Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Joseph Smith was born on December 23, 1805, in Vermont, on the border between the villages of South Royalton and Sharon, to Lucy Mack Smith and her husband Joseph Smith Sr., a merchant and farmer. [6] He was one of eleven children. At the age of seven, Smith had a bone infection and, after receiving surgery, used crutches for three years. [7]
A 21st-century artistic representation of Joseph Smith translating the golden plates by examining a seer stone in his hat. In 1823, Smith said that an angel told him of the existence of golden plates along with "two stones in silver bows" fastened to a breastplate that the angel said God had prepared for translating the plates. [25]
Stained glass depiction of Joseph Smith's First Vision, completed in 1913 by an unknown artist (Church History Museum, Salt Lake City).. The First Vision (also called the grove experience by members of the Community of Christ) refers to a theophany which Latter Day Saints believe Joseph Smith experienced in the early 1820s, in a wooded area in Manchester, New York, called the Sacred Grove.
[16] Emma Smith, Joseph Smith's wife and scribe for part of the Book of Mormon, made a clear distinction between the two in an 1870 letter, "The first that my husband translated, was translated by the use of the Urim, and Thummim [i.e. spectacles or interpreters], and that was the part that Martin Harris lost, after that he used a small stone ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
For Joseph Smith's wife Emma, it was an excruciating ordeal," the essay, part of a collection issued over the past year, said. The church, founded in 1830, banned polygamy in 1890 when the U.S ...
Joseph Smith reportedly guided local seer Samuel T. Lawrence to the hill, where the two used a seer stone to view the golden plates; Lawrence reportedly was the first to see a pair of spectacles in addition to the plates. [220] Oliver Cowdrey, one of the Three Witnesses, was a distant relative of Joseph Smith who also engaged in divination. [221]
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company Historians date the oldest photograph to 1826 France. At least that's the oldest one that we know of today. That's when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce started ...