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" thou remembereth " (page 27) ; " and 1 have not written but a small part of the things I saw " (page 35) ; " therefore they did not look unto the Lord as they had ought " {ibid.) ; " and the Devil is the preparator of it " (page 38) ; " and it came to pass that I did make tools out of the ore which I did motion out of the rock " (page 43) ; " and upon the plates which I made, I did engraven the record of my father " (page 50); " I can not write but a little of my words " (page 1 29) ; " and it came to pass that the servant of the Lord of the vineyard done according to the word of the Lord " (page 132) ; "he had somewhat contentions among his own people " (page 152) ; " and this he done " (page 225) ; " and the words of Amulek which was declared unto the people " (page 245) ; " now the object of these lawyers were to get gain " (page 251); " if it were possible that our first parents could have went forth " (page 257) ; " that there might not be no more sorrow upon all the face of the earth " (page 303) ; "Oye had ought to begin to howl and mourn " (page 431) ; " Behold I were about to write them all which were engraven " (page 506) ; " Stabbed by a garb of secrecy " (page 431).

I pause, out of breath, with this result of a most cursory inspection of the inspired pages under examination. I have before me, however, a work prepared by Lamoni Call, Bountiful, Utah, compiler of The Gospel in a Nut Shell, August, 1898, con- taining a list of over three thousand changes, found in the Book of Mormon of the latest edition, from the text as printed direct from the manuscript furnished the printer in 1830.

The Mormons have from the first repudiated with great in- tensity of feeling the Gentile charge that their book is but an illiterate plagiarism of a parodic romance on the Old Testament written as a literary diversion in the early part of this century by a superannuated Congregationalist minister, Rev. Solomon Spald- ing, entitled The Manuscript Found. One of their best writers has devoted great pains in the preparation of a book with the title The Myth of the Manuscript Found, wherein to prove that

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