“A Fool's Bolt Is Soon Shot.”

The following very sage selection, by some wise-acre of Massachusetts, appeared in a late 'Boston Bee:'

A False Mormon Prophesy.-Mr. Editor:-In the Book of Mormon, second edition, commencing on page 526, occurs a prophesy; in the course of which the Prophet Smith is brought into view, and the following prediction is made concerning him:-

'But behold the life of my servant shall be in my hand; therefore they shall not hurt him; although he shall be marred because of them. Yet I will heal him; for I will show unto them that my wisdom is greater than the cunning of the devil.'

Happening to be familiar with Mormon books I thought I would transcribe the above passage for publication, in order to show how it squares with the violent death of Smith.

An Observer.

This 'marring' which was to take place before he brought the words of the book forth to the Gentiles, happened near the hill Cumorah, when Joseph Smith was knocked down with a handspike, and afterwards healed almost instantly! The second time he was marred, can be seen by reading the 'Times and Seasons' of August 15th, 1844; when his flesh was scratched off, and he tarred and feathered. He was again healed instantly, fulfilling the prophesy twice. But lest the uncircumcised Philistines should triumph, we wish that 'An Observer' would read the following paragraph in the 6th chapter of the first book of Nephi, page 54, in said Book of Mormon. 'Come ye near unto me; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was declared, have I spoken; and the Lord God and his spirit hath sent me. And thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer, the Holy One (Jesus Christ) of Israel; I have sent him; [Joseph Smith] the Lord thy God who teacheth thee to profit; who leadest thee by the way thou shouldst go, has done it. O that thou [the Gentiles] hadst hearkened to my commandments, then had thy peace been as a river, and righteousness as the waves of the sea: thy seed also had been as the sand: the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof:-his name [Joseph Smith's] should not have been cut off, nor destroyed from before me.'

Perhaps Isaiah in the 48th chapter and other places, might have mentioned the fact that his name was cut 'off.' Read and reflect, for there are more true prophesies in the Bible and Book of Mormon, than the sects and sinners ever dreamed of. Remember that.