CONCLUSION. After carefully examining the evidence, we have come to the conclusion that the "Defence'" is probably a spurious work, written sometime after 1887- i.e., after David Whitmer's pamphlet appeared. Until an original copy or a contemporary reference to it is found, we must regard it as spurious.

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