Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-04-03

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~ na ,,,s.sadI, Chrs,Ian wnyld
E,,on, ,or 80 .,,a,csd schols,,
- tboir ,.thor n,nr,,,,,i foI,ov.,s
tbc evidenosa for the oenuIneness and
,utno,ti,itv nj tho ssc,ot r,oorda woro
scco,,od no sa,i.fsc,orv II wae
tnore,,re claimed TINT .ba pdditIonal
lps,tmopv of the iaspirod ws,ers on
lbjs CONT nm, vrs sunoflluous and CON.
s,cucntlv not cre,,tod. 81. ,,o the
A mlehty oanpot be su,poset In do
y.nat i, not ncc,s,ery f,r tho snlva,Ion
of Hts ohil1rrp. MANY r.fueed [, in.
ye.tlrnte tho hook sslely on this
ytound.
I,terv wo,dorfnI ch,pye has
taken pIsee in tho CbrIs,j,n world
with regard to the Bib,c. The attl-
indie ia INV sunni that n candII stutont
of saorpd lltorature will he foroei to
admit that tbo m,ralo, ~ the Book of
Morm5a +. no. a supe,t fl nous one. IN.
ueed. II GONNA In havf, L, Gonna I, tbla.
that unlsss tome such testlmonv ne
that which this volume oflers be sun.
pllgj. the Biblp plnn of aslv.tlon will
DO n "1rtipn', and a myth 10
n great uart of matkind. Tbe ration.
alistio gcbopls TINT commenced by
attacking the New Tostament-its
history i,s uiracles sta .thIps
seam I, have ohanged tactics
and with greater success thun
to,msrIv. They baye turneI their
attention TO the O.d Testament. EN-
ployins all the modern weapoDs, VITA
the result that an old.fashioued be.
lever I'm G,dts word ia bscominv al.
moot curiosity in the world,
Consider one moment what modern
cutics claim for the oIa Testament.
Moses. they sav dld mt write the
booka that hear his mama. The ton
commandments in their original form
are lost, and the oopv preserved fin Eo.
odus Is only n .purious version of
lhom, while the account of the giving
OF the law on the mount ia an inyen.
ton Of someb,dv In oiva i,nnressiveness
to the Decalorue. The Pen,ateuob.
thew snv. ia CHIEFLY a c,IIoctIop NJ
laws ana ito history ia mostly fable
And tbps, lava ar. NOT as yiven Tn tn,
uyople originally. INIT asexiaung after
q long process of evolution. about 400
years before Christ They may bave
been framed by tho prlests after the
,eiurn from BsbvIonia and the na,oc
of Moses forged to them. inst tn give
them anthori.v The Doutaropomv
tbey apv. ia a Iltetarv invention of tbe
ftth century hefore Cnrist. n, n
snmewbat .nrlia, ns,iod baiong tho
aIl,ued documenta of whIch ms bis.
tory nj tho craatio, and snh,oorsnt
,vepta ia comuossd. Thare we're
,h,v think. nm Elobist nnd n L.
bnvi.t storv hook in paIastine
a,d.p editor mr. s.vs,al edi,o,s upaa,.
,oot 10 ,.oons,ruot ,h.sa and n,t
Moae,, nam, IN the literary nroour.
Non. I, ,he.,me w.v tho wr,t,n,a n,
tho p,onh.ta mr.. sphiect IN viv,sect,on
bytb crit,cs There is hardly oro n,
tb,m that ia somii,ed IN bs
yennIne. Tho bislorv nj tho
B.ble ia propouncsd worthless and
ito rronbstic oeclarations comm Ard
MFR the .venls thew pretiet. An ia
fabian. noo,,v narabI,
This attach effect, CLEARLY the who'll,
Rlblc. For III tho Old Teotament ia
aJui,tob m ba n mara human nro,nc.
,op tho Nav Testament mnst fall,
too. and with # the nIan n, salyation
90 brew, ,br,u.h tina roveIatinns
,ecorssd I'm these sacred bnnks
Its direct messages from the
AImigbtv mr., fctiop. and IN,
Ias.ors ton,ht bv It's bjs,orv mr.,
vor,hlsss I'm nronprtIon as TIM, his,
,,rv itssIf ia unreIi,ble.
That ,hislmsntable error in regard
IN the vor1 n, Gal ia assumipy vas,
n,on,ri,,ps among professoi Chris.
,ians csnpot be den,ea. Raw. l. r
R,brends in reopnt sermo, /,
p,o,klyp stateo tbat nj sevantv.th,s,
.,log,o,I rrot.ssor. in Hsrm,nv
,onn,c,ot vim the ,nIvsrslt,es n
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