[8]. D. and C. 13.
[9]. Hist. Ch. Vol. 1 pp. 39-42, Note.
[10]. David Whitmer's Statement to Orson Pratt and Joseph F. Smith, Mill. Star, Vol. 40, p. 772.
[11]. Hist. Ch., Vol 1, pp. 145, 146. Note.
[12]. Sidney Ridgon had never so much as seen the Book of Mormon, until several months after it was published, when a copy of it was handed to him in Northern Ohio, by Parley P. Pratt, one of the Elders of the Lamanite Mission. Parley and Sidney corroborate each other in their separate accounts of this incident. Moreover Sidney's acquaintance with Joseph Smith did not begin until almost a year after the Book of Mormon came forth. Yet he was charged with creating it, with converting a religious history into a secular romance entirely dissimilar in character and style from the Nephite record—a romance written by one Solomon Spaulding. A full account of this discredited theory of the origin of the Book of Mormon may be found in George Reynolds' "Myth of the Manuscript Found," and in "Whitney's History of Utah," Vol. 1, pp. 46-56.
[13]. D. and C. 76:11, 12, 14. See also Article Forty, this Series.
[14]. Hist. Ch. Vol. 1, pp. 271, 272.
[15]. See Article Twenty-four.
[16]. 3 Nephi 2:14-16.
[17]. Hist. Ch. Vol. 2, pp. 79, 80.