Alva Hale comments on Joseph's use of seer stones.
- Type
- Affidavit
- Source
- Alva Hale Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- Scribed Paraphrase2nd Hand
- Reference
Alva Hale, in E.D. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed: Or, a Faithful Account of that Singular Imposition and Delusion, From Its Rise to the Present Time (Painesville: 1834), 268
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
Alva Hale, son of Isaac Hale, states, that Joseph Smith Jr. told him that his (Smith's) gift in seeing with a stone and hat, was a gift from God," but also states "that Smith told him at another time that this "peeping" was all d—d nonsense. He (Smith) was deceived himself but did not intend to deceive others; —that he intended to quit the business, (of peeping) and labor for his livelihood.
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