Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-11-29
THE BOOK OF MORMON.
Elder n. T. shorts Description ofthe
Greed He Teaches.

established church of the Mormon faitl
here. Mr.. Short succeeded in making
several conversions, and the converts
were baptized u the river. Ia order thai
the public shall have the correct idea OF
the creed he breaches Mr.. Short has sent
the following communication 10 the
ARGUS;
MnLERsBURG. Ill, November "a.
The work under consideration is di-
vine reality, and contains an inspired his
tory of the original nations of fair
Columbia. 1t narrates that Scientific
colony came here, by providential direc-
ton, from the tower OF Babel, about for
ty centuries ago, in fulfillment of Genesis
H. Their propitious voyage across the
blue Pacific; their landing, and occupying
some where near the tropic of Cancer;
their growth, and development; their
agrarian wealth, and architectural skill;
their laws. manners, habits. customs, re.
ligion, contentious, dissensions, wars,
downfall and overthrow are chrsnicled
This first mis- ration was succeeded and
supDlauted by Hebrew immigration six
hundred years before the advent OF
Christ. Their focks and herds we're
roaming at large; their orchards and
fields were sadly neglected; their once
beautiful and populous cities were ten
antless. for To- infidelity, and atheism,
gendered corruption. confusion, ntrrne>
cine wars, famine, pesttlence and ire
parable desoIation. In Jerema 1890,
81, 81, is condensed account of the
misfortune of the first settlement, as also
the good fortune of their rival success
sors. The most profound American
arclacoiogsls agree that the disclosures
from 1uCatHn, Central America aud Mex
lcO reveal the centers of two civilizations;
one remote, and the other still more an
Gent or the very first. Mederrial cOiO>
sal ruined cities abound IN the torrid
zone; while fading glory, in earth works.
and mounds of the Mississippi basin, and
the copper fields of Lake Superior. all
proclaim by-gone grandeur that would
equal the palmiest days of Greece and
Rome. The would be wise Of the age
have exhausted the treasures of earthly
love to find the origin of these once
mighty people, but have not been at all
rewarded for their long aud painful re-
searches. If the Smithsonian Institute.
or SOME historical society could have
made The mute lips of stone statuaries. or
the helroglyphic walls Of crum bling ten
pies tell the simple story Of birth and
origin, the world wouli have been thrown
into a frenzy over the achievements Of
science
It remained for the God that revealeth
secrets" TO bring this understanding forth
through the young man" OF Z4charlah.
or him that l. not learned The bible
tells US that some of the house OF Joseph
were To become "a multitude in the midst
of the earth or their domain was to be
the uttermost bounds of the everlasting
hills And of Joseph he said. blessed
OF the Lord be his land, for The precious
things of heaven, etc. As represented
through his son Ephraim he was to be
come a multitude al nations for 'they
are the ten thousands of Ephraim" In
order to possess the utmost bounds. y
they wandered through the wilderness,
ane u ancnes are stre'Gneo OUT. tney are
sone o'o' Tue sea tinost Is Iarther
most, or Oh the opposite side of the globe
from where the prophet was while fore.
telling, and 1.-The sea- prominently and
the Pacific sea Ezekiel in
forms US, as touching the smitten hosts
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