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| Years after his excommunicated he related to Joseph F. Smith and others: "Joseph, Oliver and I were sitting just here on a log, when we were overshadowed by a light. . . . in the midst of this light . . . there appeared, as it were, a table with many records or plates upon it, besides the plates of the Book of Mormon, also the sword of Laban, the directors and the interpreters. I saw them . . . and I heard the voice of the Lord, as distinctly as I ever heard anything in my life, declaring that the records of the plates of the Book of Mormon were translated by the gift and power of God." Called to preside over the Saints in Missouri, but then excommunicated in Far West for associating and writing to dissenters of the Church, he even assigned himself as President of the Church. He soon formed his own fraction of the Church in which he led. He never returned to the Church, but never once in his life did he deny his testimony as a witness of the gold plates. |
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