1835-09-04-Western Christian Advocate-Mormonism
Mormonism
- Source: Western Christian Advocate, v2 n19, 4 September 1835, p. 73.
- From: Baptist Register citing: Susquehanna Register (Montrose PA)
The Mormon imposture is fully laid open in the following expose from the Susquehanna Register, printed at Montrose, Pa. We give it publicity, that it may meet the eyes of some who have given it their credence, and to secure others in the neighborhood of its advocates from being entangled in its shocking folly. We give it, too, with the most perfect confidence in its correctness, from the fact that one of the judges of Susquehanna county, Elder Davis Dimock, who certifies to the moral character and veracity of Isaac Hale the principal witness, we are well acquainted with, and know him to be a man distinguished as a citizen and a christian. Many of our readers also know him to be a Baptist minister of great worth and consideration. Where his name is known, the certificate of Isaac Hale will need no further support. Had we not fallen in with one of the followers of Smith, within eighty miles of Utica, and found their papers circulating even in Oneida county, entitled "The Evening and The Morning Star," we should hardly have given so much space in our paper to the following statement. This journal of the Mormons, we have given a sufficient glance at, to see that it is of the same character with all those things, which are thrown out to beguile the hearts of the simple and the ignorant. It is jumbled up with the Scriptures to obtain attention, and the misapplication of them, through glaring to the eyes of most readers, may not at all times be discovered by those but partially acquainted with their Bibles. Here is the danger.
