Martin Harris
What was the
deciding factor in Martin Harris’s belief in the brass plate translation?
a.
Joseph
letting Martin read some of the translation
b.
A vision of
the Lord to Martin
c.
A vision of the angel Moroni to Martin
d.
Martin’s
conversation with Joseph Sr. and Hyrum Smith
Yesterday’s answer:
a.
Take in a
fatherless family
Sometimes
Church leaders would ask a local family to help feed a recently arrived widow
and her children. It was an assignment that could severely tax resources. “My
heart swells with pride,” Martha Cragun Cox wrote of her mother’s treatment of
one widow family, “when I remember that the wheat cake[s] for the Atkins’
children was just as large as ours, and the half pint of milk each morning and
evening was never stinted in favor of her own little ones.” One time the Cragun
and Atkins’ flour supply was reduced to one small baking. James Cragun left for
the fields without breakfast, and his wife, Eleanor, went to gather
“greens”—the wild bulbs and grasses that many pioneers used when no other
alternative seemed possible. Still the Cragun family shared with the Atkins.
Soon, however, the family flour sack was mysteriously replenished. Apparently,
becoming aware of the situation, neighbors anonymously contributed in the
families’ behalf.
Nearly Everything Imaginable, Walker, Ronald W., Doris R. Dant ed., (Provo,
Utah: BYU Press, 1999), 50.
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