However, on May 2, 1838, a few months before Smith's statement in Elders ' Journal, Smith began dictating a church history that included a detailed account of his visits from the angel.

Smith's apparent 1838 identification as " Nephi " was left unchanged when the 1838 history was published in 1842 in Times and Seasons, which Smith edited himself, and in Millennial Star.

Nevertheless, based on Smith's statement that the angel was " Moroni ," and based on both prior and later publications, most Latter Day Saints view Smith's 1838 identification of the angel as Nephi as a mistake, perhaps on the part of the transcriber or a later editor.

In the version of Smith's 1838 history published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, as well as the portion canonized by that denomination as the Pearl of Great Price, the name " Nephi " has been changed by editors to read " Moroni ".

Joseph Smith's revelation came in 1838, two years after the county was organized, and spurred in an influx of Mormon settlers.

* J W L Heaviside ( 1838 – 57 ) previously of Trinity College, and then Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated Second Wrangler and a Smith's Prize winner in 1830, and tutored until he moved to Haileybury.

Largely through Joseph F. Smith's influence, Smith's 1838 account of the First Vision became part of the canon of the LDS Church in 1880 when the faith canonized Smith's early history as part of the Pearl of Great Price.

Doctrines of the Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ) are heavily influenced by the writings of David Whitmer, a leading figure of early Mormonism who was expelled from Joseph Smith's church in 1838.

" Although Cowdery was technically second in authority to Smith from the organization of the church through 1838, in practice Sidney Rigdon, Smith's " spokesman " and counselor in the First Presidency, began to supplant Cowdery as early as 1831.

Many of Smith's followers attempted to colonize Missouri throughout the 1830s, and Smith himself moved there in 1838.

Officially, the major denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement claim Fayette as the birthplace of the religion, and Joseph Smith's official history, begun in 1838, listed Fayette as the founding place.

According to LDS teachings, this theology is consistent with Smith's 1838 and subsequent accounts of the First Vision.

Mormon critics view this 1838 account with skepticism, because Smith's earliest accounts of the First Vision did not refer to the presence of two beings.

When he returned to Kirtland in 1838, Snow found Smith's followers in turmoil over the failure of the Kirtland Safety Society.

By 1838, Cowdery and Smith had engaged in a number of disagreements that included doctrinal differences about the role of faith and works, the Kirtland Safety Society, and what Cowdery called Smith's " dirty, nasty, filthy affair " with Fanny Alger.

The July 1838 issue published a " Q & A " style interview with the editorial board ( led by Joseph Smith, Jr .) about Smith's personal history and Mormon beliefs.

In January 1838, some months after the Algers had left Kirtland, Oliver Cowdery — one of the Three Witnesses to the authenticity of the Book of Mormon — wrote his brother concerning his indignation at Smith's relationship with Alger.

In the Pearl of Great Price's section containing part of Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible's book of Moses, it refers to " a Book of Remembrance ", written in the language of Adam.

According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

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Scholars of the 19th century tended to interpret these titles as the names of distinct works covering separate voyages ; for example, Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology hypothesizes a voyage to Britain and Thule written about in " Ocean " and another from Cadiz to the Don river, written about in " Sail Around.

During the 1972 presidential campaign, a letter was published that Smith had written to the Democratic U. S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, indicating Smith's full support for Muskie.

No notice was taken of Smith's previous publication on the subject, and M. Hermite on being written to, said that he forgot to bring the matter to the notice of the commission.

Jay and Silent Bob are fictional characters portrayed by Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith, respectively, in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse, a fictional universe created and used in most of the films, comics and television programs written and produced by Smith, beginning with Clerks.

He was invented in Smith's short story " The Tale of Satampra Zeiros ", written in 1929 and published in the November 1931 issue of Weird Tales.

Sir Thomas Smith's book * De Republica Anglorum ; the Manner of Government or Policie of the Realme of England, written between 1562 and 1565, was first published in 1583.

" When the church archivist balked at the price, Hofmann offered it to the Missouri Church, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which had always claimed that the line of succession had been bestowed on Joseph Smith's line but had never had written proof.

Chandler asked Joseph Smith to look at the scrolls and give some insight into what was written on them, due to Smith's notoriety and claim to have translated the golden plates of the Book of Mormon.

Modern presidents, however, have not generally continued Joseph Smith's practice of publishing written doctrinal revelations and visions, although most have stated that they have received them.

Bennett had been in Smith's innermost circle but had broken with the founding prophet and had written an Anti-Mormon exposé.

The album was notable for a change in Cardiacs ' working methods-whereas most previous material had been written and arranged by Smith, the Sing to God sessions saw extensive contributions from Jon Poole who played a strong role in orchestrating Smith's basic material with detailed riffs and keyboard parts ( and contributed several songs entirely written by himself ).

The first, Venetia Anastasopoulou, a forensic handwriting expert witness with experience in many Greek court cases, compared the Mar Saba photos with known samples of Morton Smith's Greek handwriting, and concluded that it was most probably not written by Morton Smith.

Bair says the French writer Francis Jeanson and the British poet Stevie Smith had similar critiques: in Smith's words, " She has written an enormous book about women and it is soon clear that she does not like them, nor does she like being a woman.

Smith's memoirs, however, are unreliable and embellished for dramatic effect, and were written more than twenty years after the event.

Among Smith's most recent work is the Kitty Pride: Shadow and Flame limited series written by Akira Yoshida.

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, published in 1938, and Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, published in 1943, although not specifically written for a younger demographic, are read by many adolescents today at that level.

This emphasis on teaching has also affected Smith's output in another way — much of his written work began as lectures, and most of his publications have been essays.

* Firsts: The Shadow's cloak and slouch hat, sanctum, messages written in disappearing blue ink, girasol ring, mysterious laugh, verbal messages with emphasized words, organizing written clues, Thursday radio program ( Street and Smith's Detective Story Hour on CBS and narrated at that time by " The Shadow ").

In Smith's 1832 history, he said he was visited by " an angel of the Lord ", who mentioned the Book of Mormon prophet " Moroni " as the last engraver of the golden plates ; however, Smith's account did not say whether or not the angel was referring to himself as Moroni.

Some historians question the accuracy of much of Smith's account of that incident.

A further account in Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men by Winifred Blevins, cites details of Smith's encounter with the Comanches in a box canyon.

" D. Michael Quinn says that Smith's account is a conflation of events over several years, a typical biographical device for streamlining the narrative.

Unlike Smith's later accounts of the vision, the 1832 account emphasizes personal forgiveness and mentions neither an appearance of God the Father nor the phrase " This is my beloved Son, hear him.

Thus, Cowdery's account, containing a single vision, differs from Smith's 1832 account, which contains two separate visions, one in 1821 prompted by religious confusion ( the First Vision ) and a separate one regarding the plates on September 22, 1822.

Cowdery's account also differs from Smith's 1842 account, which includes a First Vision in 1820 and a second vision on September 22, 1823.

Like the Orson Pratt account, Smith's Wentworth letter said that his " mind was taken away from the objects with which I was surrounded, and I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision.

An account of the First Vision was not published in the United States until 1842, shortly before Joseph Smith's death.

The church refers to the vision obliquely in a lengthy excerpt from Smith's 1842 account included in its official literature, in which the date " 1820 " and " a personage " ( singular, not plural ) are mentioned in paraphrases.

Nevertheless, the church uses several elements of the 1842 account of the First Vision including Smith's desire to know which church he should join, his reading of James 1: 5, his prayer in the grove, the appearance of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, the statement by Jesus Christ that all existing churches were corrupt, and the instruction that he should join none of them.

His manuscript material for Syriac was utilized in Robert Payne Smith's Thesaurus ; of the slips he collected for a projected Arabic, Persian and Turkish lexicon some account is given in the preface to Dozy, Supplément aux dictionaires arabes.

But they included a letter from Joseph Smith's mother, Lucy Mack Smith, describing the origin of the Book of Mormon ; a letter each from Martin Harris and David Whitmer, two of the Three Witnesses, each giving a personal account of their visions ; a contract between Smith and Egbert Bratt Grandin for the printing of the first edition of the Book of Mormon ; and two pages of the original Book of Mormon manuscript taken in dictation from Joseph Smith by Oliver Cowdery.

According to Joseph Smith's account, this was the Hill Cumorah, near Palmyra, New York.

Temperance, by Smith's account, is to have control over bodily passions.