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+ | In November 1829, in response to an inquiry from New York physician Cornelius C. Blatchly, Oliver Cowdery related his experience of seeing the gold plates just a few months earlier: | ||
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You also wished Mr. Harris to inform you respecting his seeing this book, whether there could not possibly have been some juggling at the bottom of it. A few words on that point may suffice.— It was a clear, open beautiful day, far from any inhabitants, in a remote field, at the time we saw the record, of which it has been spoken, brought and laid before us, by an angel, arrayed in glorious light, [descended] out of the midst of heaven. Now if this is human juggling—judge ye.<ref>Oliver Cowdery letter to Cornelius C. Blatchly, 9 November 1829, quoted in "The New Bible," <i>Gospel Luminary</i> 2, no. 49 (10 December 1829): 194.</ref> | You also wished Mr. Harris to inform you respecting his seeing this book, whether there could not possibly have been some juggling at the bottom of it. A few words on that point may suffice.— It was a clear, open beautiful day, far from any inhabitants, in a remote field, at the time we saw the record, of which it has been spoken, brought and laid before us, by an angel, arrayed in glorious light, [descended] out of the midst of heaven. Now if this is human juggling—judge ye.<ref>Oliver Cowdery letter to Cornelius C. Blatchly, 9 November 1829, quoted in "The New Bible," <i>Gospel Luminary</i> 2, no. 49 (10 December 1829): 194.</ref> |
In November 1829, in response to an inquiry from New York physician Cornelius C. Blatchly, Oliver Cowdery related his experience of seeing the gold plates just a few months earlier:
You also wished Mr. Harris to inform you respecting his seeing this book, whether there could not possibly have been some juggling at the bottom of it. A few words on that point may suffice.— It was a clear, open beautiful day, far from any inhabitants, in a remote field, at the time we saw the record, of which it has been spoken, brought and laid before us, by an angel, arrayed in glorious light, [descended] out of the midst of heaven. Now if this is human juggling—judge ye.[1]
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