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EDITOR'S TABLE. 781 Prophet of God, who resent every insinuation against his characer, and who shrink not from the world's enmity which the Prophet Joseph Smith's claim to have received a dispensation from heaven has called forth. Again, Mr. Smith, it is proved that your assertions are untrue. It is painful to have to convict you of being a wilful perverter of facts, and also a persecutor, without excuse, of those who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which your grandfather was the instrument of bringing into existence, and which has remained intact ever since, under the successive presidencies of Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, and Joseph F. Smith, all truthful men; but you are guilty of bearing false witness, and your unrepentant persistence in wrongdoing impels me to press the charge to judgment. Ephraim. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. The Stick of Ephraim. Why is the Book of Mormon called the Stick of Ephraim, when it is understood to have been written by the descendents of Lehi who was a descendant of Manasseh? (See Ezekiel 37:16; Doctrine and Covenants Sec. 27:5). The Book of Mormon refers to Lehi's colony as made up of descendants of Manasseh and Ephraim. Lehi was a descendant of Manasseh, and Ishmael, of Ephraim. In the Manual for 1903-4, (page 95) it is shown that there are promises in the Hebrew scriptures respecting Ephraim, which cannot be realized, so far as we know, except through the seed of Ephraim dwelling upon the land of America. Since Lehi was of Manasseh, and Mulek's colony were Jews, it leaves Ishmael alone to introduce the descendants of Ephraim into the western world. The intermarriage of the families of Lehi and Ishmael effectually accomplished this. President Franklin D. Richards, and other Latter-day Saints acquainted with the Prophet Joseph, have declared, to this writer's personal knowledge, that in conversation they had known him to