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Episode 04 – Slide 189
Episode 04 – Slide 188
Footnotehttp://user.xmission.com/~research/early/court1830.htm [Abram W. Benton], “Mormonites”, Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate (Utica, New York) 2 (April 9, 1831): 120, emphasis omitted.
Episode 04 – Slide 187
Episode 04 – Slide 186
FootnoteFrom The Amboy Journal, Amboy, Illinois, Wednesday, April 30, 1879, page 1. MORMON HISTORY. A NEW CHAPTER, ABOUT TO BE PUBLISHED, Statements of Joseph and Hiel Lewis, sons of Rev. Nathaniel Lewis, concerning what they saw and heard of the sayings and doings of...
Episode 04 – Slide 185
FootnoteJoseph Smith’s earliest account states that he received the words or read them through spectacles. His 1832 account records that “the Lord had prepared spectacles for to read the Book” (Dean C. Jessee, ed., The Papers of Joseph Smith: Autobiographical and...
Episode 04 – Slide 184
Footnote“Gold Bible, No. 6”, The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 2, no. 16 (19 March 1831): 126–27. “Harris declares, that when he acted as amanuenses, and wrote the translation, as Smith dictated, such was his fear of the Divine displeasure, that a screen (sheet) was...
Episode 04 – Slide 183
FootnoteOrsamus Turner (1851): “The projectors of the humbug being destitute of means for carrying out their plans, a victim was selected to obviate that difficulty. Martin Harris was a farmer of Palmyra, the owner of a good farm, and an honest, worthy citizen; but...
Episode 04 – Slide 182
FootnoteSaints’ Herald of October 1st, 1879, in an article headed “Last Testimony of Sister Emma” http://sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/sain1872.htm Edward Stevenson (1881), “One of the Three Witnesses,” reprinted from Deseret News, 30 Nov. 1881 in Millennial Star, 44...