Lehi, his wife, and four sons, with ten friends, all from Jerusalem, landed on the coast of Chile. These settlers if) course of time destroyed one another. Riley thinks that the ' caractors ' were automatic writing, and that ' unconscious cerebration played a large part in the evolving of the gold plate scheme.' 2 More than a dozen years afterwards Smith, when asked if ' Mormon ' was not connected with the Greek word for ' hobgoblin' (' Mormo' is thus used in 17th-century English), explained that it meant ' more good,' from the ' Egyptian mon,' ' with the addition of more, or the contraction mor.' professes to give the history of America from its first settlement by a colony of ' Jaredites ' from among the crowd dispersed by the confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel down to the year 5 A.D. He recognized the miscellaneous and haphazard nature of the ' caractors,' of which facsimiles are given by Riley, p. The Book of Mormon, in which Joseph Smith was declared to be God's ' prophet,' with all power and entitled to all obedience, 1 Martin Harris took a copy in Smith's hand of certain ' caractors ' (so Smith spelled it) to Dr Anthon, who at first thought it ' a hoax upon the learned,' but, after hearing the story of the diamond spectacles and that Harris had been asked to pay for the publication of the book, said that it was a fraud on Harris. Soon afterwards, according to Smith, the plates disappeared, being taken away by the angel Moroni. It was accompanied by ' The Testimony of the Three Witnesses,' a sworn statement of Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and Martin Harris that an angel of God had shown them the plates of which the book was a translation, and by ' The Testimony of the Eight Witnesses,' four of them Whitmers and three of them Smiths (Joseph's father and his brothers Hyrum and Samuel).

' MORMONS,was printed early in 1830 in the printing office of the Wayne Sentinel at Palmyra. McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia

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