The Daily Enquirer reports that the Spaulding theory is still being taught.

Date
Oct 23, 1897
Type
News (traditional)
Source
Provo Daily Enquirer
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Journalism
Reference

The Daily Enquirer, October 10, 1897

Scribe/Publisher
Provo Daily Enquirer
People
Brigham Young, E. P. Parker, Provo Daily Enquirer, Joseph Smith, Jr., Solomon Spaulding
Audience
General Public
PDF
Transcription

The Solomon Spaulding story of the Book of Mormon is not yet dead. Rev. E. P. Parker preached a sermon at Hartford, Conn., last Sunday, wherein he said that to three New England men—Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, natives of Vermont, and Solomon Spaulding, who was born in Ashford in this state—the Mormon Church is greatly indebted. Vermont having provided its organization and working force, and the Connecticut man furnishing the brain of its literature. That is, of course, a mistake so far as Spaulding is concerned, as everybody here knows. The Spaulding manuscript, when discovered, was far different from the Book of Mormon.

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