Footnotes
[1]. History of the Church, vol. I, p. 57.
[2]. Chapter 31.
[3]. This was doubtless Moroni, as he was the custodian of the plates.
[4]. History of the Prophet Joseph, by Lucy Smith, ch. 31.
[5]. History of the Church, vol. I, pp. 18, 19.
[6]. History of the Prophet Joseph, by Lucy Smith, ch. 31.
[7]. History of the Church, vol. I, pp. 54, 55.
[8]. In the first edition of the Book of Mormon where the Testimony appears at the close of the volume instead of at the beginning of the work, as in the current editions, the names stand thus; (second edition the same):—
Christian Whitmer,
Jacob Whitmer,
Peter Whitmer, Jr.,
John Whitmer,
Hiram Page,
Joseph Smith, Sr.,
Hyrum Smith,
Samuel H. Smith;
instead of in a double column as in our current editions. By the way, in passing, it may not be amiss to state that some importance is attached to the arrangement of the names in our current edition, for the reason that if read across the page instead of down the columns, then Page and the members of the Smith family alternate with the Witnesses, supposedly to divert attention from the fact that the witnesses, excepting Hiram Page, were of but two families! Such is the conclusion at least of one profound (!) critic of the Book of Mormon.
[9]. Doc. and Cov., sec. 30.
[10]. Latter-day Saints Biographical Encyclopaedia, p. 278.
[11]. History of the Prophet Joseph, by Lucy Smith, ch. 19.
[12]. History of the Church, vol. I, p. 15.
[13]. See Doc. and Cov., sec. 11.
[14]. Rise and Fall of Nauvoo, p. 146; also History of the Church, vol. II, p. 338.
[15]. Book of Mormon, Ether 12:36-38. Also Doc. and Cov. 135:5.