Scrap Book of Mormon Literature, Volume 2 (of 2). Religious Tracts

STATEMENT FROM JOSIAH QUINCY, MAYOR OF BOSTON, 1845-1849, CONCERNING AN INTERVIEW HAD IN 1844 WITH JOSEPH SMITH, THE MORMON PROPHET: Some of the Sayings and Predictions Made by the Prophet Joseph Smith--A Letter to Mr. Wentworth from the Prophet in Answer to a Request from Him for a Statement of Belief, to Be Published in the Chicago "Democrat"--The Prophet's Assassination--Extracts from Governor Ford's History of Illinois Concerning the Martyrdom, with Comments.--Compiled by Ben. E. Rich, 3.

DEDICATION OF PALESTINE: The Prayer.--By Apostle Orson Hyde, 36.

THE RESURRECTION: Purpose of Man's Existence--Component Parts of Body Never Destroyed--Literal Resurrection--Testimony of Resurrection by Ezekiel, Job, Daniel, Luke, John, Matthew, Paul--Book of Mormon Prophet's Testimony of the Resurrection, Abinadi, Jacob, Amulek, Alma, Samuel, Words of Jesus, Moroni--Testimony of Joseph Smith--Extract from the Prophecy of Enoch.--By President Brigham Young, 40.

CELESTIAL FAMILY ORGANIZATION.--By Parley P. Pratt in His Publication, "The Prophet," published in New York City, 1845, 52.

SALVATION FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD: Liberality of the "Mormon" Faith--Characteristics of True Religion--Universal Salvation--But One God and One Faith--Sincerity Not Conclusive Evidence of Truth--Oneness of the Church of Christ--True Gospel Again Revealed from Heaven--Gospel Will Be Preached to Every Soul--But Few Will Be Lost--Salvation for the Dead--Different Degrees of Glory--Liberality of the Gospel--Everlasting Punishment--Work in the Spirit World--Cherish No Evil Feeling--A Discourse by Charles W. Penrose, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Sunday Afternoon, August 19, 1900, 59.

MORMONISM JUDGED BY ITS EFFECTS: Testimony of Converts--Effects of Mormonism--Preaching the Gospel--Mormons a Happy People--Mormonism Causes Unity--Education--Natural Benefits Derived from Mormonism--By Charles W. Penrose, in "Millennial Star," 1886, 78.

{ii} THE "RE-ORGANIZED" CHURCH VS. SALVATION FOR THE DEAD: Claims of The "Re-organized" Church--Keys for Vicarious Work Restored--Baptism for Dead Commenced--Temples Built--Keys Bestowed Upon the Twelve Apostles--Church Rejected with Its Dead--Baptism for the Dead Discontinued by "Josephites"--Importance of the Work for the Dead--Dead Judged Out of Records--Prophet Preaches on Work for Dead--Early Prophets Preached Salvation for the Dead--Necessity of Temples--Sacred Ordinances Must Be Performed in the Temple--An Editorial from the "Times and Seasons" Written by the Prophet Joseph Smith on Salvation for the Dead--By Joseph F. Smith, Jr, 83.

ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR FAULTS.--By Elder Orson F. Whitney, in "Millennial Star," 1882, 100.

AN INTERVIEW IN THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION ON THE "MORMON" FAITH: Book of Mormon--What the Book of Mormon Teaches--First Principles--Gifts of the Holy Ghost--Prophecy--Authority--Apostasy--Restoration--Organization-- Ecclesiastical Government--Necessity of Baptism--Mode of Baptism--Infant Baptism--Salvation for the Dead--Eternal and Everlasting Punishment--Graded Salvation and Damnation--Personality of the Godhead--Atonement and Fall--Bible Alone Not Sufficient--Marriage--Morality of the Mormons--Belief in a Personal Satan--Future Punishment--The Earth to Be Purified--By Elder Ben. E. Rich, 103.

TWO LETTERS TO A BAPTIST MINISTER: Rev. J. Whitcomb Brougher, Pastor First Baptist Church, Chattanooga, Tenn., Delivered Two Sermons from His Pulpit Upon "Mormonism." They were tirades of falsehoods and misrepresentations from beginning to end; they were filled with much bitterness and hatred, and during one of his sermons he came as near advocating mob violence as he dared. These wholesale attacks called out the following open letters to the minister, which appeared in the Chattanooga "News." (There were so many calls for copies of these letters, and to meet the demands they were published in pamphlet form.) Christ's Church Always Evily Spoken Against--Spaulding Manuscript Story--Restoration of the Gospel--Christ's Second Coming--The Existence of a God--God Has a Body, Parts and Passions--Belief in Many Gods--Is Mormonism a System of Lust--"Mormons" Live in Their Own Homes--Loyalty of the Mormons--Authority--Are We to a Unity--Baptism Is Essential--False Charges--Missionary Work--The Book of Mormon--Elder Ben. E. Rich, 122.

MORMONS AND MORMONISM: The Mormon People, Their Industry, Education and Morals--What Is Thought of These People by a Non-Mormon of Many Years Residence Among Them--By Their Fruits--Like the Pilgrim Fathers--Their Staff and Comfort--What They Accomplished in Thirty-two Years--Education--Morals--Cause of Persecution--The New Crusade--Disfranchisement of Mormons--Political Conditions--B. H. Roberts Case--Lecture by Charles Ellis, a Non-Mormon, 145.

{iii} PROPHETS AND APOSTLES NECESSARY: Tendency of Mankind to Accept Dead Prophets and Reject Living Ones--Prophecy Fulfilled--Revelation Necessary--Necessity of Officers in the Church--By the late President Geo. Q. Cannon, in the "Millennial Star," 1866, 168.

COMPREHENSIVE SALVATION, OR THE GOSPEL TO LIVING AND DEAD: First Principles--Authority--Miraculous Gifts--Organization--Apostasy--Restoration--The Gospel Preached to the Spirits of the Departed--Different Degrees of Glory--Turning the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children, and the Children to the Fathers--By John Nicholson, 174.

THE MEANS OF ESCAPE, OR, EXISTING EVILS AND THEIR CURE: Christ's Second Coming--Restoration--Visions of the Prophet--Priesthood Restored--Persecution--Growth of the Church--Missionary Work--The Gathering--By Elder John Nicholson, 195.

THE LATTER DAY PROPHET: Prophets Needed and Should Be Expected--Organism of the Church of Christ--Effects of Obedience to the Doctrines Introduced by Joseph Smith--The Book of Mormon Authentic--Modern Prophecy and Its Fulfilment--By Elder John Nicholson, 200.

THE GOSPEL OPENS COMMUNICATION WITH JEHOVAH: Necessity of Adversity--Angels Have Appeared in the Last Days--Heaven--Condition of the World--Paragraphs from a Sermon Delivered by President John Taylor, June 12, 1853, 221.

A WORD OF ADVICE: Elders' Authority--Their Attitude Toward Ministers--Rely Upon Spirit of God--Advice to Missionaries--By Elder Parley P. Pratt, in "Millennial Star," 1846, 226.

A Prophet of Latter Days.

A GLORIOUS THOUGHT: Should Prophets Be Expected in Our Day--God's Word Indicates that a Prophet Should Come--Prophets Sent to Announce All Important Events--Positive Promise of the Lord to Send a Messenger--Necessity of Prophets and Apostles in the Church--Church Founded Upon Prophets and Apostles--Power Given Apostles and Prophets--Object of Inspired Men in the Church--How Long They Should Remain--Is the Canon of Scripture Full--Without Modern Revelation Bible Prophecies Cannot Be Fulfilled--Treatment of Prophets in Past Ages--Jesus a Stumbling Stone--Many Prophets Rejected--Persecution to Follow All Inspired Teachers--Conclusions Drawn from Scriptures Quoted--Elder Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, 230.

{iv} WAS JOSEPH SMITH A PROPHET? Testimony of His Works--Judging by the Fruits--Joseph Smith's Claim--His Claim Compared with Scripture--Predictions that the Gospel Should Be Restored--Joseph Smith Treated the Same as Ancient Prophets--Account of Some of His Works--Bible Prophecies Fulfilled--Church Organization the Same as Formerly--Same Doctrines as in Former Days--The Holy Ghost Received--How to Obtain Proof--Outward Proofs--Testimony of Witnesses--Ancient Prophecies Being Fulfilled--The Gathering of Israel--Gathering Peculiar to Latter-Day Saints--Events in the History of the Saints--Words of the Psalmist Fulfilled--Isaiah's Prediction Fulfilled--A Prophecy of Malachi--Salvation for the Dead--Facts Proven--Elder Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, 235.

JOSEPH SMITH'S WORKS: Evidence of His Inspiration--Scriptural Tests--Prediction of the Angel--None Can Stop God's Work--"A Marvelous Work"--Testimony of Disinterested Men--Prophecy About War--Fulfilled Twenty-eight Years Afterwards--Predicted Men's Lives Would Be Spared--The Saints' Exodus Foretold--Gathering Predicted--Joseph Smith as an Expounder of Scripture--Church Organization--All His Works Proclaim Him a Prophet--Elder Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, 254.

THE BOOK OF MORMON: An Evidence of the Inspiration of Joseph Smith--Its Purport--Impossible to Write Without Divine Aid--Prophecies in the Book of Mormon--A Bible! A Bible!--Isaiah's Prophecy--Book Gives a Test of Its Truth--Attested by Direct Evidence--Testimony of Three Witnesses--Testimony of Witnesses Unchanged--Testimony of Eight Witnesses--Secular Proof of the Book of Mormon--Colonists from the Tower of Babel--Origin Before the Christian Era--Of Hebrew Origin--Indian Customs--Indian Practice Resembling the Passover--Tradition of a Sacred Book--Acquainted with the Old Testament Record--Tradition of Moses--Tradition of Eve--Tradition of the Flood--Led by Youngest Brother--Engraved on Plates of Metal--Egyptian Writings--Evidences of Advanced Civilization--Ruins Discovered--Indians All of One Origin--Ruins in Yucatan--Ancient Glass Jar--A Ruined City--Ancient Coins and Implements--Destruction at the Time of the Crucifixion--Ruins on the Ridge of a Mountain--Destroyed by the Action of Heat--Remains Found Under Lava Beds--Discovery of a Hidden City--Evidences of Great Eruptions--The Messiah Known to the Ancient Inhabitants of America--The Cross as an Emblem--Knowledge of the Godhead--Tradition of the Christ--Strong Proofs of the Truth of the Book of Mormon--Conclusion--Elder Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, 260.

MARKS OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST: The Outward Signs by Which It May Be Known--Outward Signs by Which Christ's Gospel May Be Known--Character of His Church--Knowledge the Outcome of True Faith--How It May Be Obtained--An Illustration--Parable of the Sower--Where Is the True Gospel and Church of Christ?--By Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, 291.

SIGNS OF CHRIST'S SECOND COMING: What the Bible Says Concerning His Advent--What the Saviour and the Ancient Prophets Say Concerning It--The Many Things to Take Place Before that Great Event--The Signs Already Appearing--By Elder Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, 304.

{v} SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH OBEDIENCE: Important Questions Concerning Salvation Answered by the Word of God--Bible Teachings Upon This Subject--Important Questions Concerning Salvation Answered by the Word of God--Salvation Free to All Who Will Obey--Faith Alone Will Not Save--True Faith Cannot Be Separated from Works of Obedience--Illustrations of Salvation by Grace--By Elder Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, 313.

THE BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST: Rules That Must Be Observed by All Who Enter Christ's Church--What Is Salvation--Our Own Sins--What Is the Gospel--The First Rule--Faith--Nature of Faith--Power of Faith--Necessity of Miraculous Gifts--Existence of Faith Shown by Works--Another Evidence of Faith--The Second Rule--Repentance--Meaning of Repentance--Necessity of Repentance--The Third Rule--Baptism--True Mode of Baptism--What Baptism Is For--Other Purposes of Baptism--The Baptism of Infants--Those Who Have Died Without Baptism--Baptism a Test of Obedience--The Fourth Rule--Laying On of Hands--Necessity of Laying On of Hands--Office of the Holy Spirit--Rules Herein Explained--By Elder Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, 321.