The First Angel to “Fly” on a Temple

Nauvoo Temple

The original horizontal angel that was placed on top of the Nauvoo Temple in 1845 was inspired by what event?

A)                 The Apostles’ John’s vision of the spreading of the gospel

B)                The visit of the Angel Moroni to Joseph Smith on the Hill Cumorah

C)                 The visit of the Angel Gabriel to Mary, mother of Jesus

D)                 The wrestle that Jacob had with the angel

Yesterday’s answers:

1.      C.   Another stone box

Brother Harris then turned himself as though he had no more to say and we made ready to go. He then spoke again and said, "I will tell you a wonderful thing that happened after Joseph had found the plates: three of us took a notion to take some tools and go to the hill and hunt for some more boxes or gold or something, and indeed we found a stone box; we got quite excited about it; and dug quite carefully around it. We were ready to take it up, but behold, by some unseen power, it slipped back into the hill. We stood there and looked at it. One of us took a crowbar and tried to drive it through the lid to hold it; but it glanced and only broke one corner off of the box."

Ole A. Jensen, "Testimony of Martin Harris (One of the Witnesses of the Book of Mormon)," pp. 1-6, BYU.

<     2.     B.   The box or chest would move

After this, on the 22nd of September, 1827, before day, Joseph took the horse and wagon of old Mr. Stowel[l], and taking his wife, he went to the place where the plates were concealed, and while he was obtaining them, she kneeled down and prayed. He then took the plates and hid them in an old black oak tree top which was hollow. Mr. Stowel[l] was at this time at old Mr. Smith's, digging for money. It was reported by these money-diggers, that they had found boxes, but before they could secure them, they would sink into the earth. A candid old Presbyterian told me, that on the Susquehannah flats he dug down to an iron chest, that he scraped the dirt off with his shovel, but had nothing with him to open the chest; that he went away to get help, and when they came to it, it moved away two or three rods into the earth, and they could not get it.

“Mormonism--II," Tiffany's Monthly 5 (August 1859): 163-70.