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Last year the so-called Latter Day Saints followers of Joseph Smith, held a meeting and baptized 14 persons at Utleyville, Colorado. This year they held a meeting and several persons planned to join them. Our brethren challenged them for a discussion and advised all who were thinking of joining them to hear the difference between the Church of Christ and Mormonism discussed before they were baptized. All waited. The brethren engaged my services; the Mormons called Apostle J. F. Curtis. The debate began on September 2 and continued for eleven nights.
All the differences between the two churches were threshed out. Curtis had been debating for many years, and has been one of the 12 apostles for fourteen years. They pronounced him their strongest man. This was my twenty eighth debate with Mormons. Curtis claimed he was an inspired apostle. He read his scripture text from a scrapbook and his Bible. He seemed to be afraid to trust his memory or was not an apt Bible student. As I was debating with a man who claimed to be an inspired apostle, like Peter and Paul of old, I by a little extra effort engaged in the entire eleven day's debate without using any sort of help or reading from a scrapbook, and did not open the Bible to read a verse.
The contrast was a withering rebuke to him, and he felt it. His brethren felt it too. Not one of their prospective joiners had the Mormons to baptize them. A lady living several miles from Utleyville came and was baptized into Christ during the discussion. Brethren attended the debate for many miles, some coming as far as 135 miles. The brethren and sisters seemed overjoyed with the results of the debate.
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Bynum Black vs Apostle J. F. Curtis (Latter Day Saints)
October 11, 1923
(By Bynum Black)
October 11, 1923
(By Bynum Black)
Last year the so-called Latter Day Saints followers of Joseph Smith, held a meeting and baptized 14 persons at Utleyville, Colorado. This year they held a meeting and several persons planned to join them. Our brethren challenged them for a discussion and advised all who were thinking of joining them to hear the difference between the Church of Christ and Mormonism discussed before they were baptized. All waited. The brethren engaged my services; the Mormons called Apostle J. F. Curtis. The debate began on September 2 and continued for eleven nights.
All the differences between the two churches were threshed out. Curtis had been debating for many years, and has been one of the 12 apostles for fourteen years. They pronounced him their strongest man. This was my twenty eighth debate with Mormons. Curtis claimed he was an inspired apostle. He read his scripture text from a scrapbook and his Bible. He seemed to be afraid to trust his memory or was not an apt Bible student. As I was debating with a man who claimed to be an inspired apostle, like Peter and Paul of old, I by a little extra effort engaged in the entire eleven day's debate without using any sort of help or reading from a scrapbook, and did not open the Bible to read a verse.
The contrast was a withering rebuke to him, and he felt it. His brethren felt it too. Not one of their prospective joiners had the Mormons to baptize them. A lady living several miles from Utleyville came and was baptized into Christ during the discussion. Brethren attended the debate for many miles, some coming as far as 135 miles. The brethren and sisters seemed overjoyed with the results of the debate.
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