The Cry of “Mormonism.”
By R. F. Cottrell
It is marvelous how many people can see things which do not exist, and fail to see the things which really are. We come to the people with the open Bible—the common translation which they all have and approve—insisting upon its most obvious sense as the rule of life, and the cry of Mormonism is raised. The man who decided the dispute between Mosheim and Neander, concerning the observance of Sunday in the primitive church, by his own experience, also said that our teaching and work were just like Mormonism. I replied that there was this difference: That Mormonism insisted upon the reception as a divine revelation a book said to be dug up in Ontario County, and translated by Joe Smith, while we only insist upon that which is plainly taught in that revelation which all Christians profess to believe. We urge the faith and especially the practice of Bible truth. But instead of listening to the teachings of the Scriptures, and yielding to the claims of the commandments of God, they assert some foolish fallacy against us, to fill their own eyes and those of others with the dust they have cast into the air, and run off crying, We can’t see it! we can’t see it! But do they deceive God! For all this God will bring them into judgment. They may blind themselves, but they cannot deceive him.