26. 26—1407. Ramah * * * Cumorah. Book of Mormon names. That
book is an abridged history of two great races, the Jaredites and the Nephites,
who inhabited America prior to its discovery by Europeans. Their occupancy of
the land was successive, the Jaredites coming from the Tower of Babel, B. C.
2218; and the founders of the Nephite nation from Judea, B. C. 600. The
Jaredites perished about the time that the Nephites came. The latter were
destroyed, A. D. 384, by the Lamanites, a degenerate and savage faction of
their own people, whose remnants were found by Columbus and named Indians.
The
golden plates containing the Nephite-Jaredite record were taken by Joseph Smith
from the Jaredite hill Ramah, called by the Nephites, Cumorah.
"The Book of Mormon.—The Angel further stated that a record of the Nephites would be found in a hill not far from Joseph's home—a hill anciently called Cumorah; and upon that spot, four years afterward, Moroni delivered the record into his hands. It was a book of metallic plates "having the appearance of gold," and covered with strange characters, "small and beautifully engraved"—characters known to the Nephites as "the reformed Egyptian".
"By means of "interpreters," discovered with the plates, and consisting of "two stones in silver bows," the youth translated the unsealed portion of the record and, with the assistance of a few friends, published to the world the Book of Mormon. It was so named for its compiler, the Nephite prophet Mormon, whose son and survivor, Moroni, had buried the plates where Joseph Smith found them. The date of discovery was September 22nd, 1823."The Hill Cumorah is situated between Palmyra and Manchester, in the State of New York. For their belief in the Book of Mormon, the Latter-day Saints were termed "Mormons," and their religion "Mormonism." It proclaims itself the restored fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
Orson F. Whitney was ordained an Apostle on April 9, 1906 by Joseph F. Smith on the same date that David O. McKay waa also ordained.
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