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Joseph Smith Receives the PlatesMinerva Teichert, 1947"The same heavenly messenger delivered [the plates] up to me" (Joseph Smith—History 1:59).Moroni Delivers the Gold Plates to Joseph on Hill CumorahLewis A. Ramsey, 1923"I had received such strict charges to keep them safe" (Joseph Smith—History 1:60).Moroni Delivering the Plates to Joseph SmithGary Kapp"There was plates of gold upon which there was engravings which was engraven by Moroni and his fathers the servants of the living God in ancient days" (Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, 12).Joseph Receives Stewardship of the PlatesGary Smith, 1982"[Moroni] delivered them up to me with this charge: that I should be responsible for them" (Joseph Smith—History 1:59).Vision to Joseph SmithClark Kelley Price, 1991"I found the same messenger there, and received instruction and intelligence from him at each of our interviews" (Joseph Smith—History 1:54).Joseph Smith Getting Ready to Take the Gold Plates from the GroundRobert Barrett, 1991"Not far from the top, under a stone of considerable size, lay the plates, deposited in a stone box " (Joseph Smith—History 1:51).Hill CumorahC.C.A. Christensen, 1865
"On the west side of
this hill, not far from the top, under a stone of
considerable size, lay the plates" (Joseph Smith—History 1:51).
Joseph Receiving Golden Plates from Angel MoroniRei Hamon, 1992
"On the
twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-seven . . . [Moroni] delivered them up to me"
(Joseph Smith—History 1:59).
Moroni Appearing to Joseph in His BedroomTom Lovell, 1970"[Moroni] was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me " (Joseph Smith—History 1:33).Lucy Mack Smith Letter to Solomon Mack, 6 January 1831Lucy Mack Smith explains to her brother that Joseph Smith was visited by the angel Moroni and that the Book of Mormon was published.
Perhaps you will enquire
how this revelation came forth. It has been hid up in the
earth fourteen hundred years. It was placed there by
Moro[ni] one of the Nephites. It was engraven upon plates
which have the appearance of gold, he being a prophet of the
Lord and seeing the wickedness of the people and knowing
that they must be destroyed, and also knowing that if the
plates fell into the hands of the Lamanites that they would
destroy them. For they sought to destroy all sacred writings
therefore he hid them up in the earth, having obtained a
promise of the Lord that they should come forth in his own
due time unto the Lord. And I felt to thank my God that he
hath spared my life to see this day. Joseph after repenting
of his sins and humbling himself before God was visited by
an holy Angel whose countenance was as lightning and whose
garments were white above all whiteness and gave unto him
com[m]andme[nts] which inspired him from on high. And gave
unto him [power] by the means of which was before prepared
that he should translate this this book. And by [reading]
this this our eyes are opened that we can see the situation
in which the world now stands. That the eyes of the whole
world are blinded, that the churches have all become
corrupted, yea every church upon the face of the earth that
the Gospel of Christ is no where preached.
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