BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY Adams, George J. A lecture on the authenticity & scriptural character of the Book of Mormon. By G. J. Adams, a minister of the gospel. Delivered at the town hall, Charlestown, Mass on Sunday evening, February 4th, and Wednesday evening, February 7th. Reported and published by his friend C.P.B. Boston: Printed by J. E. Farwell, No. 4 Washington Street. 1844
24 pp. 18 cm.
Adams’s principal point in this lecture is that the Bible predicts and describes the advent of the Book of Mormon, and he bases his argument on Isaiah 28–29, Ezekiel 37:15–19, and Genesis 48–49. This line of reasoning dates to the beginning of Mormon writing. It appears in all its essentials, for example, in W.W. Phelps’s article in The Evening and the Morning Star of January 1833, William Smith’s piece in the Messenger and Advocate of January 1837, the fourth chapter of Voice of Warning, and the Gospel Reflector. (All these titles are in this digital collection).
Excerpted and edited from Peter Crawley, A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church. Volume One, 1830-1847. (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, Religious Studies Center, [1997]). Item 195, p. 237.
Used by permission of the author and the Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University