. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. ates into his hands on the morning ofSeptember 22, 1827. These plates, he assures us, had theappearance of gold, being in size aboutsix by ei
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. ates into his hands on the morning ofSeptember 22, 1827. These plates, he assures us, had theappearance of gold, being in size aboutsix by eight inches, and about the thick-ness of tin. They were filled withengravings in Egyptian characters, andbound together in a volume, as the leavesof a book, with three rings runningthrough the whole, the volume being about six inches thick. Withthe plates came a pair of spectacles, the glasses in which beingtransparent were called Urim andThummim; and looking throughthese he was enabled to translate the engravings on the plates, whichrelated to the early history of America, fnnu itt^ first settlementby a tribe who came from the Tower of Babel at the confusion oflanguages, to the beginning of the fifth century of the Christian records on the plates confirmed the appearance of Christ oni-arth and His resurrection, and was especially designed to aid In afuller and more complete understanding of the Bible, and was to be with JOSEPH SMITH, Mormon Prophet and Preacher. In translating the plates. Smith, with the aid of the Btoue spectacles,seated beside a blanket suspended in the room, to hide profane eyesfrom looking upon the inscriptions, read the records upon them,while Oliver Cowdery wrote it as Smith read. When completed, thisbecame the Book of Mormon, which found believers in sufficientnumber to enable Smiths followers to found the Church of the Latter-Day Saints by an organization at Manchester, N. Y., April 6. opinions exist as to the au
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