Defense of the Faith and the Saints (Volume 2 of 2)Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Religion
Defense of the Faith and the Saints (Volume 2 of 2)
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saint churches
[Footnote 77: Besides _Millennial Harbinger_ 1844, p. 39, see "Who
Wrote the Book of Mormon?" 12 and 13. "Braden-Kelly Debate," 45.]
It will be remembered that Rigdon lived for a time at his
brother-in-law Bentley's house, and that it was Scott, Campbell, and
Rigdon who, in Pittsburg, organized the Disciple Church in 1824 or
1825. The above statements were published in the _Millennial Harbinger_
in 1844 (p. 39), twenty-two years before Rigdon's death, yet he never
published a denial to either. It seems that before that publication
Adamson Bentley was orally making statements, probably to the same
effect, which remained undenied by Rigdon, though he published a card
denouncing his brother-in-law. [78]
[Footnote 78: _Evening and Morning Star,_ 301.]
Mrs. Amos Dunlap, a niece of Mrs. Rigdon, under date of Warren, O.,
December 7, 1879, writes this:
"When I was quite a child I visited Mr. Rigdon's family. He married
my aunt. They at that time lived at Bainbridge, O. [1826-7]. During
my visit Mr. Rigdon went to his bedroom and took from a trunk which
he kept locked, a certain manuscript. He came out into the other
room and seated himself by the fireplace and commenced reading it.
His wife at that moment came into the room and exclaimed: 'What,
are you studying that thing again?' or something to that effect.
She then added: 'I mean to burn that paper.' He said, 'No indeed,
you will not; this will be a great thing some day.' Whenever he was
reading this he was so completely occupied that he seemed entirely
unconscious of anything passing around him." [79]
[Footnote 79: "Who Wrote the Book of Mormon?" 12. "Braden-Kelly
Debate," 45.]
Since Rigdon never, in person or by anyone else, has claimed to
have written any such manuscript of his own, in the light of other
evidence here adduced, we are warranted in believing that to have been
Spaulding's "Manuscript Found."
The Rev. D. Atwater, under date Mantua Station, O., April 26, 1873,
three years before Rigdon's death, writes this:
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