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They forgot the Labadists performing their rites under cover of the thick Maryland night or the angel Moroni revealing the gold plates of Mormon to Joseph Smith in the hills south of Lake Ontario...
Last week on Cumorah's hillside the pageant was twice repeated to audiences that totaled 35,000. They jam-packed the fields at the foot of the hill with their cars. In the prelude they saw a re-enactment of Moroni's first appearance to Joseph Smith. With trumpeters on the hilltop and incidental music from Wagner and Victor Herbert, the pageant then unfolded...
Mount Sinai of Mormonism is the Hill Cumorah, a red-clay glacial hump near Palmyra in western New York. On Hill Cumorah, in September 1827, the Angel Moroni handed down the Word to a strapping, 21-year-old farmer-visionary named Joseph Smith, in the form of a book written on golden plates and a Urim and Thummim (stones fastened in silver bows) which enabled him to translate it. The result of Seer Smith's labors was the Book of Mormon, which ever since has been the treasured gospel of the sect he founded, the Church of Jesus Christ...
Prophet Smith was without honor in his own county. His neighbors, hearing of his discovery, were more anxious to get the gold than the gospel. When Joseph Smith explained he had returned his treasure to Moroni, mobs dug up most of Hill Cumorah without finding the plates-which have since been as elusive as the Holy Grail. Irate, they drove Prophet Smith out of New York...
...back from unbelievers the farms of Joseph Smith, Martin Harris (who mortgaged his house to pay for the first printing* of the Book of Mormon) and Hill Cumorah itself. Five years ago Mormons erected a granite shaft on Hill Cumorah, topped it with a large statue of Moroni. On the slopes of the hill each summer they put on a pageant...