Smith's boyhood days! Those Nephite sermons were just such as Smith, in his younger days, would hear. If the "Ah" had been used as filling they would have passed as good old orthodox Baptist sermons. The scenes that were common in exciting meetings seventyfive to one hundred years ago are represented as occurring under the labors of those Nephite preachers. Those that would become concerned would go into trances, and sometimes the preacher would pass under the "powers," and lay for hours in a prostrate condition! The exhortations and prayers used in modern revivals were uttered by preachers and people then, and all were attributed to the working of the Holy Ghost, which, be it understood, was enjoyed in its fulness by these Nephites hundreds of years before the Babe of Bethlehem was born!! In these Nephite meetings they appealed to Jesus who was then known by His given name and hence, known as the one mediator between God and man! As an illustration take the words and actions of that imaginary woman, represented as being a queen. "O blessed Jesus, who has saved me from an awful hell! O blessed God have mercy upon this people. And when she had said this, she clasped her hands, being filled with joy, speaking many words which were not understood."—P. 228: 105, 106. That some woman spoke and acted just as here represented in some of the meetings that Smith attended we can believe, but that any person ever so spoke and acted as represented in the Book of Mormon we cannot believe.
There are several facts that demonstrate this Nephite record to be a falsehood of the deepest dye.
1. Christ was never known by His given name, Jesus, till so named by the angel who appeared to Joseph, the espoused husband of Mary. Said the angel, "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins." "Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife; and knew her not till she had
