“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 would shine.”
David Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ (Richmond, MO: Self Published, 1887), 12.
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