Eleven (1816)
husband was missing. The early afternoon brought Joseph Sr. home to his family with a
hop, skip, and a jump in his step. As Lucy reported it, “He came in, one day, in quite a
thoughtful mood, and sat down; after meditating some time, he observed that, could he so
arrange his affairs, he would be glad to start soon for New York with a Mr. Howard, who
was going to Palmyra.”^18
Shaping Events to get the Smiths to New York
The time was at hand and Joseph Sr. now had the motivation—without taking away
his free will—to bring his family to the place prepared some 1400 years earlier. Timothy
knew exactly where the gold plates were buried; and it wasn’t near Norwich, Vermont.
They were buried near the city of Palmyra, “convenient (i.e., on the way) to the village of
Manchester, Ontario county, New York.”^19 Advanced beings needed to get the Smith family
to where they were supposed to be; and as now explained, they used whatever means were
necessary to accomplish the purposes they had for their true messenger, Joseph Jr.—
whether it be a volcano or the intervention of one of their semi-mortal servants.
An early frost, failed crops, indignant neighbors, offended creditors, or the lack of
self-esteem and humility of his father—all were subtly manipulated or used by advanced
beings for the benefit of this earth and their purposes for human mortality. Nothing would
keep the young Joseph from being where he needed to be when they needed him to be there.
NOTES
(^1) See the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America.
(^2) E.g., “seeing the forest through the trees” “means something like ‘he’s seeing the details but
not the overall picture’ or, ‘he has all the facts but can’t put them together so they mean something.’”
(“Ginia.” “Wordreference.com Language Forums.” Wordreference.com. 10 Oct. 2005. Jelsoft Enterprises
Ltd. 11 Apr. 2011 http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=57497.)
(^3) “Deist,” Encarta Dictionary, 2009 online ed.: “One who has a belief in God based on reason
rather than revelation and involving the view that God has set the universe in motion but does not
interfere with how it runs. Deism was especially influential in the 17th and 18th centuries.”
(^4) “As a Deist, Franklin had spent most of his life assuming that God did not intercede in the
affairs of mankind. However, his perspective changed after witnessing evidence of divine
intervention on numerous occasions during America’s War for Independence. With the
Constitutional Convention at a stalemate, Franklin called the assembly to daily Christian prayer,
requesting God’s guidance in their deliberations.” (Bryan Hardesty, “The American Testimony |
Book 2: Birth of the Independent Nation (1763–1790),” History2u.com, 2005, EduMedia, 12 Jan. 2012
http://www.history2u.com/book2_independence.htm.
(^5) “In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and
scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto
once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?”
(Benjamin Franklin, as quoted in Catherine Drinker Bowen, Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the
Constitutional Convention May to September 1787 (1966; New York: Bay Back Books, 1986) 125.