Te Karere . DAVID WHITMER Three WitnessesShall Behold It 4<¥F your honour please, and gentle-« men of the jury, the attorney onthe opposite side has challenged meto state my connection with JosephSmith and the Book of Mormon: andas I cannot now avoid the responsi-bility, I must admit to you that I amthe very Oliver Covvdery whose nameis attached to the testimony, withothers, as to the appearance of theAngel Moroni; and let me tell youthat it is not because of my good deedsthat I am here, away from the body ofthe Mormon Church, but because Ihave broken the covenants I oncemade, and I was cut
Te Karere . DAVID WHITMER Three WitnessesShall Behold It 4<¥F your honour please, and gentle-« men of the jury, the attorney onthe opposite side has challenged meto state my connection with JosephSmith and the Book of Mormon: andas I cannot now avoid the responsi-bility, I must admit to you that I amthe very Oliver Covvdery whose nameis attached to the testimony, withothers, as to the appearance of theAngel Moroni; and let me tell youthat it is not because of my good deedsthat I am here, away from the body ofthe Mormon Church, but because Ihave broken the covenants I oncemade, and I was cut off from theChurch; but, gentlemen of the have never denied my testimony,which is attached to the Book of Mor-mon, and I declare to you here, thatthese eyes saw the angel. It happenedin the daytime when the sun wasshining brightly in the firmament; notat night when I was asleep. Theseears of mine heard the voice of the OLIVER COVVDERY. MARTIN HARRIS angel, and he told us his name wasMoroni; that the book was true, andcontained the fullness of the Gospel,and we were also told that if we everdenied what we had heard and seen,that there would be no forgiveness forus, neither in this world nor in theworld to come. Now how can I denyit—/ dare not; I zuill not! 78 TE KARERE (These are the words of OliverCowdery in a court room in one of thecounties of the State of Michigan. Hereturned to the Church in 1848, at anme wnen there was nothing ofearthly value to gain in joining ahomeless people on their way to thebarren valleys of the Rocky Moun-tains.) When Martin Harris was out of theChurch, there were many attempts toget him to deny his testimony. On oneoccasion several of his old acquaint-ances made an effort to get him tipsyby treating him to some wine. Whenthey thought he was in a good moodfor talk they put the question verycarefully to him, Well, now, Martin,we want you to be frank and candidwith us in regard to this s
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