Messrs. Wells and Pratt Invited to a Public Discussion

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DEC. 1ST, 1874.

Messrs. Orson Pratt and Daniel H. Wells;

SIRS: In pursurance of our mission to Utah to preach the gospel of Christ and to reclaim the Latter Day Saints from error, and false doctrines into which they have been led; among which are the following:

1st. That Adam is God, "and the only God with whom we have to do," as taught by Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol, 1, p. 50, and elsewhere.

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We therefore invite you both, or either of you, to come forward and discuss publicly with us, or one of us, the above principles and doctrines of your faith If those principles are true and divine, all ought to know it; if they are false and pernicious, all ought also to know that.

And more specially is this course proper, since, in this country almost all great questions of the hour are publicly discussed.

Of course you will affirm these propositions; but that the laboring oar may be equally shared by us, we in denying the first propositoin, will affirm and undertake to prove, that Adam worship is idolatry, equal to that of the worship of Baal.