Word: god
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Moroni told Joe the location of a set of golden plates in a cave near Palmyra. With them would be found a code key, or Urim and Thummim. Four years later, Joe, a giant weighing almost 200, began translating the plates.* He dictated to a schoolteacher named Oliver Cowdery. God, said Joe, had revealed that Cowdery was to put the revelations into fit English. To a prosperous farmer named Harris he transmitted God's revelation that he was to back their publication. (Meanwhile he had convinced a pretty, standoffish girl named Emma that God said she was to marry...
Thus originated the Book of Mormon and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Vardis Fisher, a descendant of the Mormons, last week made into a brilliant 769-page Harper Prize Novel, Children of God, this story of Mormons and of their two famed leaders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young...
CHILDREN OF GOD-Vardis Fisher-Harper...
...warm spring day in 1820 a tall, towheaded, 14-year-old farm boy named Joseph Smith stumbled into his parents' log cabin at Palmyra, N. Y., looking as though he had seen a ghost. He had just talked with God in an oak grove. "And it came to pass," reported ragged Joe, "that the Son spake unto me, saying, 'verily, verily, I say unto you, my servant Joseph, that a new church will be established in these latter days and you will be my prophet...
...Prophet Smith always insisted that Mormon troubles were payment for their sins. He rarely approved armed resistance, since God would or would not protect them...