FootnoteComplete quote: “On reading the name of Oliver Cowdry, in support of the divine authenticity of the work, whatever faith we might have been inspired with on reading the certificate, was banished, for we had known Cowdry some seven or eight years ago, when he...
FootnoteLarry E. Morris in The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery, Journal of Book of Mormon Studies: Volume – 16, Issue – 1, Pages: 4-17: “During the monumental and exact year that began on April 7, 1829, when Joseph Smith began dictating the inspired text of the Book of...
FootnoteJoseph Smith first baptized Oliver Cowdery and then Cowdery baptized Joseph Smith. These were the first two baptisms in the Restoration movement. Both Smith and Cowdery performed a few baptisms previous to the organization of the church on 6 April 1830. On...
FootnoteOliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris were selected as “special” witnesses. Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer reported having a vision of an angel and the gold plates. Three days later, Martin Harris reported a vision of the gold plates. Smith then...
FootnoteThis event was first mentioned in 17 September letter for Cowdery to Wiliam W. Phelps. Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate, October 1834, 153. Nine close associates of Smith said the Melchizedek priesthood was not introduced into the Church until 1831,...
FootnoteSource: Oliver Cowdery letter to W.W. Phelps in M&A l (Oct 1834): After writing the account given of the Savior’s ministry to the remnant of the seed of Jacob, upon this continent, . . . it was as easily to be seen, that amid the great strife and noise...
