Source:Oliver Cowdery:Letter to Cornelius C. Blatchly 9 November 1829:Gospel Luminary:10 December 1829:We saw the record...brought and laid before us by an angel

Oliver Cowdery (1829): "We saw the record...brought and laid before us by an angel"

Oliver Cowdery (1829): "We saw the record...brought and laid before us by an angel"

In November 1829, in response to an inquiry from New York physician Cornelius C. Blatchly, Oliver Cowdery related his experience of seeing the gold plates just a few months earlier:

You also wished Mr. Harris to inform you respecting his seeing this book, whether there could not possibly have been some juggling at the bottom of it. A few words on that point may suffice.— It was a clear, open beautiful day, far from any inhabitants, in a remote field, at the time we saw the record, of which it has been spoken, brought and laid before us, by an angel, arrayed in glorious light, [descended] out of the midst of heaven. Now if this is human juggling—judge ye.