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Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
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!fffV Brigham Young. of these stone spectacles God enabled him tounderstand and translate these records. Therecords contain the primitive history ofAmerica, from its first settlement by a col-ony from the Tower of Babel to the begin-ning of the fifth century of the Christian era a history of international warfare among the bad Hebrews, in which millions wereslain and the country depopulated. After atime of silence a new race, six hundred yearsB.C., came direct from Jerusalem. Anotherera of unbrotherly quarreling was initiated,and in punishment thereof they and all theirposterity were condemned to dark skins, toidleness, mischief, and subtlety, and to seektheir subsistence in the wilderness. In thetime of their ruler, Nephi the Second, an aw-ful earthquake announced the Crucifixion. MORMONS 656 MOKMONS
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Three days after-ward Christ him-self appeared tothem out of heav-en, instructed themin the doctrines ofChristian faith,and organized theChurch as on theEastern continent.The purity of theirfaith graduallyyielded to oldfeuds; and finally,in 384 a.d., a de-cisive conflict tookplace at the HillCumorah, in West-ern New York.Shortly before this,however, a prophetcalled Mormon hadbeen commissionedby God to write anabridgment of alltheir prophecies,histories, etc., andto hide it in theearth until Godshould see fit tobring it forth tobe supplementedwith the Bible—for the accomplish-ment of his pur-poses in the lastdays. This is thefamous Book ofMormon. In 420a.d. they were final-ly sealed up whereSmith found them,by one of the sur-vivors of the bat-tle of Cumorah.Smith, with theassistance of anamanuensis, trans-lated the records.A farmer by thename of MartinHarris supplied thenecessary funds forprinting: these,with nine otherwitnesses, includ-ing his father andtwo brothers, ap-pended their

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