The past is prelude

The past is prelude January 16, 2017

 

BY ca. 1850
Brigham Young, in roughly 1850  (Public domain image by unknown photographer)

 

I can sum up all the arguments used against Joseph Smith and “Mormonism” in a very few words, the merits of which will be found in “OLD JOE SMITH. IMPOSTOR, MONEY DIGGER. OLD JOE SMITH. SPIRITUAL WIFE DOCTRINE. IMPOSTURE. THE DOCTRINE IS FALSE. MONEY DIGGER. FALSE PROPHET. DELUSION. SPIRITUAL WIFE DOCTRINE. Oh, my dear brethren and sisters, keep away from them, for the sake of your never dying souls. FALSE PROPHETS THAT SHOULD COME IN THE LAST DAYS. OLD JOE SMITH. ANTI-CHRIST. MONEY DIGGER, MONEY DIGGER, MONEY DIGGER. And the whole is wound up with an appeal, not to the good sense of the people, but to their unnatural feelings, in a canting, hypocritical tone, and there it ends.

Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, 1:109-110 (1854)

 

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

 

 

 


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