Initially, Joseph Smith was the sole witness of the reality of the ancient record (the Gold Plates) from which sprang the Book of Mormon. This was a great burden of loneliness and peculiar solitude for an uneducated man in his twenties. From the fall of 1827 until the summer of 1829 he wasn’t allowed to show the plates to another …
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He lived two centuries ago. Yet with the animosity and attacks on his character today, you would think he was a modern day public figure, stirring up stagnant religious and political waters. Joseph Smith declared that on the night of September 21, 1823, an angel appeared to him telling him “that his name was Moroni” and “that God had a …
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