When
Arocet Hale was working his wheat fields and saw, for the first time, a group
of gold seekers entering the Salt Lake Valley on their way to California, he
went to their camp. What was the first thing they desired to see?
A)
The Book of Mormon
B)
Gold dust
C)
Brigham Young
D)
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Yesterday’s
answer:
(A)
Mary Whitmer
We know of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon and also
the Eight Witnesses, nevertheless, what may not be familiar to some was the
fact that there was another witness; and that witness happened to be the only
female. The following is recorded by David Whitmer regarding a miraculous
appearance by the Angel Moroni to his mother, Mary. This was at the time when
Joseph, Emma, and Oliver moved into the Whitmer cabin at Fayette, New York to
escape the persecutions in the Harmony, Pa. area.
“My father and mother had a large family . . . the addition to it . . .
of Joseph, his wife Emma and Oliver very greatly increased the toil and anxiety
of my mother,” she was met by the Angel Moroni, who said to her, “You have been
very faithful and diligent in your labors, but you are tired . . . it is proper
therefore that you should receive a witness that your faith may be strengthened.”
Thereupon, the messenger showed Mary the plates, turning them over leaf by
leaf, that she might know that the work was true. He promised her that if she
endured in faith to the end, her reward would be sure.
Millennial
Star 40
(May 2, 1878): 772-73.
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