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Question: What did James Henry Moyle say about his visit to David Whitmer?
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Question: What did James Henry Moyle say about his visit to David Whitmer?
Mr Whitmer conversed and showed to me the papers [of the Book of Mormon manuscript] for 2 1/2 hours. was very kind but had trouble in keeping him on the points in issue. He was some what spiritual in his explanations[.] He was not as materialistic in his descriptions as I wished. ...Mr David Whitmer Senior is now 80 years old. He is some what feeble but claims that he will preserve the
plates<manuscript>....Mr D[avid] Whitmer Sen did not handel the plates. Only seen <saw> them, says Martin Haris and Cowdry did so they say!
Says he did see them and the angel and heard him speak. But that it was indiscribable that it was through the [p. 3] power of God (and was possibly [in the spirit] at least) he then spoke of Paul hearing and seeing Christ but his associates did not. Because it is only seen in the Sprit.
I was not fully satisfied with the ex=planation. It was more spiritual than I anticipated.[1]
Notes
- ↑ David Whitmer Interview with James Henry Moyle, Diary, 28 June 1885 in Dan Vogel (editor), Early Mormon Documents (Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 1996–2003), 5 vols, 5:140-141.