Episode 04 – Slide 78

Footnote“It is well known that Jo Smith never pretended to have any communion with angels, until a long period after the pretended finding of his book, and that the juggling of himself or father, went no further than the pretended faculty of seeing wonders in a “peep...

Episode 04 – Slide 77

FootnoteThe same “seer stone in the hat method” was later used for dictation of the Book of Mormon, as described by Isaac Hale, Smith’s father-in-law.

Episode 04 – Slide 73

FootnoteThis quote is from the March 20, 1826, trial in Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York. Daniel S. Tuttle, Episcopal Bishop of Salt Lake City, discovered the account and reported it in an article entitled “Mormonism” in A Religious Encyclopedia: Or Dictionary of...

Episode 04 – Slide 72

Footnote“A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence.” Wikipedia (July 15, 2012)

Episode 04 – Slide 70

FootnoteComplete quote: “Says that he came from town of Palmyra, and had been at the house of Josiah Stowel in Bainbridge most of time since; had small part of time been employed in looking for mines, but the major part had been employed by said Stowel on his farm,...