by Dan Wees | Jan 16, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“David Whitmer described a decline of confidence in Joseph’s seership when the Prophet announced that he would no longer use the Urim and Thummim or the seerstone in the revelation process.” Dennis A. Wright/BYU religion professor, The Doctrine and Covenants: A...
by Dan Wees | Jan 15, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Jo Smith told me there was a peep-stone for me and many others if we could only find them.” Christopher M. Stafford statement – 23 March 1885, Naked Truths About Mormonism – Volume 2 (Oakland, CA: Arthur B. Deming & Co., April 1888),...
by Dan Wees | Jan 15, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“He [Orson Pratt] asked Joseph [Smith, Jr.] whether he could not ascertain what his mission was and Joseph answered that he would see. & asked Pratt and John Whitmer to go upstairs with him. And arriving there Joseph produced a small stone called a seer stone. And...
by Dan Wees | Jan 14, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“The Seer Stone was the shape of an egg though not quite so large, of a gray cast something like granite but with white stripes running round it. It was transparent but with no holes, neither in the end or in the sides.” Richard M. Robinson (Shown by Lorenzo Snow in...
by Dan Wees | Jan 14, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“The stone was not chocolate brown but rather the color of brown sugar. It was 3-4 inches long, 2 inches wide, and had a hump in the middle which made it perhaps 2 inches thick at the thickest point. It was flat on the bottom and had three black, concentric circles on...
by Dan Wees | Jan 13, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“[Lorenzo Snow] showed me the Seerers Stone that the Prophet Joseph Smith had by which he done some of the Translating of the Book of Mormon with. I handeled [sic] it with my own hands. I felt as though I see & was handling a very Sacred thing. I trust & feel...
