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==''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"==
''A Letter to Those Who Have Attended Mormonite Preaching'':
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He declared that an angel was sent from God to make known to him the place in which the book was concealed,—that he searched and found the same,—that the words were engraved on plates of gold in a language which no man understood,—and that two large jewels resembling diamonds were given to him, which, being applied to the eyes, like spectacles, enabled him to get at the meaning and translate the Book of Mormon into English. These jewels were, he said, the Urim and Thummim of the Old Testament.<ref>''A Letter to Those Who Have Attended Mormonite Preaching'' (London: J. B. Bateman, 1840), 1–4.</ref>
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