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Show -THE UTAH EVANGELTST.- <br><br> The enlightenment already existing here is not adequate to its own protection from the ignorance which is and can be arrayed against it, at the will of a despotic leader. We are here on sufferance of the majority. What will the condition be when the disparity is increased ten fold? <br> Who wants a higher education? Where are the students for this college when it is established? You can answer that question EARNEST WORKER better than I: but even I can tell the Eastern enquirer that we have something in the mountains besides lions and grizzly bears-big horns and jack rabbits. There is a lot of my boys, brave hardy industrious fellows, who have begun to feel as if they ought to know more about mankind and the world they live in than they can find out by delving and drilling and blasting rocks away down in the center of the earth; some of them are inspired in a most surprising manner to get an education. Unlike many who drink and carouse and waste their hard earned money, these have saved a little, and one traveled hundreds of miles in the depth of winter on snow-shoes, and by any other means at command, camping in snow drifts, packing his blankets and provisions, to find somebody who could teach him to read, write and cypher [sic]. Five months contact with Christian civilization not only taught this profane young miner to master division, fractions, and the rule of three, but so to control his passionate temper, that he became a wonder on his return to his former associates, and the desire to partake of such benefits was roused in minds which could yet see no way open to gratify them. One young man, a log cabin boy, born and reared in the thick woods of Southern Illinois, heard his story as they bivouacked by their camp fire in the mountains, and he, too, caught the inspiration, and gathering together his scanty hard earned savings, followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, on the long journey to this Mecca of the mountains. Who shall say that in this youth of 18 may not be found a Lincoln for our country's needs-in the near future, too? Like Lincoln, he is a son of labor, famous though a lad, as "one who lifts up axes upon the thick trees." Though not called to the dignity of commander of a Mississippi flat boat, he has already earned the right to add M. D. to his name, for he has controlled the movements of those useful beasts of burden who transport the rich silver ore across the rough mountain passes. We have plenty of the elements from which to make incipient Lincolns and Garfields, and women, too, worthy of their companionship. Who will provide the means for their development and thus pass his honored name down to the following generations for their blessings-like those wise men, who, in our early history, gave of their wealth to found those institutions which have been the glory of New England, and so productive of good for our Nation? Man of millions, Lover of your country, be your own executor. Build a college in this beautiful city, right away says <br> THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS. <br><br> THE BOOK OF MORMON. <br> ELDER BRAND'S OBJECTIONS TO MR. ROYLE'S ARTICLE. <br> SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, <br> April 2, 1884. <br> EDITOR EARNEST WORKER: <br> Dear Sir*: Permit me through the columns of your paper to notice and contradict some statements in an article in your December number entitled "Faith and Credulity." <br> I do not charge the writer with having intentionally published anything not true. I will merely refer to one or two items. If space permitted I could refer to many. <br> First, the writer says ‘‘the three witnesses, Cowdery, Whitmer and Harris, who only testified to the existence of engraved plates, have impeached their own testimony by declaring it was not true." <br> Now the said "three witnesses" testified to more than the fact of the existence of engraved plates, for they also testified (see their testimony in Book of Mormon) that the voice of God declared it unto them, that they saw the angel who laid the plates before them, and that they saw the engravings on the plates. They never denied this testimony. Two of them died affirming the same with their last breath. The other, Mr. David Whitmer, still lives and testifies the same, and no man disputes his integie** in Richmond nor Roy [Ray] county, where he resides. <br> Nor were the "three witnesses" the only men who "testified to the fact of the existence of engraved plates." See the testimony of "eight witnesses" in the Book of Mormon, where they say the plates were shewn to them, that they handled them with their hands and that they saw the engravings* on the plates. And not one of the eleven ever denied their testimony. <br> Second, the writer of this article says: "The imposture was detected, while the Book of Mormon was being printed, by the printers pretending to lose some of the leaves of the translation, which Smith could not duplicate." Now the translation was never placed in the hands of the printers at all, nor has said translation ever been out of the custody of the "three witnesses" at any time since the work was ready for publication; but a carefully transcribed copy was placed in their hands, nor did they ever pretend "to lose some leaves of the translation." <br> The original is perfect and complete, every page. Of this fact I am a living witness, one out of many who have critically examined it. <br> Again the writer says, ‘‘time would fail us if we went into the evidence which can be produced to show that the ‘Book of Mormon' was the ‘manuscript found' of Solomon Spaulding, with interpolations and changes made therein by Smith and his friends." <br> Now we invite the writer, Mr. J. C. Royle, or any duly accredited minister of the Gospel, to affirm the above paragraph as a proposition, in a Christian debate, and let him or any of them produce this voluminous evidence. If they think they can expose the fraud of the Book of Mormon they certainly owe it to humanity to do so. We are ready at all times to defend it. <br> Yours, in the love of Truth, <br> E. C. BRAND. <br><br> A NAME IN THE SAND. <br> BY GEO. D. PRENTISS. <br> Alone I walked the ocean strand, <br> A pearly shell was in my hand, <br> I stooped and wrote upon the sand <br> My name, the year and day. <br> As onward from the spot I passed <br> One lingering look behind I cast, <br> A wave came rolling high and fast, <br> And washed my lines away. <br><br> And so methought ‘twill quickly be <br> With every mark on earth from me; <br> A wave of dark Oblivion's sea <br> Will sweep across the place <br> Where I have trod the sandy shore <br> Of Time, and be, to me, no more, <br> Of me, my day, the name I bore, <br> To leave no track or trace. <br><br> And yet with Him who counts the sands <br> And holds the water in His hands, <br> I know a lasting record stands <br> Inscribed against my name; <br> Of all this mortal part has wrought, <br> Of all this thinking soul has thought, <br> And from these fleeting moments caught, <br> For Glory or for Shame. <br><br> Left off here. TOURISTS' HOME. <br> The Boarding Department, connected with the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute, will furnish a pleasant Christian home for tourists during the summer, until August 1st, either by the day, week or month. Parties wishing accommodations should address the Matron, Mrs. A. S. Ryors, or Rev. R. G. McNiece. <br><br> We have received samples of the National Crayon Erasers, manufactured by C. C. Perry, Sudbury, Mass. We are much pleased with it, and hope arrangements can be made to have it on sale in the city, for the use of our teachers. It is most durable and cheap. <br><br> Prof. J. M. Coyner and Mr. F. W. Blohm leave for the East this week. They go by special request of the executive committee of the Ladies' Home Mission Board. They will be absent during the summer, attending in the meantime the General Assembly at Saratoga. Mr. Blohm is the lay delegate from the Utah Presbytery and Prof. Coyner alternate. <br><br> The address of J. M. Coyner during the summer will be 23 Center street, N. Y, care of O. E. Boyd. <br><br><br> * words are italicized, including phrase "they saw the engravings" <br> ** transcriber uncertain of word <br><br> |
