I can sum up all the arguments used against Joseph Smith and "Mormonism in a very few words, the merits of which will be found in "OLD JOE SMITH. IMPOSTOR, MONEY DIGGER. OLD JOE SMITH. SPIRITUAL WIFE DOCTRINE. IMPOSTURE. THE DOCTRINE IS FALSE. MONEY DIGGER. FALSE PROPHET. DELUSION. SPIRITUAL WIFE DOCTRINE. Oh, my dear brethren and sisters, keep away from them, for the sake of your never dying souls. FALSE PROPHETS THAT SHOULD COME IN THE LAST DAYS. OLD JOE SMITH. ANTI-CHRIST. MONEY DIGGER, MONEY DIGGER, MONEY DIGGER. And the whole is wound up with an appeal, not to the good sense of the people, but to their unnatural feelings, in a canting, hypocritical tone, and there it ends.


Journal of Discourses (1854), ed. G. D. Watt, Vol. 1, pp. 109–110 (scanned image) - Joseph Smith

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I can sum up all the arguments used against Joseph Smith and Mormonism in a very few words, the merits of which will be found in OLD JOE SMITH....

I can sum up all the arguments used against Joseph Smith and Mormonism in a very few words, the merits of which will be found in OLD JOE SMITH....

I can sum up all the arguments used against Joseph Smith and Mormonism in a very few words, the merits of which will be found in OLD JOE SMITH....

I can sum up all the arguments used against Joseph Smith and Mormonism in a very few words, the merits of which will be found in OLD JOE SMITH....