Mark E. Petersen rejects the belief in "two Hill Cumorahs."
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Mark E. Petersen, Speech, April 5, 1954, in Conference Report (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1954), 83–84
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- Conference Report
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- Reading Public
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Our classrooms and our assembly rooms have been built at great expense with only one thought in mind, and that is that in them we may teach the truth so that we may convert those who come there, so that they in turn will live the gospel and work out their salvation in the earth.
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I do not believe we should give credence to the highly speculative theories about Book of Mormon geography.
I do not believe that there were two Hill Cumorahs, one in Central America and the other one up in New York, for the convenience of the Prophet Joseph Smith, so that the poor boy would not have to walk clear to Central America to get the gold plates.
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