"A Presbyterian" describes the translation as Joseph looking into a small stone and reading the will of the Lord.
- Type
- Letter
- Source
- "A Presbyterian" Non-LDS
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- DirectReprint
- Reference
"A Presbyterian," Letter, February 22, 1831, Independent Messenger, (Worcester, Massachusetts), 1 no. 24 (June 17, 1831): 96
- Scribe/Publisher
- Independent Messenger
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
He [Joseph Smith] has 10 years’ translating to do; he looks in a small stone he has, and there reads the will of the Lord and writes it for the good of his fellow-men; he can read a person’s heart by looking in his face.
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