Possible Additions to Ensign Issue on Book of Mormon
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 1:59 am
Grant Hardy has some interesting thoughts on additional things the Ensign Magazine might have said in their Book of Mormon (October 2011) issue:
http://www.ldsmag.com/component/zine/article/8659?ac=1
Joseph’s younger sister Katherine reported that when he first brought home the golden plates, after being attacked by several unknown assailants on the way, she took the package containing the plates from him and laid it on a table until he could catch his breath again.
His wife Emma, in an interview with their son Joseph III in 1879, described her own experiences with the plates as follows:
Q. Are you sure that [Joseph] had the plates at the time you were writing for him?
A. The plates often lay on the table without any attempt at concealment, wrapped in a small linen table cloth, which I had given him to fold them in. I once felt the plates, as they thus lay on the table, tracing their outline and shape. They seemed to be pliable like thick paper, and would rustle with a metallic sound when the edged were moved by the thumb, as one does sometime thumb the edges of a book. [Another except from this same interview appears in the October Ensign, pp. 8-9.]
http://www.ldsmag.com/component/zine/article/8659?ac=1