by Dan Wees | Dec 31, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Ten years ago, it was called heresy for Joseph Smith to be a money digger, and receive revelations; it actually became treason; and the people killed him for it: and now I see hundreds of reverend gentlemen going to dig money. I despise a man who won[’]t dig for...
by Dan Wees | Dec 31, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[T]he seer stone which Joseph Sm{ith} [w.o. “You”] first obtain[e]d He got in an Iron kettle 15 feet under ground[.] He saw it while looking in another seers stone which a person had[.] He went right to the spot & dug & found it.” Brigham Young...
by Dan Wees | Dec 31, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“These treasures that are in the earth are carefully watched, they can be removed from place to place according to the good pleasure of Him who made them and owns them. He has his messengers at his service, and it is just as easy for an angel to remove the minerals...
by Dan Wees | Dec 31, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The revelations in the Book of Commnadments up to June, 1829, were given through the ‘stone,’ through which the Book of Mormon was translated.” David Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ (Richmond, MO: Self Published, 1887),...
by Dan Wees | Dec 31, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I will now give you a description of the manner in which the Book of Mormon was translated. Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light; and in the darkness the spiritual light...
by Dan Wees | Dec 31, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“With the sanction of David Whitmer, and by his authority, I now state that he does not say that Joseph Smith ever translated in his presence by aid of Urim and Thummim, but by means of one dark colored, opaque stone called a ‘Seer Stone,’ which was placed in the...
