Without Disclosing My True Identity
Royal Skousen, “Book of Mormon Manuscripts,” in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., ed.
Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan, 1992) 1:185–6; and
Dean C. Jessee, “The Original Book of Mormon Manuscript.” BYU Studies 10 (1970): 259–78.
(^20) Matthew 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:38.
(^21) “In June 1829, the translation of the Book of Mormon was finished. * In August, 1829, ...[t]he
Book of Mormon was still in the hands of the printer” (Whitmer, 30, 32.) See also DHC, 1:71, 74–5.
(^22) “The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon,” Improvement Era, Nov. 1899: 64–
5, 390. See also “Nauvoo House PDF,” Nauvoo House, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA, 2011. Mormon
Historic Sites Foundation. 16 May 2011
http://www.mormonhistoricsitesfoundation.org/USA/illinois/nauvoo/nauvooHouse/complete.pdf;
Robert J. Woodford, “Discoveries from the Joseph Smith Papers Project: The Early
Manuscripts,” in The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context, ed. Andrew H. Hedges, J. Spencer
Fluhman, and Alonzo L. Gaskill (Provo and Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young
University, and Deseret Book, 2008) 23–39.
(^23) See D&C, section 6, especially 16–19, 22–7, and 35–6.
(^24) “The most singular evidence in support of Joseph Smith’s claim to being a spokesman for
Almighty God was the publication of a scriptural record, the Book of Mormon.” Ezra Taft Benson,
“Joseph Smith: Prophet to Our Generation,” Ensign, Mar. 1994: 2. (“From an address given by
President Benson in general conference on 4 October 1981.”) Also compare BOM, 2 Nephi 3:17–20;
Exodus 4:16.
(^25) See Whitmer’s Address, 31–2. “Joseph...enquired of the Lord...and behold the following
revelation came through the stone: ‘Some revelations are of God: some revelations are of man: and some
revelations are of the devil.’ ...As we have seen, some revelations are of God and some are not. In this
manner, through Brother Joseph as ‘mouth piece’ [sic] came every revelation to establish new doctrines
and offices which disagree with the New Covenant in the Book of Mormon and New Testament!”
(^26) Lucy Smith, Progenitors, 156. See also Tim Barker, “Lucy Harris vs. Joseph Smith: The 1829
Proceedings,” LDS Studies. 26 Apr. 2010. Tim Barker. 17 May 2011 http://lds-
studies.blogspot.com/2010/04/lucy-harris-vs-joseph-smith-1829.html.
(^27) Noah Webster’s First Edition of An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828), at
“FRA” 12 May 2011 http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/search/word,fraud.
(^28) “fraud,” Black’s Law Dictionary, Abridged 6th ed., 1990.
(^29) “fraud,” The Free Dictionary by Farlex, 2011, Farlex, Inc., 17 May 2011 http://legal-
dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/fraud.
(^30) D&C, 104:48; 78:3–5; 105:29; PGP, Moses 7:18.
(^31) See Acts 2:44–5.
(^32) See BOM, 4 Nephi 1:3.
(^33) PGP, Moses 7:18.
(^34) D&C, 84:27.
(^35) Contrast with DHC, 1:48–9, 109, which first reference states “In the beginning of the month
of June” and last reference reads, “Mr. Whitmer...invited us to go and live with him; and during the
last week in August we arrived at Fayette.”
(^36) “Joseph Smith had come to stay at the Whitmer home...to escape persecution in
Pennsylvania.” Joseph Smith-Peter Whitmer Farm, Fayette, 2010, Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 17 May 2011
http://josephsmith.net/josephsmith/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=01e868f0374f1010VgnVCM1000001f5e34
0aRCRD.
(^37) “Peter Whitmer, Sr.,” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 12 Jan. 2010, Wikimedia Foundation,
Inc., 18 May 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Whitmer.
(^38) BOM, Introduction, “The Testimony of Eight Witnesses.”
(^39) BOM, 1 Nephi 4:13.
(^40) PGP, Abraham 2:24.