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The witness of Hyrum Smith
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Question: Did Hyrum Smith, one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, every deny having seen the plates?
Hyrum Smith "felt a determination to die, rather than deny the things which my eyes had seen"
Multiple writers recalled Hyrum's testimony:
- [W]ee wass talking about the Book of Mormon which he is one of the witnesses he said he had but too hands and too eyes he said he had seen the plates with his eyes and handled them with his hands.[1]
- "[Mary Fielding Smith] bears testimony that her husband [Hyrum] has seen and handled the plates, &c."[2]
- Another writer heard Hyrum "declare, in this city in public, that what is recorded about the plates, &c. &c. is God's solemn truth."[3]
After being in Liberty Jail, Hyrum wrote:
I felt a determination to die, rather than deny the things which my eyes had seen, which my hands had handled, and which I had borne testimony to, wherever my lot had been cast.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Letter to John Kempton, 26 August 1838, Family History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, microfilm no. 840025.
- ↑ Joseph Fielding, "Letter to Parley P. Pratt," Millennial Star 4 (August 1841), 52.
- ↑ "Mr. J. B. Newhall's Lecture," signed by "A Hearer," Salem Advertiser and Argus, 12 April 1843, some also in Times and Seasons 4 (15 June 1843): 234–235;
- ↑ Hyrum Smith, "To the Saints scattered abroad," Times and Seasons 1 (November 1839), 20, 23. off-site GospeLink