The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-07-06
MORMONlSM.
By Rev. A. E. Kemp and Read Before
the Ministerial Association Of
COnneaut, Ohio.

revelation from an angelic per.
sonage whose name was Maronl,
who told Smith, at a certain place,
on a hillside. and under a large
reck, he had deposited gold plates
containing the record Of the form
er inhabitants of the earth and a
fulness Of the Gospel. Smith
claims to have been directed TO
this place by an angel and he tes.
titled that, as revealed, he tCund
these plates beneath the rock,
and while there Maronl appeared
to him and warned him not to
move them, but to appear there
each year for four years, when
they would be delivered to him,
and three years following, in 1880
he published the Book of Nor
mon.
The "gold sheets" were seven
by eight inches and in book form,
SIX inches thick. The deposit
was in a rural district in New
York State, where the Nephltes
and Lamenites were supposed to
have resided. Maronl being the
last of the Nephltes.
THE SPAULDGNG STORY.
The original account of the or.
igin of the Book of Mormon was
rejected by the public in general,
so the Spaulding story was
brought forth. Solomon Spauld-
ing, a clergyman, of Amlty, Pa,
wrote a romance, to which no
title other than Manuscript
Story" was preiixed. Twenty
years after Spaulding's death.
Hurlburt, an apostate from Nor.
mon Church, announced resem.
blance between Spauldlng's story |
and the Mormon Book and ex-
pressed his conviction that the |
work of Joseph Smith was moth.
ing but Spauldlug's romance re.
vlsed and amphfed.
Spaulding's manuscript was
deposited IN the library of Ober-
lin College, where itstill reposes.
The manuscript has upon it the
signatures of several men of Con.
neaut, OHIO, who had heardSpauld |
ing read 1t and knew it to be his.
In 1S43, when Smith and many |
of his disciples were In Nauvoo,
ILL.,, 1t Is SAID of him that he en-
tered into criminal relations with |
his female disciples, but when
condemned and threatened, he |
claimed he had another revela.
tion from heaven, commanding
the SAINTS (the Latter Day to
adopt "lhe Order of Celestial or
Plural Wives" A wife of an
apostle, who denies the reality of
the revelation says that she knew
of such a revelation six or seven
weeks before the date 1T was
claimed. HIS own wife and sons
dlsbelieved 1t and hold to the or
lglnal faith of Mormonism.
Polygamy;-From Polus many
and gamos marriage, Many
marriage or plurality of wives.
This Is a condition that seems
alike contrary to nature and rea-
son. From the equality that ex-
lists IN the two sexes, and from
God having originally created but
one male and one female, the IN
tention of Providence clearly, is
that one man should only have
one woman.
Jesus says; ga man shall leave
father and mother, and shall
cleave to his wife," not wives,
"and the twain (two) shall be one
flesh," not (they) many. "For
the husband is the head of the
wife mot wlves)even as Christ is
the head of the church mot
churches).
Some divine has SAID 'Polyg.
amy may be good enough for
men, but is damnable curse for
women" How true
In defense Of the system some
one may say 1t has always exist
ed, which speaks for its contln-
uance. 1t is true that among
Eastern, and | think without ex.
ceptlon, heathen nations, that
polygamy has existed from time
immemorial. 1t prevailed before
the flocd, and was common among