The record-union., 1896-02-25
Joseph smiths Prophesies.


Eds. Record Union: I write these
| lines, which hope you will publish, be-
cause of the tendency they may have to
keep people from believing a delusion
and lie. In the Sacramento Record
Union of February 4, 1896, page 2, is a
report of a speech by Elder H. S. Tan
ner, President of the Mormon California
Mission, wherein said Tanner attempts
TO prove that Joseph Smith was a true
prophet, because said Smith should
have predicted that the Saints (AIor-
mons should ''be driven to the Rocky
Mountains" and become a
mighty people in the midst of the Rocky
Mountains" etc. Mr.. Editor, will now
prove by well-known facts that Smith
could not have made that prophecy, but
that said so-called prophecy is only an
afterthought by the Mormon leaders. to
induce their people they have duped to
believe that Smith really was a true
prophet. If Smith had made such a
prediction, why did Brigham Young
send Sam Brannan with a shipload of
Saints" to California via Cape Horn;
Young agreed to meet Brannan in Cal
ifornia- At that time one of their 'in-
| spireds % poets composed a hymn and
printed in their hymn books, part of
which reads as follows: I'm Upper Cali
fornia, OH that's the land for me. 1t
! lies between the mountains and the
great Pacific Sea-" etc, etc
With this end in view, Young nego-
tiated and did succeed in enlisting 500
young men in the United States service
to help take California from Mexico,
named the Mormon Battalion" Said
Young knew it would help the Mormons,
as those 800 men got clothing. food and
pay from the Government and the men
would be at the place they intended to
go to, namely, California.
If Smith had made such a prophecy,
why did Young make every arrange
ment to go to California? But when B.
Young came as far on his road as Salt
Lake Valley, he could see an excellent
opportunity to establish an empire and
discipline his people, therefore he
/ stopped there, and sent word to Bran
nan to come up to Salt Lake from San
| Bernardino, where Brannan's colony
was located. But it seems Sam Bran
nan could not see which time 3. Young
had the true revelation-if it was when
Young said California or Salt Lake
City-therefore S. Brannan did stop in
California and did become a million
aire. Brannan street in San Francisco
is named after him. This is history
true history. Does Elder Tanner think
that all old people in California have
died off that he dares to come before a
California public with such falsehoods
to prove Smith a true prophet?
But permit me to prove that Joseph
Smith was a false prophet in way
that will 'drive the nail home" beyond a
reasonable doubt. In the new edition
of Doctrine and Covenants a coll
lection of Joseph Smiths so-called rev.
elations, edited 1891 (see section 80,
page 461, verse 10, Smith says: 81 was
praying very earnestly to know the time
of the coming of the Son of Man. when /
heard voice repeat the following: 'Jo-
seph, my son, if thou livest until thou
art 50 years old thou shalt see the face
! of the Son of Man." Smith was
born December %, 1905, so that would
bring the coming of Christ to December
%, 1890 To stop all cavil by Mormon
Elders about the above quotation, I will
also quote the following: In the Com
pendulum" issued by the Mormon
Church in 1851 Qook after the year, as
the church seeing this prophecy could
not be fulfilled, has dropped it out of
both of Smiths history and the Com
pendulum in all their works after 1850,
in said Compendium, page 135, and in
Joseph Smiths history, printed in the
"Millennial Star Ca church paper in
Liverpool, England, volume XIV, page
/ 205, for March 26, 1853, quoting from
said Smiths diary for February II,
1885, we find Smith saying: "And go
/
time, or the coming of the Lord which
was nigh-even fifty-six years should
wind up the scene" F'ifty-six to 1885
brings Us to the 18th or February, 1891,
as the winding-up sce-.- OF the Lord s
coming; that is, December, 1890 the
Lord was to come. and in about seven
weeks to the 14th Of February, 1891,
would be the winding-up of that affair
As Christ has not come up to date. Feb
ruary q, 1886, therefore Joseph Smith
is a false prophet.
This ought to settle that question for
/ ever, but please bear with me little
/ longer, as am fond Of always doing
! thorough work, so I wish Ito clinch
the nail" also with the following:
/ Joseph Smith claims that John the
/ BAPTIST came to him and ordained him
and Oliver Cowdery May 10, 1929, and
restored the Aaronic priesthood on 90
/ them (See Doc. and Gov, Sec. 10, page
1881 And in Section 40, page 400
Smith says that on April 8, 1836-seven
/ years later-in Kirkland Temple (see
page 40D he had seen many visions;
then in verse l. he says: After this
Elias appeared aud committed the dis
pensation of the gospel of Abraham. +"
13 Y: after this vision had
closed. another great. and glorious Wis
ion burst upon Us. for Elijah the Proph-
| e. whn vas taken 10 heaven witflnli.