(Chart 17)

 

EXPOSE JOSEPH SMITH IF AN IMPOSTOR

 

"IF JOSEPH SMITH WAS A DECEIVE,...THEN HE SHOULD BE EXPOSED; HIS CLAIMS SHOULD BE REFUTED, AND HIS DOCTRINES SHOWN TO BE FALSE, FOR THE DOCTRINES OF AN IMPOSTOR CANNOT BE MADE TO HARMONIZE IN ALL PARTICULARS WITH DIVINE TRUTH.  iF hIS CLAIMS AND DECLARATIONS WERE BUILT UPON FRAUD AND DECEIT, THERE WOULD APPEAR MANY ERRORS AND CONTRADICTIONS, WHICH WOULD BE EASY TO DETECT."

(Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, I:188)