Footnotes
[1]. Wentworth letter, Millennial Star, vol. 19, p. 118.
[2]. Wentworth letter, History of the Church, vol. IV, ch. 31.
[3]. Book of Mosiah 8:13.
[4]. The above statement was made by Oliver Cowdery, at a special conference held at Kanesville, Iowa, Oct. 21, 1848. It was first published in the Deseret News of April 13, 1859: Bishop Reuben Miller, who was present at the meeting, reported Cowdery's remarks.
[5]. From An Address to all Believers in Christ, by David Whitmer, A Witness to the Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon, published at Richmond, Missouri, 1887, p. 12.
[6]. Harris' Statement to Edward Stevenson, Millennial Star, vol. 44, p. 87.
[7]. Cannon's Life of Joseph Smith, p. 56.
[8]. Nearly all the anti-"Mormon" works dealing with the coming forth of the Book of Mormon speak of the "Seer Stone" and reiterate the falsehood that the Prophet stole it from the children of Willard Chase, for whom Joseph and Hyrum were digging a well.
[9]. Statement of Martin Harris, to Edward Stevenson, Millennial Star, vol. 44, pp. 86, 87.
[10]. Harris' Statement to Edward Stevenson, Millennial Star, vol. 44, pp. 78, 79; 86, 87.
[11]. Address to All Believers in Christ, p. 30.
[12]. Braden and Kelley, Debate on Divine Origin of Book of Mormon, p. 186. The above debate took place in 1884, several years before the death of David Whitmer, and the statement from which the above is taken was quoted in full.
[13]. D. & C., sec. 8:1-3, 11.
[14]. D. & C., sec. 9:7-9.
[15]. Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy, vol. II, pp. 397-399.
[16]. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Sunday, March 19, 1905—The discourse is published at length.
[17]. Acts 4:13.
[18]. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary, Acts 4:13.
[19]. International Commentary of the New Testament, Acts 4.
[20]. Jeremiah 23:28.
[21]. The manner of translating the Book of Mormon above set forth, gave rise to considerable discussion within the Church, and led to the publication of a number of papers in the Improvement Era, a monthly magazine published in Utah, in defense of the views here advocated. These papers were finally collected and published in the author's Defense of the Faith and the Saints, vol. I, pp. 255-311, to which the reader is referred for a more exhaustive consideration of the question above discussed. Moreover, this whole question was subsequently reviewed at a meeting of the First Presidency and the Twelve Apostles, and accepted as the most reasonable explanation that had been offered on the subject of the translation of the Book of Mormon, and its publication approved.—Roberts.