Harold B. Lee indicates the Lord has not revealed the location of the Hill Cumorah.

Date
1982
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Harold B. Lee
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Harold B. Lee, “Loyalty,” Address to Religious Educators, July 8, 1966, in Charge to Religious Educators, 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City, UT: Church Educational System and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1982), 65

Scribe/Publisher
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
People
Harold B. Lee
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

Well, these are just illustrative. I could go on. I think I could have made my whole talk on this subject. For instance, some say the Manifesto relative to plural marriage was not a revelation. And yet President Wilford Woodruff declared that it was, that he wrote as the Lord dictated and told him to write. Now if that isn’t a revelation, I don't understand. Some say the Hill Cumorah was in southern Mexico (and someone pushed it down still farther) and not in western New York. Well, if the Lord wanted us to know where it was, or where Zarahemla was, he’d have given us latitude and longitude, don’t you think? And why bother our heads trying to discover with archaeological certainty the geographical locations of the cities of the Book of Mormon like Zarahemla?

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