes in Mormon his- 
 tory, the most diabolical is that of the murder of 132 
 
26 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 men, women and children emigrants, at Mountain Mead- 
 ow, in 1857. Mountain Meadow is 300 miles from Salt 
 Lake, on the road to Los Angeles, Cal. We quote some 
 extracts from Beadle, pp. 181-195, as follows: 
 
 "The day after the emigrants passed Cedar City a 
 grand council was called there by (the Mormon leaders) 
 Bishop Higbee, President J. C. Haight of that town, and 
 John D. Lee of Harmony. They stated that they had 
 received a command from Salt Lake 'to follow those 
 accursed Gentiles, attack them, and let the arrows of the 
 Almighty drink their blood/ 
 
 "A force of sixty men was soon raised, who disguised 
 themselves as Indians, and were joined by a larger force 
 of "Indians." They crept up on the emigrants while 
 they were at breakfast and fired on them, killing ten or 
 twelve. The emigrants shoved their wagons together 
 and kept the "savages" at bay for a whole week. Then 
 the Mormons raised a white flag and the emigrants, re- 
 joiced to see men of their color, raised a little girl in 
 white to answer the signal. Lee and Haight and some 
 other Mormons came in to settle for the Indians, claim- 
 ing that the Indians would not settle unless the emigrants 
 would give up guns, ammunition and all their property, 
 and go back the way they had come. These hard terms 
 were acceded to. 
 
 "After they had gone a mile or so, at an agreed signal, 
 ^a sudden fire was poured into the body of emigrants, and 
 then Mormons and Indians, together rushed upon them, 
 shooting, cutting their throats and beating them to death 
 ^with stones and clubs. 
 
 "The Mormons and Indians fell upon the women, bit 
 and tore the rings from their fingers and ears, and tram- 
 pled in the faces of the dying. One young girl was 
 dragged aside by President Haight, and kneeling im- 
 
SMITH'S PROPHECIES. 27 
 
 plored for life. He violated her with shameful barbarity, 
 then beat out her brains with a club. Another young 
 woman was taken out of the throng by John D. Lee. He 
 .afterwards stated that he intended to save her life and 
 take her to his harem ; but that she struck at him with a 
 large knife, when he immediately shot her thru the head. 
 Three men escaped, and seventeen children were saved, 
 supposed to be too young to remember the circumstance. 
 ,But two of them did, and afterward gave important tes- 
 timony. 
 
 "As late as 1862 jewelry taken at Mountain Meadow 
 was worn at Salt Lake, and the source not denied." 
 
 Although two of the principal perpetrators went in- 
 sane, yet, due to ungodly secretism and to the disgrace 
 of American justice, not one of these murderers have 
 ever been punished according to law. But Utah shall 
 yet reap as she has sown, in God's time. 
 
 ANOTHER CASE OF MORMON TREACHERY. 
 
 In 1857-8, there was a small war going on between 
 the Mormon forces and the United States troops. Early 
 in 1858, while the United States troops were at Fort 
 Bridger, eighty discharged teamsters started thru to 
 California. An officer of Brigham's legion, who was to 
 guard them thru, was told that he would find a "trusty 
 force" at a certain place, and received the following 
 order : 
 
 "SALT LAKE CITY, April 9, 1858. 
 
 "The officer in command of escort is hereby ordered to 
 see that every man is well provided with ammunition and 
 have it ready at the time you see those teamsters a hun- 
 dred miles from the settlement. President Young advises 
 that they should all be killed, to prevent them from re- 
 
28 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 turning to Bridger to join our enemies. Every precau- 
 tion should be taken, and see that not one escapes. Se- 
 crecy is required. 
 
 "By order of General Daniel H. Wells. 
 
 "JAMES FERGUSON, Asst. Adj. Gen'l." 
 
 The officer refused to execute the order, for which his 
 life was threatened. He took refuge at the Federal 
 camp and was sent out of the territory. The signature 
 of Ferguson is authenticated by two Mormons formerly 
 of Salt Lake. The letter was shown to Ferguson's wid- 
 ow later. She turned deadly pale and rushed out of the 
 room without saying a word. See Beadle, pp. 193-4. 
 
 We could fill a dozen books like this with the crimes 
 of Mormons, but as our readers have read of many of 
 them, we deem this sufficient on this point. These are 
 the "saints" that Smith prophesied would go to the 
 Rocky Mountains ! 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 CHARACTER OF THE SMITH FAMILY. 
 
 We give below a few extracts from "Mormonism Ex- 
 posed," by William Kirby, pp. 383-400, as copied from 
 "Mormonism and Mormons," by D. P. Kidder: 
 
 "MANCHESTER, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1833. 
 
 "We, the undersigned, being personally acquainted 
 with the family of Joseph Smith, Jr., with whom the 
 Golden Bible, so called, originated, state that they were 
 not only a lazy, indolent set of men, but also intemper- 
 ate, and their word was not to be depended upon, and 
 -that we were truly glad to dispense with their society." 
 
 Then follows eleven names of neighbors and acquaint- 
 ances. 
 
 "PALMYRA, N. Y., Dec. 4, 1833. 
 
 "We, the undersigned, have been acquainted with the 
 Smith family for a number of years, while they resided 
 at this place, and we have no hesitation in saying that 
 we consider them destitute of that moral character which 
 ought to entitle them to the confidence of any community. 
 * * * Joseph Smith, Sr., and his son Joseph were, 
 in particular, considered entirely destitute of moral char- 
 acter and addicted to vicious habits. * * * In ref- 
 erence to all who have embraced Mormonism in this 
 neighborhood, with whom we were acquainted, we are 
 ^compelled to say they were visionary and many of them 
 destitute of moral character, and without influence in 
 the community." * * * 
 
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30 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 Then follows fifty-one names of old neighbors and 
 acquaintances of the Smith family. 
 
 Then follows, on pp. 389-394, Willard Chase's testi- 
 mony and affidavit as to Joe Smith's falsehoods about the 
 stone he got from Mr. Chase's well, which he used in 
 translating his bible; also Smith's profanity; Martin Har- 
 ras flying in a rage; Hyrum Smith shaking his fist at 
 Chase; Joseph Smith calling Chase a d d fool, etc. 
 How the tongues of the Smith's were continually em- 
 ployed in spreading scandal and abuse of their neigh- 
 bors; and that although they left without paying their 
 debts, that their creditors were glad to get rid of them. 
 Then follows the signature of Willard Chase, and his 
 oath before Frederick Smith, justice of the peace for 
 Wayne county, Dec. n, 1833. 
 
 Then on pp. 394-5 follows the testimony of Parley 
 Chase, that the Smith family were lazy, intemperate, 
 worthless and much addicted to lying, and that they 
 frequently boasted of their skill in this line ; and that 
 the character of Jos. Smith, Jr., for truth and veracity 
 was such that he would not believe him under oath. 
 
 Here are 64 names of men of character and good 
 standing, as to the lack of character and of honesty in 
 the Smith family. Are these Smiths the men that God 
 chose to restore the fulness of the gospel to earth, and 
 to build up the only true church on the face of the 
 whole earth?" See D. C, p. 4.) The church which 
 Smith calls "God's kingdom"! (D. C., pp. 78, 79 and 
 167.) We leave the reader to judge. 
 
 On pp. 406-7 of Kirby's book, Levi Lewis also testifies 
 that he knew Smith to be a liar, and had seen him in- 
 toxicated three times while writing the book of Mormon, 
 and had often heard him use great profanity. And 
 Sophia Lewis testifies that she had heard Smith say that 
 
CHARACTER OF THE SMITH FAMILY. 31 
 
 the book of plates would be opened by his firstborn son. 
 That she was present when it was born. That it was 
 still-born and much deformed. 
 
 I doubt if as many witnesses could be found against 
 Mohammed, or any other impostor ; yet Mormons will 
 set this aside and take their own biased history, as writ- 
 ten by Smith and his secret confederates and followers ! 
 That Mormons have always been noted for unreasonable 
 partiality, we quote from Beadle, p. 299 : 
 
 "They will not read our books or papers (very many 
 of them can not), nor listen for a moment to our argu- 
 ments. They denounce everything which is not approved 
 by the bishop, and pronounce the plainest facts of history 
 false, if they clash with the statements of 'authority/ ' 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 JOSEPH SMITH A POLYGAMIST. 
 
 1. Chambers' Encycl. on Mormons tells how Smith at 
 first denounced Rigdon's theory of spiritual wifery, but 
 afterward accepted it and sealed wives to himself. How 
 these first steps toward polygamy, in Kirtland, Ohio, in- 
 flamed the people, and a mob expelled them, and they 
 went to Clay County, Missouri. How, later, at Nauvoo, 
 polygamy and other crimes caused the death of the two 
 Smiths, who were shot at Carthage, Illinois, in 1844. 
 
 2. See also Encycl. Britannica, p. 825, Vol. 16, how 
 the eternal marriage covenant was revealed to Joseph 
 Smith in 1831; and that he confided this to Cowdery, 
 Johnson and Pratt and other disciples. 
 
 3. See also Inter. Encycl. for similar testimony show- 
 ing Smith a polygamist. 
 
 4. Hill's Encycl. tells us how revelations on polygamy, 
 and defiance of the laws of taxation, and other crimes, 
 led to Smith's death in 1844. 
 
 Other encyclopedias tell the same, but we deem four 
 enough. 
 
 5. Beadle's Hist., pp. 430-1, says: "Sixteen women 
 swore most positively, and allowed their affidavits to be 
 published in the 'Expositor' of Nauvoo (1844), that 
 Joseph Smith made proposals to them to become his con- 
 cubines ; twelve women now in Salt Lake (Beadle's Hist, 
 was published in 1870. Ed.) made affidavit that they 
 were the spiritual wives of Smith at Nauvoo; Joseph F., 
 son of Hyrum Smith, testifies that he knew certainly of 
 
 32 
 
JOSEPH SMITH A POLYGAMIST. 33 
 
 his father having more than one wife; and hundreds of 
 old Mormons testify that Joe and Hyrum taught them the 
 doctrine, and sealed them to extra wives/' 
 
 6. Parley Pratt was among Smith's first and ablest 
 disciples. He was a scholar, historian, astronomer and 
 an able proselyter to the new faith. He wrote "The 
 Voice of Warning," a book still scattered by both the 
 U. C. and R. C. in their missionary work. We give a 
 short extract about him from Beadle's Hist., p. 233, as 
 Parley is a fair sample of the men who gathered around 
 Smith and his system : 
 
 "Parley seems to have been a radical believer in poly- 
 gamy, as he was certainly thorough in its practice, having 
 six wives some time before his death. But not satisfied 
 with these, he converted a Mrs. Elinor McLean, wife of 
 Hector McLean, of Arkansas, and took her to Salt Lake 
 City and married her. The enraged husband sought 
 Pratt when on a mission in Kansas, in 1856, and literally 
 cut him to pieces with a bowie knife." 
 
 Reader, compare these "saints," who "restored" the true 
 church," with the founders of the true church over 
 eighteen centuries ago. 
 
 In one of Smith's purported revelations from God, 
 given Jan. 19, 1841, D. C., pp. 312, 313, William Law, 
 one of Smith's first counsellors, is given keys to ask and 
 receive blessings, the comforter to give him in the very 
 hour what he shall say ; power to heal the sick and to cast 
 out devils ; to not be hurt by serpents nor deadly poison, 
 and to raise the dead if necessary. 
 
 But hearken a little later on, as recorded by Governor 
 Ford, Beadle's Hist., pp. 92, 93. Smith coveted William 
 Law's wife, and attempted to take her for his "spiritual 
 wife." William Law and his brother, Wilson Law, print- 
 ed one issue of a paper, to enlighten the people on things 
 
34 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 going on in Nauvoo. Smith was mayor of the city, and 
 his will was law in Nauvoo, and nothing was done with- 
 out his instructions; and his "common council" was in- 
 structed to destroy Law's presses and printing material, 
 which they did ; and then this high counsellor, Law, with 
 all his keys and powers, was expelled from the church, 
 April 18, 1844. Below we give his testimony, as pub- 
 lished in his paper, the "Expositor/' the same year that 
 Smtih was killed: 
 
 The following affidavits are copied from the Nauvoo 
 Expositor, published at Nauvoo, 111., June 7, 1844. 
 
 7. I hereby certify that Hyrum Smith did (in his office) 
 read to me a certain written document, which he said 
 was a revelation from God; he said that he was with 
 Smith when it was received. He afterwards gave me 
 the document to read, and I took it to my house, and 
 read it, and showed it to my wife, and returned it next 
 day. The revelation (so called) authorized certain men 
 to have more wives than one at a time, in this world 
 and in the world to come. It said this was the law, and 
 commanded Joseph Smith to enter into the law * * * 
 and also that he should administer it to others. Several 
 other items were in the document supporting the above 
 revelation. WM. LAW. 
 State of Illinois, Hancock County. 
 
 I, Robert D. Foster, certify that the above certificate 
 was sworn to before me, as true in substance, this fourth 
 day of May, A. D. 1844. ROBERT D. FOSTER, J. P. 
 
 8. I certify that I read the revelation referred to in the 
 above affidavit of my husband. It sustained in strong 
 terms the doctrine of more wives than one at a time, in 
 this world and in the next ; it authorized some to have 
 the number of ten. and set forth that those women who 
 
JOSEPH SMITH A POLYGAMIST. 35 
 
 would not allow their husbands to have more wives than 
 one should be under condemnation of God. 
 
 JANE LAW. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed to before me this fourth day of 
 May, A. D. 1844. ROBERT D. FOSTER, J. P. 
 
 (9) Testimony of Austin Cowles : 
 
 To all whom it may concern : Forasmuch as the pub- 
 lic mind has been much agitated of late by a course of 
 procedure in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day- 
 Saints, by a number of person declaring against certain 
 doctrines and practices therein (among whom I am one), 
 it is but meet that I should give my reasons, at least in 
 part, as a cause that led me to declare myself. 
 
 In the latter part of the summer of 1843 the patriarch, 
 Hyrum Smith, did in the High Council, of which I was 
 a member, introduce what he said was a revelation given 
 through the prophet; that Hyrum Smith did essay to 
 read the said revelation in said council ; that according to 
 his reading there was contained the following doctrines : 
 first, the sealing up of persons to eternal life, against all 
 sins, save that of shedding innocent blood, or of con- 
 senting thereto ; second, the doctrine of plurality of wives, 
 or marrying virgins ; that "David and Solomon had many 
 wives, yet in this they sinned not, save in the case of 
 Uriah." This revelation, with other evidence that the 
 aforesaid heresies were taught and practiced in the church, 
 determined me to leave the office of first counsellor to 
 the president of the church at Nauvoo, inasmuch as I 
 dared not teach or administer such laws. And further 
 deponent said not. AUSTIN COWLES. 
 
 State of Illinois, Hancock County. 
 
 To all whom it may concern: I hereby certify that 
 
36 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 the foregoing certificate was sworn and subscribed to 
 before me this fourth day of May, 1844. 
 
 ROBERT D. FOSTER, J. P. 
 State of Iowa, Wapello County. 
 
 I, S. E. Adler, a notary public within and for said 
 county and state, do hereby certify that the foregoing is 
 a true and correct copy of an article published in the 
 Nauvoo Expositor, dated Nauvoo, 111., Friday, June 7, 
 1844, Vol. i, No. i, and affidavit published therein, the 
 same being compared by me from said publication. 
 
 In testimony whereof I herewith set my hand and 
 national seal, at Ottumwa, this 3d day of July, 1899. 
 
 S. E. ABLER, Notary Public. 
 
 10. Testimony of Lorenzo Snow. The Deseret Semi- 
 Weekly News Supplement, Dec. 29, 1899, Salt Lake City, 
 Utah: 
 
 THE PROPHET JOSEPH ON PLURAL MARRIAGE. 
 
 "I wish to relate in full a conversation that I had with 
 the prophet Joseph Smith, concerning the principle of 
 celestial marriage. I feel it my duty to do this, as there 
 are now but few persons living who heard from the 
 prophet's own lips his views and testimony concerning 
 this principle. By doing so, however, I do not wish to 
 convey the idea that plural marriages are now being 
 contracted by saints anywhere in the world, but to the 
 contrary I do most solemnly testify that during my ad- 
 ministration as president of the church no such mar- 
 riages have been contracted, neither to my knowledge 
 have any such marriages been contracted since the mani- 
 festo was issued by President Wilford Woodruff. 
 
 "In the month of April, 1843, I returned from my 
 European mission. A few days after my arrival at 
 Nauvoo, when at President Joseph Smith's house, he 
 
JOSEPH SMITH A POLYGAMIST. 37 
 
 said he wished to have some private talk with me, and 
 requested me to walk out with him. It was toward even- 
 ing. We walked a little distance, and sat down on a 
 large log that lay on the bank of the river ; he there ex- 
 plained to me the doctrine of the plurality of wives. 
 
 "He said that the Lord had revealed to him, and com- 
 manded him to have women sealed to him as wives ; that 
 he foresaw the trouble that would follow, and sought to 
 turn away from the commandment; that an angel from 
 heaven appeared before him with a drawn sword, threat- 
 ening him with destruction unless he went forward and 
 obeyed the command. 
 
 "He then told me that my sister Eliza Snow had been 
 sealed to him as his wife for time and eternity. 
 
 "He further said that the Lord would open the way, 
 and I should have women sealed to me as wives. This 
 conversation was prolonged, I think, one hour or more, 
 in which he told me many important things. 
 
 "I solemnly swear before God and the holy angels, as 
 I hope to come forth in the morning of the resurrection, 
 that the above statement is true. 
 
 "I know that Joseph Smith was a true prophet of the 
 living God. I testify that he saw and spoke with God, 
 and with his Son, Jesus Christ. The Lord gave me this 
 living testimony and it has been burning within my soul 
 ever since I received it. I now give it unto the whole 
 world. I not only testify to all mankind that Joseph 
 Smith was sent of God, and that the work that was 
 established through him was the work of God, but warn 
 all the nations of the earth concerning the predictions 
 made by the prophet, and testify in most solemn manner 
 that I know them to be true. 
 
 LORENZO SNOW/' 
 
38 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 11. Names of eight of Smith's wives, from records in 
 Salt Lake City, Utah: 
 
 No. i. Emma Hale, lawful wife. 
 
 No. 2. Louisa Beman, daughter of Alva and Betsy Be- 
 man, born in Livingston County, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1815; 
 married to Joseph Smith April 5, 1841. 
 
 No. 3. Eliza Snow ; married Joseph Smith June 24, 
 1841. 
 
 Nos. 4 and 5. Emma and her sister Eliza Partridge; 
 married to Joseph Smith 1843, Heber Kimball officiating. 
 
 No. 6. Zena D. Huntington ; sealed to Joseph Smith 
 Oct. 27, 1841. 
 
 No. 7. Olive Guy Frost; sealed to Joseph Smith, 1843. 
 
 No. 8. Mary Laurance; married to Joseph Smith, 1843. 
 After his death she married Brigham Young. 
 
 12. In Nauvoo, in 1841, while that talented scoundrel 
 and libertine, Dr. John C. Bennett, and Joseph Smith 
 were drawing up that notorious Nauvoo charter, Elder 
 Howard Coray, who was at that time Smith's confiden- 
 tial clerk, states that he was present when Smith and 
 Bennett were constructing the charter; that Bennett ob- 
 jected to certain clauses as being "too strong," to which 
 Smith replied : "We must have that power in our courts, 
 for this work will gather of all mankind ; the Turk with 
 his ten wives will come to Nauvoo, and we must have 
 laws to protect him with these wives." Beadle's Hist., 
 p. 72. 
 
 Also Governor Ford's testimony in Beadle's Hist., p. 
 78, speaking of Nauvoo in 1842, and Smith: "His elders 
 were now instructed that the time had arrived when seven 
 women should take hold of one man; that no woman 
 could be saved unless united to a husband in a spiritual 
 sense. She must accept prostitution or damnation and 
 the system was one of complete concubinage." 
 
JOSEPH SMITH A POLYGAMIST. 39 
 
 "The two young Smiths who lately made a raid into 
 Utah (continues the Governor) ought to know, as every 
 intelligent person does know, that the will of Joseph 
 Smith was absolute in Nauvoo, and all the councils, san- 
 hedrims and priests in the city could never have estab- 
 lished polygamy there, if he had but shook his little finger 
 at it." Beadle, p. 78. 
 
 We have given these twelve testimonies, because the 
 R. C. is so loud in denying that Joe Smith ever prac- 
 ticed polygamy, making $500 bluffs if it can be proven, 
 etc. In our discussion with Elder C. J. Hunt in Sac 
 City we challenged him to deposit his $500 in the bank 
 there, and to turn it over,- if three-fourths of the audi- 
 ence would decide that we had proven Smith a polyga- 
 mist, but the $500 bluff was heard of no more. We have 
 much more testimony on this point, but we deem this 
 sufficient for the present, in what we want to be a small 
 book. 
 
 The blighted homes, the broken hearts, and the degra- 
 dation that grew out of this Satanic system, must not 
 be laid wholly to Brigham Young, for Joseph Smith, the 
 founder of Mormonism, started the whole iniquitous 
 system, with its secretism, oaths, polygamy and crime 
 of all kinds. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 MORMON POLITICS AND WAR. 
 
 We also claim that Smith was a false prophet, and 
 his church a false church, because he sought political 
 power, and drilled troops for war, and fought against 
 his enemies. 
 
 This was following the practices of the Church of 
 Rome, that has always sought political power, and has 
 built up her system with the carnal sword, as under 
 Constantine, Edwin VI, Charlemagne and other Roman 
 emperors. Constantine claimed to have seen the sign 
 of the cross in the heavens, by which sign he should 
 conquer. So he took the cross and the carnal sword, 
 and went out to convert the world to the Romish church. 
 
 In the fifth century the bishop of Rome assumed to be 
 the vicar of Christ, and, assuming the powers of the age 
 to come, began to wield the "rod of iron." The harlot 
 woman "Babylon" began to ride the beast, or civil power, 
 and to use the civil power in persecution of the saints ; 
 the inquisition after a time was established in Spain and 
 other Catholic countries, and during these dark ages of 
 Rome's glory 50,000,000 martyrs were tortured and 
 slaughtered by this false political church. "The woman 
 was drunken with the blood of the saints and martyrs of 
 Jesus." Rev., ch. 17 and 18. 
 
 Jesus refused to accept political power, when Satan 
 offered it to him. Lu. 4. He also said to Pilate: "My 
 kingdom is not of this world, or my servants would 
 fight" (like Romans and Mormons did). John 18:36. 
 
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MORMON POLITICS AND WAR. 41 
 
 He told Peter to put up his sword, for they that take 
 the sword shall perish with the sword. Matt. 26:52. 
 Jesus taught his true followers that they must use only 
 the spiritual armor and weapons in fighting sin. Eph. 6 : 
 11-19. While he taught them to be obedient to rulers, 
 yet he showed them that their true citizenship was in 
 heaven, deposited in him, their coming king (Phil. 3:4), 
 and that they were as pilgrims here. Hebr. 1 1 19, 37-40. 
 He taught them to pray for his "kingdom to come" to 
 smash these governments in pieces. Matt. 6:10; Dan. 
 2: 34> 35> 44- He taught them to not resist evil, nor to 
 seek revenge, nor to attempt to reform corrupt churches 
 or political systems which never have been, and never 
 can be, reformed but to come out from among them, and 
 be separate, and to preach the gospel and repentance, 
 which would work within the individuals, to regenerate 
 them morally, and sanctify them in the midst of evil, and 
 make them proof against it, till the age comes, and God's 
 due time arrives, for the saints to judge the world. Then 
 they will execute the judgments written, and bind the 
 kings with chains and the nobles with fetters of iron, 
 i Cor. 6:2; Jude 14, 15; Ps. 149. 
 
 But Romanism and Mormonism, and most counterfeit 
 systems, have assumed that they were God's kingdom, 
 and, an age before the time, have attempted to judge the 
 world, and to wield the rod of iron. Some in Paul's 
 time got the same foolish notion into their heads, to 
 whom Paul said in irony : "Now ye are full, now ye are 
 rich, ye have reigned as kings without us : and I would 
 to God ye did reign, that we might reign with you !" 
 i Cor. 4:8. 
 
 But see Beadle's History, pp. 67, 70, 71, 81, 88, 90 
 and 92 how Smith was the "lieutenant-general of the 
 
42 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 Nauvoo Legion" ; drilled his troops for bloodshed, and 
 announced himself as a candidate for President of the 
 United States. 
 
 And we would say here, that if, as Smith and his 
 missionaries taught, he was sure he would be elected, 
 then he was a false prophet, for he was not. But if he 
 simply ran for office, not expecting to get it, knowing 
 the ridicule that would be heaped upon him by his ene- 
 mies, then he was simply a fool. 
 
 The historian tells us, on page 88, how the Whigs 
 and Democrats, who had each been seeking the favor of 
 the Mormons to get their solid vote, found that the Mor- 
 mon sect was for sale every day and hour of the day, 
 and that they were uncertain until the last hour of the 
 election. How that after Smith had been two years in 
 Illinois he controlled 3,000 votes, and that the offices 
 of the county were virtually his gift, and a man could 
 scarcely reach Congress without his will. This accounts 
 for the great privileges given the Mormons in that Nau- 
 voo charter by the Democrats, then in power, in 1840-41. 
 It was done by them to conciliate the Mormons, and to 
 secure their vote, and yet Smith and his followers voted 
 for the Whigs by "revelation." 
 
 At last, as Governor Ford records, pp. 113, Beadle's 
 Hist., Joe Smith dies, shooting at his enemies, but the 
 mob dispatched him with four bullets through his body ; 
 and, p. 116, "the spiritual wives of the prophet filled the 
 city with their cries, but his lawful wife Emma was quiet 
 and resigned." 
 
 Thus Smith lived the life of a libertine, and died the 
 death of a desperado, shooting at his enemies ! A shame- 
 ful life, and a disgraceful death. 
 
 I must here remark that the most biased and one-sided 
 history that I have ever read is Mormon history, as writ- 
 
MORMON POLITICS AND WAR. 43 
 
 ten by Mormons. When God writes up the history of 
 David or Solomon he shows up both the good and the 
 bad, and does not justify the evil in them. But Mormon 
 writers not only show up only the good in Smith and 
 their system, but misrepresent the facts, and thus deceive 
 many good and honest people. They represent the chief 
 crime of Mormons as being that they were abolitionists, 
 when history convicts them of murder, treason, robbery, 
 counterfeiting, stealing, and almost every offense in the 
 catalogue of crime ! They represent their church as 
 being like the first church, persecuted for righteousness' 
 sake, when the fact is it was persecuted for deviltry's 
 sake. The first church was jailed while innocent. Smith's 
 church was jailed while guilty; and official records still 
 show their conviction and guilt. See any Encyclopedia or 
 Standard History on Mormonism. 
 
 Nor have we ever yet seen a history of Smith, written 
 by a Mormon, that told about Smith wounding three 
 men in his death at Carthage, 111., in 1844. Why this 
 partiality, and fear of telling the whole truth? 
 
 These two lines of argument, alone, on politics and 
 war, as practiced by Smith and his church, are of them- 
 selves sufficient to convince any student of the true Chris- 
 tian system, as established and taught by Jesus, that 
 Smith was a false prophet, and his church, and the fac- 
 tions into which it is now split, are all false, counterfeit 
 systems. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 MORMON SECRETISM. MASONRY. 
 
 We learn from history that Hyrum Smith was an 
 Arch Mason, and Joseph Smith was well up in the higher 
 degrees of Masonry, and that, in Nauvoo, Smith got a 
 charter to run a lodge among his people, and that nearly 
 every male member was initiated into it, until he added 
 to it some of his own peculiar ideas, and the Masons 
 revoked the charter. Hyrum Smith had left the Masons 
 after the book of Mormon came out, as it denounces 
 secretism (Beadle, p. 515 etc.), but afterward that he 
 assisted Joseph in initiating the "Saints" into these secret 
 degrees in Nauvoo. The book of Mormon condemns 
 many things that Smith and his whole church practiced. 
 
 In Joseph Smith's journal, as written by the prophet 
 himself in 1842 for John Wentworth, proprietor of the 
 Chicago Democrat, we read : , 
 
 "Passed over to Montrose, Iowa, in company with 
 General Adams, Colonel Brewer and others, and wit- 
 nessed the installation of the officers of the Rising Sun 
 Lodge of the Ancient Order of York Masons, at Mont- 
 rose, by General James Adams, deputy grand master of 
 Illinois. * * *" Then follows Smith's prophecy of 
 the saints going to the Rocky Mountains and building 
 cities there and becoming a mighty people there, etc. 
 
 See also Beadle's History, pp. 125-129, how (speaking 
 of 1844, right after Smith's death) that the Mormons 
 were bound to obey their church officers by the most 
 absolute oaths. How between the citizens and Mormons 
 
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MORMON SECRETISM MASONRY. 45 
 
 terrible riots and skirmishes took place. How blood was 
 shed and lives were lost. How a horrible crime was per- 
 petrated in Lee County, and the perpetrators traced 
 directly to Nauvoo. How a dozen Mormons swore that 
 the accused was in another city at the time, yet their 
 testimony was so contradictory, and the testimony so 
 plain against them, that the murderers, two brothers 
 named Hodges, were convicted and hanged at Montrose, 
 Iowa. How Governor Ford was more an enemy to the 
 anti-Mormons than to the Mormons, and tried to make 
 their case as favorable as possible in his records, yet 
 the Mormons never ceased to abuse him (pp. 126, 127). 
 
 See "Tell It All," by Mrs. Stenhouse, pp. 353-360: 
 "Joseph Smith, the prophet, and very many of his early 
 associates, belonged to the Ancient Order of Free Masons. 
 When he was initiated into the mysteries of that society,, 
 and what position he attained to, I do not know; but 
 one thing is certain, that when he, under the influence 
 of peculiar fanaticism, endeavored to engraft upon Free 
 Masonry some of his own peculiar ideas of the new 
 religion, he and those connected with him were publicly 
 disavowed by the lodges in the West. The idea of a 
 bond of brotherhood, secret and indissoluble, seems ever 
 to have been present in Joseph's mind." 
 
 Here I quote some clauses from the oath taken by 
 Arch Masons, in this seventh degree of Masonry, as given 
 in "Free Masonry Illustrated," by Jacob O. Doesburg, 
 certified by four affidavits, from men who had taken these 
 oaths and degrees, to be a true and accurate exposure. 
 
 Paragraph 5 in the oath : "I furthermore promise and 
 swear that I will assist a companion Royal Arch Mason, 
 when engaged in any difficulty, and will espouse his 
 
46 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 cause so far as to extricate him from the same, whether 
 he be right or wrong. 
 
 "I furthermore promise and swear that I will keep 
 all the secrets of a companion Royal Arch Mason, when 
 communicated to me as such, without exception." 
 
 Paragraphs 12 and 13 read: "And this I most sol- 
 emnly and sincerely promise and swear, with a steadfast 
 resolution to perform the same, without any hesitation, 
 mental reservation, or secret evasion of mind whatever ; 
 binding myself under no less a penalty than that of hav- 
 ing my skull smote off, and my brain exposed to the 
 scorching rays of the meridian sun, should I ever know- 
 ingly violate this my Royal Arch Mason's obligation. 
 So help me God, and keep me steadfast in the due per- 
 formance of the same. 
 
 "Captain of Host: 'In token of your sincerity of pur- 
 pose, in these solemn engagements, you will kiss the Holy 
 Bible now open before you.' ' (Each kisses the Bible.) 
 
 And now, dear reader, whether you follow Smith or 
 any other leader that has taken such as the above oaths, 
 I ask you to decide if such leaders represent Jesus and 
 his followers who taught : "Swear not at all" ; "In secret 
 I have said nothing"; "Men love darkness rather than 
 light because their deeds are evil"; "Have no fellowship 
 with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove 
 them"; "Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for 
 what part hath he that believeth with an infidel ? Where- 
 fore come out from among them, and be ye separate, 
 and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you" ; 
 "Blessed is the man that standeth not in the way of sin- 
 ners; nor sitteth in the seat of the scorner." 
 
MORMON SECRET1SM MASONRY. 47 
 
 No ; Smith's secretism, if there was nothing else, would 
 brand him a false prophet, and his system, according to 
 his own book (B. M., p. 515), "a murderous system, built 
 up by the devil, the father of lies." Herein is seen his 
 own inconsistence, as also in his denunciation of polyga- 
 my (B. M., p. 117), and his secret practice of the same, 
 as we have abundantly proven. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 THE ENDOWMENT HOUSE. 
 
 Not satisfied with the iron-clad and sacrilegious oaths 
 and rites of Masonry, Smith added yet a more ungodly 
 system of secretism to his so called "restored kingdom 
 of God," known as the Endowment House. The R. C. 
 quote Gen. 5, in Smith's so called inspired translation 
 of the Bible (which attributes secretism to Cain, as Smith 
 has added it to the book of Genesis) as proof that Smith 
 did not introduce the Endowment House system and 
 Masonry. They try to throw all the blame on Brigham 
 Young for secretism and polygamy ; but hundreds of old 
 Mormons have testified to Smith himself having intro- 
 duced both ; although Brigham added some to the Endow- 
 ment system, as the oath to "avenge the death of Smith" 
 proves. 
 
 We quote from Smith's own words in the temple in 
 Kirtland, Ohio, March 30, 1836, as published in Hist, 
 of Jos. Smith, Will. Star, Vol 15, p. 727: "While wait- 
 ing, I made the following remarks that the time that 
 we were required to tarry in Kirtland to be endoived 
 would be fulfilled in a few days," etc. Hence here is the 
 Endowment House in Kirtland in 1836. 
 
 In "Times and Season," Vol. 5, p. 698, Elder Woodruff, 
 writing from Salem, Mass., under date Oct. n, 1844, at a 
 time when Sydney Rigdon's claims were still agitated, 
 said : 
 
 "Has the prophet Joseph found Elder Rigdon in his 
 councils when he organized the quorum of the twelve, a 
 
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THE ENDOWMENT HOUSE. 49 
 
 few months before his death, to prepare them for their 
 endowment? And when they received their endowment," 
 etc. 
 
 Also in "J uv aiile Instructor," Vol. 21, p. 158, we read, 
 in 1845, right after the death of Smith, of Saints receiv- 
 ing endowments in the temple. 
 
 It may pass with those who are ignorant of Mormon 
 history, and living testimonials of old Mormons, who 
 received those so-called "endowments," for the R. C, or 
 "Josephites," to claim that these refer to "endowments 
 of the holy spirit." But there are still too many who 
 themselves, or their parents, are or were living witnesses 
 of Smith's secret endowment system, for whitewash to 
 pass as genuine. 
 
 See also D. C., p. 284, revelation given Joseph Smith 
 June 22, 1834: "Verily I say unto you, it is expedient 
 in me that the first elders of my church should receive 
 their endowments from on high, in my house, which I 
 have commanded to be built unto my name in the land 
 of Kirtland," etc. 
 
 We here give a condensed description of the Endow- 
 ment House, from Beadle's Hist., pp. 486-500, as acted 
 out about the time of Smith's death. 
 
 A sort of drama was acted out by leading officers of 
 the church. Brigham Young personified Eloheim or 
 Head God ; George A. Smith, Jehovah ; Daniel H. Wells, 
 Jesus; George Q. Cannon, Michael; W. W. Phelps, 
 Satan ; Joseph F. Smith, the apostle Peter ; John Taylor, 
 the apostle James ; Erastus Snow, the apostle John ; Eliza 
 R. Snow, Eve. 
 
 The preparation consisted in ( i ) washing and anoint- 
 ing; (2) Eloheim cursing Adam and Eve, Satan driven 
 out; (3) trial of faith,, the searching hand; (4) the 
 oath; (5) the blood atonement. 
 
50 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 Deep silence pervades the room. Dim light. Attend- 
 ants communicate by signs or low whispers. They re- 
 move their shoes. Men are led to a room on right, and 
 women to left, where they are bathed by proper attend- 
 ants of their own sex. Then they have a new name 
 whispered to them. In another room they are anointed 
 with oil, to symbolize Holy Spirit. The candidate is 
 then dressed in a sort of tunic, or loose-fitting garment, 
 supposed to shield him from the devil, poison and all 
 harm. (Here, p. 489, Beadle says: "It is generally be- 
 liveed that Joe Smith took off his tunic the morning he 
 went to Carthage * * * and that he would not have 
 been killed if he had retained it." Mrs. Stenhouse, who 
 went through the Endowment House with her husband, 
 shortly after Smith's death, also says in 'Tell It All," 
 p. 360: "This close-fitting garment (tunic) was to pro- 
 tect from disease, bullets, the dagger and death itself. 
 It has been said that Joseph Smith carelessly left off 
 this garment, on the day of his death, and had he not 
 done so the rifles of the assassins would have been harm- 
 less to him." 
 
 We leave the reader to judge if Mormons, at the time 
 of Smith's death, would have talked thus about the tunic 
 put on in the Endowment House by Smith, if Smith had 
 known nothing about this secret system, with its blas- 
 phemous personifications of Jehovah and its diabolical 
 oaths. 
 
 The characters personifying Jehovah, Jesus, Michael, 
 etc., in the Endowment House, act out the successive 
 steps in the creation of the world. They place the can- 
 didates on the floor and close their eyes, and pretend to 
 create Adam and Eve. They slap them to vivify them, 
 and stand them upon their feet. Satan enters and de- 
 ceives them. Loud groans follow, and Satan is cursed, 
 
THE ENDOWMENT HOUSE. v 
 
 and wriggles out of the room hissing. The candidates 
 kneel, and take a solemn oath to preserve the secrets 
 inviolably, to obey the priesthood in all things, and the 
 men swear that they will take no woman unless given 
 them by the presidency of the church. A grip and key 
 word are given, and the first degree of the Aaronic 
 priesthood is conferred. The penalty for breaking this 
 oath is to have their blood spilt as an atonement for their 
 sins, etc. 
 
 They pass into a darker room, where they are caused 
 to stumble over blocks and furniture ; persons are heard 
 calling, "Here is light/' "There is light," etc., and a con- 
 test goes on among those who call themselves Catholics, 
 Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, etc. The sectarians 
 pull the candidates about till they are quite exhausted, 
 till they are ready for the second degree of the Aaronic 
 priesthood. They then join hands, kneel in a circle, and 
 take another solemn oath, the penalty of which is "throat 
 cut from ear to ear/' with other disgusting and basphem- 
 ous details we have not space to notice. 
 
 Two other estates or degrees are passed through, with 
 oaths and penalties of "bowels slit across and entrails fed 
 to swine/' etc., if they ever violate their oath or reveal 
 these secrets, etc. 
 
 The third degree or estate as conducted immediately 
 after Smith's death, as testified to by many who went 
 through it (see Beadle, pp. 496, 497), contains an oath, 
 taken while candidates lie upon their backs upon the altar, 
 with a razor or large knife at their throats, that they will 
 avenge the death of Joseph Smith, and bear eternal hos- 
 tility to the government of the United States for the 
 murder of the Prophet ; that they renounce all allegiance 
 they may have held to the government, and hold them- 
 selves absolved from all oaths of fealty, past or future ; 
 
52 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 that they will do all in their power to overthrow the gov- 
 ernment, and teach their children the same. They are 
 then declared acceptable to God, and the second degree 
 of Melchizadek priesthood is conferred. They are then 
 passed behind the veil. 
 
 The system seems to be based upon Masonry, the mys- 
 teries of the Middle Ages, "Paradise Lost/' by Milton, 
 and the pagan poets on Elysium, hades, etc. 
 
 If our readers still think Smith a true prophet of God, 
 and the restorer of the full gospel and of Christ's true 
 church, let him fancy Jesus and the apostles instituting 
 such a blasphemous drama, with its oaths and horrible 
 penalties, and I think he will, if honest, have to change 
 his mind. Jesus condemns secretism, oaths, and all works 
 done in darkness. This secretism of itself is sufficient to 
 condemn both Smith and his church, though parading 
 under the name of "Saints" and the "only true church on 
 the face of the whole earth." D. C., p. 4. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 THE MORMON CHURCH. HISTORICAL. 
 
 The word Mormon, it is claimed, means bugbear or 
 horrible fright. As this is the name of Smith's chief 
 book, the church was given this name by gentiles, and 
 is still thus designated, although they call themselves 
 "Latter Day Saints." Still, "Mormon church" is all the 
 name they had for three years after their birth as a 
 church. 
 
 Beadle's Hist., p. 42: "At a conference assembled at 
 Kirtland, Ohio, May 3, 1833, they repudiated the name 
 of Mormons, and adopted for the first time that of Latter 
 Day Saints." 
 
 Joseph Smith himself, in a brief account of the origin 
 of Mormonism, published by John Wentworth in 1842, 
 entitles his autobiography "Joseph Smith's Account of 
 the Origin of 'Mormonism' " ! 
 
 Hence they were called Mormons from 1830 till 1833.. 
 Then they took the name "The Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter Day Saints." After Smith's death in 1844 
 various factions sprung up, led by Sydney Rigdon ; Wil- 
 liam Smith, brother of the prophet; James J. Strang, 
 Lyman Wight and George Miller and others, and finally 
 in 1860, at Amboy, 111., about 150 men, who had chiefly 
 been followers of some of the apostate factions, met and 
 ordained Joseph Smith, the prophet's son, as the presi- 
 dent of a new i^pion, called "The Reorganized Church 
 of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints." At present the 
 church consists of three warring factions called by gen- 
 tiles Brighamites, Josephites and Hedrickites. 
 
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54 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 The migrations of the church from its birth till the 
 present are approximately as follows : 
 
 The church was organized at Fayette, N. Y., April 6, 
 1830 ,with six members, all Smiths but Oliver Cowdery 
 and Joseph Knight. Left in 1831. 
 
 Headquarters next in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1831. A por- 
 tion of them were driven out in 1833, an d the main body 
 left in 1838. In 1832 Brigham Young joined them at 
 Kirtland, and was ordained an elder. There was also a 
 body of them in Independence, Mo., from 1831 to 1834-38, 
 when they were expelled from there. 
 
 They settled next at Far West, Clay County, Mo., in 
 1834. The troubles here, in 1838, resulted in a small 
 civil war between gentiles and Mormons, which resulted 
 in the Mormons being driven out by mobs, in the winter 
 of 1838-9. 
 
 Their next settlement was at Commerce, 111., which 
 they called Nauvoo, in 1839. They remained there till 
 Smith was killed in 1844, after which troubles grew 
 worse, until in 1846-7 they fled for the West. They 
 stopped in Iowa a year, chiefly at Council Bluffs, and 
 a portion of them got to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1846, 
 and the main body got there in 1847-8. 
 
 We will not here enter into much, discussion as to the 
 doctrines of the church, which we will notice when 
 examining the Book of Mormon and doctrine and cove- 
 nants. Also what w r e have passed over already on the 
 character of the Smith family ; Smith a polygamist, Mor- 
 mon politics and war, and Mormon secretism are suffi- 
 cient to undermine the claims of any of the Mormon 
 factions to being the true church of Christ, and their 
 divisions also write their mene, tekel, upharson upon their 
 whole mushroom system ; for "a house divided against 
 itself Can not stand." 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THE TRUE CHURCH AND THE FALSE. 
 
 The teaching of Mormons is, that the true church of 
 Christ is a visible organization, with apostles, prophets, 
 pastors, teachers, etc., and gifts of tongues, healing, etc., 
 as shown in Eph. 4 and i Cor. 12. We will riot here 
 discuss whether there should be such a visible system or 
 not; suffice it to show that Mormons do not possess 
 the gifts of which they boast, and that the true churcri 
 is no visible organization now on earth. 
 
 The true church is all the called out sanctified saints, 
 of the Christian age, in resurrected capacity ; the church 
 of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. 
 Hebr. 12: 23. They have been chosen in Christ from 
 the foundation of the world. Eph. 1 14. Their names 
 have been in the Lamb's book of life from the oundation 
 of the world. Rev. 13 :8. Those who by one spirit have 
 been baptized into one body, i Cor. 12, 13, 27. Who 
 worship God in spirit and in truth. John 4 123, 24. They 
 are baptized, by death to sin, into Jesus Christ an in- 
 visible body. Rom. 6:4; Gal. 3:27. They are members 
 of the church, which is (not a sect, but) Christ's body. 
 Eph. i :22. This body is not organized till the resur- 
 rection. Rev. 21:9, 10; i Thess. 4:13-18. It will con- 
 sist of all in this age who call upon the name of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ in truth, both theirs and ours, i Cor. 
 i :2. It is built upon the foundation Christ, and the old 
 apostles and prophets (not successors). Eph. 2:19-22. 
 No man can add a member or law or iota to it. God 
 
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56 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 builds it, and adds every member to it. Acts. 2 -.47. 
 He draws all its members in. John 6 144. God grants all 
 its members repentance to the acknowledging of the 
 truth. 2 Tim. 2:24, 25. It is by figure called Christ's 
 body, of his flesh and bones. Eph. 5:18-33. 
 
 All its members are "enemies to the world" ; they "love 
 not the world"; "are not conformed to the world"; "of 
 one spirit"; "perfectly joined together in the same mind 
 and in the same judgment"; "follow the Lamb whither- 
 soever he goeth" ; "without spot or blemish or any such 
 thing" ; "as sheep among wolves" ; use "spiritual weapons 
 and armor"; "love their enemies"; "do good to those 
 who hate them"; "resist not evil"; "avenge not them- 
 selves" ; and are bound together only by love. No com- 
 ments are necessary to prove that neither Mormons, nor 
 any other visible organization on earth, meet this stand- 
 ard. , No sin can enter this body, i Cor. 6:18. All its 
 members are made perfect through grace and pardon, 
 and only while they keep thus pardoned are they in the 
 body. Hence Judas, Ananias, Simon Magus and other 
 apostates are not members of the true church, though 
 at one time members of the visible church. The true 
 church is Christ's body. 
 
 Members of the Mormon churches, who are in good 
 standing in their church-kingdom, drink, use tobacco, 
 dance, fight and swear, and some kill and steal and lie. 
 
 See pp. 282 and 502 in "Tell It All," by Mrs. Sten- 
 house, how Brigham Young attended theatres and balls. 
 How, for appearance sake, he danced a short time with 
 each wife, but most of the night with his favorite wife 
 Amelia. How Mormon prophets, apostles, elders and 
 deacons danced and drank and smoked and jested at 
 night. How Brigham had the picture of an eye over 
 his whisky store, and the sign above it, "Holiness Unto 
 
THE TRUE CHURCH AND THE FALSE. 57 
 
 the Lord" and we have shown the church no better in 
 Smith's time. As to the shocking depravity of the Utah 
 Mormons see pp. 366 to 380 in Beadle's History; how 
 Robert Sharkey married three sisters, one of whom was 
 divorced from her first husband to marry him. He finally 
 committed suicide. Two of Brigham's wives, Clara 
 Decker and Lucy Decker Seely, were sisters. One family 
 consisted of two men and four women, the men's first 
 wives being sisters, and their second wives each a sister 
 of the other man, all living in the same house. Bishop 
 Smith, of Brigham City, numbered two of his own broth- 
 ers' daughters among the inmates of his harem, sealed 
 to him by Brigham Young, with perfect knowledge of 
 their relationship. A young Scotchman was married 
 to his half-sister with Brigham Young's consent. An- 
 other man in Utah had three wives who were child, 
 mother and grandmother. No Turks nor barbarians have 
 ever been more depraved than the Utah Mormons have 
 in marriage relations. 
 
 The doctrine of "blood atonement" as taught by Mor- 
 mons was that it was a deed of love to kill an apostate. 
 The only way to save him or atone for the sin of apostasy 
 was to have his blood shed. 
 
 See p. 312 and 316 in "Tell It All" an extract from a 
 published speech by Jedediah M. Grant in the tabernacle : 
 
 "I would advise some of you here to go to President 
 Young and confess your sins, and ask him to take you 
 outside the city, and have your blood shed to atone for 
 your sins. There are men and women that I would ad- 
 vise to go to President Young immediately and ask him 
 to appoint a committee to select a place and shed their 
 blood. I believe that there are many covenant breakers, 
 and we need a place designated where we can shed their 
 blood. We have been tried long enough with this people, 
 
58 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 and I go in for the sword of the Almighty being un- 
 sheathed, not only in word but in deed/' etc. 
 
 Read any history on the wild rantings of Mormon 
 preachers and their crimes and licentiousness, and the 
 honest reader will easily discern between the true church 
 and the false. And the Utah church is the only true 
 Mormon church, as we shall prove farther on. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 THE MORMON GIFT OF TONGUES. 
 
 In the primitive Chris.tian Church the gift of tongues 
 was for a sign to the unbelieving world, to convince 
 them of- the truth, i Cor. 14:22. On Pentecost men 
 of various nationalities heard in their native tongue, by 
 miracle, the wonderful words of life. Acts 2:1-12. This 
 gift, while possessed by the church, would obviate the 
 necessity of any translation of the Bible. But not so 
 with Mormon tongues. Their missionaries had to study 
 the language of the people where they went to preach 
 in foreign countries. See p. 136 in "Tell It All," how 
 "the greatest difficulty of Mr. Stenhouse, and other Mor- 
 mon missionaries, was learning the language of their 
 prospective converts." And yet the church claimed the 
 gift of tongues ! 
 
 As an example of Mormon tongues we quote from "Tell 
 It All," pp. 67, 68 : 
 
 "After prayer and singing, and listening to very fer- 
 vent addresses from some of the elders, Brother Seely 
 had delivered a most impassioned speech, and had hardly 
 concluded when Sister Ellis, who was sitting near me, 
 gave evidences of being in an abnormal condition of mind, 
 which to me was painful in the extreme. Her hands 
 were clenched, and her eyes had that wild, supernatural 
 glare which is never seen but in cases of lunacy or in- 
 tense, feverish excitement. Every one waited breath- 
 lessly, listening to catch what she might say ; you might 
 
60 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 have heard a pin drop. Then she began to speak ; or 
 rather, emitted a series of sounds. They seemed to me 
 chiefly the repetition of the same syllables, something like 
 a child's repeating "la, la, la, le, lo; ma, ma, ma, mi, ma; 
 dele, dele, dele hele," followed by a number of sounds 
 strung together, which could not be rendered into any 
 shape by the pen. I have since, in the far West, heard 
 old Indian women crooning weirdly monotonous and out- 
 landish ditties which resembled the prophetic utterances 
 of Sister Ellis. 
 
 "I now know that these extraordinary displays are 
 by no means confined to Mormonism. People of a cer- 
 tain temperament have, in all ages, when excited by reli- 
 gious frenzy, given painful illustrations of this mental 
 disease ; as the student who remembers the "Convulsion- 
 aires" of the middle ages ; the Munster Ana Baptists of 
 Luther's time, and the various emotional sects of more 
 modern times, will abundantly bear me witness." Mrs. 
 Stenhouse adds that when Brigham Young first met 
 Joseph Smith, that he spoke in tongues, but that he 
 afterward discouraged the practice of this gift. 
 
 In Henry Howe's Hist. Coll. from the Great West, 
 published 1854, on p. 322, we read of the law passed 
 by Smith's council of Nauvoo, in 1843, making it im- 
 prisonment for life for any person, with or without 
 process, to attempt to arrest the prophet for any offense 
 growing out of the Missouri difficulties ; and $100 fine 
 for any one to serve a process in Nauvoo without the 
 signature of the mayor (Smith)." 
 
 The historian also gives a specimen of tongues as it 
 fell from the prophet Smith's lips on a sacramental occa- 
 sion, which was upon the tongues of Saints for months 
 afterwards, as follows: "Ak man, oh son; oh man, ah 
 
THE MORMON GIFT OF TONGUES. 61 
 
 ne commene, en nolle goste en esac Milkea, Jeremiah, 
 Ezekiel, Nephi, Lehi, St. John. 
 
 But the Mormon gift of tongues is of no value to them 
 when they go as missionaries to foreign lands. It is 
 not a manifestation for the world, but occurs at excitable 
 gatherings of Saints. It is of no value to them nor to any 
 one else as an agent to assist in carrying the gospel to 'all 
 the world. It is not even a good counterfeit of the true 
 gift given the primitive church. 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 
 MORMON SIGNS. 
 
 That the sick have at times been healed among Mor- 
 mons, as a result of prayer and faith, as among Spritual- 
 ists, Christian Scientists, Catholics and all other sects, and 
 out of all sects, we will not deny; but that Mormons 
 possess any special gift of healing or of miracles above 
 any other church or people, we do positively deny. They 
 cannot compete at all in the number of testimonials of 
 healings with Christian Scientists, Dr. Bowie's followers, 
 or with Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets, or many 
 other patent medicine nostrums. Dr. Fahrney, of Chi- 
 cago, has the biggest book in the world full of bonefide 
 testimonials to cures of all kinds of diseases thru his 
 proprietary medicine. 
 
 We have before us "Zion's Ensign," published at Inde- 
 pendence, Mo., by the R. C. (issue of May 10, 1900), in 
 which we read of thirteen sick saints. No mention is 
 made of any miraculous healing by faith, but, on p. 6, 
 there is an advertisement of "Incurable" heart disease 
 cured by Dr. Franklin Miles' Special Prescription ! "Two 
 dollars and fifty cents worth of this medicine sent free. 
 Hundreds of incurable cases of heart disease cured," etc. 
 
 In our own experience we know of but four cases where 
 the R*. C. elders have anointed the sick and prayed for 
 them, and these all died soon afterward. One of these 
 was an Eld. Thomson, who died at Colo, Iowa, about two 
 years ago. So we would recommend would-be suicides to 
 Mormon anointings and prayers. 
 
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MORMON SIGNS. 63 
 
 An ex-Mormon of Council Bluffs, Thos. Pilling, told 
 me of a big man named Smith, who cured many diseases 
 among the Mormons by manipulations, which he at- 
 tributed to his own power; and in "Tell It All," p. 82, 
 Mrs. Stenhouse tells how the elders, for nearly three 
 hours, with prayers, anointings, passes and manipulations, 
 worked with a Sister Armstrong until they were thorough- 
 ly exhausted, which did wonderfully help Sister Arm- 
 strong. 
 
 But how different these methods from those of Jesus 
 and the apostles in the primitive church ! See Matt. 4 123, 
 15; Lu. 6:19; 4:40; Matt. 8:17; Mk. 16:15-20; Matt. 
 17:16-19; Acts 28:9, etc. 
 
 Mrs. Stenhouse tells of the Mormons, on the way from 
 England, dying of cholera, while their gifted elders kept 
 away from them, looking out for themselves. Beadle 
 tells how the death rate per capita in the sixties in Salt 
 Lake City (though in a very healthful climate) was more 
 than twice that of the state of Oregon, and greater than 
 that of New York, or any city north of the Gulf states ; 
 and that for several years the mortality among children 
 in Salt Lake City was greater than in any other city in 
 America, pp. 373-374. 
 
 But the lack of power among Mormons, right before 
 our eyes, is sufficient to condemn them, so I deem it un- 
 necessary to give much space to their false claims on this 
 line. 
 
 Jesus never failed in an attempt to heal the sick, and 
 when the apostles did once fail to cast out a devil, Jesus 
 did not throw the blame on the man who was possessed, 
 for lack of faith, as modern "divine healers'' do, but he 
 threw the whole blame upon the apostles. Matt. 17:16, 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE TRUE MORMON CHURCH IN UTAH, BUT NO AUTHORITY 
 
 IN IT. 
 
 The Mormon church is a wonderfully officered church. 
 There are two priesthoods in the church, the Melchizadek 
 and the Aaronic or Levitical. 
 
 The highest officers in the church are the president and 
 his two counsellors, called the quorum of three. . 
 
 Next comes the twelve apostles, presided over by one 
 who is president of the twelve. 
 
 Then conies the first seventy, with seven presidents, 
 and one of these is president of the seven. Then other 
 seventies below the first seventy. 
 
 Then the patriarch, whose chief work seems to be to 
 give blessings at from fifty cents to a dollar each. 
 
 Then the elders, deacons and lesser officers. See D. C. 
 Section 104 and 124. 
 
 In D. C., pp. 228 and 383, or Sec. 104, par. n. and 
 Sec. 124, par. 4, how the tweve apostles form a quorum, 
 equal in authority to the first presidency, and the first 
 seventy form a quorum equal in authority to the twelve. 
 Hence, "three quorums of equal authority, at least in the 
 absence of the superior quorum. 
 
 Now see D. C., p. 316, or Sec. 106, par. 40, Revel, 
 given Jos. Smith, January 19, 1841. 
 
 "I give unto you, my servant, Brigham Young, to be 
 president over the twelve traveling council, which twelve 
 hold the keys to open up the authority of my kingdom 
 upon the four corners of the earth, and after that to send 
 
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THE TRUE MORMON CHURCH IN UTAH. 65 
 
 my word to every creature." Then follows the apostles' 
 names, among whom is Parley Pratt, whose fate we have 
 already mentioned, and others who were just as licentious. 
 
 Here Joseph, the prophet, gives Brigham Young all 
 the authority he needed to set up Smith's kingdom in 
 Utah. Nine of these apostles went with Brigham to 
 Utah, which gave him a quorum. 
 
 The first presidency, at the death of Joseph Smith, con- 
 sisted of Joseph and Hyrum Smith and Sydney Rigdon. 
 But Rigdon had been in poor standing with both Smith 
 and the church for years before the death of the Smiths. 
 So when Joseph and Hyrum were killed in 1844, it fell 
 to either Rigdon or the twelve to lead the church. Rig- 
 don called a meeting and proposed himself as the guardian 
 of the church, in which he was assisted by Wm. Marks 
 and others. See Hist. Jos. Smith, Mill Star, vol .25, p. 
 215 and 216. This meeting convened at Nauvoo, Aug. 8, 
 1844. A conference was called Aug. 7 to consider Rig- 
 don's claims. But Brigham blasted Rigdon's hopes when 
 he got up and said : 
 
 "I do not care who leads this church, even though it 
 were Ann Lee; but one thing I must know, and that is 
 what God says about it. I have the keys and the means 
 of obtaining the mind of God on the subject. . . . Joseph 
 conferred upon our heads all the keys and powers be- 
 longing to the apostleship which he himself held before 
 he was taken away, and no man, nor set of men, can get 
 between Joseph and the twelve in this world, nor in the 
 world to come. How 7 often has Joseph said to the twelve, 
 I have laid the foundation, and you must build thereon, 
 for upon your shoulders the kingdom rests." Hist. Jos. 
 Smith, Mill. Star, vol. 25, p. 215. 
 
 The next day there was a large attendance at Rigdon's 
 meeting, and after Rigdon's speech, Brigham got up, and 
 
66 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 the Saints who were present testify that he was trans- 
 figured before them into the person, voice and all of 
 Joseph Smith. So powerful was his reasoning that when 
 the vote was taken nearly all voted to sustain Brigham 
 and the twelve against Rigdon. See Mill. Star, vol. 25, 
 pp. 216, 231-3. In the afternoon the conference convened 
 again, and Brigham again presented the claims of the 
 twelve. Rigdon was invited to speak, but declined. At 
 Rigdon 's request the question of supporting the twelve 
 was first put. 
 
 The question was put to all the quorums and the whole 
 congregation at once, and the whole congregation voted, 
 and unanimously elected Brigham and the twelve to lead 
 the church. 
 
 It matters not though Joseph Smith was called a seer, 
 prophet, Melchizadek priest, etc., yet he had laid it down 
 as a rule that he nor no other man could be president of 
 the church -without the vote of the church. See D. C., p. 
 64, or Sec. 27, par. 4 "My servant Joseph shall be ap- 
 pointed to preside over the conference by the voice of it 
 for all things must be done in order, and by common con- 
 sent in the church, by the prayer of faith." 
 
 Also in D. C., p. 288, or Sec. 104, par. 11, we learn 
 that it requires a unanimous vote to carry a decision. So 
 Brigham's appointment to lead the church met every re- 
 quirement of Mormon law. 
 
 Yet the R. C. or Josephites claim that the death of 
 Smith, and Brigham's apostasy, disorganized the church, 
 and that it was reorganized in 1860. Just as though the 
 death of Jesus and the apostacy of Judas would have de- 
 stroyed Christ's church! Or the assassination of our 
 President, or his impeachment, would disorganize the 
 United States government ! Yet Smith's book of revela- 
 tions itself is against them. See D. C., p. 91, or sec. 38, 
 
THE TRUE MORMON CHURCH IN UTAH. 67 
 
 par. 2, "Behold, the kingdom is yours, and the enemy 
 shall not overcome." Also p. 298, sec. 105, par. 6, "What 
 I say unto you, I say unto all the twelve * * * rebel 
 not against my servant Joseph * * * the keys which I 
 have given unto him and also to youward shall not be 
 taken from him till I come." Also p. 231, sec. 87, par. 2, 
 "The keys of this kingdom shall never be taken from you, 
 while thou art in the world, neither in the world to come ; 
 nevertheless, thru you shall the oracles be given to 
 another; yea, even to the church." And so they were 
 given to Brigham and the twelve as shown above. Again, 
 p. 79, sec. 34, par. 6: "Zion shall rejoice upon the hills 
 (of Utah, I suppose), and flourish; and Israel shall be 
 saved in mine own due time. And by the keys which I 
 have given shall they be led, and no more confounded at 
 a ll * * * pear not, little flock, the kingdom is yours 
 until I come." 
 
 And yet the R. C. would make Smith. a false prophet, by 
 teaching that the church was confounded after Smith's 
 death, and the kingdom of God stopped by Brigham 
 Young, till a few apostates met at Amboy, 111., in 1860, 
 and "reorganized" God's kingdom ! 
 
 The R. C. J. C. L. D. S., although partially organized 
 before 1860, did not have its prophet and president until 
 April 6, 1860, and therefore its birth as a full fledged 
 sect may be dated from that point. This conference was 
 called by Z. H. Gurley and Reuben Newkirk. Mr. Gur- 
 ley, assisted by Wm. Marks, presided at this conference, 
 and Jason Briggs claimed to have a revelation that the 
 seed of Joseph Smith, the prophet, should lead the church. 
 See Life of Jos. Smith, p. 578. 
 
 Young Joseph, as he is called (now of Lamoni, Iowa), 
 went to this conference at Amboy. He made a speech, 
 after which it was moved that he be received as a prophet, 
 
68 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 the successor of his father. The motion was carried by 
 unanimous vote, after which Mr. Gurley arose and said : 
 
 "Brother Joseph, I present this church to you in the 
 name of Jesus Christ." Mr. Smith accepted the present. 
 
 Now, we wish to speak of these three principal men at 
 that Amboy conference. 
 
 Wm. Marks had been a follower of Sydney Rigdon, 
 after Smith's death, in recommending him as a guardian 
 of the church. See Times and Seasons, vol. v, p. 692, 
 and Mill. Star, vol. 25, p. 215. 
 
 He afterward wrote for Times and Seasons, vol. v, p. 
 742, dated Nauvoo, Dec. 9, 1844: "After mature an'd 
 candid deliberation I am fully and satisfactorily con- 
 vinced that Mr. Rigdon's claims to the presidency of the 
 church of J. C. of L. D. S. are not founded in truth. I 
 have been deceived by his specious pretenses, and now 
 feel to warn every one over whom I have any influence 
 to beware of him and his pretended revelations. The 
 twelve are the proper persons to lead the church." 
 
 In 1864 this Wm. Marks went off with Wm. Strang's 
 faction, which at first settled in Wisconsin, and later in 
 Beaver Island, in Lake Mhichigan. Here Strang's fol- 
 lowers were accused of theft and other crimes, and 
 Strang was killed, and his faction soon broke up. See 
 Saint's Herald, vol. 35, p. 718, and Tulledge's History 
 of Jos. Smith. See also p. 692 of Times and Seasons, 
 vol. v, where the prophet Joseph Smith called Marks a 
 traitor and a Judas in 1843. 
 
 Yet this apostate, and Judas, who had once said that 
 the twelve, headed by Brigham, were the proper persons 
 to lead the church, was one of the chief men in reorganiz- 
 ing the church, and ordaining young Joseph in 1860! 
 
 Zenas H. Gurley had been a president in Strang's fac- 
 tion. See the Life of Jos. Smith, Josephite ed. p. 595, 
 
THE TRUE MORMON CHURCH IN UTAH. 69 
 
 where Gurley admits that the apostles ordained by Wm. 
 Smith were without authority, because it was a faction. 
 We ask Mr. Gurley what then becomes of his authority 
 to ordain young Joseph ? How can the lesser ordain the 
 greater? How can a man with no authority confer upon 
 another the highest authority on earth ? How can some- 
 thing come out of nothing? Who gave Gurley the 
 church he presented to young Joseph? Surely it is an 
 axiom that no man can give what he does not himself 
 possess ! 
 
 . As to Briggs, he also was an apostate who had been a 
 follower of Wm. Smith, the brother of the prophet, and 
 nearly all these 150, who attended the Amboy conference, 
 had been followers of some faction, and all were outside 
 of the true Mormon church, which we have proved wen$ 
 with Brigham Young to Utah. 
 
 In the Saint's Herald, vol. 4, No. 10, p. 158 (a 
 Josephite paper), in a report of a conference held at 
 Galland's Grove, Shelby County, Iowa, president of con- 
 ference, John Macintosh, is reported as saying : "When- 
 ever individuals claiming authority under the church as 
 organized by the first Joseph, become members of any 
 faction, they immediately become divested of all au- 
 thority/' 
 
 If so, the whole reorganized church is without au- 
 thority. 
 
 In my discussion with Eld. J. W. Wight, at Kalo, 
 Iowa, November, 1901, I referred to the above. Eld. 
 Wight declared that he was not bound by every individual 
 statement made at their district conference. Afterwards, 
 when I twitted him about Brigham carrying the keys of 
 their kingdom to Utah, Eld. Wight forgot himself, and 
 said : "Would Eld. Crowe have you believe that a man 
 
70 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 still had keys after he had apostatized ? pid Judas still 
 retain his keys after he fell?" 
 
 No, Eld. Wight, of course not. Neither did Marks, 
 Gurley or Briggs after their apostacy. Then where is 
 the R. C. authority? And if young Joseph got his 
 authority thru previous blessings, revelations, etc., why 
 ordain him in 1860? 
 
 But an unanswerable argument against the authority 
 of the R.- C. is based upon the precedent laid down by 
 Smith himself, that the church of Christ had been dis- 
 organized in the early centuries of the Christian era, and 
 hence all authority had left the earth, and that the only 
 way that that authority could be restored was by an 
 opening of the heavens ,as it were, by which Christ and 
 angels, and Peter, James and John and Michael and 
 John the Baptist, and other supposed heavenly occupants, 
 came down to Smith and gave him all the keys or 
 authority necessary to restore the full gospel the true 
 .church or kingdom of God, and to appoint and clothe with 
 divine authority all the officers of this kingdom. See D. 
 C., p. 61, 62, or sec. 26. 
 
 But the R. C. claim is, that the death of Smith, and 
 Brigham's apostacy, again disorganized the church 
 kingdom. 
 
 Then we challenge them to show by what means the 
 church could .again be restored without the opening of 
 heaven again, and the appearance of those heavenly per- 
 sonages again, with the lost keys to earth! 
 
 We here quote from an old ex-Mormon of Council 
 Bluffs, Thos. Pilling, as given the writer, Nov. 28, 1900 : 
 
 "What of the reorganized church?" 
 
 Pilling: "The very name is shallow. The church 
 could not be disorganized. Nearly every member holds 
 some office. If the First Presidency, or quorum of three, 
 
THE TRUE MORMON CHURCH IN UTAH. 71 
 
 were all killed, the twelve being next in authority would 
 take charge till the First Presidency was filled by a vote 
 of the church at the next conference. Or if the twelve 
 were all killed, and no First Presidency, the seventies 
 would come in, till the last seventy was destroyed. To 
 disorganize the church would be impossible till the last 
 member was killed. The lower ones would be lifted up 
 till the last man was gone." 
 
 So we say, with Mr. Pilling, if any one would be a true 
 "Latter Day Saint" he must unite with the U. C. 
 
 Another line of argument that is in favor of the U. C. 
 is found in the prophecies applied to Mormons by both 
 Smith and the Saints, such as Isa. 35 : 'The deserts re- 
 joicing and blossoming;" Micah 4, "The house of the 
 Lord being established in the top of the mountains," etc. 
 See also D. C., pp. 125, 321 and 339, or (sec. 49, par. 5; 
 sec. 108, par. 6; sec. no, par. 19). 
 
 "But before the great day of the Lord shall come, Jacob 
 shall flourish in the wilderness. * * Zion shall flourish 
 upon the hills, and rejoice upon the mountains, and shall 
 be assembled together unto the place I have appointed." 
 
 "In the barren deserts there shall come forth pools 
 of living water ; and the parched ground shall be no 
 longer a thirsty land. 
 
 "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of 
 them that bring glad tidings of good things (polygamy, 
 etc., ed.) ; and that say unto Zion, Behold, thy God 
 reigneth." 
 
 It is easy to see that the above revelations to Smith 
 have not been fulfilled in the R. C. at Lamoni, Iowa ; but 
 may be, to some extent, applied to the U. C. 
 
 But to those who can discern the serpent's lie, Gen. 3 14, 
 and who know that man is wholly mortal ; Gen. 3 119 ; Job 
 4:17; I Cor. 15:44-48, 53; and that immortality is a 
 
72 THE MORMON WATERLOO, 
 
 gift of God thru Jesus Christ; Rom. 2:7; 6:23; i Tim. 
 6:16, etc.; and that the dead are unconscious between 
 death and the resurrection; Ps. 146:4; Eccl. 3rd and 9th 
 chs. ; Isa. 38, etc. ; to such as discern these Bible truths, 
 the whole Mormon authority is proven a delusion. Most 
 of this authority or keys came from the dead, who know 
 nothing. Eccl. 9:5, 6, 10. Peter, James, John, and 
 John the Baptist, a headless man; Adam and the 
 patriarchs, who died, and are now ignorant; Isa. 63:16; 
 and have not yet received the promises ; Hebr. 11:39; a P" 
 peared to Joseph Smith, and gave him his most important 
 keys. D. C, pp. 61, 62. 
 
 Neither can Mormons claim that these worthies have 
 had a resurrection in the past, for that heresy has been 
 already condemned by Paul. 2 Tim. 2:18. No, Smith's 
 keys to the Melchizadek and Aaronic priesthood all came 
 from spooks, or dead men's ghosts ! But Brigham 
 Young either stopped this kingdom of God, or ran off 
 with all the keys to Utah ! "A marvellous thing, and a 
 wonder," sure ; brought about by God talking to Smith 
 thru his hat! 
 
 As to the Aaronic priesthood, probably Smith never 
 read, Hebr. 7:11, 12, 18; 8:13, etc.; 'Tor the priesthood 
 being changed, there is made of necessity a change also 
 of the law. * * For there is verily a disannulling of 
 the commandment going before for the weakness and 
 unprofitableness thereof. 
 
 * * "In that he sayeth a new covenant, he hath 
 made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth 
 old is ready to vanish away." 
 
 The Aaronic priesthood has long ago finished its im- 
 perfect, typical work, and has been superceded by the 
 higher priesthood of Christ the Melchizadek priesthood. 
 The two cannot exist contemporaneously. Hebr. 9:10, 
 
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 ii; 7:12, 18. Having now proven the true Mormon 
 church to be the U. C. and the authority of the whole 
 system to be based upon the devil's lie: "Ye shall not 
 surely die/' and Smith's error on the Aaronic priesthood, 
 we close this chapter. 
 
.CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 BOOK OF MORMON BRIEF OUTLINE OF THIS ROMANCE. 
 
 The Book of Mormon, according to Smith's testimony, 
 is a translation from golden plates, engraven with re- 
 formed Egyptian characters, that Smith first learned 
 about from an angel, on Sept. 21, 1823, and on Sept. 22, 
 1827, the angel is said to have delivered these plates to 
 Smith for translation, which translation was finished and 
 published, and the Mormon church organized in 1830. 
 
 The plates are said to have been hidden in the hill 
 Cumorah, in Ontario County, New York, by Moroni, son 
 of the Nephite prophet Mormon, about 420 A. D., where 
 they remained till Sept. 22, 1823, when an angel showed 
 them to Jos. Smith, Jr. They are said to have con- 
 tained an abridged account of the history of the Laman- 
 ites (Indians) and of the Nephites, who w r ere destroyed 
 about 400 A. D. The plates also contained the gospel 
 and prophecies of this people. 
 
 The record purporting to come from the plates, as 
 found in the Book of Mormon, also tells of a people 
 called Jaredites, who came from the land of Nimrod, 
 after the confusion of tongues, about 2200 B. C, who 
 built barges and brought animals, seeds, etc., to this con- 
 tinent. These Jaredites, like the Kilkenny cats, about 
 600 B. C. fought until they destroyed one another, and 
 the prophet Ether alone was left, and he had no posterity. 
 See B. M. Ether, par. 7, 8 and 9 (pages 531-2-3 Reorg. 
 ed.). 
 
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BOOK OF MORMON BRIEF OUTLINE. 75 
 
 The journey of the Jaredites is supposed to have been 
 from the tower of Babel, northward to the valley of 
 Nimrod, in Babylonia. From there no direction is men- 
 tioned, only that they were guided by the hand of the 
 Lord, crossed many waters (supposed to be waters north 
 of the Mediterranean Sea, as the "Great Sea" is men- 
 tioned). On the shores of this sea they dwelt for four 
 years," built barges, and caught fish, birds and animals, 
 which they put into "eight small barges, the length of a 
 tree/' and sailed from "Moriancumer" (supposed to have 
 been Spain), and in "344 days" landed upon the eastern 
 coast of Central America, about 2200 B. C, as above 
 stated. They destroyed one another about 600 B. C. 
 See B. M., pp. 502-533. 
 
 This expedition is supposed to account for the ruins 
 and other archaeological evidences of an ancient civiliza- 
 tion found upon this continent. 
 
 The book also tells of a second colony that came from 
 Jerusalem shortly after the destruction of the Jaredites 
 (about 600 B. C.), who first came south to the Red Sea, 
 and then traveled southeast in the wilderness of Arabia, 
 bordering on the Red Sea, till they came to where a river 
 emptied into the Red Sea, which they called the River 
 Laman, after one of their brethren. They still traveled 
 southeast, in the borders of the Red Sea, and then nearly 
 eastward. This would land them in Oman, in eastern 
 Arabia. Here they dwelt eight years, and then con- 
 structed a ship, in which they set sail "toward the prom- 
 ised land." The account is vague indeed, but Mormons 
 suppose that they sailed away across the Pacific Ocean, 
 past Australia, and landed on the western shore of South 
 America. (See B. M., pp. 2, 3, 33, 36, 41 and 43.) 
 
 This people called Nephites and Lamanites are said to 
 
76 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 have been descendants of Manasseh, son of Joseph, who 
 was sold into Egypt. B. M., p. 231. The Nephites are 
 said to have all been destroyed by the Lamanites. B. M., 
 p. 494, about 400 A. D. The Lamanites are made the 
 ancesters of our American Indians, pp. 30, 526. 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 THE WITNESSES OF THE PLATES EXAMINED. 
 
 The testimony of the three witnesses, as given in the 
 first part of the Book of Mormon, is as follows : 
 
 "Be it known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues and 
 people, unto whom this work shall come, that we, thru 
 the grace of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 have seen the plates which contain this record, which is a 
 record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites, 
 their brethren, and also of the people of Jared, who came 
 from the tower of which hath been spoken ; and we also 
 know that they have been translated by the gift and 
 power of God, for his voice hath declared it unto us; 
 wherefore we know of a surety, that the work is true. 
 And we also testify that we have seen the engravings 
 which are upon the plates ; and they have been shown 
 unto us by the power of God, and not of man. And we 
 declare with words of soberness, that an angel of God 
 came down from heaven, and he brought and laid before 
 our eyes, that we beheld and saw the plates, and the en- 
 gravings thereon ; and we know that it is by the grace of 
 God, the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, that we beheld 
 and bare record that these things are true; and it is 
 marvelous in our eyes, nevertheless, the voice of the Lord 
 commanded us that we bare record of it ; wherefore to be 
 obdient unto the commandments of God, we bear testi- 
 mony of these things. And we know that if we are faith- 
 ful in Christ, we shall rid our garments of the blood of all 
 men, and be found spotless before the judgment seat of 
 
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78 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 Christ, and shall dwell with him eternally in the heavens. 
 And the honor be to the Father, and to the Son, and to 
 the Holy Ghost, which is one God. Amen. 
 
 OLIVER COWDERY, 
 DAVID WHITMER, 
 MARTIN HARRIS. 
 
 Then follows the testimony of eight witnesses, which is 
 similar, only that Smith is said to have shown them the 
 plates and engravings instead of an angel. Four of these 
 witnesses are Whitmers. Three are of the Smith fam- 
 ily all interested parties and one is Hiram Page. 
 
 When it is remembered that no revelations were to be 
 received by the church, only those given thru Joseph 
 Smith, while he lived and proved faithful (D. C., p. 107, 
 or Sec. 43) ; and that none of these witnesses could read 
 what was on the plates, if they did see them, we see that 
 their testimony is worthless. D. C., pp. 24, 25 and 63. 
 
 They testify to what they did not, and could not, know 
 when they testify that they had seen the plates which con- 
 tained the record of -the Nephites and Lamanites. To 
 know this they must have been able to read what was on 
 the plates, and to have watched these plates during the 
 whole translation by Smith, to see that he used them ; or 
 else they must have compared them accurately with the 
 Book of Mormon after it was printed, to know that the 
 two were identical. This they did not and could not do; 
 hence, their testimony here is null and void. 
 
 As to their testimony that an angel of God came down 
 from heaven and showed them the plates, etc. ; first, they 
 could not know that the angel came from heaven unless 
 they had been there when the angel left. But if the angel 
 simply came from the atmospherical heaven, this is the 
 location of Tartarus (according to the best scholars), and 
 of the fallen angels, and of the prince of the power of the 
 
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 air. Read Eph. 2:2; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6; 2 Cor. n 114, 
 and Matt. 25 141. 
 
 When they testify that this angel was an angel of God, 
 they testify to what they did not know. The Book of 
 Mormon, given by this angel, teaches the devil's lie, and 
 an endless and horrible hell (B. M., p. 146), and other 
 doctrines of devils. i Tim. 4:1; Rev. 16:14. Paul 
 warns us against believing even an angel from heaven that 
 brings a perverted gospel, plainly implying that an angel 
 might sometime do so. Gal. 1 :8. So this testimony is 
 null and void, till the Book of Mormon is wholly recon- 
 ciled with Bible teachings, which never can be done. 
 
 On the following important points let us examine and 
 cross-question the witnesses : 
 
 1. When was this angelic visit? No answer here. 
 
 2. Where did it take place ? No answer. 
 
 3. Did the angel appear to you all three at the same 
 time? No answer here. 
 
 4. Were you in heaven when the angel left there to 
 know that he came from there ? No answer. 
 
 5. How do you know whether it was an angel of God, 
 or Satan transformed into an angel of light, or one of the 
 devil' s angels ? No answer. 
 
 6. Could you read what was on the plates? Answer, 
 No. Only Joseph the prophet could read and translate 
 them (Proof D. C, sec. 9, or pp. 24, 25, and sec. 27, par. 
 2, or p. 63). 
 
 7. Then how could you testify that you knew that the 
 plates contained a record of the Nephites, Lamanites, and 
 Jaredites? And how could you testify that the Book of 
 Mormon is a true translation from these plates ? As you 
 testify here to what is false, as you did not know whereof 
 you affirm, and could not know it, your testimony is null 
 and void. Also your testimony to the "voice of God/' 
 
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 "the grace of God/' etc., has no weight with Gentiles, and 
 your whole testimony must be thrown out of court, as it 
 is too disconnected, indefinite and obviously false to stand 
 before any intelligent and unbiased civil court. 
 
 We will now examine the witnesses as to their reliabil- 
 ity, truthfulness and reputation for veracity and honesty. 
 Already in Chapter III we have given extracts from the 
 testimony of 64 neighbors of the Smith family (and the 
 book quoted from gives 75 names), who affirm that the 
 Smiths were intemperate, profane, untruthful, destitute 
 of moral character, and not to be believed under oath, etc. 
 Mormonism Exposed, pp. 383-411. 
 
 As to Oliver Cowdery, he was born in 1805. Ordained 
 to the Melchizadek priesthood by John the Baptist and 
 Peter, James and John, 1830. (D. C., p. 62, or sec. 26, 
 par. 2.) Fell away from the church in 1838. Was tried 
 and expelled for cause. In 1848 returned to the church, 
 joining the Utah body. "Died in 1850 (according to 
 Beadle's History) a miserable drunkard." 
 
 David Whitmer was born 1805. He was dissatisfied 
 and negligent and expelled from the church in 1838, and 
 never reunited with it. It was rumored that he had 
 denied his testimony, -but he publicly denied this in the 
 Richmond Conservator, March 25, 1881. 
 
 Martin Harris, the other witness, was born in 1783. 
 He furnished the money for the publishing of the Book 
 of Mormon. He went west with the Utah Saints in 
 1870. But he died apart from the church in 1875. 
 
 That Harris was avaricious and unreliable is proven by 
 several witnesses. But we will just mention two. 
 
 On pp. 398, 399 of Mormonism Exposed, by Wm. 
 Kirby, we have a testimony from Abagail Harris, wife 
 of Martin Harris' brother, that she was both an eye and 
 ear witness to this statement, made in her house, when 
 
WITNESS OF THE PLATES EXAMINED. 81 
 
 Harris and his wife were visiting them. His wife said 
 that she wished Martin would leave the Mormonites, as 
 she believed it was all false and a delusion. To which 
 Martin Harris replied : "What if it is a lie? If you will 
 let me alone I will make money out of it." 
 
 As a second witness to the character of Harris we will 
 call upon the stand what purports to be God's words thru 
 Joseph Smith. (See D. C, pp. 6, 7, 8, or sec. 2, par. 5, 
 and sec. 3, par. i.) 
 
 Harris had written 116 pages of pretended translated 
 matter for Smith, but had not yet seen the plates. Harris 
 was worrying Smith to see the plates, and Smith pacified 
 him by revelations. Harris was allowed to take what he 
 had written for Smith to his home. He carelessly left 
 the key in the drawer where he kept the MSS. and Mrs. 
 Harris took them, to see if Smith could reproduce them. 
 But Smith got revelations to let them go, and write a 
 more particular account from the plates of Nephi. In 
 these pretended revelations we have the following state- 
 ments : 
 
 "Thou deliveredst up that which was sacred, into the 
 hands of a wicked man (Harris), who has set at nought 
 the counsels of God, and has broken the most sacred 
 promises, which were made before God/' etc. "that you 
 may conquer Satan, and that you may escape the hands 
 of the servants of Satan (Harris and wife), that do up- 
 hold his work. Behold they have sought to destroy thee ; 
 yea, even the man in whom you have trusted has sought 
 to destroy you. * * The devil has sought to lay a cun- 
 ning plan that he may destroy this work, for he has put 
 it into their hearts (Harris and wife) to do this, that by 
 lying they may say that they have caught you in the words 
 which you have pretended to translate." 
 
 Hence, according to what purports to come from God 
 
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 I 
 
 thru Jos. Smith, this chief witness to seeing the plates by 
 
 an angel was a wicked man, a servant of Satan, and a 
 
 liar, who had broken the most sacred promises before God, 
 
 etc. Certainly, then, his testimony to seeing the plates 
 
 and the angel is weighty! 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 THE PLATES NEVER OCULARLY SEEN OR USED. 
 
 On p. 389 of "Mormonism Exposed" we have, first, 
 from Peter Ingersoll, an affirmation in reference to the 
 alleged book of plates, that Smith had told him that he 
 had no such book, and that he believed there never was 
 such a book. 
 
 Also on p. 391, Willard Chase testifies that Smith had 
 told one of his neighbors that he had no such book, but 
 had told the story to deceive the d d fool (meaning 
 Chase), to get him to make him a chest. 
 
 Next, that Smith never used the plates if he had them, 
 we quote from his wife, Emma Smith, as testified before 
 one of her sons, and an Elder Kelly, of the R. C. (See 
 "From Palmyra to Independence/' p. 400.) 
 
 "Your father sat with his face in his hat and the stone 
 in it, dictating hour after hour. He had neither manu- 
 script nor book to read from. The plates lay on the table, 
 wrapped in a linen tablecloth. I had once felt them. 
 They seemed pliable, and rustled with a metallic sound. 
 Without either seeing the manuscript, or having any por- 
 tion of it read to him, he would begin after meals where 
 he left off and dictate to me hour after hour." 
 
 This testimony proves that Smith never used what pur- 
 ported to be plates, wrapped in the tablecloth, or Emma 
 would have seen them when Smith was transferring them 
 to his hat. There was nothing used but the stone and 
 the hat. Her testimony that there were plates in the 
 tablecloth has no weight, shice she had never seen them, 
 
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84 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 only claiming to have felt them thru the tablecloth. 
 Hence, if Smith had anything on plates he never used the 
 plates, but got the whole book out of the stone in his hat. 
 Hence arose the expression, "He's talking thru his hat." 
 
 That the witnesses never saw these plates, in an ocular 
 sense, we will proceed to prove from Smith's purported 
 revelations, at the time of writing the Book of Mormon. 
 
 We learn from D. C, pp. 5-14, or sec. 2-5, that about 
 the time that Mrs. Harris stole the 116 pages of matter, 
 written by Harris for Smith, that Harris must have 
 threatened Smith's life if he would not show him the 
 plates ("y ea > even the man in whom you have trusted has 
 sought to destroy you," etc.), and now Smith gets another 
 revelation, March, 1829, from which we copy a few ex- 
 tracts. See D. C, pp. 14-18. 
 
 "Behold, I say unto you, that as my servant, Martin 
 Harris, has desired a witness at my hand, that you, my 
 servant Joseph have got the plates, of which you have 
 testified and borne witness that you have received of me ; 
 
 * * * and you (Joseph Smith) have a gift to translate 
 the plates, and I have commanded you that you should 
 pretend to no other gift until my purpose is fulfilled in 
 this; for I will grant unto you no other gift until it is 
 finished. 
 
 "Verily I say unto you, that woe shall come unto the 
 inhabitants of the earth if they will not hearken unto my 
 words (thru Smith) ; for hereafter you shall be ordained, 
 and go forth, and deliver my words unto the children of 
 men. Behold, if they will not believe my words (thru 
 Smith), they would not believe you, my servant Joseph, 
 if it were possible that you could show them all these 
 things which I have committed unto you (the plates). 
 
 * * And I, the Lord, command him, my servant, Mar- 
 tin Harris, that he shall say no more unto them concern- 
 
PLATES NEVER OCULARLY SEEN OR USED. 85 
 
 ing these things, except he shall say, I have seen them, 
 and they have been shown unto me by the power of God 
 (see identical words in testimony of three witnesses), and 
 these are the words he shall say; but if he deny this he 
 will break the covenant which he has before covenanted 
 with me (probably thru Smith), and behold he is con- 
 demned. And now, except he humble himself, and 
 acknowledge unto me the things that he has done that are 
 wrong, and covenant with me that he will keep my com- 
 mandments (as given thru Smith), and exercise faith in 
 me (without sight), behold I say unto him, he shall have 
 no such views (of the plates) ; for I will grant unto him 
 no views of the things of which I have spoken. And if 
 this be the case, I command you, my servant Joseph, that 
 you shall say unto him, that he shall do no more, nor 
 trouble me any more concerning this matter." (Hence 
 lose the money he had invested in the book, doubtless.) 
 
 How plain a case of bulldozing is this so-called revela- 
 tion ! The strongest testimony that Harris is to receive 
 is the alleged word of God thru Smith that he has plates. 
 If Harris will not believe this, before seeing any plates, he 
 would not believe if he saw them. He must exercise 
 faith in the words of God thru Smith, or he never shall 
 see the plates, and do no more in the matter, nor trouble 
 Smith any more. He must say no more about wanting 
 to see plates, only that he has seen them, and if he will 
 not keep this command to say that he has seen them be- 
 fore seeing them he has broken a previous covenant, and 
 never shall have any such views ! So Harris, rather than 
 lose the money invested in the book, testified that he had 
 seen them, for we have already proven him avaricious, 
 wicked, a servant of Satan and a liar. Yet it did not re- 
 quire much searing of the conscience to say: "I have 
 
86 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 seen them by the power of God" after the following ex- 
 planation to Cowdery : 
 
 Cowdery had also desired to see the plates from which 
 he had written so much for Smith without having seen 
 them, so as usual Smith gets a revelation for Cowdery. 
 See D. C, pp. 23, 24, 25, or sec. 8 and 9. 
 
 "Oliver Cowdery, verily, verily, I say unto you, that 
 assuredly as the Lord liveth even so sure shall you re- 
 ceive a knowledge of whatsoever things you shall ask in 
 faith, with an honest heart, believing that you shall re- 
 ceive a knowledge concerning the engraving of old 
 records (on the plates), which are ancient, which con- 
 tain those parts of my scripture of which have been 
 spoken, by the manifestation of my spirit ; yea, behold, I 
 will tell you in your mind and in your heart by the Holy 
 Ghost, which shall come upon you, and shall dwell in 
 your heart." 
 
 "Behold this is the spirit of revelation, etc., * * and, 
 therefore, whatsoever you shall ask me to tell you (about 
 plates, etc.), by that means (in your mind and heart by 
 the Holy Ghost), that will I grant unto you, and you shall 
 have knowledge concerning it ; remember that without 
 faith (in God's words thru Smith) you can do nothing. 
 Therefore, ask in faith. Trifle not with these things ; do 
 not ask for that which you ought not (remember Cowdery 
 had been asking to see with his eyes the plates) ; ask that 
 you may know the mysteries of God, and that you may 
 translate, and receive knowledge from all those ancient 
 records and according to your faith shall it be done 
 unto you ." 
 
 All this shows that Cowdery never saw the plates 
 ocularly, or with any of the five senses, but simply saw 
 them in his mind and heart by the Holy Ghost and faith. 
 So it was doubtless "by this means" that Harris could 
 
PLATES NEVER OCULARLY SEEN OR USED. 87 
 
 also testify that he had seen the plates with the eyes of 
 his mind, while his natural eyes never beheld them ; and 
 personally, I am inclined to the belief that evil spirits had 
 something to do with deluding all of these men, that 
 a strong delusion might come to the world, thru a dark 
 room behind a blanket, and a dark hat smile who will. 
 
 But we see, from the above, that Cowdery had a 
 promise to translate, if he asked God in faith. It seems, 
 from the revelations, that he honestly did so, but God 
 gave him no words, so he failed ; so Smith gets another 
 revelation for Cowdery, which reveals Smith's own 
 method of 'translation nicely, as follows: (D. C, pp. 24, 
 25, or sec. 9.) 
 
 "Behold, you have not understood. You have sup- 
 posed that I would give it unto you, when you took no 
 thought, save it were to ask me ; but, behold, I say unto 
 you, that you must study it out in your mind ; then you 
 must ask me if it be right, and if it is right, I will cause 
 that your bosom shall burn within you ; therefore, you 
 shall feel that it is right ; but if it be not right, you shall 
 have no such feelings, but you shall have a stupor of thot 
 that shall cause you to forget the thing which is wrong; 
 therefore, you cannot write that which is sacred save it be 
 given you from me. 
 
 "Now, if you had known this (like Smith did) you 
 could have translated ; nevertheless it is not expedient that 
 you should translate now," etc. Par. 2, "Behold, the work 
 which you are called to do is to write for my servant 
 Joseph." 
 
 So Smith here reveals his own way of translating, 
 which shows that no plates were used, for he "studied it 
 out in his mind," just as every novelist and romancer 
 does. As to the burning in the bosom and stupor of 
 thot, these come naturally, at times, to every writer 
 
88 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 in proportion to his interest or lack of interest in his 
 theme. Or, if miraculous, why should God not inspire 
 Cowdery right at first, and thus save waste of time, and 
 the necessity of a miracle? Who cannot see thru the 
 scheming and fraud of these purported revelations ? Noth- 
 ing is given to satisfy the natural senses of the witnesses. 
 Everything is to be seen in their mind and heart by the 
 Holy Ghost! Hundreds of religious fanatics are to-day 
 suffering under similar delusions which they attribute to 
 the Holy Ghost. "To the law, and to the testimony, if 
 they speak not according to this, it is because there is no 
 light in them." Isa. 8 :2O. 
 
 On pp. 32, 33, or sec. 15, D. C., we have a revelation to 
 Cowdery, Harris and Whitmer, that they shall all see 
 the plates only by faith hence not ocularly. To save 
 space we will omit more comments on the plates and wit- 
 nesses, as the reader by seeing the gist of the matter 
 here can form his own conclusions and add his own com- 
 ments. 
 
 In reference to a stone and manuscript found recently 
 near Dongola, 111., by Marshall Penrod, we give a few 
 extracts from a correspondence between Mr. Penrod and 
 A. J. Eychaner, of Gladbrook, Iowa, 1901. The ques- 
 tions by Eld. Eychaner were answered by Mr. Penrod as 
 follows : 
 
 Where and by whom found? 
 
 Ans. By Marshall Penrod, Nov. 23, 1900. 
 
 What was the size of the stone? 
 
 Ans. Length, 3^ inches. Width, 3 inches. Thick- 
 ness, i^ inches at center, but thinner toward the edges, 
 with a hole in one end plugged up by a cedar plug. 
 
 Was there any writing on the outside of the stone ? 
 
 Ans. The writing on the outside of the stone was cut 
 into the stone, and filled with gold, in English letters: 
 
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 "This stone contains the Book of Mormon. 1842." 
 Also several hieroglyphics. 
 
 What was found in the hole in the stone? 
 
 Ans. Two single sheets of paper, 7x10 inches, writ- 
 ten only on one side, as follows : 
 
 'The Religion of the Latter Day Saints." Then fol- 
 lows the hieroglyphics. After these characters is the fol- 
 lowing : 
 
 "Being driven from place to place by the enemies of 
 our faith, I place this original manuscript in this tablet of 
 stone, knowing full well that it will be found in time to 
 come. Hoping the finder will place the same in the hands 
 of the church, I place this tablet beneath this oak, in the 
 year 1842. 
 
 "I am, your obedient servant, 
 
 "JOSEPH SMITH/' 
 
 Mr. Penrod adds that elders from the Mormon church 
 of Salt Lake have examined the find and pronounce it 
 genuine. 
 
 Of this find we would say : First That if the Book of 
 Mormon was taken from this "original manuscript/' then 
 it was not taken from gold plates. 
 
 Second The Book of Mormon, containing over 500 
 pages, could not be taken from two pages of hiero- 
 glyphics. 
 
 Third If this find is genuine, and the stone only con- 
 tained a portion of the original manuscripts of the Book 
 of Mormon, then Smith falsified when he said it con- 
 tained the Book of Mormon. No one buying the Book 
 of Mormon would be satisfied to receive two pages of it 
 for his money. 
 
 Fourth As the find is probably authentic, it simply 
 confirms the testimony of Willard Chase and other neigh- 
 
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 bors of Smith's, that Joe Smith told many false and con- 
 flicting stories about those plates, none of which can be 
 depended upon. 
 
 As to the origin of the Book of Mormon, our opinion 
 is that it originated with Smith, assisted by Cowdery, and 
 probably the inspiration of fallen angels, "seducing spirits 
 and doctrines of devils/' whom Paul warned us might 
 bring us a perverted gospel. Gal. i :8, 9. 
 
 The theory of the Spaulding manuscript is well known, 
 and would require too much space here; and as it would 
 only account for a portion of the historical part of the 
 Book of Mormon anyway, we omit it, although we think 
 it probable that Smith got ideas from it. 
 
CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 THE JOURNEY OF THE JAREDITES TO AMERICA. 
 
 We will now notice some features of the Jaredite ex- 
 pedition already referred to in Chapter XIII. This rec- 
 ord is found in the Book of Ether, pp. 500-533 B. M. 
 
 About 2200 B. C. it is supposed they came from Baby- 
 lonia to the western coast of Spain, from whence they 
 were driven by the wind, in barges they had constructed, 
 to the eastern coast of Central America. This would be 
 a distance of about 5,000 miles. The record says that 
 there were eight barges, small and light, about the length 
 of a tree. If measured by the trees of Spain they would 
 not be very large. Yet what was brot to America 
 in these barges is supposed by Mormons to account for 
 the whole flora and fauna of America! It says (p. 502) 
 that Jared and his brother "did gather together" their 
 flocks, both male and female, of every kind, and also seed 
 of the earth of every kind and the families of 
 Jared's brother (hence he was a polygamist), and 
 the friends of Jared and their families ; and they did lay 
 snares and catch fowl of the air, and they did prepare a 
 vessel in which they did carry with them the fish of the 
 waters ; and they did carry with them deseret, which by 
 interpretation is honey bee ; and they did carry with them 
 swarms of bees, and all manner of that which was upon 
 the face of the land, seeds of every kind." 
 
 After being in America for some time, it says (p. 517), 
 that they "had all manner of cattle, of oxen, and cows, and 
 of sheep, and of swine, and of goats, and also many other 
 
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92 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 manner of animals which were useful for the food of 
 man ; and they also had horses, and asses, and there were 
 elephants, and cureloms, and cumcns; all of which were 
 useful unto man, and more especially the cureloms and 
 cumons." 
 
 In my discussion with Eld. Wight, he suggested that 
 the cureloms and cumons might have been those pre- 
 historic monsters, like the mastodon, etc. We could not 
 help wondering of what especial use they could be to 
 man, and how many pairs of them could get into a small, 
 light barge, about the length of a tree ! P. 504 B. M. 
 
 On p. 510 we learn that Jared and his brother did pre- 
 pare food for the flocks, herds and every beast they took 
 unto them. This would also occupy considerable room 
 in the barges, as they were 344 days or almost a year, 
 upon the ocean, before reaching the promised land. P. 
 310 B. M. 
 
 As a result of this deportation of animals from Eu- 
 rope, when the Nephites landed on America, about 600 
 B. C., they found upon this continent, "beasts of the 
 forest of every kind, both the cow and the ox, and the 
 ass, and the horse, and the goat, and the wild goat, and 
 all manner of wild animals, which were for the use of 
 man." P. 43, par. 45, B. M. 
 
 The barges that brot over all these animals, seeds, 
 provisions, etc., were so constructed that some of the 
 Jaredites would have to stay with the animals in each 
 barge to supply air to them. (See p. 504, par. 6, B. M.) 
 "And the Lord said unto the brother of Jared, 'Behold, 
 thou shalt make a hole in the top thereof, and a hole in 
 the bottom thereof (of the barges) ; and when thou shalt 
 suffer for air, thou shalt unstop the hole thereof and re- 
 ceive air. And if so be that the water come in upon thee, 
 
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 behold, ye shall stop the hole thereof, that ye perish not 
 in the flood.' " 
 
 Notice that no plug is mentioned. Simply a hole to be 
 unstopped, and stopped up. Maybe old Jared, like the 
 hero of Harlem, stopped it with his finger ; or stood with 
 his foot on the hole in the bottom, and his head against 
 the hole in the top ! But however it was done, it was lucky 
 for the cureloms and cumons that the Lord told the 
 brother of Jared to stop up the hole when the water began 
 to pour into the barge, or he surely would never have 
 guessed as to what to do about it! 
 
 The barges could not have windows, or they would be 
 "dashed to pieces." So the Lord touched eight small 
 stones, so they gave light to the Jaredites. The barges 
 were to be "like a whale in the midst of the sea, while 
 mountain waves dashed upon them." P. 504. * * * 
 "And it came to pass that they were many times buried 
 in the depths of the sea, because of the mountain waves 
 that did break upon them, and also the great and terri- 
 ble tempests which were caused by the fierceness of the 
 wind. And it came to pass that when they were buried 
 in the deep, no water could hurt them, their vessel being 
 tight like a dish on both top and bottom and the wind 
 did never cease to blow them toward the promised land/' 
 P. 5io. 
 
 There is no parallel between these barges, diving like 
 a whale, and Noah's ark, which quietly arose and floated 
 upon the water, with no particular destination. 
 
 Neither is there any force or truth in the shallow argu-v 
 ments of some Mormons, that if Smith wrote this, he 
 wonderfully prophesied of our modern submarine boats. 
 What parallel is there between these dish-like barges, 
 without machinery to propel themselves, and completely at 
 the mercy of the wind and waves, and our great modern 
 
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 submarine boats that dive and propel themselves by 
 nicely adjusted and complex machinery? 
 
 We must pronounce it a clumsy romance, on a par 
 with Mother Goose, or Jack and the Bean Stalk, when 
 we think of Jaredites, horses, elephants, mastodons, 
 swarms of bees, and asses, all in "light barges," diving 
 under the sea, and rolling and dashing during tempests, 
 for about a year, while being driven by the wind toward 
 the "promised land," a distance of about 5,000 miles ! 
 
 Nor does it help the matter to say that the Lord pro- 
 tected the beasts from rolling over one another in this 
 driving and dashing. The Lord does not take the most 
 difficult and absurd way possible to do anything, and then 
 work a miracle to save his creatures, when no miracle is 
 necessary. 
 
 But after all this trouble, the Jaredites divided into 
 two factions, about 600 B. C, led by Shiz and Coriantumr. 
 who gathered together, men, women and children, and 
 fought for many days, sleeping on their swords at night, 
 and rising each morning to resume the slaughter, until 
 the two leaders alone were left, and they destroyed one 
 another. The prophet Ether alone was left on this deso- 
 late continent, and he had no posterity. 
 
CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 THE BOOK OF MORMON OPPOSED TO ZOOLOGY. 
 
 The book of Mormon is proven to be a false record 
 from the standpoint of zoology, because it pretends to 
 account for the animals of America from the theory that 
 they were brot here from Europe by the Jaredites. 
 But in order for this to be true the animals of America 
 must be the same as those of the Old World. We read 
 on p. 43, B. M., that when the Nephites came here they 
 found "all manner of wild animals which were for the 
 use of man." We wonder if they found the kangaroo 
 and other animals peculiar to Australia here? Or are 
 they of no use to man? 
 
 Below we quote from the Inter. Encycl. on the fauna 
 of America as follows : 
 
 "The llama and alpaca are peculiar to South America. 
 The chinchilla is peculiar to Chili, and the bison to North 
 Amierica. The American possums, with a pouch for their 
 young, were objects of great curiosity to the first Euro- 
 peans who visited America." (The Jaredites, I suppose.) 
 "The monkeys of America are altogether different from 
 those of Asia or the rest of the world. There are no apes 
 in the eastern world resembling the chimpanzee or bab- 
 boons of America, and long and prehensile tails 
 are never found on monkeys of the Old World. 
 American monkeys have no cheek pouches like those of 
 the Old World. In the animal kingdom, as in the veg- 
 etable, all seemed new to Europeans. The common hive 
 bees were unknown in America until introduced here 
 
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96 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 from Europe." (And yet the Jaredites had brought 
 swarms of honey bees here 2200 B. C. !) 
 
 "There are numerous birds in America found in no 
 other part of the earth ; as the humming bird, toucan," 
 etc., etc. 
 
 Rattlesnakes, glass snakes, bullfrogs and alligators are 
 entirely peculiar to America. 
 
 And yet the Book of Mormon would account for ani- 
 mals, fowls, and even fish of America, as all coming here 
 from Europe in eight barges, the length of a tree ! 
 
 In reference to the numerous animals and plants of 
 Europe, not found in America, we refer the reader to 
 any encyclopedia. 
 
 Hence the Book or Mormon is false from the stand- 
 point of zoology, for it is certain that the bison was 
 never brot here from Europe, nor many other ani- 
 mals peculiar to this continent. 
 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 THE BOOK OF MORMON OPPOSED TO BOTANY. 
 
 On p. 502, B. M., we read that Jared and his brother 
 did take into their barges "seed of the earth of every 
 kind." The Nephites also brot seeds from Jerusalem 
 to America, as we read in B. M., p. 43 or ch. V., par. 44. 
 
 "And it came to pass that we did till the earth, and 
 we began to plant seeds ; yea, we did put all our seeds into 
 the earth which we had brot from the land of Jeru- 
 salem/' 
 
 Hence we should find the same flora here as in Europe 
 and Asia, if "seeds of the earth of every kind" were 
 brot here by the Jaredites and Nephites. But let us see. 
 see. 
 
 Inter. Encycl. : "The flora and fauna of America are 
 decidedly different from that of the Old World. Even 
 the pines, oaks and willows are not the same as those 
 east of the Atlantic. Many species of cacti are exclu- 
 sively American, though now introduced into the Old 
 World. Fuchias and magnolias, and many beautiful 
 flowers, are peculiar to America, and were later intro- 
 duced into Europe. 
 
 "The pineapple is a native of tropical America. Maize, 
 or Indian corn, the potato and tobacco are indigenous to 
 America." 
 
 The first Spaniards who visited America reported in 
 Spain that they had seen the Indians twisting up leaves, 
 and lighting one end, and then smoking like devils. Wal- 
 
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98 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 ter Raleigh first introduced tobacco into England fron 
 America. Hence these did not come from Europe nor 
 Asia, as the Book of Mormon teaches. Therefore, it is 
 a false record, as proven from a botanical standpoint. 
 
CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 THE BOOK OF MORMON NOT SUSTAINED BY ARCHAEOLOGY. 
 
 The Book of Mormon and L. D. S* try to account for 
 the ruins, and other evidences of an ancient civilization 
 found on the American continent, from this colony of Jar- 
 edites who came here in those barges, about 2200 B. C., 
 and who all perished about 700 to 600 B. C. 
 
 But we will proceed to show that these ruins can all 
 be accounted for from a people who were still alive on 
 this continent when it was discovered by Columbus in 
 1492 A. D. 
 
 In "Lost Atlantis," by Donnelly, on pp. 349, 351 and 
 354, we have the following from other historians and anti- 
 quarians : 
 
 Desire Charney says : "The Toltics were farmers, 
 raised fruits, grains, and wove cotton. Their religion 
 was simple. They made use of the T much (an ancient 
 sign of the cross. Ed.). They were fair, robust and 
 bearded, and some had blue eyes. 
 
 "The Aztecs (who were still here in 1492) had pro- 
 gressed thru three modes of writing: picture, symbolic 
 and phonetic. They had recorded laws, political annals, 
 mythology, chronology and astronomy. They wrote on 
 cotton, skins, cloth, and a composition of silk and gum, 
 and they also made a species of paper, soft and beautiful, 
 from aloe. 
 
 They wrote poetry, cultivated oratory and rhetoric and 
 had theatrical performances. 
 
 Prescott is quoted in the same work : 
 
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 "That they (the Aztecs) should be capable of accu- 
 rately adjusting their festivals by movements of the heav- 
 enly bodies, and fix the true length of the tropical year 
 with a precision unknown to the great philosophers of 
 antiquity, could be the result only of a long series of nice 
 and patient observations, evincing no slight progress in 
 civilization. 
 
 "They had bridges, forts, temples, palaces, and gigan- 
 tic pyramids, all ornamented with wonderful statuary, as 
 the ruins in Central America still testify/' (These are the 
 ruins that Mormons attribute to the Jaredites, who utterly 
 perished B. C. 600!) 
 
 "At Palenque, Central America, we see in the ruins of 
 their ancient buildings, arches resembling those of ancient 
 Greece." 
 
 "Mexico under European rule has never again risen 
 to her former standard of refinement, wealth, prosperity 
 or civilization. 
 
 "Here (in Mexico and Central America) we find in 
 the ruins beautiful vases, and sculpture, and glassware, 
 and porcelain, and bronze, and gold, and silver, and 
 copper, and tin; and metallic candlesticks, and masonry, 
 and bricks, and cement like that of ancient European na- 
 tions." 
 
 Mr. Donnelly adds that Central America and Mexico, 
 in the time of Columbus, enjoyed a higher degree of 
 civilization than did Europe. 
 
 Where then is the Mormon romance that would account 
 for these ruins from a race that became extinct 600 
 B. C. ? Mormons talk of nothing having been written on 
 American archaeology, in English, previous to Smith's 
 time 1830. But all could read of the arts and civiliza- 
 tion of the Toltecs and Aztecs a century before Smith's 
 
BOOK OF MORMON NOT SUSTAINED. 101 
 
 time in many works on these races, and in the history of 
 the Spanish invasion of Central America and Mexico. 
 
 Even in their own book, "A Voice of Warning," U. C. 
 edition, p. 133, Parley Pratt, the author, quotes from 
 P. S. Rafinesque, on the ruins of Otolum, North America, 
 as follows : 
 
 "They were surveyed by Captain Del Rio, in 1727, 
 an account of which was published in English in 1822." 
 
 Then, here is American archaeology, in English, before 
 the Book of Mormon was published. 
 
 These Aztecs could not have been descendants of the 
 Jaredites of Mormonism, for the latter had become ex- 
 tinct about 600 B. C. See B. M. pp. 531-533. 
 
 They could not have come from the Nephites of Mor- 
 monism, for they had become extinct about 400 A. D. 
 See B. M., pp. 49 2 ~495- 
 
 Neither could the Aztecs have come from the Laman- 
 ites of Mormonism, for the Aztecs were quite fair skinned ; 
 but the Lamanites, and all who mixed with them, were 
 cursed with black skin. B. M., pp. 65, 491. 
 
CHAPTER XX. 
 
 THE BOOK OF MORMON OPPOSED TO ETHNOLOGY. 
 
 The Book of Mormon teaches that the Indians of 
 America have all descended from one race of people 
 the second colony that came over to America from Jeru- 
 salem, about 600 B. C. These descended from one Lehi, 
 who was a descendant of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, 
 who came out of Egypt. B. M., p. 231. 
 
 After being in America some time, they divided into 
 two nations, called Nephites and Lamanites, named after 
 two sons of Lehi, who came over to America 600 B. C. 
 But as before stated, the Nephites were all destroyed by 
 the Lamanites, and the Lamanites became the ancestors 
 of our Amrican Indians. If this is true the Indians 
 should be much alike in color, features, language, etc., and 
 must show an Israelitish origin. In color they must be 
 alike, for the Book of Mormon teaches not only that the 
 Lamanites were cursed with a skin of blackness, and be- 
 came a dark and loathsome people, but also that all who 
 mixed with them should receive the same curse a black 
 skin. B. M., pp. 65, 491. But let us see: 
 
 Mr. Donnelly says, in "Lost Atlantis," p. 197: "When 
 science is able to disabuse its mind of the Mortonian 
 theory, that the aborigines of America are all red men, 
 and all belong to one race (as the B. M. teaches), we 
 may hope that the confluence upon the continent of 
 widely differing races, from different countries, may come 
 to be recognized and intelligently studied. There can be 
 
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BOOK OF MORMON OPPOSED TO ETHNOLOGY. 103 
 
 no doubt that red, white, black and yellow men have 
 united to form the original population of America." 
 
 Prichard in his "Researches in Phys. Hist, of Man- 
 kind/' Vol. L, p. 269, pub., 1841, says: 
 
 "It is easy to show that the American races show nearly 
 as great a variety in this respect as the nations of the 
 Old World. There are among them many white races, 
 with a florid complexion ; and also tribes that are black, or 
 of a very dark hue. Their stature, figure and countenance 
 is almost equally diversified." 
 
 John T. Short, in North America of Antiquity, p. 189, 
 says : "The Menominees, sometimes called white Indians, 
 formerly occupied the region bordering on Lake Mich- 
 igan, around Green Bay. Their whiteness early attracted 
 the Jesuit missionaries, and was often commented upon 
 by travelers." 
 
 See foot note, p. 107, Vol. III., U. S. Explor. R. R. 
 Route Union Pacific. 
 
 "Many of the Indians of the Zuni (New Mexico) are 
 white. They have a fair skin, blue eyes, chestnut or 
 auburn hair ; and are quite good-looking. They claim to 
 be full-blooded Zunians, and have no tradition of inter- 
 marriage with the whites of any foreign race." 
 
 Catlin, in "Indians of North America," Vol. L, p. 95, 
 says : "A stranger in a Mandin village is first struck 
 with the different shades of complexion and various colors 
 of hair which he sees in the crowd about him, and is at 
 once disposed to exclaim, These are not Indians/ 
 
 "There are a great many of these people whose com- 
 plexion is as light as half-breeds, and among women par- 
 ticularly there are many whose skins are almost white, 
 with most pleasing symmetry and proportion of features, 
 with hazel, gray and blue eyes, and a mildness of expres- 
 
104 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 sion of modesty of demeanor which rendered them ex- 
 ceedingly beautiful and pleasing." 
 
 Dr. Goodrich, in "Universal Traveler," p. 154, says: 
 "The modern Peruvians, in the warmer regions of Peru, 
 are as fair as the people of the south of Europe." 
 
 Ferdinand Columbus, in describing his father's voyages, 
 describes the inhabitants of San Domingo as fair and 
 beautiful." 
 
 Reader, where then goes the Mormon theory of the 
 Indians having all sprung from Lehi, who was of Israel- 
 itish origin, and later from the descendants of his son 
 Laman, whose posterity were all cursed with a skin of 
 blackness, that was to follow them in all future genera- 
 tions? The intelligent reader can judge. 
 
 We also claim that there is nothing in B. M. to show 
 that any of the posterity of Ephraim (the brother of 
 Manasseh, son of Joseph) ever came over to America, yet 
 Mormons apply the blessing of Ephraim to these Indians, 
 and call the Book of Mormon the "stick of Ephraim"! 
 The "multitude of nations" of Gen. 48:19 was to come 
 from Ephraim, not Manasseh. We have challenged Mor- 
 mons, and they have never met it, to prove from the 
 B. M. that Ephraim's posterity ever come to this conti- 
 nent, or to show from any of Smith's so-called inspired 
 works a plain statement that either an Indian or Smith 
 himself had come from Ephraim. Hence, if their book 
 is a stick at all, it is the stick of Manasseh. See Ezek. 
 37:16-23, applied by Mormons to the joining of B. M. 
 to our New Testament. Also see B. M., p. 231. We will 
 treat these prophecies under their own head later. 
 
 That Smith considered himself a gentile, see Moroni's 
 statement, on page 3 of B. M., where it speaks of the 
 abridged record of the Nephites and Lamanites ; written 
 
BOOK OF MORMON OPPOSED TO ETHNOLOGY. 105 
 
 to the Lamanites, who are a remnant of the house of 
 Isarel * * * hid up unto the Lord, to come forth 
 in due time, by way of Gentile ; the interpretation thereof 
 by the gift of God." 
 
 Who was this Gentile, that claimed to interpret by 
 the gift of God but Joseph Smith? See also B. M., pp. 
 24, 27, 30, 503 and 524. 
 
CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 THE JOURNEY OF THE NEPHITES. 
 
 The trip of the Nephites to America in a ship, about 
 600 B. C., is, if possible, more preposterous than that of 
 the Jaredites 2200 B. C. 
 
 Lehi, a descendant of Manasseh, B. M., p. 231, had 
 dwelt at Jerusalem ; but because of the destruction of the 
 city by Nebuchadnezzar being at hand, the Lord com- 
 manded him to flee into a wilderness. B. M., pp. i, 2. 
 
 So he and his wife and four sons, Laman, Lemuel, Sam 
 and Nephi, fled into the wilderness. We learn from 
 B. M., p. 3, that they first went south of Jerusalem to the 
 Red Sea. They dwelt on the borders of the Red Sea 
 for some time, near a river that emptied into the Red. Sea, 
 which they called the river Laman. B. M., pp. 3, 4. 
 
 Here the Lord told Nephi of a choice land he would 
 bring them to (America). But Nephi was told that he 
 must go back to Jerusalem for some brass plates, or rec- 
 ords of the Jews. B. M., p. 5. .So Nephi and some of 
 his brethren went up to Jerusalem for the record, and 
 they got to the walls of Jerusalem by night. The breth- 
 ren hid while Nephi crept toward the house of Laban, 
 who had charge of them. Laban was lying on the earth 
 drunk, and the spirit told Nephi to slay him, which he 
 did, with Laban's own sword. Then Nephi put on Laban's 
 armor and simulated the voice of Laban, and commiand- 
 ed a servant to give him the plates of brass. The servant, 
 thinking it was Laban, his master, did so. Thus he 
 brought the plates, and also Zaram, the servant, to his 
 father. B. M., pp. 7-11. 
 
 Thus the story opens with murder, deceit and robbery. 
 
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THE JOURNEY OF THE NEPHITES. 107 
 
 From this northern end of the Red Sea, this people we 
 will call Nephites, traveled southeast down along the Red 
 Sea till they came to a place they called Shazar. From 
 here they still kept on in the "same direction" viz., S. E. 
 This would bring them pretty well south in Arabia. From 
 here they travel "nearly eastward" till they got to a land 
 they called Bountiful. P. 36. This would be Oman, in 
 eastern Arabia, which borders on the Arabian Sea. Here 
 they constructed a ship. Pp. 36, 37. 
 
 After gathering fruit, meat, seeds, honey, etc., they 
 went down into the ship, with their waves and families, 
 and all the book tells us as to the direction they took is 
 that "they put forth into the sea, and were driven forth 
 before the wind towards the promised land." P. 41. "And 
 after we had sailed for the space of many days, we did 
 arrive to the promised land." P. 43. 
 
 Now, as they sailed from the Arabian Sea, they could 
 not have sailed westward "toward the promised land," as 
 the continent of Africa lay between them and America. 
 So, as they had been traveling eastward," Mormons have 
 concluded that they sailed in this "same direction," across 
 Pacific Ocean, to the "promised land," and landed on the 
 western coast of South America! 
 
 This was about the longest route they could have taken 
 to America. About two-thirds around the earth, or by 
 sailing vessel from 16,000 to 20,000 miles! 
 
 Would the Lord have sent a ship 16,000 miles or more 
 when he could have reached America in 1,632 miles, from 
 Africa to South America ; or when ships could reach 
 America across Behring Strait, from China to Alaska, by 
 sailing about fifty miles ? We will now present evidences 
 that the Indians have come from Mongolians, Africans, 
 Polynesians, and a mixed race from lost Atlantis, for 
 which we have already given some evidence. 
 
CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 FROM WHENCE CAME THE INDIANS. 
 
 See Hill's Practical Encycl. "Some ethnologists teach 
 that the Indians are a mixture of Mongolian, Polynesian 
 and Caucasian. They have long, straight black hair, 
 scanty beard, receding forehead, and dull, sleepy eyes; 
 full, compressed lips, face broad across the cheeks facial 
 angle 75 degrees, 5 degrees less than the average Euro- 
 pean. Complexion varies from dark brown to almost 
 white a somewhat reddish tint is common. They believe 
 in the transmigration of souls through animals. (Like 
 the Egyptians Ed.) They have no idea that acts of this 
 life have any connection with future happiness." 
 
 The reader will see that nearly every point in this de- 
 scription is opposed to the Indian having an Israelitish 
 origin, as the B. M. teaches. The "happy hunting 
 ground" of the Indians shows the relation of his faith 
 to the "Elysian fields of Delight" of heathen nations. 
 
 Next we give some extracts from Chambers' Encycl. 
 on Indians : 
 
 "Professor Norkensjold traced in the Tchuktchis In- 
 dians of northeast Siberia traces of the Mongols of Asia, 
 and the Eskimos and American Indians. 
 
 "The theory that has the balance of repute in its favor 
 is that the American Indians are derived from the Mon- 
 gols and Polynese, who ferried or drifted across Behring 
 Strait." 
 
 Our readers will also remember reading in several 
 newspapers recently, when our soldiers were in Peking, 
 
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FROM WHENCE CAME THE INDIANS. 109 
 
 that they were shown in official records, where the Chinese 
 had visited America thousands of years before the time of 
 Columbus. 
 
 In the Eclectic School History of U. S., p. 10, we read: 
 
 "Whence came the early inhabitants of America? 
 * * * A tradition still preserved in China says that 
 a company of sailors, driven off the shore (of China) by 
 westerly winds, sailed many weeks until they came to a 
 great continent, where grew the aloe and other plants, 
 strange to them, but which we recognize as natives of 
 Mexico." 
 
 So the preponderance of evidence favors the Indian 
 being a mixture of Mongolians, Polynesians, Egyptians 
 and Africans, rather than being from one Israelitish fam- 
 ily, as the Book of Mormon teaches. 
 
 On the language of the Indian, Chambers' Encycl. says 
 that the Indian language is not isolating or monosyllabic, 
 like the Chinese and European languages, but is incor- 
 porative ; a sentence often being represented by a seven- 
 teen-syllabled word. "The language is generally different 
 from all Asiatic languages (which would include both 
 the Chinese and Hebrew Ed.) ; it is not like the Semitic 
 or Aryan. This characteristic applied to all the 760 in- 
 extricably intermixed Indian tongues a product wholly 
 of America. Dr. Latham and other ethnologists ra'nk 
 the Indians as Mongolidai, who in the remote past came 
 to America. 
 
 "There are now about 267,900 Indians in America, as 
 many as in the time of Columbus 1492." 
 
 This testimony would show the Indian language not 
 wholly like the Chinese; neither is it like the Hebrew. 
 But the 760 dialects, and the various colors and features, 
 confirm our position that the Indians come from many 
 races, probably all Gentile nations. 
 
CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 LOST ATLANTIS. 
 
 But from whence came the Toltecs, Aztecs and other 
 fair-skinned Indians? We believe that the lost conti- 
 nent Atlantis solves this problem. This large island, 
 with its surrounding islands, formed almost a complete 
 bridge, from Africa to South America, in the remote 
 past; so that people from southern Europe, Egypt and 
 other parts of Africa could cross over to South America 
 with but little sailing. 
 
 See Inter. Encycl. 
 
 "Atlantis A vast island, of ancient tradition, lying in 
 the Atlantic Ocean, described by Plato and an Egyptian 
 priest as picturesque and beautiful, with a great people 
 upon it, and great civilization, which was submerged in 
 the ocean by an earthquake. The Canary Islands are sup- 
 posed to be the remains of this ancient island. This is 
 supposed to have been that great unnamed island spoken 
 of by Pliny, Diodorus and Arnobius." 
 
 We will now give some extracts from "Atlantis/' by 
 Donnelly : 
 
 "Solon, the great law-giver of Greece, who lived about 
 600 B. C, had went on a visit from Athens to Egypt. 
 While there he talked with an Egyptian priest, Critias 
 who gave him a history of Atlantis and its people. (This 
 visit of Solon to Egypt is also recorded by Plutarch.) 
 
 "Solon commenced a history of Atlantis, but never 
 finished it. Plato who lived 400 B. C. added some 
 
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LOST ATLANTIS. ill 
 
 historical facts he had gathered to it, but died before he 
 finished it. Critias had told Solon much about Atlantis, 
 of its mighty people, its great civilization, and advance- 
 ment in working metals, its art, sculpture, buildings, etc. 
 How they had conquered most of western Europe and 
 Asia, and also parts of the 'opposite continent' now, 
 Peru, Central America and along the Mississippi and 
 also attempted to conquer Egypt and Greece; but Greece 
 broke her power, and soon after the island sunk in one 
 night. 
 
 "Plato tells of hot springs and cold springs of Atlantis, 
 such as still abound in the Azores surviving fragments 
 of this once vast continent. 
 
 "This island formed a way between the pillars of Her- 
 cules and the opposite continent America. . 
 
 "Its connecting ridges bound together Brazil and Af- 
 rica, and barriers of rock and mud still make some of 
 those portions of the Atlantic Ocean impassible to ships. 
 
 "Plato speaks (400 B. C.) of 'a passage from Atlantis, 
 west to the opposite continent.' ' So he or Solon knew of 
 America in their time. 
 
 "Atlantis had fruits, flowers, hot springs, fragrant 
 trees, beautiful buildings, and architecture, and carvings, 
 and statues, and working in metals, and reaping and gath- 
 ering twice a year or oftener. Great bridges, writing and 
 arts, long before Christ, and working in gold and ore. 
 
 "Their great king, Posedon, had ten sons. Each of 
 these ten sons were absolute sovereigns in his part of the 
 island. They had power to pardon or execute ; but all 
 followed Posedon's regulations, and consulted one an- 
 other before war. (Much like our Indians.) 
 
 "The worship of Atlantis was sun and hero worship, 
 and these kings were deified after death. Posedon was 
 worshipped as Neptune, or god of the sea, and was pic- 
 
ii2 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 tured as holding a three-pronged scepter in a war chariot 
 drawn by horses. 
 
 "Among the animals of Atlantis were horses, cows, 
 sheep, goats, hogs, etc. ; and among grains were wheat, 
 rye, oats, barley, etc. 
 
 "The cities were lighted by a red light from orichalcum, 
 next to gold, known only now in name. 
 
 "This isle formed the foundation of the mythological 
 'Elysian fields of delight/ 'happy hunting ground/ etc., 
 of the heathen poets. 
 
 "Numerous ancient historians refer to Atlantis, such 
 as Plato, Solon, Egyptian priests, Proclus, Aelian, Timog- 
 enes, the Gauls, Marcellus, Homer, Plutarch and Herodo- 
 tus the oldest of historians." 
 
 Says Donnelly : "The Atlantic Ocean was named after 
 this island, and Atlanta was named after Atlas, this great 
 king's oldest son. We have the Atlas Mountains on the 
 western coast of Africa, nearest to this island, and when 
 Columbus discovered America there was a city of Atlan 
 on the coast of Darien, and a race of people in Central 
 America called Aztecs, and another race in Africa near 
 the Atlas Mountains called Atlantes." 
 
 How comes it that we have Atlas Mountains and an 
 Atlantes race in Africa, and a village Atlan and an Aztec 
 race in America if there had never been an isle Atlantis 
 lying between ? 
 
 On p. 117 "Atlantis" it says: "The Okanagaus In- 
 dians have a tradition that long ago, when the sun was 
 no bigger than a star, their medicine woman, Scomalt, 
 ruled over what appears to have been a lost island. Peace 
 on the island was destroyed by war, and Scomalt was 
 so angry that she rose up in wrath and drove the inhab- 
 itants to one end of the island, and broke off the piece 
 of land they stood upon, and pushed it into the sea, and 
 
LOST ATLANTIS. 113 
 
 all perished upon it but two, who escaped by canoe, and 
 from these the Okanagaus descended." 
 
 In "Atlantis," p. 114, we read of a tradition of the Iowa 
 Indians, that all the tribes formerly dwelt on a large 
 island, across a large water toward the sunrising. That 
 they crossed the water by sw r imrning and in canoes." 
 
 Ancient history, and recent explorations, establish be- 
 yond a doubt that such an island once existed, which suf- 
 ficiently accounts for Aztecs and white Indians, and all the 
 evidences of an ancient civilization on the American con- 
 tinent. And yet Mormons ask for history before Smith's 
 time that accounts for these ruins ! 
 
 We leave the reader to judge as to which view is most 
 reasonable and best established by modern scholarship ; 
 that the Indians are from one race, and Israelitish, and 
 made journeys of from 5,000 to 20,000 miles in barges 
 and ships to America, or our position that they are a mix- 
 ture of many races, some coming from China across 
 Behring Strait, some from Africa to South America, and 
 some from the lost isle, Atlantis, to Central America. 
 
CHAPTER XXIV. 
 
 ANGLO-ISRAEL. 
 
 While there is a vague intimation in B. M., p. 59^ that 
 Smith is an Israelite from the "fruit of Lehi's loins,'' who 
 came from Manasseh, son of Joseph, of Egypt, yet it is 
 not clearly stated, and conflicts with other places, which 
 make Smith a gentile, as we have given reference in the 
 last of Chapter XX. See preface to B. M. and pp. 24, 27, 
 30, 503 and 524. 
 
 The above pages teach not only that Smith was a gen- 
 tile, but that the American people, who "mocked at the 
 B. M.," were gentiles. We give two quotations from 
 pp. 24 and 30, B. M. : 
 
 "And then shall the fullness of the gospel (the B. M.) 
 come unto the Gentiles (American people), and from the 
 Gentiles unto the remnant of our seed (the Indians), and 
 at that day shall the remnant of our seed (Indians) know 
 that they are of the house of Israel, and that they are the 
 covenant people of the Lord ; and then shall they know 
 and come to a knowledge of their forefathers, and also to 
 a knowledge of their Redeemer." 
 
 "And it came to pass that I beheld many multitudes of 
 Gentiles upon the land of promise (America), and I be- 
 held the wrath of the Lord that it was upon the seed o 
 my brethren (the Indians), and they were scattered before 
 the Gentiles (Anglo-Saxons and Spanish), and were 
 smitten. And I beheld the Spirit of the Lord, that it was 
 upon the Gentiles ; and they did prosper, and obtain the 
 land for their inheritance; and I beheld that they were 
 
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ANGLO-ISRAEL. 115 
 
 white, and exceedingly fair and beautiful, like unto my 
 people (the Nephites), before they were slain." 
 
 These quotations from the B. M. are sufficient to show 
 that Joseph Smith regarded the Indians as Israelites, and 
 Anglo-Saxons and other white races who settled America 
 to be Gentiles. And if these were Gentiles, they could not 
 be of Israelitish origin; and as Smith himself sprung 
 from these same Anglo-Saxons, he must also have been 
 a Gentile. 
 
 Mormons try to claim that it was revealed to Smith 
 afterwards that he was an Ephraimite. See D. C., pp. 
 166, 269, 321 and 322. The first says: 'The rebellious 
 are not of the blood of Ephraim, wherefore they shall be 
 plucked out." 
 
 There is nothing definite here as to what people are 
 from Ephraim. 
 
 In the other reference it says : "In the barren deserts 
 there shall come forth pools of living water, and the 
 parched land shall no longer be a thirsty land. And they 
 shall bring forth their rich treasures unto the children 
 of Ephraim, my servants, * * * and then shall they 
 fall down and be crowned with glory, even in Zion, by 
 the hands of the servants of the Lord, even the children 
 of Ephraim/' 
 
 Here again only the U. C. could claim to be the subjects 
 of this revelation. It could have no application to the 
 R. C. But it does not help them out, either, seeing that 
 other parts of the B. M. makes all Anglo-Saxons Gentiles. 
 It simply sets the B. M. against itself. 
 
 /n D. C., p. 269, we read that Mormons are "the chil- 
 dren of Israel, and of the seed of Abraham." But as 
 they are a mixture of many nations, this could only mean 
 in a spiritual sense, as in Gal. 3:7, 26-29, where all those 
 
ii6 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 baptized into Christ are made Abraham's seed by baptis- 
 mal adoption and faith. Hence this text proves nothing 
 for natural descent. 
 
 We now give a few of the hundreds of arguments that 
 could be produced to show that instead of the Indians 
 being from the ten lost tribes, that Anglo-Saxons are 
 those tribes. This truth alone is enough to utterly under- 
 mine the claims that the B. M. is a true record, and 
 worthy of the confidence of Christian people. Let the 
 reader notice how none of these prophecies will fit the 
 Indian, but all fit the Anglo-Saxon race. 
 
 1. The ten tribes of Israel were to be a multitudinous 
 people, who would "blossom and bud, and fill the face of 
 the earth with fruit." Gen. 35:11; Isa. 27:6; Numb. 
 23:10. 
 
 2. All other races were to die out before them. Jer. 
 46 :28. As an example of fulfillment, see the aborigines 
 of Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand dying out be- 
 fore the aggressive Anglo-Saxons. And we look for the 
 same in America. 
 
 3. They were to be above all other nations, in praise, 
 name and honor. Deut. 26:19. 
 
 4. They were to abolish slavery. Isa. 58:6; Isa. 48:8, 9. 
 
 5. They were to be the money-lenders. Deut. 15 :6. 
 
 6. They were to mix among the Gentiles. Hosea 7 :8. 
 
 7. They were to fall into idolatry, as all our forefathers 
 have done, Hosea 4:16,17, but were afterwards to serve 
 the true God. Hosea 14 14, 8. 
 
 8. They were to inhabit the islands northwest of Pales- 
 tine Brittain. Isa. 49:1, 3, 8, 9, 12. 
 
 9. They were to be the light to the Gentiles of earth. 
 Isa. 49 :6. 
 
 10. Their native land was to become too small to hold 
 them. Isa. 49:19, 20. 
 
ANGLO-ISRAEL. 117 
 
 11. They were to build up the desolate places of earth. 
 Isa. 49:8. 
 
 12. These isles were to receive the teachings of Christ. 
 Isa. 42 14. 
 
 13. They were to be great seamen. Gen. 49:13; Deut. 
 33:19; Judges 5:17. 
 
 14. Great stockmen. Jer. 31 :2O-29. 
 
 15. The sign of the sabbath was to abide with them. 
 Ezek. 20:12. 
 
 1 6. Joseph's posterity were to be an unconquerable peo- 
 ple. Gen. 48 :23, 24. See v. 22, 25 also, on the fruitful- 
 ness of Joseph. 
 
 17. Joseph's posterity were to have a very fruitful land 
 Britain and America. Deut. 33:13-16. 
 
 18. They were to crowd all other people together, for 
 self-protection, to the ends of the earth. Deut. 33 :i7. 
 
 19. They were to have the sign of the bullock and of 
 the unicorn and lion. Deut. 33:17; Numb. 23:22-25; 
 24:8, 9. 
 
 The unicorn and lion, on the British arms and ensign, 
 represent the long contest between two houses for the 
 crown. The one house from Judah, and the other from 
 Joseph. Judah prevailed, and the late Queen of England 
 has a chart that traces her lineage through David back 
 to Adam. See Gen. 49:9, 10, and "Missing Links/' pp. 
 
 125-134. 
 
 20. Their last end is to be glorious. Numb. 23:8-11. 
 
 21. They were to forget their identity; become lost as 
 to identity, and afterwards find it out. Hos. i :io; 6:1-4; 
 Jer. 50:4-8; Jer. 31:10; Jer. 3:11, 12. 
 
 22. Ephraim's posterity (the British) were to be great 
 drunkards. Isa. 28:1. 
 
 23. They were to be covenant-breakers. The covenant 
 of circumcision is an example. Jer. n :io. 
 
n8 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 24. They were to be God's battle-axe, to break up other 
 powers, and no weapon formed against them was to pros- 
 per. Isa. 54:17; Jer. 51 119, 20; Numb. 23:22-25. 
 
 25. Israel were to be scattered among all the nations of 
 the earth. Deut. 28 164 ; Ezek. 36 :24 ; Hosea 7 :8 ; Amos 
 9:9; Jer. 46:28; Isa. n :n, etc. 
 
 To these twenty-five prophecies we could add many 
 pages of argument from history, names of places, per- 
 sonal names, tradition, etc., to prove that British, Scandi- 
 navions, Germans, and nearly all Protestant races, are de- 
 scendants of the ten tribes ; but we w r ish a condensed work, 
 and here simply refer the reader for more information on 
 this subject to Prof. C. A. L. Totten, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 The knowledge that we ourselves are from Joseph, 
 Manasseh and Ephraim, deals a deathblow at the Book of 
 Mormon, that would make these prophecies, as well as 
 our history, fit to the sluggish Indian. 
 
CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 MORMONISM OPPOSED TO THE BIBLE IN DOCTRINE. 
 
 HEAVEN AT DEATH IMMORTALITY ETERNAL 
 
 LIFE THE SOUL, AND THE SERPENT'S 
 
 FALSEHOOD. 
 
 In B. M., p. 146, par. n, we read: "The demands of 
 divine justice doth awaken his immortal soul to a lively 
 sense of his own guilt." 
 
 Also p. 281, par. 10, "that they are raised to dwell at 
 the right hand of God, in a state of never-ending happi- 
 ness." 
 
 Also p. 545, par. 2 : "I soon go to rest in the paradise 
 of God, until my spirit and body shall again reunite, and 
 I am brought forth triumphant through the air, to meet 
 you before the pleasing bar of the great Jehovah, the 
 eternal judge, of both quick and dead. Amen." 
 
 (Written by Moroni A. D. 420.) 
 
 Also p. 386, par. 6: "And land their souls, yea their 
 immortal souls, at the right hand of God, in the kingdom 
 of heaven, to sit down with Abraham and Isaac, and with 
 Jacob, and with all our holy fathers, to go no more out." 
 
 See also revelation given Joseph Smith January 19, 
 1841, D..C, p. 303: "David Patten, who is with me at 
 this time, and also by servant, Edward Partridge, and 
 also my aged servant, Joseph Smith, Sr., who sitteth 
 with Abraham, at his right hand, and blessed and holy is 
 he, for he is mine." See also D. C, pp. 62, 103, 249, 303, 
 317, etc. 
 
 119 
 
120 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 Now, on going to heaven at death, the Bible is directly 
 opposed to Mormonism, as the following scriptures show : 
 
 "David is not ascended into the heavens." Acts 2:34. 
 "No man hath ascended into heaven, but he hath come 
 down from heaven. John 3 113. "Whither I go ye cannot 
 come. John 13 133. See also Hebr. n :8, 35, 39, 40; Isa. 
 63:16; Joshua 24:2; Lu. 14:14; Matt. 16:27; Matt. 5:5; 
 Prov. 2 :2i, 22 ; 10:30; 1 1 :3i ; Ps. 37 ; i Pet. 5 :4 ; 2 Tim. 
 4 :8 ; Col. 3 14 ; Rom. 8 :23 ; Jer. 15:1, etc. Man, as a whole, 
 must wait till resurrection for reward and glorification. 
 
 As to the immortality of the soul, see i Tim. 1:17; 
 Rom. 2:7; i Cor. 15:53, 54; 2 Tim. i :io; i Tim. i :i6. 
 
 These scriptures are directly opposed to the B. M., as 
 they teach that we must seek for it ; that the Lord Jesus 
 alone hath attained to it (God always being excepted ; 
 I Cor. 15 :27) ; and that we receive it only at the resurrec- 
 tion. For eternal life is now but a matter of promise, and 
 a gift of God through Jesus Christ. Rom. 6 :23 ; 2 Tim. 
 1:1; Titus 1:2; 2:13; 3:7; i John 2:25; Matt. 19:29; 
 Col. 3 :4, etc. 
 
 As opposed to these, the B. M. teaches that eternal life 
 is a natural inheritance of both saint and sinner; and 
 thus Jesus is robbed of his great work and chief mission 
 on earth to give life to man. 
 
 Also, as opposed to the B. M., that all men possess im- 
 mortal souls, or deathless entities, the Bible teaches that 
 souls are born, fatten, can be destroyed with a sword, can 
 die and go to the grave, and are redeemed from thence 
 only at the resurrection. Proof: Gen. 46:18, 22; Ex. 
 12:16; Levit. 22:11 ; Jer. 2:34; Job 7:15; Joshua n :n ; 
 Ex. 12:16; Psa. 106:15; Ezek. 18:4; Job 33:22; Psa. 
 49:14, 15; Gen. 2:7; 7:21, 22, etc. How different, indeed, 
 is this Bible soul from the soul of Mormonism ! 
 
MORMONISM OPPOSED TO THE BIBLE. 121 
 
 God calls the man the soul. Gen. 2 17. The serpent 
 told these souls that God had made that they would not 
 die, though God had said that they should. Gen. 2:17; 
 3 14, 19 ; 5 :i5 ; 3 122-24. Hence, if the soul is immortal, as 
 taught in B. M., Satan told the truth. Yes, Mormonism 
 stands upon Satan's foundation : "Ye shall not surely 
 die." 
 
 Both Paul and Jesus plainly condemn this falsehood. 
 John 8:44; 2 Cor. n :i~5 ; I Tim. 6:20, 21 ; 2 Tim. 2:18; 
 Col. 2 :8. 
 
 The B. M. is also in conflict with the bible on the state 
 of man in death. On pp. 439-442, and 470, it tells of 
 Jesus' voice being heard in America during the three 
 days while he was dead ! But the scriptures teach that 
 Jesus did not possess the nature -of angels, but was of the 
 seed of Abraham ; and that he was made in all things like 
 his brethren, for the suffering of death. That he wholly 
 died, like his brethren do, and was cut off from the land 
 of the living, and for three days lay in the grave, and 
 that God raised him from the dead. Heb. 2:14-17; Isa. 
 53:8, 10, 12; Rev. 1:18; John 5:30, 32; 14:28; Matt. 
 12:40; Acts 2:24, 31, 32; Rom. 10:9; i Cor. 6:14; Gal. 
 i :i ; Eph. i :2O, etc. 
 
 It is a part of the gospel, by which we are saved, to 
 believe that Jesus died (i Cor. 15:1-5, 17, 18), and yet 
 Mormons deny this gospel by the devil's doctrine, that not 
 only all mankind do not surely die, but that the Saviour 
 himself did not die, but only an assumed body died, and 
 that the real Christ was heard talking in America during 
 the three days while he was dead ! 
 
 See also D. C, pp. 62, 103, 249, 303, 317 and 340, how 
 dead apostles and prophets appeared and conferred keys 
 upon Joseph Smith, in 1830; how the dead are repre- 
 sented as conscious in death, and also, p. 88, where, that 
 
122 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 old-time heresy that the resurrection is past already (2 
 Tim. 2:18), is taught by Smith, and that the dead go 
 before the living, which Paul denied in his day. i. Thess. 
 
 4:15- 
 
 See on the unconscious state of the dead the follow- 
 ing scriptures: Psa. 146:4; Eccl. 9:5, 6, 10; 127, 
 3:17-22; Psa. 17:15; 6:5; 88 :ii ; 115:16, 17; 39^3; Job. 
 7:21; 14:10-15; 19-23; Isa. 38; John ii. Hence Smith 
 got his chief keys from the dead, who know nothing. 
 
 That the spirit returns to God at death we admit. It 
 was with God as a portion of the energy or universal 
 spirit of God, before our existence, from all eternity, and 
 returns to the same condition after man's death. It was 
 not man's spirit before his conception and quickening. It 
 is not his after death. Man has no spirit of his own after 
 death. It is not man's spirit that raises his body at the 
 resurrection, but God's spirit. Rom. n :8; I Cor. I5 : 36, 
 44; Psa. 71:20; 104:29, 30. 
 
CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 THE MORMON GOD DIED. 
 
 The absurd and blasphemous doctrine that the Great 
 Creator of the universe died is plainly taught in many 
 places in the B. M. See p. 147, or Mosi. 1 113, 14. 
 
 "For, behold, the time cometh, and is not far distant, 
 that with power, the Lord Omnipotent who reigneth, who 
 was, and is from all eternity to all eternity, shall come 
 down from heaven, among the children of men, and shall 
 dwell in a tabernacle of clay, and shall go forth amongst 
 men, working mighty miracles, such as healing the sick, 
 raising the dead, causing the lame to walk, the blind to 
 receive their sight. * * * And, lo, he shall suffer 
 temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, 
 even more than man can suffer, except it be unt9 death; 
 for behold, blood cometh from every pore, so great shall 
 be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations 
 of his people." 
 
 Par. 14: "And he shall be called Jesus Christ, the Son 
 of God, the Father of heaven and earth, the Creator of 
 all things, from the beginning ; and his mother shall be 
 called Mary. And, lo, he cometh unto his own, that sal- 
 vation might come unto the children of men, even through 
 faith on his name ; and even after all this they shall con- 
 sider him a man, and say that he hath a devil, and shall 
 scourge him, and shall crucify him. And he shall rise 
 the third day from the dead ; and behold, he standeth to 
 
 123 
 
124 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 judge the world. * * * Also his blood atoneth for 
 the sins of those who have fallen by the transgression of 
 Adam." 
 
 See also p. 172, Mosi. 8:5: "God himself shall come 
 down among the children of men, and shall redeem his 
 people ; and because he dwelleth in flesh he shall be called 
 the Son of God ; and having subjected the flesh to the will 
 of the Father, being the Father and the Son : the Father 
 because he was conceived by the power of God ; and the 
 Son because of the flesh ; thus becoming the Father an^ 
 the Son: and^ they are one Go'd, yea, the very eternal 
 Father of heaven and earth * * * suffereth himself 
 to be mocked, scourged, and cast out, * * * crucified 
 and slain * * * and satisfied the demands of jus- 
 tice." 
 
 See also p. 315, Alma 19:12: "And now the plan of 
 mercy could not be brought about except an atonement 
 should be made; therefore, God himself atoneth for the 
 sins of the world, to bring about the plan of mercy, to 
 appease the demands of justice, that God might be a per- 
 fect, just God, and a merciful God also. 
 
 "Now repentance could not come with men, except 
 there were a punishment, which also was as eternal as the 
 life of the soul should be, affixed opposite to the plan of 
 happiness, which is as eternal also as the life of the soul." 
 
 The reader will see that the above quotations prove the 
 B. M. do not teach simply the death of the body or taber- 
 nacle that God took, but the death of the Great Creator, 
 who took the tabernacle of clay ! And yet his voice was 
 heard in America while he was dead! P. 439-442 and 
 470. It teaches that the Great Creator himself was 
 tempted of the devil, suffered, and was crucified, and 
 died to satisfy the justice of his own law, which, of 
 course, he gave foreknowing all things ! Hence for three 
 
THE MORMON GOD DIED. 125 
 
 days there was no God in the universe ! And yet this 
 dead Creator raised himself from the dead! To what 
 insanity will religious fanaticism not drive men ? 
 
 But the mother of the Great Creator was called Mary, 
 and yet this Son was the Creator of his Mother ! Surely 
 this is mystery, Babylon, the great, the mother of harlots 
 and abominations of the earth. 1 ' Rev. 17. Surely such 
 writers were suffering under a religious delirium tremens 
 from drinking Babylon's wine cup. 
 
 We also see here that old heathenish vicarious atone- 
 ment, which taught that our Creator could not pardon nor 
 show mercy without blood, or the slaughter of the inno- 
 cent for the guilty ! That barbarous doctrine that Christ 
 died to appease the wrath of an angry God. 
 
 Yet the Bible, so far from teaching that God was 
 pleased with the death of his Son, shows us that he was 
 displeased by the parable of the marriage of the King's 
 Son (Matt. 22), and he also called the Jews murder- 
 ers. Acts 7:51, 52. 
 
 The fact is that Christ's obedient life was the sacrifice, 
 and this led to his death. Hebr. 10:4-15. God never 
 commanded bloody sacrifices, but simply gave rules regu- 
 lating them after man begun to offer them. For all that 
 God desired was obedience. Jer. 7:22, Psa. 40:6; 51 :i6; 
 Hos. 6:6; Psa. 107:22; 51:17; i Pet. 2:5; Rom. 12:1. 
 Here we learn that it is a living sacrifice of obedience 
 that God wants, and not either blood or dead bodies. 
 
 As to Jesus' being very God and the Great Creator of 
 the old cosmos, he never taught so, nor do any of the in- 
 spired apostles. 
 
 The oneness that Jesus claimed with the Father was 
 the same oneness of purpose, work and heart that he 
 desired all his disciples to have not a oneness of person- 
 ality. John 17:11, 21-24. He declared positively: "My 
 Father is greater than I." John 14:28. See also John 
 
126 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 5 130, 32, how even his words were not his own, but given 
 him by the Father. 
 
 The unity of the father is very plainly taught in the 
 scriptures. See Isa. 45:5; 46:9; i Cor. 8:5; Eph. 4:6. 
 Also "there is one mediator between God and man, the 
 man Christ Jesus." i Tim. 2:5. 
 
 Jesus is not the Creator of the old world, but of the 
 new. "He is the head of the church, who is the begin- 
 ning," of the new, eternal creation, and the first-born not 
 naturally but to the new, eternal nature. Col. i :i8. 
 
 He is not the creator of the earth, and Mars, and Jupi- 
 ter, but of the new principalities and powers, that shall 
 yet rule in the earth. Col. i :i6. The old creation is tem- 
 poral, and the new order of things is eternal. 2 Cor. 
 4:18. The old Adamic stock are but figures of the true 
 Adamic creation, that shall be accomplished through 
 Jesus, by the resurrection. Rom. 5 114; Phil. 3 :2i ; i Cor. 
 15 144. The blindness of Smith, in confusing the old and 
 new creation, has led to some of these blunders. Jesus 
 was not even the Christ till anointed at his baptism (Acts 
 10:38; Luke 3:21-24), neither will he be the Almighty 
 God and Everlasting Father (Isa. 9:6) until he raises 
 his children from the dea, when they also will be gods. 
 
 1 John 3 :2 ; Phil. 3 :2i. 
 
 Such ridiculous teachings of the Creator and Jesus as 
 those we have noticed from B. M. could only emanate 
 from a spiritually drunken and befogged mind ; which, if 
 inspired at all, was inspired from the devil and his angels, 
 who would like to make the world believe that the Great 
 Creator could die, and be held under his power for three 
 days ; and yet, that man does "not surely die," biit is in 
 his present animal state a God, and hence needs no Re- 
 deemer nor resurrection ! Thus nullifying both future 
 resurrection and judgment, as taught in the scriptures. 
 
 2 Tim. 4:1; Rev. n :i5-i9; 20:11-15; Matt. 25:31-42. 
 
CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 THE HORRIBLE HELL OF MORMONISM. 
 
 The following extracts from the B. M. show something 
 of the Mormon hell. 
 
 B. M., p. 31 : "That awful hell * * * prepared 
 for the wicked." P. 54 : "They are carried away captive 
 down to the eternal gulf of misery and woe." P. 72 : 
 "Their torment is as a lake of fire and brimstone, whose 
 flames ascendeth up forever and ever, and has no end." 
 "That lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless tor- 
 ment." P. 73: "And, in fine, woe unto all those who 
 die in their sins : for they shall return unto God, and be- 
 hold his face, and remain in their sins." 
 
 P. 146: "Therefore, if that man repenteth not, and re 
 maineth and dieth an enemy to God, the demands of di- 
 vine justice doth awaken his immortal soul to a lively 
 sense of his own guilt, which doth cause him to shrink 
 from the presence of the Lord, and doth fill his breast 
 with guilt, and pain, and anguish, which is like an un- 
 quenchable fire, whose flames ascendeth up forever and 
 ever. And now, I say unto you, that mercy hath no 
 claims on that man ; therefore, his final doom is to endure 
 a never-ending torment." 
 
 P. 283 : "Their torments shall be as a lake of fire and 
 brimstone, whose flames ascendeth up forever and ever. 
 * * * Then I say unto you, they shall be as though 
 there had been no redemption made ; for they cannot be 
 redeemed according to God's justice, and they cannot 
 die, seeing there is no more corruption." 
 
 127 
 
128 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 Also p. 472, par. 4 : "And he that endureth not to the 
 end, the same is he that is hewn down and cast into the 
 fire, from whence they can no more return, because of 
 the justice of the Father." 
 
 Here is endless torment with a vengeance. Misery in 
 a lake of fire, and suffocating brimstone, that has no end. 
 And all this torture of a portion of poor humanity right 
 before the face of God the Father! Oh, what a father 
 this makes of our Creator! This is the sinner's final 
 doom, and mercy has no claim on him, and neither has 
 justice, for they cannot be redeemed, because of the justice 
 of the Father ! 
 
 What a hideous nightmare ! What a cloud to draw over 
 the face of him whose name is love, and whose "anger 
 endures but for a moment," but whose mercy "endureth 
 forever," and who "pitieth his children'' like an ^ earthly 
 father ! What a relic of barbarism, to have a God that is 
 not a fit example for his children to imitate, and a mon- 
 ster that cannot forgive or extend mercy without the 
 blood of the innocent as a substitute for the guilty ! And 
 then to talk of an eternal life of misery being a just pen- 
 alty for the sins of a life that is but a vapor, that appearelh 
 for a little time, and then vanisheth away ! 
 
 There is no such teaching in the Bible as endless tor- 
 ment. Every one who has looked up the definition of 
 the Hebrew and Greek words olam, aion, aionian and such 
 words, rendered forever, everlasting, and eternal in our 
 Bible, know that they mean "a hidden period of time/' 
 "an age," "age-lasting," or may mean eternal. 
 
 But the variableness of the meaning of these words 
 makes it impossible to prove endless punishment or end- 
 less life from them. Then, as the Bible teaches that all 
 the race that will exist will yet be in one place, and that, a 
 place of -happiness; we see the absurdity and blasphemy 
 
THE HORRIBLE HELL OF MORMONISM. 129 
 
 of the Mormon doctrine of hell. See Eph. 1:10; Phil. 
 2:10, ii ; 3:21 ; i Cor. 15 124-29; Rev. 5:13, and Ch. 21 : 
 22; and Heb. 2:14, 15; Rev. 21:5. 
 
 These scriptures show that everything will yet be sub- 
 dued to Christ, and put under his feet, and nothing left 
 that is not subdued, and put under him in the universe 
 only God himself. All rebels in God's universe must 
 either be converted or destroyed, and the devil and his 
 works must be obliterated from the earth and universe, 
 and nothing but the good and the pure remain. "Behold, 
 I make all things new," saith the Lord. 
 
CHAPTER XXVIII. 
 
 THE MORMON HELL CONTRASTED WITH THE BIBLE HELL. . 
 
 The Mormon hell is a place for disembodied spirits be- 
 fore the resurrection. The Bible hell is either (i) tar- 
 taroo, supposed by scholars to be our atmosphere, where 
 the fallen angels are, to whom Jesus preached, after his 
 resurrection, during the forty days before his ascension. 
 See D. C, pp. 88 and 191. Also i Pet. 3:18-21; 2 Pet. 
 2:4; Jude 6; Gen. 6:1-10; Job. 38:7. See also apocryphal 
 book of Enoch. This word tartaroo occurs but once, and 
 men are never threatened with a place there. 
 
 2. The only word in the Old Testament rendered hell 
 is sheol. This is rendered grave thirty-one times, and 
 hell thirty-one times, and pit three times. Jacob went 
 down to sheol with his gray hairs. Gen. 49:31. 
 
 Job wanted to go there to escape wrath until his ap- 
 pointed time. Job 14:13; 17:13. The wicked are there 
 in silence. Psa. 31:17, 18. David's soul and Christ's 
 soul went there at death. Psa. 49:15, 16; 16:10. Animals 
 and horses go there. Numb. 16:30-34; Psa. 49 :i4. There 
 is no work, device nor knowledge there, and truth can- 
 not reach those in sheol. Eccl. 9:10; Isa. 38:18. Men 
 in death behold neither God nor man. Isa. 38 :io, n. 
 
 It is always bodies that go to sheol, and never disem- 
 bodied spirits. See Ezek. 32 127, how the dead, and their 
 weapons of war, all go to sheol, and their swords are laid 
 under their heads. This sheol is to be finally destroyed. 
 Hosea 13:14. Therefore sheol is the grave, and the gen- 
 eral death state of all dead bodies till the resurrection. 
 
 130 
 
MORMON HELL vs. BIBLE HELL. 131 
 
 3. The equivalent for sheol in the Hebrew is hades in 
 the Greek. Proof: Psa. 16:10; Acts 2:27. Hades occurs 
 eleven times in the New Testament. Everything in hades 
 is dead, and has not yet been judged. Rev. 20:13. But 
 Christ being raised from the dead has the keys of the 
 tomb and of the whole death state, sea and earth. Rev. 
 i :i8. Yes, it is always this body, in the Bible, after death 
 that is cast into hell never the spirit, as taught by Mor- 
 mons. The church comes out of this hades at the resur- 
 rection. Matt. 16:18; I. Cor. 15:10. Christ's soul or 
 person went to hades in death. Acts 2 :2J. 
 
 The body of the rich man of Lu. 16:23 is represented 
 in parable as lifting up its eyes in hades in torment, while 
 the dead beggar is represented as being carried to Abra- 
 ham's bosom. 4 This parable shows the contrasted desti- 
 nies of the rich Jewish nation and the Gentiles, and the 
 ten tribes, who later became adopted into the family of 
 Abraham. Gal. 3 :2/, 29. Neither spirit nor soul is men- 
 tioned in this narrative. 
 
 This hades is to finally be destroyed in the second death. 
 Rev. 20:13, 14. Nowhere in the Bible are spirits of dead 
 men said to go to hades or hell, as the Book of Mormon 
 teaches. The Mormon hell is the old pagan hell of the 
 dark ages. 
 
 4. Another word in the Bible rendered hell is Gehenna, 
 which is a proper noun, and wrongly translated by the 
 common noun hell. It is the name of the valley south of 
 Jerusalem, where once fires burned continually to consume 
 the offal of the city; but this hell is now being plowed 
 by the Arabs, and the fires are extinguished, although 
 they may be rekindled at the judgment. It also is a place 
 of bodies, not spirits. 
 
 See Matt. 5:22, 29, 30; 18:9, and Mk. 9:43, 45, 47, 
 where the body, eyes, hands and feet are threatened with 
 
132 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 Gehenna. See Matt. 10:28, where both soul, or life, and 
 body are threatened with destruction in Gehenna. See 
 also Luke 12:4,5, where, after the body is killed, it is 
 cast in Gehenna for consumption. 
 
 Hence, the punishment of spirit entities of the dead, in 
 a fiery hell now in existence, is unknown to the holy scrip- 
 tures of truth, and is a fable of pagan invention, and a 
 relic of superstition and heathen barbarism. We chal- 
 lenge any scholar on earth to find such a hell in the in- 
 spired scriptures of truth. 
 
CHAPTER XXIX. 
 
 BIBLE PROPHECIES APPLIED BY MORMONS TO THEIR WORK. 
 
 THE "YOUNG MAN" SMITH. SMITH THE ELIJAH. 
 THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL, AND THE STONE 
 
 KINGDOM. 
 
 On pp. 78 and 167 D. C. we learn that the Lord chose 
 the weak and unlearned things (Joseph Smith and his 
 disciples) to thresh the nations, by the power of his spirit, 
 and that the sword was to fall in their behalf. And that 
 the gospel and kingdom, started by Smith, were to roll 
 forth unto the ends of the earth, as the stone which is 
 cut out of the mountain without hands, until it has filled 
 the whole earth; * * * that the kingdom of God 
 may go forth upon the earth, etc. 
 
 Elder C. J. Hunt, of the R. C. of Deloit, Iowa, says in 
 his tract, "The Book of Mormon," p. 2: "Joseph Smith 
 was the man who received instructions from the heavenly 
 messengers, and proclaimed to the world the messages of 
 Zech. 2:3, 4; Mai. 3:1 ; Rev. 14:6, 7; Mai. 4:5, 6; Amos 
 3:7; Matt. 20:6. 
 
 "Mr. Smith, with five others, by command of the Lord, 
 organized, April 6, 1830, the kingdom (church) of Dan. 
 2:44; Isa. 11:12; 18:1-3," etc., * * * "which or- 
 ganization brought about a complete restoration (Rev. 
 14:6, 7) of the primative gospel in faith, ordinances, doc- 
 trine and polity." 
 
 THE "YOUNG MAN" SMITH. 
 
 We will first notice Zech. 2 13, 4. The book opens with : 
 "The word of the Lord unto Zechariah." In the second 
 
 133 
 
134 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 chapter Zechariah says : "I lifted up mine eyes again, and 
 looked, and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his 
 hand." 
 
 Then Zechariah said to the man : "Whither goest 
 thou?" And he said unto him, to measure Jerusalem. 
 * * * "And, behold, the angel that talked with me 
 (Zechariah) went forth, and another angel met him, and 
 said unto him,, Run, speak to this young man (Zecha- 
 riah), saying Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns with- 
 out walls, for the multitude of men and cattle therein." 
 
 This needs no comment to any analytical mind, as hav- 
 ing no reference to Smith as this "young man," who was 
 shown these things. The idea is too shallow to be worthy 
 of further notice. 
 
 SMITH THE ELIJAH. 
 
 As to Mr. Smith being the Elijah of Mai. 4:5, 6, and 
 the messenger of the covenant of Mai. 3:1, we simply ask 
 the reader to read these chapters and see that Smith did 
 not do the Elijah work. He did not "turn the hearts of 
 children to parents or of parents to children/' but the 
 polygamy and secretism he introduced has done just the 
 opposite, as many a broken-hearted Mormon wife can 
 testify. See Mrs. Stenhouse's book, "Tell It All." 
 
 Neither was he a "swift witness against sorcerers, adul- 
 terers, false swearers and oppressors (Mai. 3 15), but was 
 himself one of them, as we have abundantly proven. 
 
 Neither did he "purify the sons of Levi" the Jewish 
 priesthood v. 3, nor "restore the tribes of Jacob." See 
 Ecclesiasticus 48. 
 
 Neither has he restored all things not even the lost 
 gifts of the church. Matt. 17:11. No, it is evident that 
 Smith's system is a counterfeit of the true church a form 
 of godliness, without the power of which they boast. 
 
BIBLE PROPHECIES APPLIED BY MORMONS. 135 
 THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. 
 
 Mr. Hunt, like all Mormons, also claims that Mr. 
 Smith proclaimed to the world the messages of Rev. 
 14:6, 7, which they claim brought about a complete res- 
 toration of the primitive gospel. See also D. C, pp. 61, 
 80, 222, where Smith claims that he was preaching the 
 restored gospel the everlasting gospel among the na- 
 tions, and that the hour of judgment had then come. 
 
 On these claims we would remark first; that the aion- 
 ion glad tidings, (Diaglott), of Rev. 14, could not refer 
 to the gospel of Christ restored, for the two messages are 
 entirely distinct. The gospel of Christ was glad tidings 
 of a kingdom, preached first to the Jews, and after that 
 to the ten tribes and Gentiles, to take out officers, to rule 
 in the future kingdom of God. Matt. 4:17; 10:5-9; 
 28:19, 20; Acts 15:13-19; I Cor. 6:2; Rev. 5:9, 10, etc. 
 
 But the messages of Rev. 14, are glad tidings only to 
 the righteous. First; that "the hour of judgment has 
 come." This was not preached in Jesus' time, and there- 
 fore is not a "restored gospel/' but is a distinct message 
 for the end of this age, and not yet announced ; for part 
 of the saints will be caught away from the earth before 
 that judgment, with its "unmixed wrath" begins. Rev. 
 3:10; 14:9; Gen. 21 :36; Matt. 24:40; Rev. 17:12, etc. 
 
 The second angel's message, as contained in this age 
 lasting gospel, announces the fall of the mystical Babylon 
 of Rev. 17. This could not be a "restored gospel," for 
 Babylon the church of Rome, and her daughters, .the 
 Protestant sects had not yet arisen when Jesus did his 
 preaching. Neither does Rev. 17 show Rome of the past, 
 but a resurrected Papacy in the coming hour of judgment. 
 See Rev. 17:1, 8, 12. Hence the folly of calling this a 
 "restored gospel." See D. C. p. 61, par. 2; also pp. 80 
 and 222, 
 
136 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 The third announcement of this age lasting gospel is a 
 warning against the mark of the beast, and the unmixed 
 wrath of God, which cannot be till our mediator has left 
 heaven. For while Jesus is in heaven there will always 
 be some mercy mixed with wrath. It is in that coming 
 hour of judgment that men will call and God will not 
 answer. This is yet future, and so is that boycott of 
 nations referred to in Rev. 13:15-18, when no man can 
 buy or sell unless he can give the sign or mark of that 
 secret confederacy of the dragon, beast and false prophet 
 Russia and all Catholicism, and Turkey and China 
 against Anglo-Israel. This beast is a future confederacy, 
 and the mark not yet given, hence Smith did not preach 
 this part of the age-lasting gospel. See on the futurity 
 of this work, Rev. 13:13, 16; 14:10, 14, 15; 20; 16:10; 
 17:1, 8, 12, 16; 18:17, etc. 
 
 THE STONE KINGDOM. 
 
 We will now briefly analyze the claim that, "Mr. Smith, 
 with five others, by command of the Lord, organized 
 April 6, 1830, the kingdom (church) of Dan. 2:44," etc -> 
 as also taught in D. C. pp. 37, 78; 167; 231, etc. 
 
 First : that Smith's church, organized 1830, is not this 
 stone kingdom, we claim, from the fact that the stone 
 kingdom does not exist contemporaneous with earthly 
 civil governments, but breaks them in pieces before it 
 begins to grow and fill the earth. Just as Medo-Persia 
 succeeded Babylon, and Greece succeeded Medo-P., and 
 Rome succeeded Greece ; so Christ's kingdom succeeds 
 this Roman cosmos. Dan. 2 :34, 35. 
 
 Second : That Smith's church is not the stone is 
 proven by the suddenness of the smiting of the image by 
 the stone, and the sudden scattering of earthly govern- 
 ments, like chaff by the wind. Dan. 2 :35- The Mor- 
 
BIBLE PROPHECIES APPLIED BY MORMONS. 137 
 
 mon church has been organized for over 70 years, and has 
 not broken up one civil power yet, but according to the 
 R. C. the stone itself was broken up by the death of one 
 man Smith, and the apostasy of another Brigham 
 Young! This stone kingdom of Mormonism started to 
 roll in 1830. Brigham Young broke it up shortly after 
 1844. Then a few apostates, in 1860, met at Amboy, 111., 
 and re-established it! So it is now the "Re-organized 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!" They 
 call this thing, "God's visible kingdom fully set up," 
 which Eld. J. W. Wight, of the R. C., tried to defend in 
 public discussion with the writer at Kalo, la., 1901. Yet 
 no visible king nor capital is yet discernable. Hence it is 
 a body without a head ! No wonder it goes blindly 
 about. 
 
 That not one element of God's kingdom is yet perfect, 
 and in its place, is evident to any one of good judg- 
 ment. 
 
 The king is yet in heaven ; his throne the throne of 
 David is yet in ruins ; his capital Jerusalem is yet 
 under the Turk; his officers, the apostles and saints, are 
 mostly dead, and not yet judging the twelve tribes and 
 the world; his subjects, the nations, are still misgoverned 
 by the governments that the stone is to smash in pieces ; 
 the territory the earth, is still under the curse and the 
 Gentiles ; the laws that shall cause nations to cease from 
 war have never yet went forth from Jerusalem. 
 
 Think, then, of the absurdity of the claim of these poor, 
 deluded fanatics that their church is God's visible king- 
 dom fully set up ! May God pity them, and enlighten them 
 to see and know better, and to give up their false prophet 
 and false system before it is too late. May the honest 
 ones be saved from this Mormon delusion. 
 
CHAPTER XXX. 
 
 THE SEALED BOOK. 
 
 In B. M. pp. 98-102, Smith claims, and his followers 
 teach, that the B. M. is the "sealed book" of Isa. 29. That 
 this was the "marvellous work and wonder;" and the 
 "voice from the dust," etc. That the "learned man" 
 referred to was Prof. Anthon, of N. Y., to whom the 
 words of the book were delivered in 1828; and that the 
 "unlearned man" was Joseph Smith, who translated the 
 sealed book, the B. M., and that a "little while" after the 
 sealed book came forth Palestine was to become fruitful, 
 etc. 
 
 The careful reader of Isa. 29, will easily see that this 
 chapter refers to a past attempted invasion of "Ariel, the 
 city where David dwelt," or Jerusalem, by the Assyrians. 
 
 See Smith's bible dictionary, and commentary by Jamie- 
 son, Fausset and Brown, on this chapter, and its fulfilment 
 as recorded in II Kings 19, when about 699 B. C, Sen- 
 nacherib, king of Assyria, was on his way to besiege Jeru- 
 salem, but the prayers of Hezekiah caused the Lord to 
 send his angel, who destroyed 185,000 of the Assyrian 
 hosts in one night, which caused the remainder of the 
 army to withdraw to Nineveh. This destruction of 
 Assyrians was the "marvellous work and wonder" re- 
 ferred to by Isaiah, and not the B. M. 
 
 The "voice from the dust" refers to the later desola- 
 tion of Jerusalem. When in ruins, her voice is repre- 
 sented as being like that of a ventriloquist, speaking from 
 the dust. The images employed show Jerusalem hum- 
 
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THE SEALED BOOK. 139 
 
 bled to the dust yet finally triumphing over her enemies. 
 See v .4, how it is Jerusalem, not the Book of Mormon, 
 that speaks from the dust. See v. 7-12 how it is the 
 vision of the multitudes that fight against Jerusalem that 
 is blinded, and that to them, and even to the Jewish lead- 
 ers, the Hebrew prophecies are as a sealed book. It is 
 sealed to them because of their spiritual blindness, v. 10. 
 
 This sealed book may also include some prophecies that 
 could not be understood at that time; as Dan. 12:4, 9, 
 which was sealed up till the time of the end, or the book 
 of seals referred to in Rev. 5 :i-6; 6:1-13, which "no man 
 in heaven, nor earth, nor under the earth, was able to 
 open, or to look upon;" until Christ "the lion of the 
 tribe of Judah opened it," after his second coming. 
 Ch. 5:10. 
 
 We know, therefore, that Smith never opened this 
 sealed book. 
 
 As to the Mormon interpretation of v. 17 "it is yet a 
 very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruit-_ 
 ful field," etc., that a little while must be but a few years 
 after the sealed book came forth, and that the early and 
 latter rains were but recently restored to*Palestine. We 
 quote a few texts to show what a "little while" may be in 
 the sight of God. 
 
 "Yet once it is a little while, and I will shake the 
 heavens, and the earth, and the sea and the dry land. And 
 I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall 
 come," etc. This was written 2,420 years ago, and the 
 little while is not yet fulfilled. 
 
 "For yet a little while and the wicked shall not be" nor 
 "his place." Ps. 37:10. This was written 2,900 years 
 ago, and is yet unfulfilled. 
 
140 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 "Again a little while and ye shall see me." John 16 :i6. 
 This was written over 1,800 years ago, and is yet unful- 
 filled. 
 
 "One day is with God as a thousand years, and a thou- 
 sand years as one day. 2 Pet .3 :8. 
 
 Hence the whole Mormon interpretation of this text is 
 farfetched, and an obvious perversion of scripture. Ac- 
 cording to the prophet Isaiah, neither the learned nor un- 
 learned could read the sealed book ; hence Smith could not 
 read it, if this prophecy referred to him, as Mormons 
 teach. 
 
CHAPTER XXXI. 
 
 THE TWO STICKS. 
 
 On pp. 59, 60 B. M., the thot is presented that the bible, 
 written by the Jews the New Testament and the B. 
 M., written by the posterity of Joseph, shall be joined to- 
 gether into one volume, "to the confounding of false doc- 
 trines, and the laying down of contentions, and the estab- 
 lishing of peace/' etc. 
 
 But seventy years of Mormon history has failed to 
 bring peace yet, and contention, from the beginning of 
 the work, has continually rent their church into warring 
 factions, as it is to-day. 
 
 Mormons teach, as expressed by Eld. Hunt in his tract, 
 "The Book of Mormon," that; "The 'stick' (record) of 
 Judah, Ezek. 37:15-23, is the Bible. (Some Mormons 
 make it the whole bible, and some only the New Testa- 
 ment, ed.) That "the 'stick' (record) of Joseph or Eph- 
 raim, Ezek. 37 115-23 ; the 'truth' of Ps. 85 :io-i2 ; and the 
 'sealed book' of Isa. 29:11, 12; have their fulfilment in the 
 coming forth of the Book of Mormon. 
 
 That "stick" does not mean neither scroll nor book, we 
 quote from an able Greek scholar, Chas. Gardiner, 77 
 Clark St., Chicago, as follows : 
 
 "The word 'stick' here, in Ezek. 37:16, is merely one of 
 the many blunders of the C. V. and R. V., and is an 
 ignorant rendering of the Greek word meaning 'sceptre/ 
 and is so translated in many other places in these ver- 
 sions. 'Hrabdos' is the word, and has no possible relation 
 to the stick upon which the 'scroll' of 'papyrus' or 'biblion/ 
 
 ui 
 
142 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 or 'book' of that day, was rolled. The contents of this 
 passage shows clearly how this word is used here, and it 
 is the same word translated 'sceptre' in the passage quoted 
 in Heb. i :8, from Ps. 45 :6, 'The sceptre of thy kingdom 
 is a sceptre of righteousness/ ' 
 
 It is the ordinary term for the sceptre of royal rule. 
 The two sceptres in this prophecy are joined together in 
 the prophet's hand to indicate the ultimate union of the 
 two kingdoms of Jouda and Israel again, in the power 
 and potency of the "All Controlling One," and is "the 
 hope of Israel" for which Paul was called to account." 
 
 Jameison, Fausset and Brown, in their commentary, 
 say on the word "stick" as used in Ezek. 37:16; "stick 
 alluding to Num. 17:2 ,the tribal rod. The union of the 
 two sticks was a prophecy in action of the brotherly union 
 which is to re-unite the ten tribes and Judah. STICK of 
 JOSEPH * * in the HAND of EPHRAIM. Ephraim, of the 
 descendants of Joseph, had exercised the rule among the 
 ten tribes; that rule symbolized by the "stick" was now 
 to be withdrawn from him, and to be made one with the 
 other, Judah's rule, in God's hand * * under one coven- 
 ant, and one king Messiah. 
 
 The reader will see by reading Num. 17 :2, that the chil- 
 dren of Israel were to take a rod for each prince of the 
 twelve tribes, and to write upon it the, name of that prince, 
 and Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi. 
 
 Aaron's rod budded, which showed that his tribe got 
 the priesthood. So in Ezek. 37:16-26, the sticks, or rods, 
 or sceptres, upon which the words recorded were written, 
 symbolized the union of the two houses Israel and 
 Judah, under one king, the Christ or under one rule. 
 
 We give below an important statement sent us from 
 that eminent Hebrew scholar of Chicago, Emil G. Hirsch, 
 dated Chicago, Dec. 16, 1901. 
 
THE TWO STICKS. 143 
 
 Elder W. L. Crowe, Stratford, Iowa : 
 
 "DEAR SIR: The (Hebrew) word used in Ezek. 37:16 
 is etz, meaning tree, and then piece of wood. As the con- 
 text shows, the direction to the prophet was to take two 
 pieces of wood and write on them the name, etc. in the 
 manner of writing on lots that would be placed in an 
 urn. Certain it is that it has no connection with a scroll 
 or book. 
 
 "Yours truly, 
 
 "EMIL G. HIRSCH." 
 
 We see, therefore, that the Hebrew word rendered stick 
 and sceptre, simply means a piece of wood. The Greek 
 translators understood that the piece of wood sometimes 
 meant a sceptre, and sometimes merely a piece of wood, 
 such as was used to write upon when casting lots, and so 
 rendered the word etz by hrabdos in the Greek ; and this 
 Greek word was rendered by our English translators 
 stick and sceptre. 
 
 But all three authorities above agree that the word has 
 no connection with a scroll or book as Mormons teach. 
 
 We sum up the following points against the Mormon 
 interpretation of this scripture as applying to the union of 
 the Book of Mormon and the Hebrew bible : 
 
 First : The sticks have no reference to books at all, 
 but were simply rods, or sceptres, or pieces of wood. 
 
 Second : The writing was not upon a parchment or 
 scroll rolled upon sticks, but upon the sticks or tribal rods, 
 on which no scroll was rolled. 
 
 Third : The writing on the stick of Judah was not the 
 Old nor New Testament, but simply these words : "For 
 Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions." 
 
 Also, the writing on the stick of Ephraim was not about 
 Lehi, Nephi, the Jaredites, their barges full of bees, ele- 
 phants, mastadons, asses, etc., but the prophet Ezekiel 
 
144 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 tells us just what was written upon it ; viz : "For Joseph, 
 the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his 
 companions." How dare men add the whole B. M. to 
 these words ? 
 
 Fourth: These two sticks, or sceptres, were joined to- 
 gether in the prophet's hand, and they became one in 
 Ezekiel's hand, before the eyes of representatives of both 
 houses, circ. 587 B. C. 
 
 It is well known that representatives of all of the ten 
 tribes, just previous to Judah's captivity in Babylon, 
 joined themselves to Judah, because they had the temple 
 and true priesthood under their jurisdiction. And these 
 ever remained with Judah. Hence Ezekiel, who lived and 
 prophesied during the captivity, could hold the two sticks 
 before the eyes of both houses. See as proof 2 Chron. 
 
 ii :i2, 13, 16; _I5 : 9; 3 :II > l8 ; Ezra l : 5 J 7 :I 3; 8: 35; 
 James I :i ; I Pet. I ;i, etc. 
 
 Hence these two sticks did not come together since 
 Smith's time, in 1830, for they were joined together about 
 587 B. C. 
 
 Fifth : The meaning of these two sticks coming to- 
 gether was not the joining of two books together, for God 
 himself tells us the meaning; therefore listen to God : 
 
 "And when the children of thy people shall speak unto 
 thee, saying, Wilt thou not show unto us what thou mean- 
 est by these ?" 
 
 Then after mention of the sticks, and their union, the 
 Lord says : "Behold I will take the children of Israel from 
 among the heathen whither they be gone, and will gather 
 them on every side, and bring them into their own land : 
 
 "And I will make them one nation upon the mountains 
 of Israel ; and one king shall be king to them all ; and they 
 shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided 
 into two kingdoms any more at all." 
 
THE TWO STICKS. 145 
 
 God has here told us what the joining of the two 
 sticks means. "Add thou not unto his words, lest he re- 
 prove thee, and thou be found a liar." Prov. 30:6. 
 
 Sixth : We have already shown that Nephi, and Mor- 
 mon, and others whom it is claimed wrote the book of 
 Mormon, were descendants of Manasseh, the brothers of 
 Ephraim, and hence, if the B. M. were a stick at all it 
 would not be the stick of Ephraim, but the stick of Man- 
 asseh. 
 
 See B .M. pp. 30; 231 and 526. The intelligent reader 
 will easily see that this prophecy has not an iota of proof 
 for the Mormon interpretation of two books coming to- 
 gether in these last days. Let us beware of "walking in 
 craftiness and handling the word of God deceitfully." 2 
 Cor. 4:1. 
 
 TRUTH SHALL SPRING OUT OF THE EARTH. 
 
 We here quote portions from Ps. 85, which is applied 
 by Mormons to the B. M. being, as Smith claimed, dug 
 out of the earth, in the hill Cumorah, N. Y. : 
 
 "Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land; thou 
 hast brot back the captivity of Jacob. 
 
 "Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou 
 hast covered all their sin. Selah. ***** 
 
 "Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear* him ; that 
 glory may dwell in our land. 
 
 "Mercy and truth are met together ; righteousness and 
 peace have kissed each other. 
 
 Truth shall spring out of the earth ; and righteousness 
 shall look down from heaven. 
 
 "Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good ; and our 
 land shall yield her increase. 
 
 "Righteousness shall go before him and shall set us in 
 the way of his steps." Ps. 85 :i, 2, 9-13. 
 
 First, on this beautiful Messianic prophecy, we would 
 
146 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 say, that, if "truth springing out of the earth" is to be 
 taken literally, then, any explorer, who has ever dug up 
 inscriptions or ancient records, on stone, metals, or pot- 
 tery, could apply this prophecy to himself as truthfully 
 as Smith could. Yes, and more properly; for we must 
 admit that the earth has, in recent years, yielded up many 
 ancient inscriptions and relics that confirm the truth of 
 the scriptures. 
 
 But any one who reads this Psalm with judgment and 
 sober reason, will see that the Psalm is not only highly 
 figurative, but prophetical of the future age and reign of 
 Christ on earth, after the Lord has "brot back the cap- 
 tivity of Jacob, and has forgiven all their iniquity." Was 
 this in 1827, when Smith claimed to dig plates out of the 
 earth? Did righteousness and peace literally meet then 
 and kiss each other? No, nothing of the kind took place 
 at that time. 
 
 It is obvious to every unbiased, analytical mind, in read- 
 ing this Psalm, that Mercy and Truth are personified and 
 represented in beautiful imagery as meeting, and Righte- 
 ousness and Peace, in figure, are represented as two 
 women who meet and kiss each other. Truth springs out 
 of the earth, in the resurrected saints; and the Righte- 
 ousness of God looks down smilingly from heaven,, on a 
 kingdom of peace and love and praise ; where a king then 
 reigns in righteousness, and executes judgment and jus- 
 tice on earth. Isa. 32 ; Ps. 72 ; Jer. 3 130 ; Matt. 19 :28. 
 
 When this is fulfilled, Israel and Judah have been re- 
 united in their land, under their long-expected Messiah, 
 and the earth is full of the knowledge of the Lord as the 
 waters fill the deep. Ezek. 36 ; Amos 9 ; Isa. 65 ; Habak. 
 2:14. 
 
 It would be no more inconsistent to say that this latter 
 text, "the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the 
 
THE TWO STICKS. 147 
 
 Lord," means that it shall be full of buried books, than 
 to say that, "Truth springing out of the earth," means a 
 book of plates, which Smith claimed to have dug up ! 
 
 It would be no more ridiculous than this Mormon inter- 
 pretation, to say, that, "his truth shall be thy shield" 
 means a book of plates over the breast; or, that, "truth 
 is fallen in the street," means that someone had thrown a 
 book of plates, a stone, and a hat out of an upper window 
 into the street, for horses and men to trample under 
 foot! 
 
 Adventists, Dowieites, Mormons, and many other sects, 
 by such interpretation, can find "everlasting gospels," 
 "beasts," "horns," etc., to just fit and apply to their par- 
 ticular work. Truly we live in an age when many are 
 saying "Lo here and lo there." "To the law and testi- 
 mony, if they speak not according to this testimony, it 
 is because they have no light in them." 
 
CHAPTER XXXII. 
 SMITH'S "INSPIRED TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE/' 
 
 The title of Smith's Bible is: "The Holy Scriptures 
 translated and corrected by the Spirit of Revelation, by 
 Joseph Smith, Jr., the Seer." (The book we quote from is 
 issued by the Re-organized church). 
 
 In the Preface we read: 
 
 "This work is given to the church of Jesus Christ of 
 Latter Day Saints, and to the public, in pursuance of the 
 commandment of God. 
 
 "As concerning the manner of translation and correc- 
 tion, it is evident from the Mss., and the testimony of 
 those who were conversant with the facts, that it was 
 done by direct revelation from God. 
 
 "It was begun in June, 1830, and finished July 2, 1833. 
 
 "Joseph Smith was born in December, 1805, and was, 
 at the finishing of the MSS. of the work, in the 28th year 
 of his age. * * * 
 
 "It is declared in the Book of Mormon that 'many plain 
 and precious parts" have been taken away from the 
 bible/' I Book Nephi 3 140, or p. 25. 
 
 "This declaration is fully sustained by the following 
 quotations from history relative to transmission of the 
 Bible/' * * * 
 
 "St. Jerome makes frequent mention of additions, cor- 
 rections, and subtractions made in the versions of the 
 Septuagint by Origen." * * * 
 
 Dupin is quoted at length in the Preface, and also other 
 authorities that : "It cannot be said for certain that all 
 
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SMITH'S TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE. 149 
 
 those books which are cited in the scriptures were of 
 divine inspiration," nor "that no fault has crept into the 
 scriptures by the negligence or inadvertancy of the tran- 
 scribers, or even by the boldness of those who ventured to 
 strike out, add, or change some words which they thot 
 necessary to be omitted, added or changed." * * * 
 
 "St. Chrysostom observes : 'The Jews having been at 
 some time careless and negligent, and at other times pro- 
 fane, they suffered some of the sacred books to be lost 
 through their carelessness, and have burnt and destroyed 
 others.' " 
 
 We agree with Smith and his publishers to all of the 
 above, and admit that the Revisers convict the King 
 James translation of 20,000 errors; but did Mr. Smith 
 make all the "corrections" needed, and supply those "lost 
 books" and "precious parts" that were lacking? Both 
 Smith and his publishers make this claim, as quoted in the 
 Preface to Smith's translation, as follows : 
 
 "It is also declared in the Book of Mormon, touching 
 the restoration of the scriptures : 'Wherefore the fruit of 
 thy loins (the Nephites) shall write; and the fruit of the 
 loins of Judah' (Jesus' disciples) shall write; and that 
 which shall be written by the fruit of thy loins, (Book 
 Mormon), and that which shall be written by the fruit 
 of the loins of Judah, (New Testament), shall grow to- 
 gether unto the confounding of false doctrines, and the 
 laying down of contentions, and establishing peace among 
 the fruit of thy loins, and bringing them to a knowledge 
 of their fathers in the latter days." See 2 Neph 2:1, p. 
 
 59- 
 
 Also, i Nephi 3 143, or p. 26, is quoted in Preface, which 
 teaches that Smith's works "These last records shall 
 establish the truth of the first, which are of the twelve 
 
150 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 apostles of the Lamb, and shall make known the plain 
 and precious things which have been taken away from 
 them." * * * 
 
 As proof that Smith was to supply that which was lack- 
 ing in the scriptures, his publishers also quote from D. C. 
 Sec. 22, par. 9 or p. 59, that "in a day when the children 
 of men shall esteem my words as nought, and take many 
 of them from the book * * behold I will raise up another 
 like unto thee (Moses), and they shall be had again 
 among the children of men ; among as many as believe." 
 
 See also D. C. Sec. 26, par. 2 ; and Sec. 42, par. 5 and 
 15, how this bible and the B. M. contain the fullness of 
 the gospel. 
 
 See also par. 24, of Revelation to Smith, June, 1830, as 
 published in first part of Smith's translation ; the promise 
 of God, that Smith would restore the last parts of the 
 bible. 
 
 With these high claims before the reader of a bible 
 translation given by "commandment of God," "done by 
 direct revelation from God ;" "begun in 1830, and finished 
 1833," to raake "corrections;" to supply "many plain and 
 precious things taken away from the book" the bible ; 
 and to supply "sacred books of the bible lost thru care- 
 lessness," etc., we proceed to prove to every reader with 
 an iota of intelligence, that Smith is a false prophet, a 
 forger, a liar, and blasphemer. 
 
 First : Smith does not restore the precious book of 
 Jasher, quoted both in 2 Sam. i :i8 and in Joshua 10:13. 
 
 Second : He does not supply the book of Enoch, al- 
 though he quotes from it in Jude 14. 
 
 Third : He does not supply the precious prayer of 
 Manasseh, referred to in 2 Chron. 33 :i8. There are other 
 inspired books that have been lost, but Smith has supplied 
 not one of them. 
 
SMITH'S TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE. 151 
 
 Fourth : The inconsistence of this forger is seeii in D. 
 C. Sec. 5, par. 2, where he quotes : "Clear as the moon, 
 and fair as the sun, and terrible as an army with ban- 
 ners," from Canticles 6:10, and then he throws the book, 
 from which he quotes, out of his inspired translation !" 
 The reader of this Song of Solomon will see from mar- 
 ginal references that many inspired writers quote from 
 it, thus endorsing it as an allegory of Christ's church. 
 
 Fifth : In D. C. Sec. 88, or p. 284, Smith says of the 
 Apochrypha, that "it contains many things that are true, 
 and many interpolations that are not true, but that the 
 spirit will manifest the truth to the reader, and that it is 
 mostly translated correctly, and therefore it is not neces- 
 sary to translate it." 
 
 What an obvious subterfuge is this ! If the spirit 
 could manifest the truth to each reader of the Apochry- 
 pha, could he not do so with all the rest of the bible, and 
 then an "inspired translation" would be unnecessary? 
 Mormons also claim to possess the gift of tongues which 
 would obviate the necessity of any bible translation. Acts 
 2:8; i Cor. 14:22; Rom. 10:17. 
 
 Sixth. Smith adds 291 verses to the pentateuch, which 
 seem to be added chiefly to sustain the Mormon theory 
 that men, beasts, and even the vegetable kingdom, were 
 first created spiritually, in heaven, before they were cre- 
 ated naturally, and that Jesus assisted the Father in this 
 creation! This directly conflicts with Paul, who says: 
 "That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is 
 natural ; and afterward that which is spiritual. 
 
 "The first man is of the earth earthy; the second man 
 is the Lord from heaven." * * 
 
 "It is sown a natural body ; and raised a spiritual body." 
 I Cor. i5:44-57- 
 
152 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 Seventh : Smith also retains in his "inspired transla- 
 tion" many texts that are known frauds to the best schol- 
 ars. Among these we would mention John 5 14, that fable 
 about the angel troubling the waters, which is left out of 
 R. V., marked as spurious by Griesbach ; emitted by Mill 
 and Tischendorf ; Meyer calls it a "legendary addition;" 
 Bloomfield says : "It savors of Jewish fancy, and it is lack- 
 ing in five of the most ancient MSS. Almost the same 
 may be said of other interpolations which Smith retains ; 
 such as i John 5 7 ; Rev. 20 15. The word "God" in Rom. 
 6:2; i Tim. 3:16, etc., is retained in Smith's translation 
 though not in the original. 
 
 Fifteen times the word "familiar spirit" occurs, al- 
 though the word "spirit" is not in the Hebrew nor Greek. 
 The Greek word is engastromutho in i Sam. 28 13, 7, 8, 
 9; Levit. 20:27; i Chron. 10:31; Levit. 20:6; Deut. 
 18:11; 2 Kings 21:6; 23:24; Isa. 8:19 and 19:3. The 
 word simply means a belly speaker or ventriloquist. See 
 Septuagint and Hebrew. 
 
 Eight: Smith renders the Hebrew word sheol just as 
 in the A. V. thirty-one times grave, and thirty-one times 
 hell, and three times pit a manifest inconsistency, copied 
 from the A. V. 
 
 Nine. The eleven occurences of hades in New Testa- 
 ment are also copied from the A. V., and rendered nine 
 times hell. Once rendered grave in i Cor. 15 :55, and one 
 change made in Acts 2 127,, where he renders it "prison !" 
 
 Ten: Smith also retains all the inconsistent render- 
 ings of the A. V. on bapto, baptizo, baptisma, and baptis- 
 mos. Where it refers to the ordinance of baptism it is 
 transferred and transliterated baptist, baptize, baptism, 
 etc., which the King James translators did to hide its 
 meaning, and the mode of baptism. Yet the only three 
 occurrences of bapto, Luke 16:24; John 13:26 and Rev. 
 
SMITH'S TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE. 153 
 
 19:13, are translated dip and dipped by both the A. V. 
 and Smith ! Baptizmos in both is rendered once bap- 
 tisms, Heb. 6 :2, and three times washing and washings. 
 Mk. 7:4, 8; Hebr. 9:10. 
 
 In Matt. 3 :6 "en to Jordane," is rendered "in Jordan/' 
 and in verse n "en udat" is rendered "with water" by 
 both A .V. and Smith. 
 
 Baptize is in both versions rendered "wash" and 
 "washed" in Mk. 7:4 and Luke 11:38; and in all other 
 cases, because it applies to the ordinance, it is transferred 
 baptize, baptized, or baptizing. 
 
 Eleven : Smith also follows the blunders of the A. V. 
 in translating the proper noun "Gehenna," by the com- 
 mon noun "hell," in the twelve cases where it occurs. 
 
 Twelve : Smith follows the same blundering confusion 
 of the King James' translators in the rendering of "aion," 
 meaning age, and "cosmos," meaning this order or ar- 
 rangement of things ; and "oikoumenee," meaning inhab- 
 ited earth, all by one word "world" in English ; and 
 also by various other words, according to fancy, such as 
 forever, everlasting, eternal, age, generation, etc., etc. 
 
 Thirteen : Here we give a few examples, out of the 
 many blunders that Smith has copied verbatim from the 
 A. V., giving first the blunder of Smith and the A. V., 
 and then, after a dash, the true rendering from Craik; 
 Diaglott, Douay Version ; R. V. ; Syriac ; Totten, or 
 Young. They are numbered as in Smith's version : 
 
 Matthew 3 14, where Christ should be born the Christ. 
 Craik, Diagl. R. V. Syr. Totten and Young. 
 
 Matthew 3 :38 with water in water, Craik, Diagl and 
 Totten. Bancroft Library 
 
 Matthew 6:30, 32, 35, 39, etc., take no thought be not 
 anxious. Diagl, R. V., Young, Totten, Syriac and Craik. 
 Be not solicitous, Douay bible. 
 
154 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 Matthew 13 139, end of world conclusion of age. 
 Craik, Diagl and Totten. 
 
 Matthew 22 121, strain at a gnat strain out a gnat. R. 
 V., Totten, Young, Syriac, Douay and Craik. Filter, 
 out Diagl. 
 
 In John 2:15 Smith and A. V. make Jesus whip out 
 both men and animals from the temple. How much more 
 reasonable Craik's version, that he simply whipped the 
 beasts out, and ordered the men out. 
 
 John 5 138, ye have never heard his voice at any time nor 
 seen his shape Did ye never hear his voice at any time, 
 nor see his shape? Craik and Diagl. 
 
 Acts 10:39, whom they slew and hanged on a tree 
 whom they slew by hanging on a tree. Craik, Diagl, 
 Douay, Syriac. Slew, having hanged on a tree. Young. 
 
 Acts 21 :i5, we took up our carriages we put up our 
 baggage. Craik, Diagl and R. V. Vessels Young. 
 
 At the time of the King James translation, carriage 
 meant baggage, or anything carried, but when Smith, 
 wrote his inspired translation, to correct mistakes in other 
 versions, carriage meant a buggy or vehicle to ride in. 
 So, according to Smith, Paul took his buggy up in his 
 hand, or on his back, and went to Jerusalem ! 
 
 Acts 2 140. And when they had taken up the anchors, 
 they committed themselves unto the sea and having cut 
 off the anchors, they let them go into the sea. Griesbach 
 in the Greek, Diagl and Craik ; casting off, R. V. 
 
 Romans 3 13. Make the faith of God without effect 
 make void the faithfulness of God. Craik. Annul the 
 fidelity of God. Diagl. 
 
 i Cor. 6:4. Set them to judge who are least esteemed 
 in the church. Do you set them to judge who are of no 
 account in the church ? Congregation ? Craik, Diagl, R. 
 V., Syriac and Young. 
 
SMITH'S TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE. 155 
 
 The manifest blunder of Smith and A. V. here needs no 
 comment. 
 
 2 Cor. 2:17. For we are not as many who corrupt 
 the word of God. For we do not, like many, adulterate 
 the word of God. Craik and Greek text. Trafficking the 
 word of God. Diagl. 
 
 Phillipians 1 123. Having a desire to depart and be 
 with Christ. Having a great desire for the returning and 
 being with Christ. Diagl. 
 
 Gal. 4:24. Which things are an allegory. Which 
 things are allegorized. Craik. Allegorical. Diagl. 
 Contain an allegory. R. V., Syriac and Young. 
 
 Phil. 4 :6. Be careful for nothing. Be anxious about 
 nothing. Craik, Diagl, Syriac and Young. Be not soli- 
 citous. Douay. 
 
 Col. 1 123. Preached to every creature under heaven. 
 In all the creation under heaven. Craik, Greek text, 
 Douay, R. V., Syriac and Young. 
 
 i Thess. 4:15. Not prevent those who are asleep. 
 Not precede or anticipate. Craik, Diagl, R. V. and 
 Young. 
 
 1 Tim. 6:5. Supposing that gain is godliness. That 
 godliness is gain ; or a source of gain. Craik. Suppos- 
 ing piety to be gain.-^Diagl and Young. 
 
 * i Tim. 6: 10. For the love of money is the root of all 
 evil. Is a root of all evil. Craik, Diagl. R. V. and 
 Young. 
 
 Hebrews 1 114. Who shall be heirs of salvation. Who 
 shall inherit salvation. Craik and R .V.. Are to inherit 
 salvation. Young and Diagl. Receive the inheritance of 
 salvation. Douay. 
 
 2 Peter 1:19. Until the day dawn, and the daystar 
 
156 THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 arise in your hearts. Until the day dawn, and the day- 
 star arise. In your hearts knowing this, etc. Craik. 
 Diagl is similar. 
 
 Exodus 3 :22. But every woman shall borrow of her 
 neighbor, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels 
 of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment; and ye shall 
 put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters ; and 
 ye shall spoil the Egyptians. But every woman shall ask 
 of her neighbor, etc. Douay and R. V. 
 
 Judges 5:17. Asher continued on the sea shore, and 
 abode in his breaches. Sat still at the haven of the sea, 
 and abode by his creeks. R. V. Reader, notice the 
 double blunder in the above. 
 
 Judges 1 119. And the Lord was with Judah ; and he 
 drove out the inhabitants of the mountain ; but he could 
 not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they 
 had chariots of iron. 
 
 Is it possible that both the Lord and Judah could not 
 drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had 
 iron chariots? A correct rendering should show that 
 Judah, thru fear of iron chariots, was forsaken of God 
 so that he (Judah) failed to drive out the dwellers of the 
 valley. 
 
 The reader of Smith's Bible translation will easily see 
 that instead of it being "by direct revelation from heaven," 
 it is a bold plagiarism and forgery, copied from the A. V., 
 even to numbers in chapters and verses, (except where he 
 adds some of his own theories to the bible), and also, 
 that most of the blunders of the A. V. are copied verba- 
 tim by Smith, with Jehovah's sacred name forged to this 
 conglomeration of blunders. 
 
 Luke 23:44. And Jesus said unto him, verily I say 
 unto thee ; today shalt thou be with me in Paradise/' 
 
SMITH'S TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE. 157 
 
 Rotherham : "To thee I say today with me thou shalt 
 be in the paradise." 
 
 Totten : "Verily do I say unto thee today, with me, 
 thou shalt be in Paradise." 
 
 Parker's Cottage Bible : "Verily, verily I say unto 
 thee, the same day thou shalt be with me in the Eden's 
 garden." (See v. 43). 
 
 A note in the Diagl and also in Evanson's MSS. p. 28 
 Im. Ver. : on the above verse, says : 
 
 "This verse was wanting in copies of Marcion and 
 other reputed heretics ; and in some of the older copies in 
 the time of Origen ; nor is it cited by Justin, Iraneus or 
 Tertullian ; though the two former have quoted almost 
 every text in Luke which relates to the crucifixion ; and 
 Tertullian wrote concerning the intermediate state." 
 
 As positive proof that the punctuation in A. V. and 
 Smith's translation is incorrect, we refer the reader to the 
 following texts : 
 
 Luke 23:42; Rev. 2:7; Isa. 51:3; Acts. 2:31; Isa. 
 53:10; Matt. 12:40; John 20:17; John 19 :3i ; Rom. 2 7; 
 i Tim. 6:16; 2 Tim. 2:10; i Cor. 15:53-55; Matt. 27:39; 
 Mark 15 :32 ; Acts 2 134, etc. 
 
 LOST BOOKS OF THE BIBLE NOT SUPPLIED BV SMITH. 
 
 1. Book of Jasher.Josh. 10:13; 2 Samuel 1:18. 
 
 2. Book of Iddo, the seer. 2 Chron. 9:29; 12:15. 
 
 3. Prophecies of Ahijah. 2 Chron. 9:29. 
 
 4. Book of Nathan. 2 Chron. 9:29. 
 
 5. Book of Shemaiah. 2 Chron. 12:15. 
 
 6. Book of Jehu. 2 Chron. 30:34. 
 
 7. The prayer of Manasseh. 2 Chron. 33:18. 
 
 The Psalm mentioned in various places is the I5ist. 
 9- The Book of the wars of the Lord. Numb. 21:14. 
 
 10. The prophecy of Enoch. Judc 14. 
 
 11. Soloman's five books on Natural History i 
 
 Kings 4:33. 
 
 12. The Laodicean epistle. Col. 4:16. 
 
CHAPTER XXXIII. 
 
 INDEX TO BOOK OF MORMON AND TO BOOK OF DOCTRINE 
 AND COVENANTS, ON SOME IMPORTANT POINTS. 
 
 Pre-existence, trinity and God-dying B. M. pp. 44, 70, 
 
 75, H7, 157, 172,315- 
 
 Jesus speaking while dead, and appearance in America 
 after his ascension to heaven. B. M. pp. 439, 444, 470. 
 
 The dead in heaven, and conscious while dead. B. M. 
 pp. 133, 146, 154, 244, 272, 356, 474, 479, 545. 
 
 An awful and endless hell, from which there is no re- 
 demption. B. M. pp. 31, 32, 54, 72, 73, 104, 146, 149, 
 199, 238, 281, 313, 398, 472, 497, 540. 
 
 Against Universal salvation B. M. pp. 205,' 410.. 
 
 Immortal souls: B. M. pp. 146, 281, 314, 386, 398. Pre- 
 existence of man's spirit D. C. p. 238, Inspired transl. 
 Gen. 2:5, 6, 9, n, 12, etc. 
 
 Against secretism and oaths: B. M. pp. 395, 514, 515. 
 
 In favor of secretism and oaths. Practices as published 
 in this book and others. Endowments in Kirtland in 
 1834. D. C. p. 284. 
 
 Against polygamy: B. M. pp. 114, 118. 
 
 In favor of it: p. 502, Jared's brother's families. Also 
 practices of Smith as published herein. 
 
 Smith a Gentile: B. M. p. 3 in frontispiece; also pp. 24, 
 27, 30, 464, 503, 507, 524. 
 
 Smith an Israelite : B. M. p. 59 and D. C. pp. 166, 269, 
 321, 322. 
 
 The Indians from Manasseh : B. M. pp. 30, 231, 526. 
 
 The Indians to be converted. D. C. pp. 7, 73, 125. 
 
 158 
 
INDEX TO BOOK OF MORMON, ETC. 159 
 
 Against strong drink. D. C. pp. 229, 358. 
 
 Smith sells it and drinks it. D. C. p. 61, and testi- 
 monies in this book. 
 
 Smith uncertain as to whether he was God's servant or 
 the devil's. D. C. pp. 331, 332. 
 
 Smith lived great and died great. D. C. p. 348. 
 
 Contrast with testimony herein contained. 
 
 Stealing justified. D .C. p. 165. Practised, see His- 
 tory. 
 
 If enemy repent and come asking forgiveness; forgive 
 him until 70x7. D. C. p. 251. 
 
 If your enemy smite you or attempt to kill you the 
 third time, if you reward him according to his works, you 
 are justified. D. C. p. 250. Self-defense justified, pp. 
 
 346, 347- 
 
 Mormon preachers to take no purse nor scrip nor two 
 coats. D. C. pp. 58, 209. This command revoked by 
 Jesus. Luke 22 135, 36. 
 
 Mormon preachers have the Holy Ghost, which gives 
 them at the very moment, the words of God to speak, so 
 that they cannot be confounded. D. C. pp. 171, 253. 
 
 Zion the New Jerusalem, to be built at Independence, 
 Mo. A cloud to rest upon it, and God's glory to fill it 
 when built. D. C. pp. 140, 202, 203. Also B. M. pp. 465, 
 526 . 
 
 Advantageous revelations. D. C. pp. 98, 108, 165, 241, 
 300, 308, 315. 
 
 Jaredites and barges. B. M. pp. 501-533. Their de- 
 struction .pp. 53I-533- 
 
 Journey of Nephites. B. M. pp. 1-44. Their destruc- 
 tion by the Lamanites. pp. 23, 492-495, 533, 543. 
 
 Lamanites cursed with a black skin. B. M. pp. 65, 491. 
 
 Sealed book. B. M. pp. 98-103. The two sticks, p. 59. 
 Stone of Dan. 2 D. C. pp. 78, 167. 
 
i6o THE MORMON WATERLOO. 
 
 Everlasting gospel preached. D. C. pp. 61, 80, 100, 
 
 222. 
 
 Contention is of Satan. D. C. p. 13, 444. 
 
 Much contention in the R. C. Zion D. C. pp. 356, 359, 
 361, 370, 374, 376. 
 
 The Book of Mormon and the bible to stop all conten- 
 tion, and to establish peace. B. M. p. 59. 
 
 Signs to follow this work. D. C. 78, 148, 157, 207, 
 
 313. 
 
 Revelations and writings favoring the Utah church. 
 Keys. D. C. 167, 231, 298, 299, 316. Twelve of equal au- 
 thority to First Presidency, pp. 288, 383. Consent of the 
 church, p. 64. No enemies to prevail against Zion, pp. 
 78, 79, 91, 234, 246. A work in the desert and mountains. 
 D. C. pp. 125, 256, 263, 321, 339. 
 
 Smith's keys from the dead. D. C. pp. 61, 62. 
 
 The only true church on earth. D. C. pp. 4, 52. Arose 
 
 1830, p. 37- 
 
 Harris a wicked man, a servant of Satan and a liar. 
 D. C. pp. 6, 7, 8. 
 
 Harris bulldozed by Smith. D. C. pp. 14-18. 
 
 Cowdery sees plates in his mind and heart by the holy 
 ghost. D. C. pp. 23, 24. 
 
 Cowdery told how to translate the plates "study it out 
 in your mind" yet forbidden to do it. D. C. pp. 24, 25. 
 
 The three witnesses only to see the plates by faith. 
 D. C. pp. 32-37. 
 
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