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Smith, a youthful farmhand, reported that an angel named Moroni had showed him some golden tablets that had been buried near Palmyra, N.Y. The tablets were in an unknown language, "reformed Egyptian hieroglyphics," and Smith could read them only by peering through two miraculous stones* that the angel gave him. The 522-page Book of Mormon declares that the New World's Indians were actually Jews who sailed from the Near East in the 6th century B.C., and that they were later visited by Jesus Christ after his resurrection...
...time, Smith dictated his translation in a quasi-King James English to various scribes, who never saw the golden tablets during the process. Three "witnesses," however, wrote a testimony that they were shown the tablets by an angel, and eight added that they had handled them. The angel Moroni, it was said, eventually carried the tablets off to heaven...
French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing accepted the move "with serenity." Not so the islanders, who suddenly saw millions of French francs retreating along with French authority. Last week while Abdallah was away from the capital city of Moroni, the opposition leader and a force of 50 men took over the radio and TV station and caught Abdallah's Territorial Guard totally by surprise. "The mouthings of that man [Abdallah] are henceforth meaningless," declared Comoro's new chief, Prince Said Ibrahim Jaffar, who promised to restore close ties with France within the framework of independence...
...tours of the temple, which one Washington newsman has called "a bleached Emerald City of Oz," should certainly accomplish that. Although the exterior of the temple is striking-288 ft. tall from the ground to the tip of the Angel Moroni's trumpet and encased in 173,000 sq. ft. of gleaming white Alabama marble-the interior does not inspire awe. Divided into dozens of rooms on nine levels, the temple has nothing comparable to the great nave and towering sanctuary of a traditional Christian cathedral. Indeed, the Mormon temple is not built for regular worship (that purpose...
...Baptism. Mormon interest in genealogy stems from the religion's status as a recent or "latterday" faith. Christ's Gospel, in Mormon belief, was lost in ancient times through man's wickedness and was not restored until Joseph Smith received his golden plates from the Angel Moroni in upstate New York in 1823. But the acceptance of the "restored Gospel," and baptism in the True Church that proclaimed it, was considered necessary to earn the highest reward after the resurrection, the "celestial kingdom." Some way, then, had to be found to bring into that kingdom those ancestors...