The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-21

mons with the request that they read 1T
Not only do they, by their counsel,
deter young Mormons from reading the
diverse side of the question. but they
descend to deception and downright ly-
ing to keep the young dupes in ignor-
ance of the truth.
A sample Of their deception is we'll
illustrated In the following quotations
which are given In parallel columns:
Joseph Smith. theI History Of the
ltJPYie' Prophet Joseph.
Lucy Smith. BY His Mother.
Prophet" Lucy Smith.
LNerPooi' E"s AS Revised by
Pago 1o1. Joseph George A. Smith and
mothcr:e"See here. Elias Smith
| !a nave got a Key Salt Lake City,
he meant. but took Utah. 1902"
he he smoke in into I'm" NV Poge 1ol: "See
nanos. ano' upon ex = here 1 have got
that ii consisted OF key"
| two smooth three
cornered diamonds IT knew not what
sell SCI w GLASS. anu Ine inc he meant. but took
| Silver bows which the article OF which
were CONNECTED he spoke into my
| with each other In bande and ex
| much the same way
| as old old-fashioned amined IL lie TOOK
spectacles. He took 1t again and left me.
Ihenl AGAIN ana ietl but said nothing re-
respecting the Rec specting the Rec
| ord" ord"
In the Liverpool edition Of 1853. the
mother of the prophet gave the only
definite description of the s'urim and
thummim - that has been gwen by any
of the Mormon historians, and by
means of which it is alleged Joseph.
tthe seer translated the Book Of
Mormon That is, he used it when there
was no danger of it's being swiped -
by his jealous neighbors who had only
"peek stones' with which to perform
the art of divination which was so COM
mon in the time of Joseph. When there
was danger of the ur1m and thummim
being stolen the prophet hid the imple.
ment out in the woods, and in lieu of
the divine instrument he used ga choc-
olate colored,, somewhat egg;shapeed
stone which the prophet found while
digging a well in company with his
brother Hvrum" (Roberts' defense
of the Faith and the Saints" page
257.)
David Whitmer, one OF the "three
witnesses" to the truth of the Book
Of Mormon. says there were two OF
the "chocolate colored' stones. Elder
B. II. Roberts disputes Whitmer as tc
there being two stones, aud he ought tc
know, because his statement is twenty
SIX years younger than that OF whit
mer. and because Elder Roberts didn I
r know the prophet personally, while Mr.
: Whitmer knew him intimately, (Eldel
Roberts S really silly volume. "Defenst
of the Fnith and the Saints. - should bc
, renamed "Au Effort to Harmonic the
I Savings of the Mormon Prophets.D
] But why the elision in the edition OF
1902 of Mrs. Lucy Smiths definite de
l scription of the urim and thummlm as i
Y appears In the Liverpool edition o.
4 1882 If. as she affirms. she saw an(
handled the Interpreters, she ough
g to know. and the ''youth of Zion,' fo
whom Elder Roberts has written 81
much inspired twaddle. arc entitled t.
D the information. The fact is that Mrs
Il Smith S definition was too minute t.
be rcconciled with the statements o
e others who claim that they saw the in
d terpreters, What the prophets are mos
urgently in need Of is something indefi
: mite and which more easily enables then
S to take the kinks out of conflicting
: statements. The following description
y of the interpreters is from Elder Rob
/ erts's "Defense of the Faith,' etc
: PIP. 256-257:
"F Martin (Harris. another of tn
"three witncsses'') said further tha
/, the Seer Stone (peek stone) differe'
entirely from the Urim and Thummin
: that was obtained with the plates. whlc
: were two clear stones set in two rims
l very much resembling spectacles, onl.
q = thev were larger
4 The following quotations, in parable
! ! columns, made from the respective edl
tions before described will throw NOR
. light on the reason why the 1853 edI
7 tion was called in and DESTROYED. An.
it is believed that the youth of Zion vii
: be duly grateful for the privileges o
, reading n few lines from a work tha
: has been scrupulously withheld fror
perusal by their young and susceptible
: minds.