By Jerald and Sandra Tanner

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In the first issue of the Messenger we proved that the Mormon Church leaders are trying to suppress Wilford Wood’s photo-offset reprint of the first edition of the Book of Commandments, Doctrine and Covenants and Book of Mormon. We reproduced a letter from the Deseret Book Store in which the following statement appeared:

Thank you for your letter ordering Joseph Smith Begins His Work Vol. 1 & 2 by Wilford Wood. We are sorry to inform you that these two books are no longer available.

We also quoted an employee of the Deseret Book Store as saying: “President David O. McKay won’t let us sell that anymore.” The same employee also stated:

We’ve had several people leave the Church because of those books. The priest and ministers of the other churches are using these books to confuse people. Because of the confusion we can’t sell them anymore. President McKay has taken them out of circulation.

The reason the Mormon Church is trying to suppress these books is that the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith’s revelations have been changed. On May 8, 1965, we called the Deseret Book Store on the phone to find out if they were still suppressing the sale of these books, and also to find out if they were giving the same reason for not selling them. The answer was that they are “out of print.” Of course, this statement is completely untrue. In a letter dated October 27, 1964, Wilford Wood stated: “There are plenty of books, both volumes and always will be.”

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