BY
B. H. ROBERTS
AUTHOR OF
"The Gospel"
"Outlines of Ecclesiastical History"
"New Witness for God"
"Mormon Doctrine of Deity"
Etc., Etc.
VOLUME II.
Salt Lake City
1912
No word of Preface is necessary to this Volume, except to say thatin presenting it to his readers, the author feels that that he isfulfilling a promise made to them when Volume I of the series wasissued.
A word of explanation will be found as an introduction to eachsubdivision of the book, which excludes the necessity of making anyreference to such subdivisions in this General Forward.
THE AUTHOR.
Salt Lake City, January, 1912.
Foreword.
The Appearing of Moroni.
The Book of Mormon.
Description of the Nephite Record.
By Theodore Schroeder.
Solomon Spaulding and his first manuscript.
Spaulding's rewritten manuscript.
Erroneous theories examined.
How about Sidney Rigdon?
Rigdon's prior religious dishonesty.
Rigdon had opportunity to steal the manuscript.
Rigdon's only denial analyzed.
Rigdon and Lambdin in 1815.
Rigdon exhibits Spaulding's manuscript.
Rigdon foreknows the coming and contents of the Book of Mormon.
From Rigdon to Smith via P. P. Pratt.
Rigdon visits Smith before Mormonism.
The conversion of Parley P. Pratt.
Rigdon's miraculous conversion.
The plagiarism clinched.
For the love of gold, not God.
Concluding comment.
By Brigham H. Roberts.
Justifications for replying to Mr. Schroeder.
Preliminary considerations.
Various classes of witnesses.
Conflicting theories of origin.
Mr. Schroeder's statement of his case.
The facts of the Spaulding manuscript.
The task of the present writer.
The enemies of the Prophet.
"Dr." Philastus Hurlburt.
Rev. Adamson Bently, et al.
The "second" Spaulding manuscript.
The failure of H