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Joseph Smith/Walking on water/CriticalSources
Source(s) of the criticism
- Saturday Courier (Philadelphia), 19 April 1834; citing Independent Messenger [New York?]
- “How a Mormon Preacher Tried to Walk on Water,” Livingston Register (Geneseo, New York) 16, no. 784 (15 January 1839). off-site
- Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 84. ( Index of claims ) Link to Brodie's use
Past LDS response(s)
- Evening and Morning Star (April 1834), 300-1. off-siteGospeLink off-site
- Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate 2:230.—Story of the alleged hoax recounted in the Messenger and Advocate