The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star Volume . 59 (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. 1897 Excerpt: ...and in writing. Seventh, the dilemma in which most of the Spanish writers, such as Acosta and Torquemada, have placed their readers, by leaving them no alternative, than to come to the decision, whether the Hebrews colonized America, and established their rites amongst the Indians; or whether the devil had counterfeited in the New World the rites and ceremonies which God gave to His chosen people. The eighth is the resemblance which many ceremonies and rites of the Indians bear to those of the Jews. The ninth is the similitude which existed between the Indian and Hebrew moral laws. The tenth is the knowledge which the Mexican and Peruvian traditions supplied, that the Indians possessed the history contained in the Pentateuch. The eleventh is the Mexican tradition of the Teo-moxtli, or Divine Book of the Toltecs. Twelfth, is the famous migration from Aztlan, (Asia). Thirteenth, the tracesof Jewish history, traditions, laws, customs, manners, which are found in the Mexican paintings. Fourteenth, the frequency of sacrifice amongst the Indians, and the religious consecration of the blood and fat of the victims. Fifteenth, the style of the architecture of their temples. Sixteenth, the fringes which the Mexicans wore fastened to their garments. Seventeenth, a similarity of the manners and customs of the Indian tribes far removed from the central monarchies of Mexico and Peru, to those of the Jews, which writers who were not Spaniards, have noticed, such as Sir William Penn." Geo. Reynolds. to Be Continued. Aertvals.--The following named missionaries arrived in Liverpool, July 1,1897, per American Line steamer Rhynland: For the Netherlands, Paul Roelofs, Salt Lake City; for Scandinavia, Paul Paulsen, Ephraim, and Eric W. Edvaldsen, West Weber; for Great Britain...