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==''Times and Seasons'' (15 Sep 1842): "these wonderful ruins of Palenque are among the mighty works of the Nephites"==
<small>NOTE: Page 926 of this issue of the ''Times and Seasons'' states: "The Times and Seasons, Is edited, printed and published about the first fifteenth of every month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOSEPH SMITH."</small>

Although Joseph Smith is listed as the editor at this time, opinions vary on whether it may have actually been either John Taylor or Wilford Woodruff who wrote this unsigned article.<ref>{{JBMS-8-2-9}} <!-- Godfrey --> Godfrey believes that the author was either John Taylor or Wilford Woodruff.</ref> <ref>{{JBMS-14-2-8}} <!-- Clark --> Clark believes that the author was Joseph Smith.</ref> John Taylor later became the editor of ''Times and Seasons''. Regardless of whether it was Joseph Smith, Wilford Woodruff, or John Taylor who wrote this article, its publication occurred prior to the death of Joseph Smith. The subject being discussed is a very popular book by John L. Stephens, ''Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan'', which Joseph Smith read and enjoyed:
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Mr Stephens' great developments of antiquities are made bare to the eyes of all the people by reading the history of the Nephites in the Book of Mormon. ''They lived about the narrow neck of land, which now embraces Central America, with all the cities that can be found.'' Read the destruction of cities at the crucifixion of Christ...Let us turn our subject, however, to the Book of Mormon, where ''these wonderful ruins of Palenque are among the mighty works of the Nephites'':&mdash;and the mystery is solved...Mr. Stephens' great developments of antiquities are made bare to the eyes of all the people by reading the history of the Nephites in the Book of Mormon. They lived about the narrow neck of land, which now embraces Central America, with all the cities that can be found. Read the destruction of cities at the crucifixion of Christ, pages 459-60. Who could have dreamed that twelve years would have developed such incontrovertible testimony to the Book of Mormon?{{ea}}<ref>{{TS1|article=Extract from Stephens' 'Incidents of Travel in Central America'|vol=3|num=22|date=15 September 1842|start=911&ndash;915}} {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=3510&REC=16}}</ref>
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