Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-02
WHY I AM 4 "MoRMoN."

why I Am a Mormon" is the title
, or an excellent little work BY .. r
Orsenbach and published by the Des-
eret News company, containing in a
volume OF about 200 pages synopsis
I OF the founding OF the Church OF Jesus
Christ OF 1.atter-day Saints. together
with a resume Of its doctrines. prin-
ciples and teachings. and a comparison
with discovered scientific facts which
bear out the new truths presented for
considera ton. Each day I'm the year"
says the author. presents new field
for the further investigation OF the
Mormon question. with the result that
thousands are annually added to the
Church"
The little work has been prepared
for the convenience Of missionaries.
and for the aid OF Investigators OF. and
converts to. "Mormonisrn." in tho hope
that they may furnish many conyinc-
Ing truths that win find an asylum IN
the heart" The book contains apters
on the testimonies OF Archaeology. as
tronomy, geology. and the soil. also on
the Testimony of Prophecy" and
Mormon Home and Social Life"
Speaking of the testimony 81 archeo-
iogy, we may add. that the Bible has
been thoroughly INDICATED hv TINT
science. and that the Book OF Mormon
viii in time, he vindicaied IN the same
way. whenever American archaeology
shail have unfolded It's secrets TO tho
student There was a time when the
bible was the object OF tidal wave
of inhdelity It was claimed that the
accounts Of the Hlttite nation was un-
founded. and that the story Of Abra- |
ham. Sargon. and Others were mostly |
myth. Belshazzar never existed. IL |
was claimed. Some held that the story |
of Joseph was fiction, because It men
lions wine and the use Of flesh as food |
by the upper classes. Critics claim |
that Pharaoh would never have Of
fered Abraham sheep and oxen as a
present. but horses. The Old Tesla
ment story of the deluge. IL was said.
was never written by Moses, but by |
l<abylonians. But then "a -cful inves-
tigaiion set In. and Il was found that |
Moses had lived amcng a civilized peo-
pie that recorded Its principal events
on stone tables an obeisks, and that
IL would have been strange. had not lie
written the history OF his people, as
the learned Egyptians wrote theirs. 1t
has now been proved that the Hittites
we're a real people. Prof. Sayce states
hat they had contended with the
Egyptians in Western Asia, and that
AZ the time OF Jehoram they were
mn forcefuI enemies. Il is now known
hat they were not power in the same
iense as Assyria, or Persia, but that
hey formed a federation OF individual
nonarchs and their subjects for war
purposes; az long as "A war lasted
hey were united under one leader, but
when the war was over they again
ach asserting It's independence. Re-
-ardlng Joseph the monuments show
hat the Egyptians did make wine at
hat time. and Rawlinson shows that
nimal food was in use by the upper
lasses, and that horses were unknown |
I the time OF Abraham. That the
tory OF the deluge was Incorporated
n the Bible during the exile has been
isproved by the fact that IL was
nown at Nippur centuries before the
captivity.
Thus archaeology has vindicated the
scriptures in every particular. The
anne It will do for the Book OF Nor
non. when the time comes