Martin Harris told Anthony Metcalf that Joseph used a stone in a hat and would spell out the English words.
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- Book
- Source
- Anthony Metcalf Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- 2nd HandLate
- Reference
Anthony Metcalf, Ten Years before the Mast. Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea. Religious Customs of the People of India and Burmah’s Empire. How I Became a Mormon and Why I Became an Infidel (Malad City, Idaho: n.p., 1888), 70–71
- Scribe/Publisher
- Anthony Metcalf
- Audience
- Reading Public
PDF- Transcription
He told me all about the translating of the Book of Mormon, and said he had given $5,000 towards its publication. He said: “I never saw the golden plates, only in a visionary or entranced state. I wrote a great deal of the Book of Mormon myself, as Joseph Smith translated or spelled the words out in English. Sometimes the plates would be on a table in the room in which Smith did the translating, covered over with a cloth. I was told by Joseph Smith that God would strike him dead if he attempted to look at them, and I believed it.”
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