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...
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...
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...
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...
