BY
B. H. ROBERTS
AUTHOR OF
The Gospel
Outlines of Ecclesiastical History
New Witness for God
Mormon Doctrine of Deity
Etc., Etc.
VOLUME I.
Salt Lake City
1907
Fifteen years ago, in announcing what was then a list of prospectivebooks, the writer declared his intention to publish a "Scrap Book,"promising that it should be a choice selection of his miscellaneouswritings, and mentioned as among the probable articles, Corianton, aBook of Mormon story; Mariam, a story of Zarahemla; Spirit Promptings,etc., etc., all which are here recalled as foreshadowing the author'sintention at that time. About then, however, the writer's energiesbegan to be devoted more exclusively to doctrinal and historicalthemes, and one circumstance after another arose which called him tothe defense of the Mormon faith and the Mormon people, so that thecharacter of his literary efforts were turned away from the line ofpurpose fiction work he had proposed to himself. But the scrap-book,nevertheless, became a possibility through the multiplication of thedefensive articles, though its character would be changed, owing thechange in the writer's line of work. Through the years have elapsedsince the "Scrap Book" idea was first entertained as a depository ofthe author's miscellaneous writings, a great mass of material in theform of discourses and papers, contributed to magazines and newspapershas accumulated and it is from this mass of materials that followingcollection of articles has been chosen; and as there is still muchmaterial on hand, and the end of the writer's work is not yet insight, he has ventured to call this Volume I, indicating by that theprobability that other volumes in time will follow, if the writer isnot mistaken in his judgment as to the demand for such publications.
GENERAL FOREWORD
POSITION AND DEFENSE
MORMONISM.
A paper submitted to the Parliament of Religions at the World'sColumbian Exposition, at Chicago, 1903
THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE CHURCH TO THE CHRISTIAN SECTS: THE DOCTRINE OFTWO CHURCHES ONLY.
An Address delivered at the Seventy-sixth Annual Conference of theChurch in April, 1906
SOME RECENT LITERATURE ON MORMONISM
I. "The Founder of Mormonism" (Riley)
II. "The Mormon Prophet" (Dougal)
III. "The Lions of the Lord" (Wilson)
A BRIEF DEFENSE OF THE MORMON PEOPLE
I. Eastern Eulogy of Mormon's System ("M")
II. Defense of the Mormon People against "M's" Attack
WHICH OF THE SECTS HAS PERSECUTED MORMONISM MOST?
I. A Letter to D. A. Holcomb, Esq
II. Views of a Jewish Rabbi (Reynolds)
III. Bishop Scanlan's Attitude
HOW!
A Discourse delivered in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, 1903, replying tocertain strictures by the Presbyterian Gener