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Show ADDRESS. VERY DEAR BRETHREN : As my first "Address on the Subject of Mormonism " was replied to by Mr. T A Y L O R in a thing which he called an >' Answer," so m y "Second Address" has also been replied to, by the same individual, in a long and laboured letter, which he has published under the title.of " C A L U M N Y R E F U T E D . " On comparing this reply with the former one, one thing is very want/ies?, viz., that, in writing his " Calumny Refuted,", be has employed some one who is far more talented than himself, (though this does not appear except in here and there a paragraph,) and yet no one that 1 have met with, any more than myself, has been able to discover the refutation. I therefore, should have treated it as a thing t.tfally undeserving of m y notice, were it not that I felt a wish to give you a little further information on some, of the points connected with the matter in dispute, hoping that it might have the effect of increasing your gratitude to God, as it does m y own, for the completeness and itncorrupted preservation of the H O L Y SCRIPTURES. ' The 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th,5th,6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th paragraphs of the "Calumny Refuted," contain nothing worthy of either your notice or mine, excepting that, in the 8th paragraph, Mr. T A Y L O R says of the Book of Mormon^ that " even one passage from its romantic composition would be quite sufficient to expose the imposture, and consign it for ever to deserved opprobrium.'' The folloWin g is a passage • from its " romantic composition," being a part of the 6th chapter of the Record of Ether, contained in the Book of Mormon, page 597, second edition :-r- " For he (Ether) truly told them of all things, from the beginning of man ; and ihat after the waters had receded from off the face of this land, (America,) it became a choice land above all other lands, a , chosen land of the Lord ; .wherefore the Lord would have that all .men . should.serve him, who dwell upon the face thereof; and that it was the place of the N e w Jerusalem, which should come down out of heaven, and the holy sanctuary of the Lord. Behold, Ether saw the days of Christ, and he spake concerning a N e w Jerusalem upon this land; and he spake also concerning the house of Israel, and the Jerusalem from whence Lehi.-shquld come; after it should be, destroyed, it should be built up again a holy city unto the Lord: wherefore it could not be a N e w Jerusalem, ^for it had been in a time of old, but it should be built up again, and become a holy city of the Lord: and it |