James M'Chesney writes that Joseph found a book hidden in the woods and uses an enchanted stone to translate it.
- Type
- Manuscript
- Source
- James M’Chesney CriticNon-LDS
- Hearsay
- DirectUnsourced
- Reference
James M'Chesney, Supplement to an Antidote to Mormonism, &c. (Brooklyn, 1839), 2-3
- Scribe/Publisher
- James M’Chesney
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
This translation was made by Joseph Smith, Jr., it is said, while this book was hid in the woods, part of the time, where he could see as well to translate as if he had it by him—by means of an enchanted stone placed in a hat put over his face, as we have been informed he done formerly in fortune-telling, &c.
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