New Witnesses for God (Volume 3 of 3)

About this eBook

Author

Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry), 1857-1933

Credits

Produced by the Mormon Texts Project (MormonTextsProject.org), with thanks to Renah Holmes and Diane Evans.

Language

English

LoC Class

BX: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Churches, Church movements

Subject

Book of Mormon

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 59951

Release Date

July 19, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.NEW WITNESSES FOR GOD
2. 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
3. 3.PART III.
4. 4.NEW WITNESSES FOR GOD
5. 5.CHAPTER XXX — I. — The Signs of Messiah's Birth. — II. — The Signs of Messiah's Death. — Footnotes
6. 6.CHAPTER XXXI — I. — Messiah in the Western Hemisphere. — II. — Of the Culture-Heroes of America. — III. — The Peruvian Tradition of the Messiah. — IV. — Topilitzen Quetzalcohuatl. — Footnotes
7. 7.CHAPTER XXXII — I. — Garcia. — II. — Lord Kingsborough's Views. — III. — Adair's Evidences. — The Discovery of Hebrew Relics. — I. — The Pittsfield Hebrew Parchment. — II. — The Newark Hebrew Tablet. — "HAVE MERCY ON ME A NEPHITE." — Footnotes
8. 8.CHAPTER XXXIII — I. — The Cincinnati Gold Plate. — II. — The Kinderhook Plates. — III. — The Tuccabatchey Plates. — Footnotes
9. 9.CHAPTER XXXIV — I. — Central and Western New York an Ancient Battle Field. — II. — Miscellaneous Book of Mormon Historical Incidents and Nephite Customs Found in the Native American Traditions. — III. — Human Sacrifices. Cannibalism. — IV. — Burying the Hatchet. — V. — Hagoth's Marine Migrations Preserved in Native Legend. — VI. — Native American Race Unity. — VII. — Did the Book of Mormon Antedate Works in English on American Antiquities, Accessible to Joseph Smith and His Associates. — VIII. — The Value of the Evidence Supplied by American Antiquities — Footnotes
10. 10.CHAPTER XXXV — I. — The Place of the Patriarch Joseph in Israel.—The Promises to Him and His Seed. — II. — The prophecies of Isaiah on the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon. — III. — The Prophecy of Messiah in Relation to the " Other Sheep " than Those in Palestine that Must Hear His Voice. — Footnotes
11. 11.CHAPTER XXXVI — Footnotes
12. 12.CHAPTER XXXVII — I. — Of the Unity and Diversity of Style. — II. — Characteristics of an Abridgment. — III. — Originality in Book of Mormon Names. — IV. — Of the Nephite Custom in Naming Cities and Provinces Being Ancient. — V. — Of the Nephites, Like the Jews Being a Mononymous People. — Footnotes
13. 13.CHAPTER XXXVIII — Monarchies. — Reign of the Judges—Republic. — Ecclesiastical Government. — The Events to which Importance is Given in the Book of Mormon are in Harmony with the Character of the Writers. — Complexity in the Structure of the Book of Mormon in Harmony with the Theory of its Origin. — Footnotes
14. 14.CHAPTER XXXIX — I. — Originality of Structure. — II. — Originality in Names. — III. — In the Manner of its Coming Forth. — IV. — Its Accounting for the Peopling of America. — V. — The Nativity of Ancient American Peoples. — VI. — Accounting for the Existence of Christian Ideas in America. — Footnotes
15. 15.CHAPTER XL — VII. — The Fall of Adam—The Purpose of Man's Earth Existence. — "Adam fell that men might be." — Man an Immortal Spirit. — VIII. — The Agency of Man. — IX. — The Atonement. — X. — The Doctrine of Opposite Existences . — Summary of the Foregoing Doctrines. — Footnotes
16. 16.CHAPTER XLI. — I. — A Testimony Shall be Given by the Holy Ghost. — II. — "They Shall Have the Gift and Power of the Holy Ghost ." — III. — The Blood of Saints Shall Cry From the Ground to be Avenged When the Book of Mormon Shall Come Forth . — V. — Because my Word Shall Hiss Forth, Many Shall say "A Bible! A Bible !" — VI. — THE LOST BOOKS OF THE BIBLE. — VII. — Footnotes
17. 17.CHAPTER XLII. — II NEPHI. — I. — Many Shall Believe the Words of the Book . — II. — The Book of Mormon to be Taken to the American Indians—"and They Shall Rejoice ." — III. — The Jews Shall Begin to Believe in Christ, and to Gather . — IV. — The Work of the Lord to Commence Among all Nations to Bring About the Restoration of His People Israel, and a Universal Reign of Peace and Righteousness . — V. — The Sign of the Modern World's Awakening . — VI. — Conditional Prophecies—The Evidence of Things Worthy of God to Reveal . — Footnotes
18. 18.CHAPTER XLIII. — The Poetry the Book of Mormon has Inspired . — Summary of Internal Evidences . — Footnotes
19. 19.PART IV.
20. 20.CHAPTER XLIV. — I. — Alexander Campbell's Theory : — II. — The Spaulding Theory of the Origin of the Book of Mormon. — ALLEGED STATEMENT OF MRS. DAVISON, FORMERLY THE WIFE OF SOLOMON SPAULDING. — A CUNNING DEVICE DETECTED. — MRS. MATILDA (SPAULDING) M'KENSTRY'S STATEMENT REGARDING "THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND." — III. — The Sidney Rigdon Theory . — IV. — The "Joachim" fragment of the Spaulding-Rigdon Theory . — V. — Woodbridge Riley's Theory of the Origin of the Book of Mormon . — Footnotes
21. 21.CHAPTER XLVI. — I. — Errors of Style and Grammar . — II. — Objections Based Upon the Existence of Passages in the Book of Mormon Which Follow King James' Translation of the Bible Verbatim . — II. — Miscellaneous Objections Based on Literary Style and Language . — III. — The Difficulty of Passages from Isaiah Being Quoted by Nephite Writers, that Modern Bible Criticism (Higher Criticism) Holds Were Not Written Until the Time of the Babylonian Captivity—586-538 B. C., and not Written by Isaiah at all . — Footnotes
22. 22.CHAPTER XLVII. — IV. — Pre-Christian Era Knowledge of the Gospel . — V. — The Unlawfulness of Establishing the Priesthood With Other Than the Tribe of Levi . — VI. — Nephite Knowledge of the "Call of the Gentiles." — VII. — The Difficulty of the Three Days Darkness . — V. — The Birth of Jesus "at Jerusalem." — VI. — The Settlement of Modern Controversies . — VII. — The Book Contains Nothing New . — 1. Golden Rule by Confucius, 500 B. C. — 2. Golden Rule by Aristotle, 385 B. C. — 3. Golden Rule by Pittacus, 650 B. C. — 4. Golden Rule by Thales, 464 B. C. — 5. Golden Rule by Isocrates, 338 B. C. — 6. Golden Rule by Aristippus, 365 B. C. — 7. Golden Rule by Sextus, a Pithagorean, 406 B. C. — 8. Golden Rule by Hillel, 50 B. C. — VIII. — Modern Astronomy in the Book . — IX. — The Geography of the Book . — X. — Of the Objection that the Transcript of Characters Made from the Nephite Plates by Joseph Smith, a Few Lines of which have been Preserved, Bear no Resemblance to the Hieroglyphics and Language Characters Discovered in Central America on Stone Tablets, Maya Books and Mexican Picture Writing . — Footnotes
23. 23.CHAPTER XLVIII. — I. — Alleged Plagiarisms of Historical and Biblical Events . — II. — The Absence of Book of Mormon Names Both of Place and Persons in Native American Language . — III. — Nephi's Temple . — IV. — The Difficulty of Iron and Steel Among the Nephites . — V. — The Horse and Other Domestic Animals of the Book of Mormon . — VI. — The Barges of the Jaredite Colony . — VII. — The Weight of the Plates . — Footnotes

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