Smith, Ethan. A Farewell Sermon, delivered at Haverhill, N. H., June 30, 1799. By Ethan Smith. Peacham, Vt.: 1800. 8vo, pp. 27.

—Two Sermons on one subject, delivered at Washington. N. H., on Lord's Day, November 4, 1804, by Ethan Smith, Pastor of the Church in Hopkinton. Texts. Printed at Windsor, Vermont, by Nahum Mower, 1805. 8vo, pp 39.

—Memoirs of Abigail Bailey, (wife of Major Asa Bailey of Landaff, N. H.) with sundry original biographical sketches, by Rev. Ethan Smith, 1815. 12mo, pp. 275.

—Ministers of Christ, made Instruments of Man's Salvation. A sermon delivered at Tinmouth, Vermont, at the Installation of Rev. Stephen Martindale, to the Pastoral charge of the Church of Christ in that place, January 7, 1819. By Ethan Smith, Pastor of a Presbyterian church in Hebron, N. Y. Texts. Rutland: Printed by Fay and Burt. 1819. 8vo, pp. 26.

—The Blessing of Abraham come on the Gentiles. A lecture on Infant Baptism, delivered at Bolton, N. Y., August 3, 1818. Published at the request of the hearers. Second edition. By Ethan Smith, Pastor of the Congregational church in Poultney, Vt. "They are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them." Poultney: Smith & Shute, Printers. 1824. 12mo, pp. 95. (4 Lectures.)

—View of the Hebrews; Exhibiting the Destruction of Jerusalem; the certain Restoration of Judah and Israel; and an address of the Prophet Isaiah, relative to their Restoration. By Ethan Smith, Pastor of a church in Poultney, Vt. Motto. Poultney: Printed and Published by Smith & Shute. 1823. 12mo, pp. 187. Another edition enlarged 1825. pp. 285. Same imprint.

—View of the Trinity. A Treatise on the Character of Jesus Christ, and on the Trinity in Unity of the Godhead; with Quotations from the primitive Fathers. Second edition. By Ethan Smith, Pastor of a church in Poultney, Vt. Poultney: Published and Printed by Smith & Shute. 1824. 12mo, pp. 202.

—Sermon at the Ordination of Harvey Smith as Pastor of the Congregational church at Weybridge, Vt., March 8, 1825. (2.)

Rev. Ethan Smith was born in Belchertown, Mass., December 9 , 1762; and died at Boylston, Mass., August 29, 1849. He was graduated at Dartmouth college 1790; read theology with Drs. Burroughs, of Hanover, and Burton of Thetford, Vt. He was Pastor of various Congregational churches in New Hampshire, New York and Massachusetts, and at Poultney, Vt., 1821 to 1827, which constituted his only residence in Vermont.

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The Mormon, Joe Smith, was born in Sharon, Vt., December 23, 1805, and was treacherously murdered in jail by a mob at Carthage, Hancock County, Ill., June 27, 1844, in defiance of promised protection by Governor Thomas Ford. The parents of Joe Smith were obscure and poor, and when he was ten years of age, the family, consisting of the parents and nine children, moved to Palmyra, N. Y., where Mormonism was developed. Of the Book of Mormon we have gathered the following facts from various sources, but largely from information communicated by J. H. Gilbert, published in the "Detroit Post and Tribune" of December 2, 1877.

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It is now pretty well established that the "Book of Mormon" was written in 1809 to 1812 by Solomon Spalding, a Presbyterian preacher, as a popular religious romance. He sent it to Pittsburgh, where it lay in a printing office several years, he not being able to raise the money to secure the printing of it and after his death it was returned to his widow, about 1824.

By some means, not known, it fell into the bands of Sidney Rigdon, who with Joe Smith concocted the scheme by which it was subsequently brought out as the work of Smith, the dealings with the outside world being manipulated by Hiram, an elder brother of Joe Smith.