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+ | |sublink1=Levi O. C. Nicklin (18 Jan 1841): "To prove the divinity of the book he assured us that a prophecy, and the description of certain cities in South America were accurately laid down" | ||
+ | |sublink2=Parley P. Pratt (Feb 1841): "What heart can be so indifferent as not to wish to peruse the record of half a world?" | ||
+ | |sublink3=Benjamin Winchester (1 Mar 1841): "The antiquities of America spread from the great lakes of the North and the West to Central America, and the Southern parts of Peru on the South" | ||
+ | |sublink4=Walter Scott (1 May 1841): "Having already shown that the Book of Mormon describes the christian religion as being on the Western Continent..." | ||
+ | |sublink5=Times and Seasons (15 Jun 1841): "We feel great pleasure in laying before our readers the following interesting account of the Antiquities of central America" | ||
+ | |sublink6=Book of Mormon and the Mormonites (Jul 1841): "The history of the settlements of the emigrants in North and South America" | ||
+ | |sublink7=Millennial Star (2 Jul 1841): "Canada on the north, Oregon on the West, Mexico on the south, together with all the tribes in central and South America" | ||
+ | |sublink8=Times and Seasons (15 Jul 1841): "I have always thought that there had been a more enlightened people on this continent, than the present Indians" | ||
+ | |sublink9=Chas. W. Wandell (27 Jul 1841): "in speaking of the writing found on the ruins of the stone city found in Mexico" | ||
+ | |sublink10=Christian Advocate and Journal (29 Jul 1841): "This little band, after wandering long and far, came at last to America, and planted themselves in the western part of the present State of New York" | ||
+ | |sublink11=Wilford Woodruff (13 Sep 1841): "a flood of testimony in proof of the book of mormon in the discovery & survey of the city Copan" | ||
+ | |sublink12=Parley P. Pratt (15 Nov 1841): "with it their prophecies and their testimony of Jesus as the risen Messiah and the Saviour of the world, not of Asia only, but of America also" | ||
+ | |sublink13=Times and Seasons (15 Nov 1841): "The bible was written by a people upon the Eastern continent, but the Book of Mormon by a people upon this continent" | ||
+ | |sublink14=Joseph Smith (16 Nov 1841): "I received your kind present...of all histories that have been written pertaining to the antiquities of this country it is the most correct" | ||
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