“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 Book of Answers: The 25th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, “The Hiram Page Stone: A Lesson in Church government” (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1996), 87.