Word: thummim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph Smith found no hidden gold. He did. He found the gold plates upon which the Book of Mormon was inscribed. . . . The symbols found on them were no more mystic than written French to a fourth-grade American schoolboy. Magic Spectacles which you mention [are] undoubtedly the Urim and Thummim, an affair which was worn on the person, much as a telephone operator's mouthpiece, and which is not to be confused with the seer-stone...
...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 of Latter-Day Saints...
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