The Myth of the "Manuscript Found," or the Absurdities of the "Spaulding Story": Eleventh Book of the Faith-promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints.
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The Myth of the "Manuscript Found," or the Absurdities of the "Spaulding Story": Eleventh Book of the Faith-promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints.
Book of Mormon
"Sir.--In yours of the 20th inst., there is an article copied from
the _Boston Recorder_, headed, 'Mormon Bible,' and signed, 'Matilda
Davison,' which, justice to our society and to the public requires
me to answer, and I trust that a sense of justice will induce you,
sir, to give your readers both sides of the question.
"I am one of the society who believe the Book of Mormon, and as
such I am assailed in the statement professing to come from Matilda
Davison.
"In the first place, there is no such thing in existence as the
'Mormon Bible.' The 'Mormons,' as they are vulgarly called, believe
in the same Bible that all Christendom profess to believe in, viz.:
the common version of the Old and New Testament. The Book of Mormon
is not entitled a Bible, except by those who misrepresent it. It is
entitled the 'Book of Mormon.'
"The religious sect alluded to in your paper, are there accused of
knavery and superstition. Now we are not sensible of being guilty
of knavery, and we do not know wherein we are superstitious, but
very much desire to know in order that we may reform. If some good
minister or editor will condescend to particulars and point out our
superstitions, we will take it as a great kindness, for we are the
declared enemies to knavery and superstition.
"If a firm believer in the gospel of a crucified and risen
Redeemer, as manifested to all nations, and as recorded in their
sacred books, amounts to superstition, then we are superstitious.
If preaching that system to others and calling them to repentance
is superstition, then we are superstitious. If refusing to
fellowship the modern systems of sectarianism which are contrary
to the pure doctrines of the Bible be superstition, then we are
superstitious, for we hereby declare our withdrawal from all the
mysticism, priestcraft and superstitions, and from all the creeds,
doctrines, commandments, traditions and precepts of men, as far as
they are contrary to the ancient faith and doctrine of the Saints;
and we hereby bear our testimony against them.
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