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B. H. Roberts. A New Witness for God: History of the Mormon Church and the Book of Mormon
A New Witness for God: History of the Mormon Church and the Book of Mormon
Table of Contents
VOLUME 1
PREFACE
Footnotes
THESIS I
CHAPTER I
Footnotes
THESIS II
CHAPTER II
Footnotes
CHAPTER III
Footnotes
CHAPTER IV
Footnotes
CHAPTER V
Footnotes
CHAPTER VI
Footnotes
CHAPTER VII
Footnotes
THESIS III
CHAPTER VIII
Footnotes
CHAPTER IX
Footnotes
THESIS IV
CHAPTER X
Footnotes
CHAPTER XI
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CHAPTER XII
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CHAPTER XIII
Footnotes
CHAPTER XIV
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CHAPTER XV
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CHAPTER XVI
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CHAPTER XVII
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CHAPTER XVIII
THE BLIND HEALED
HEALING OF ONE BORN BLIND
BONES SET THROUGH FAITH
THE TESTIMONY OF DAVID RICHARDS
LEPROSY HEALED
HEALED OF BLINDNESS
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CHAPTER XX
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CHAPTER XXI
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CHAPTER XXII
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CHAPTER XXIII
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CHAPTER XXIV
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CHAPTER XXV
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CHAPTER XXVI
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CHAPTER XXVII
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CHAPTER XXVIII
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CHAPTER XXIX
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CHAPTER XXX
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CHAPTER XXXI
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VOLUME 2
PREFACE
PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY
RULES FOR THE PRONUNCIATION OF BOOK OF MORMON NAMES
LIST OF SPANISH AND MEXICAN PROPER NAMES AND THEIR PRONUNCIATION
FOREWORDS
PART I
CHAPTER I
Footnotes
CHAPTER II
Footnotes
CHAPTER III
THE BOOK OF MORMON
Footnotes
PART II
CHAPTER IV
Footnotes
CHAPTER V
Footnotes
CHAPTER VI
Footnotes
CHAPTER VII
Footnotes
CHAPTER VIII
Footnotes
CHAPTER IX
Footnotes
CHAPTER X
I. THE JAREDITES. Migration and Place of Landing
Capital and Centres of Civilization
Extent and Nature of Civilization
Numbers
Literature
Government
Religion
History
II. THE NEPHITES. Lehi's Colony
Mulek's Colony
Footnotes
CHAPTER XI
Footnotes
CHAPTER XII
NEPHITE MOVEMENTS SOUTHWARD
NEPHITE MOVEMENT NORTHWARD
Footnotes
CHAPTER XIII
Nephite Government
Religion
THE PEOPLE OF MULEK. Government and Religion
THE LAMANITES. Civilization, Government, Religion
Footnotes
PART III
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
THE TESTIMONY OF THE THREE WITNESSES
THE TESTIMONY OF THREE WITNESSES
Footnotes
CHAPTER XVI
Footnotes
CHAPTER XVII
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CHAPTER XVIII
Footnotes
CHAPTER XIX
Footnotes
CHAPTER XX
CHRISTIAN WHITMER
JACOB WHITMER
PETER WHITMER, JR
JOHN WHITMER
HIRAM PAGE
JOSEPH SMITH, SEN
HYRUM SMITH
SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH
Footnotes
CHAPTER XXI
Footnotes
CHAPTER XXII
Footnotes
CHAPTER XXIII
I. The Ministration of Angels is Neither Unscriptural nor Unreasonable
II. To Believe in Media for Ascertaining Divine Knowledge is Neither Unscriptural nor Unreasonable
III. Of Returning the Plates of the Book of Mormon to Moroni
IV. On the Loss of one Hundred and Sixteen Pages of Manuscript, Being the Translation of the First Part of Mormon's Abridgment of the Nephite Records
Footnotes
CHAPTER XXIV
I. What the Book of Mormon Requires as to the Location and Character of the Jaredite Civilization
II. What the Book of Mormon Requires as to the Location, Extent and Nature of the Nephite Civilization
Footnotes
CHAPTER XXV
III. Of the Probability of Intercourse Between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres During Jaredite and Nephite Times
IV. The Western World Since the Close of the Nephite Period—The Lamanite Civilization
V. Of the Writers on American Antiquities
Footnotes
CHAPTER XXVI
I. The Evidence of the Existence of Ancient Civilizations in America
II. Chief Centers of Ancient American Civilization
COPAN
PALENQUE
Footnotes
CHAPTER XXVII
I. Antiquity of American Ruins
II. Successive Civilizations
III. Peruvian Antiquities
IV. The Mound Builders
Summary
Footnotes
CHAPTER XXVIII
I. The Creation
II. The Flood
Footnotes
CHAPTER XXIX
III. Tradition of the Tower of Babel
IV. Migrations
Footnotes
VOLUME 3
PART III
CHAPTER XXX
I. The Signs of Messiah's Birth
II. The Signs of Messiah's Death
Footnotes
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
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
CHAPTER XXXIII
I. The Cincinnati Gold Plate
II. The Kinderhook Plates
III. The Tuccabatchey Plates
Footnotes
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
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
CHAPTER XXXVI
Footnotes
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
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
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
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
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
IV. 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. No Gentile Kings in America
Footnotes
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
CHAPTER XLIII
The Poetry the Book of Mormon has Inspired
Summary of Internal Evidences
Footnotes
PART IV
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
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
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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
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
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