Excerpt from The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints: A Reply Day Saints we have for this reason felt it a duty which we owe God whom we serve, and mankind, to follow them in this st also, that the honest enquirer after truth may have access to both the question. J We have come to this country with a message of immediate revelatio and commission from the God of Israel, to call upon all men to ceasj their'idolatry and service of strange gods, and their conformity to creed, and systems formed by man and to return to the worship of that Gol wholmade the heavens and the earth with all things contained therein repeating of their past ignorance and unbelief, and render obedience to tha' gospel and order of things revealed by Christ Jesus aforetime, and restore, by the ministry of Angels to this generation, as the law of life 0 death to every nation to which this message comes. We are there fore not surprised by the struggles made, nor the' stratagems used by those who are the professed Spiritual Guides of the people, an who have so far departed from the truth. Our message to them is one of N proof and of deep humiliation, striking at the very root of their usurpe greatness; hence, we only calculate Upon meeting a like reception as di our master Jesus when he inculcated those heaven-born principles in tl face of the traditions of Jewish priestcraft, and who said of himself, I they call the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will 13115 his Servants, as it was then, so it is now, those who have usurped tl seat of Moses, and have perverted the right. Ways of the Lord, at alarmed at the proclamation of a message ot'immediate revelation; revea ing as it does the corruptions of their own invented Articles at Confessions offaith, by the bright rays of the simple of Jesus - then it is that the humiliating and foolish path is chose grasp at, and publish abroad all manner of calumny and scandal characters of those'so called and sent of God, with the principles of sale, tion but will such means ever extinguish the truth of heaven, or stav t arm of the Almighty from working? No! As the Lord lives, no B they are the last props to the tottering systems of error; and will ere lo prove as the brickle reed to him Who maketh a staff oi' it, for the tng must and shall triumph (question). If the Latter - day Saints are either 1ceivers or deceived, why do our Opponents only nfeet os underhandedly and by slander,1nstead ofb1inging forth their strong reasonings, and Paul-li/ce, Withstand as to the face, seei11g that we so earnestly solicit, and even court invesrhigation by all men, and before all men 7 Has not Jesus said of such, they will not come to the light, because their deeds are evil.? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.