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Pergunta: O que os associados de David Whitmer dizer sobre o seu personagem?
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Pergunta: O que os associados de David Whitmer dizer sobre o seu personagem?
Ao longo de Richmond, Missouri, os não-mórmons conheciam David Whitmer como um cidadão honesto e confiável
Ao longo de Richmond, Missouri, os não-mórmons conheciam David Whitmer como um cidadão honesto e confiável. Quando um anti-Mórmon deu uma palestra na cidade natal de David, apontando-o como de má reputação, o jornal local (não-mórmon) respondeu com "um fervoroso editorial de primeira página antipático com o mormonismo, mas insistente sobre "os 46 anos de cidadania pessoal sem mancha ou defeito por parte de David Whitmer, em Richmond, . '"[1]
... No ano seguinte, o editor escreveu um tributo sobre o octogésimo aniversário de David Whitmer, que "sem arrependimentos no passado" ainda "reafirma que viu a glória do anjo."
Esta é a questão fundamental da vida de David Whitmer. Durante 50 anos numa sociedade não-mórmon, ele insistiu com o fervor de sua juventude que sabia que o Livro de Mórmon foi divinamente revelado. Relativamente poucas pessoas em Richmond poderia aceitar tal testemunho totalmente, mas nenhuma duvidou de sua inteligência ou honestidade completa. [2]
Another newspaper declared:
- And no man can look at David Whitmer's face for a half-hour, while he charit[abl]y and modestly speaks of what he has seen, and then bodldly and earnestly confesses the faith that is in him, and say that he is a bigot or an enthusiast.[3]
Twenty two non-Mormon citizens signed the following statement, including, Mayor, county clerk, county treasurer, postmaster, revenue collector, county sheriff, two judges, two medical doctors, four bankers, two merchants, and two lawyers:
- We the undersigned citizens of Richmond Ray CO Mo where David Whitmer Sr has resided since the year AD 1838, Certify that we have been long and intimately acquainted with him, and know him to be a man of the highest integrity, and of undoubted truth and veracity....[4]
Another said:
- Mr. Whitmer is an old citizen of this town, and is known by every one here as a man of the highest honor, having resided here since the year 1838.[5]
Upon Whitmer's death, the local newspaper wrote:
- He lived in Richmond about half a century, and we can say that no man ever lived here, who had among our people, more friends and fewer enemies. Honest, conscientious and upright in all his dealings, just in his estimate of men, and open, manly and frank in his treatment of all, he made lasting friends who loved him to the end.[6]
Notas
- ↑ Richard Lloyd Anderson, Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1981), 74. ISBN 0877478465.
- ↑ Richard Lloyd Anderson, Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1981), 74. ISBN 0877478465.
- ↑ David Whitmer, interview with Chicago Times (August 1875); cited in Dan Vogel (editor), Early Mormon Documents (Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 1996–2003), 5 vols.
- ↑ David Whitmer, Proclamation, 19 March 1881; cited in Dan Vogel (editor), Early Mormon Documents (Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 1996–2003), 5 vols.
- ↑ David Whitmer, Interview with Chicago Tribune, 23 January 1888, printed in "An Old Mormon's Closing Hours," Chicago Tribune (24 January 1888); cited in Dan Vogel (editor), Early Mormon Documents (Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 1996–2003), 5 vols.
- ↑ David Whitmer, Interview, "The Last Witness Dead! David Whitmer, the aged Patria[r]ch, Gone to His Rest. His Parting Injunction to His Family and Friends. He Departs in Peace," Richmond (MO) Democrat (26 January 1888); cited in Dan Vogel (editor), Early Mormon Documents (Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 1996–2003), 5 vols.