Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-23
DEsERET# EVENING NEWS FRIDAY DECEMBER % 1910

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coming "Isnown among the nations"
and stranger still how could he live 50
that his name would be held in honor
by the righteous and yet cause the
wicked to rage?
FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY.
But although this prophecy is most
bold and remarkable it has been full
filled SO far as time would permit The
Book of Mormon has been published in
the French, German, Danish, italian,
Dutch, Welsh. Swedish. Spanish, Ha-
walian, Maori. Hindoostance and Jap
anese languages. The knowledge the
| Nephite record contains has been pro-
| claimed In most of these nations, From
| the progress of the work of God in the
| past We may well be assured that the
| truth will continue to spread until the
| Book of Mormon will be carried to
every nation under the whole heslvens."
Joseph Smiths name has become
| known "anlong the nations" 1t has
caused the righteous to rejoice ana the
| wicked to rage" | call to witness
| on this point |. Woodbridge Riley,
who in 1908. after making extensive re-
search in both pro and anti-Mormon
| books and documents. wrote in his
Founder of Mormonsm:" ITO read
| the f1ux of books on the founder of
| Mormonism one might think there were
no middle GROUND petWeef Eli ,.i' y,
a.u ,.as,..,a b', ,ba ,,.,cLnd ieorad
.n'usH .t, ,,n,,..,,.,. o,5 ,,a,.oo,,,,$d ~,
~ i,na.ont 10 todnv enshriroi, in tho
love and affection of 100000 people who
regard him as one of the greatest
p.op''c.s W. 90 ,it,o,i, 10 tn5
M"s ms .I isI,, -.
ana yet so stioi,ss 49,.
NY ,i,,,,, 81 ,,,,s ,,nshin, nr Inc
forces of good and evil? There is only
one explanation, ana mat IS inc one ,l
,he ete's VI w W. ueei,
| ing WhereE. 81, my n,h my, ''ihut p'4 M.
| ,natioh OIL the les.oiti soSPel ''a.
| Joseph Shnlth WIS I" tru' piopiie', sei'e
10 we ear'n WIN d - :, 49,
SaiNat!or, h'ld eAi t,oli' anu ',h, ~
me hrcn enemy Oh , ,ru.n' pm. !, mo ~
the hearts OF ms VIKING setNhhts' 20
write infainy across the name OF Lhe
great modern prophet SO that his inliu-
| encc in the world would be iost ana
his message rejected by the chiidrch or
| men.
EpoM ROCK or MORMON
\
| BY the power of God Joseph Smith
! translated the Book of Mormon which
| contains Il history of ancient America.
| shall not take the time to go into
| the external evidences of the divinity
| of this record. But ] cannot fOrego
| the Measure Of advertinc to one cir
cumstaucc. In the third chapter of
Helaman we have an account of some
| or the Nephites moving north from
| south America to Central America
| which had nreviouslv been inhabited by
thn Iorcditcs HcInmon savs:
.And II came 10 noss in tho forty
| 49,, i';,.ths ,,o.r +harc vac much con-
,a,,ion ana many dissnnsions in thn
,,i,io,, 49,, ,'nro M nxneadng rrcnt
| many vino departed ont of the land Of
n.naS Mo mo ~ ,,.ort forth into the
nt ,,, ,.,, .'rd w i,,,orj. ~, ,and
MY no .itMaiu al. ~ .,a,.o, axnaod-
. tA'iu NY w. - ,.,',,,,,, NO,
lS great uls.hhce ,ll'olit'iNn .,. ~,
came 10 lirse pouies VI ""'et "''u
many living
ea una ever, ttes aiu sp' en eau ~. ~.
to all parts of the lands into whateNer
parts IT mad not beeh rendered dcsol. ~
hlln WITHOUT inner, pIsiu's - ~ t -,
many inhabitants who mad pefore IN
herted the land.
"And now no part OF the land was
| desolate save 1t were for timber, ETC.,
| but because of the greatness of the
transgrcssion of the people who had
| before inhabited the land it was called
! desolatc.
"And there being but little timber
upon the face of the land notwith-
standing the people who went forth be-
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