Mormonism: its leaders and designs./ By John Hyde.

EDUCATION.
the writings of Abraham, while he was in Egypt, called the
Book of Abraham, written by his own hand on papyrus."
This was received with especial unction by the devout. Although evidently the work of the same hand as the Book of
Mormon, Smith had somewhat improved himself in the use
of words. It contains several singular engravings, a chart
of astronomy, and is altogether quite unique. The Apocalypse of St. John occupied the attention of Smith, and he
composed "A Key to the Book of Revelations." The Biblestudent would be startled at some of its views. As Smith
had to labor to sustain his reputation as a prophet, accordingly, in December, 1830, he issued a Revelation, pretending
to contain a "prophecy of Enoch," "A revelation of the
gospel to Adam after he was driven out of the Garden of
Eden." These, which are of course morceaux choisies to the
Church, have been collected and bound together into a little
work called the " Pearl of Great Price."
But, happily for the Church, they are not at all limited to
their leyes scriptse. O. Hyde, at Iowa, taught that "these
books were only our school-books, and as boys put away
their elementary books, so Saints should learn to put away
and live above these." This is very convenient doctrine, as
too close a scrutiny in their book of Smith's Revelations,
proves him a very singular prophet; showing that Missouri
was Zion; then Nauvoo was Zion; then Mormon salvation
depended on building "Smtith's Tavern," and as it was ilot
built, all the Mormons must be damned, according to Smith!
And now Missouri is not Zion, and Nauvoo is not Zion, al though they were both to be "eternal habitations for my
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