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{{:Source:John Quincy Adams:The Birth of Mormonism:Even when he put them on, the light became so dazzling that he was obliged to look through his hat}}
{{:Source:David Whitmer:Quoted by Zena H. Gurley:Dialogue:he used a stone called a 'Seers stone,' the 'Interpreters' having been taken away from him because of transgression}}
{{:Source:Nelson:A Treasured Testament:Ensign:July 1993:The details of this miraculous method of translation are still not fully known. Yet we do have a few precious insights}}
{{:Source:A Peaceful Heart:Friend:September 1974:Joseph also used an egg-shaped, brown rock for translating called a seer stone}}
{{:Source:Martin Harris:Interview with Joel Tiffany:1859:The stones were white, like polished marble, with a few gray streaks.}}
{{:Source:Rochester Advertiser:31 August 1829:the Golden Bible was found, together with a huge pair of spectacles}}
{{:Source:The Gem:5 September 1829:By placing the spectacles in a hat and looking into it, Smith interprets the characters into the English language}}
{{:Source:New-York Telescope:20 February 1830:he proceeded to the spot, and found the bible, with a huge pair of spectacles}}
{{:Source:Cincinnati Advertiser:2 June 1830:Smith would put his face into a hat in which he had a white stone, and pretend to read from it}}
{{:Source:Daily Albany Argus:15 October 1831:he found in the same place two stones, with which he was enabled, by placing them over his eyes and putting his head in a dark corner}}
{{:Source:Morning Star:7 March 1833:an angel gave him a pair of spectacles which he put in a hat and thus read and translated}}
{{:Source:Protestant Sentinel:4 June 1834:Joseph Smith, an illiterate young man, unable to read his own name...was reported to have found several golden plates, together with a pair of spectacles}}
{{:Source:New York Weekly Messenger:1835:by putting a plate in his hat, putting two smooth flat stones, which he found in the box, in the hat}}
{{:Source:William Smith:On Mormonism:1883:The manner in which this was done was by looking into the Urim and Thummim, which was placed in a hat}}
{{:Source:Joseph Knight Sr.:Reminiscence, Circa 1835–1847:Now the way he translated was he put the Urim and Thummim into his hat and darkened his eyes}}
{{:Source:The True Latter Day Saints’ Herald:1879:the story of the Urim and Thummim Translation does not date back, for its origin further than 1833}}
{{:Source:Truman Coe:Ohio Observer:1836:looking through the Urim and Thummim, he would see the import written in plain English}}
{{:Source:A Letter to Those Who Have Attended Mormonite Preaching:1840:two large jewels resembling diamonds were given to him, which, being applied to the eyes, like spectacles}}
{{:Source:William Smith:interview by J. W. Peterson and W. S. Pender:1890:By putting his head in a hat or some dark object it was not necessary to close one eye while looking through the stone with the other}}
{{:Source:Edward Stevenson:Deseret News:28 December 1881:the Prophet possessed a seer stone, by which he was enabled to translate as well as from the Urim and Thummim}}
{{:Source:Kenneth W. Godfrey:A New Prophet and a New Scripture:Ensign:January 1988:Once Martin found a rock closely resembling the seerstone Joseph sometimes used in place of the interpreters}}
{{:Source:Emma Smith Bidamon:to Emma Pilgrim:1870:was translated by use of the Urim, and Thummim, and that was the part that Martin Harris lost, after that he used a small stone}}
{{:Source:The True Latter Day Saints’ Herald:15 November 1879:a 'Seer Stone,' which was placed in the crown of a hat, into which Joseph put his face, so as to exclude the external light}}
{{:Source:Zenas H. Gurley:Autumn Leaves:1892:Elder David Whitmer’s idea was that the translation was made by the seers’ stone, as he calls it, not the Interpreters}}
{{:Source:Whitmer:Mormon Relics:The Sunday Inter-Ocean:17 Oct. 1886:a strange oval-shaped, chocolate-colored stone...should serve the same purpose as the missing urim and thummim}}
{{:Source:Matthew Brown:Plates of Gold:167:when he first obtained his personal seerstone he placed it in his hat, and discovered that time, place, and distance were annihilated}}
{{:Source:Joseph Knight Sr.:Reminiscence:1835-1847:he seemed to think more of the glasses or the Urim and Thummim than he did of the plates}}
{{:Source:Joseph Fielding Smith:DOS 3:225–26:It hardly seems reasonable to suppose that the Prophet would substitute something evidently inferior under these circumstances}}
{{:Source:Charles Anthon:to E. D. Howe:1834:the spectacles in question being altogether too large for the breadth of the human face}}
{{:Source:Corrill:A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints:12:1839:the plates and stones of Urim and Thummim were again taken and concealed by the angel for a wise purpose}}
{{:Source:B.H. Roberts:Defense of the Faith and the Saints 1:257:1907:The seer stone...possessed the qualities of Urim and Thummim}}
{{:Source:Dirkmaat:Ensign:January 2013:He...referred to it using an Old Testament term, Urim and Thummim...He also sometimes applied the term to other stones he possessed}}
{{:Source:Oliver Cowdery:MA 1:14:Days never to be forgotten}}
{{:Source:Personal Statement of S. W. Richards:1907:This was done by holding the ‘translators’ over the hieroglyphics, the translation appearing distinctly on the instrument}}
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