THE REDEEMED HEBREW

In Binghampton, near where this stream of western migration started, came our opening for an approach to the House of Judah. There is in that place a converted Jew, who is converted to Christianity, but not to our Gospel, the true Christianity. He accepts Christ as the Messiah of the Jews, and he publishes a magazine entitled The Redeemed Hebrew. He received a paper from a Jewish Rabbi in Cauadain which the Rabbi set forth his reasons for rejecting Jesus Christ as the Messiah, and concluded that it would be sin for him, and disloyalty to Jehovah for him to accept Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah. The article was published and an invitation extended to Christian ministers to answer the Rabbi; an editorial note accompanied, stating that the paper which should most completely answer the Rabbi would be published in the magazine.

THE RABBI ANSWERED

It may be a bit out of good taste for me to say it, but the paper which I submitted to the magazine was accepted and published as a reply to the Rabbi. After the first article was published I thought it needed a little amplification, and so I sent in a second article, and that, too, was published. Then it seemed to me that we had just reached the threshold of the subject, and there was just a fine opening made for proclaiming our message. God's message to the Jews, as we may gather it from the Book of Mormon; for, as pointed out by President Anthony W. Ivins this morning, the outstanding feature of our Book of Mormon scriptures is that the Book shall be a witness to the Gentiles and especially to the Jews, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and the very Eternal God, manifesting Himself to all nations. That is found, as you all know, on the title page of the Book of Mormon, which the Prophet Joseph Smith declared was not his composition. He found it engraven on the title page of the gold plates.

When I sent this third article to the Editor of The Redeemed Hebrew he informed me that it made thirteen pages of his magazine; and, as he expected to devote the whole magazine to that paper, he said he could publish sixteen pages nearly at the same cost as thirteen, and asked me to supplement what I had written with something further. I did so. When that was published it made eighteen pages instead of sixteen; but he refused to select the part to be cut down, and I did not have the heart to sacrifice any part of it, so the eighteen pages were published.

A PROPHETIC PAGE

In the supplemental matter I sent to him I used what I have before used as a theme, I think in this Tabernacle; namely, "A Prophetic Page of the Book of Mormon." I am sorry that we do not have here one of the older editions of the Book of Mormon, because then I could conscientiously tell you that all the prophecies that I referred to were upon one page of the Book of Mormon, but in our more recent editions, in dividing the pages into two columns for each page, that particular group of prophecies is distributed over two pages. But it only makes sufficient matter for one page, and I think I may still say that it is a prophetic page of the Book of Mormon. Yon will find it now in your current editions on page 101 and page 102; in the older editions it occupied page 122. Of course, I shall not have time to enter into a discussion of all these prophecies of this page—there are five of them; but suffice it to say that the first prophecy predicts that many shall believe in the Book of Mormon; and second, that they shall carry the words of that Book unto the remnants of the land, meaning, of course, the American Indians, descendants of the Nephites and the Lamanites of ancient times; and third, that the remnants of those ancient people shall know their origin, that they are descendants of Israel; the Gospel shall be declared among them, that they shall believe it; the scales of darkness shall fall from their eyes, and before many generations pass away they shall become a white and delightsome people. Then we come to the prophecies that are germane to what I want to tell you. It is declared on this prophetic page:

And it shall come to pass that the Jews which are scattered also shall begin to believe in Christ.