The Contributor Volume 2; Representing the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations of the Latter-Day Saints (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...into the land northward.) 70. Records hid in the hill Cumorah; the last great battle. (A. D. 384). Mormon vi. 71. Moroni. (A. D.400). Mormon viii. 72. The Jaredites. Book of Ether. (See subject 28.) 73. Sealing up of the Records by Moroni. (A. D. 421). Moroni x. 74. Emigrations or Colonies. I Jared, Book of Ether; 2 Mulek, Zarahemla, subject 17, (Book Omni); 3 Lehi, main thread. Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.--Byron. If a man gains more knowledge and intelligence, through his diligence and obedience in this life, than another, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come.--Joseph Smith. THE CONTRIBUTOR. The Glory of God is Intelligence. Vol. II. APRIL, 1881. No. 7. DIVINE ORIGIN OF THE BOOK OF MORMON. HISTORICAL EVIDENCES CONSIDERED. I. I" considering this part of our subject, we shall quote largely from such original Indian historical information as has fortunately survived the wreck of Vandalism, and escaped the destruction of the religious fanaticism of the early Papal clergy; under whose influence and promptings the records of the Indians were piled up by the cord and burned, in the presence of their owners; who wept bitterly at the wanton destruction of books, which had cost them and their forefathers so much time and patience to write and preserve. In quoting from copies and abridgments of original records still remaining, and from the writings of early Spanish historians, we shall endeavor to carefully compare them with facts, as recorded in the Book of Mormon, bearing upon the subject under consideration. In this manner we hope to be able to advance sufficient historical evidence to establish, in the mind of every thoughtful and...