Nutting, John D. The Fraud of the "Inspired Translation" of the Bible. Purporting to have been made by Joseph Smith, 1830-3; first published 1867 by the "Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints", and now urged by it as the best and only correct Bible. Cleveland, Ohio: The Utah Gospel Mission, 1923. First Edition. [11377]
Stapled pamphlet, 17 x 9.5 cm (6 5/8 x 3 3/4 inches), 24 pp., cover fold partly split. Several small facsimile illustrations. Good. Pamphlet.
Flake 5891. An examination of the claims regarding the Mormon "Inspired Translation," with evidence of it being a fraud perpetuated to enforce the claim that Joseph Smith was foretold in the Bible.
John Danforth Nutting (1854-1949), b. Randolph Center, Vermont; d. Cleveland, Ohio. Nutting was educated at Wheaton College and at the Oberlin Theological Seminary, became a Congregational minister, and was pastor of churches in Ohio, Kentucky, and Missouri. His move to Salt Lake City in 1890 to become the minister of the Plymouth Congregational Church in that city led to his study of Mormonism. He founded the Utah Gospel Mission, a Congregational ministry that used the methods of the Mormons to attempt to evangelize members of that sect. Rev. Nutting published dozens of anti-Mormon books and pamphlets.
