The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-08-23
Origin of the Mormon Bible.


presence of troops Of grandchildren.
Origin of the Mormon Bible.
But Mormonism proper; and herein,
the spirit out Of which the se0t sprang.
fhe smith family were remarkable in
their neighborhood for laziness lying,
only lied in general but lied specifically
about the golden plates, and lied With
contradictions. They spent much Of
their time digging for hidden treasures.
Joseph Smith. the LATEST, talsest, mean
est OF this vulgar family, saw several
visions. In one of them he was COM
manded TO put black clothes OH his back,
approach spot sacred to the presePvs-
ton ci the golden tablets, move away
the dirt, lift the stone lid aud take the
golden bible, entrustlng Ii to no hand
but his own. He laid Tire book down to
cover up the box, aud turning 10 take
away his prize, il was not there. Peep
ing again into the box he saw toad,
which In nloMeNt became a demon OF
vengeance and knocked him three or
four rods On another visit with his
wife and ateam stolen for the occasion, he
got possession OF the tablets, and alter
ward he and Rigdon sat behind curtain
and dictated the translation tO Cowdery,
rude schoolmaster, who thus brought
out in English the Book of Mormon.
Now, Peter 1ngersoll, one Of his inti-
mate friends, declared under oath:
"Smith told me that the whole affhir
was u hoax, that there was no such q
book in existence; but, said he,. as have
got the damned fools fixed, shall carry
out the fun" Before the plates were
found, Smith held much talk about q
"A N ~ Ia isf gn Nail
this. after pretending to have taken the
plates, he confessed that he had not
found such book, bnt told the story to
deceive Mr.. Chnse and get him to make
q chest. Nor was his uninspired career
less mean and contemplate. Having
fallen In love with a Philadelphia girl,
and not having money enough to Visit
her, he coaxed one Law renee into the
project of going to Pennsylvania to take
possession of II silver mine which he
had discovered on the Susquehanna.-
Lawrence paid the bills. spoke good
word to the loved one for smith, failed to
meet with the vaulted silver and went
home In disgust. Smith married the
girl ana begnn to cast about him for
means to get back to New York. A
happy idea suruck the sensorium OF this
man of God. Ho went to one Stowell, .
Dutchiaan, told him that in Jefferson
County, New York, there was cave in
which he had found ''bar Of gold ~
big As his Icy and three or four feet
long represented that one end Of the
bar was so deeply imbedded I'm the dirt
that help was needed to get IL out, and
promised that ii the Dutchman would
move his wife and her goods to Man
chester, n. Y, the golden bar should be
chonped in fwa a"a nnA hale sha.id ',a
lrxs,sr fx, h h.tSN SvtNft ~ Il
the reward demanded; but the loving
bridegroom replied that ii he should
Lave his bride she would be lonely. aud
he could not, therefore, go with him to
the cave. The c.eIulcus Teuton turned
his teams toward the "City of Brotherly
Love- and thereafter hated all Yam
KEGS In brief, the character of Smith
Is decisiveiy fixed by the testimony Of
fifty-one gentlemen in Palmyra and
eleven in Manchester, n. Y, with sew
eral persons who lived near tho family
| residence and often labored for days In
company with him, to the effect that he
was Vicious in habits and quite unwor-
thy of conidence,-a hypocrite an i'm
postor and liar. Such is the Zeus Of
the Latter Day Saints, out Of whose con-
secrated forehead sprang, fully armed,
the Athene oi Mormouism a~ $3.50
But whence the Book OF Mormon? 1t
was stolen from Solomon Spaulding. q
son OF Connecticut who was graduated
at Amherst, entered the Ministry, set
tied at New Salem, Ohio, fell into de-
cline, amused himself In studying the
mounds and other relics of pre- historic
man which abounded in his neighbor-
hood, dreamed out the identity OF the
lost tribes OF isf1ic! and the American
Indians, wrote II historic romance, an
other Odyssey, in which he set forth in
solemn style the wanderings and doings
the traditions and religion OF four abOrig-
ones, told mysterious tale about the
discovery vi his book, and called il the
Manuscript Found" The strange
work was loaned to one Patterson, q
publisher OF Pittsburgh, in whose Office
AlgJon, printer, copied the story, and
the original found its way buck to the
author. by secret process this book
became the Mormon bible, and little
minded preachers shouted 1t divine with
an enthusiasm worthy OF Peter or Mo-
manned or the mo- recent Bah ef Per-
sia. Mr.. Spanslinr ) widow, his part
ner Mr.. Henry Lake, and ms servant,
together with several other persons, who
had oiJen read or heard the author read
the Manuscript Found,' testified,
some OF them under oath, that the mi
rac,lous Book of Mormon was the same
book from which they mai derived 10
much amusement. The original was
produced and publicly compared TO the
pretended translation of smiths tablets,
when 10! most OF the passages were iden-
teal verbatim. The romance was writ
ten about the year 1913. The Book Of
Mormon was published in the year 1880.
The kigdon. just named, is the sanae
man who sat behind the blanket with
smith, and translated the golden tab
les while the pedagogue AmAnuensis
was not permitted TO see the holy thingA