" ...I retired to the woods..It was on the morning of a beautiful, clear day, early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty. ...finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. ...I saw two personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, caling me by name, and said- pointing to the other- "THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, HEAR HIM." Joseph Smith

"Convenient to the village of Manchester... stands a hill of considerable size...not far from the top, under a stone of considerable size, lay the plates, deposited in a stone box. At length the time arrived for obtaining the plates... on the twenty-second day of September (1827). " J.S.

"The ancient record thus brought forth from the earth as the voice of a people speaking from the dust, and translated into modern speech by the gift and power of God as attested by Divine affirmation, was first published to the world in the year 1830 as THE BOOK OF MORMON."

"We had received a commandment to organize the Church; and accordingly we met together for that purpose, at the house of Mr. Peter Whitmer, Sen., (being six in number,) on Tuesday, the sixth day of April, A.D., 1830. We dismissed with the pleasing knowledge that we were now individually members of, and acknowledged of God, "The Church of Jesus Christ, "... J.S.