Heber C. Kimball recounts the "Cumorah Cave."

Date
1857
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Heber C. Kimball
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
2nd Hand
Late
Reference

Heber C. Kimball, "Emigration," September 28, 1856, in Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: S. W. Richards; London: Latter-day Saints' Book Depot, 1857), 4:105

Scribe/Publisher
Journal of Discourses
People
Joseph Smith, Jr., Heber C. Kimball
Audience
Latter-day Saints
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Transcription

Brother Mills mentioned in his song, that crossing the Plains with handcarts was one of the greatest events that ever transpired in this Church. I will admit that it is an important event, successfully testing another method for gathering Israel, but its importance is small in comparison with the visitation of the angel of God to the Prophet Joseph, and with the reception of the sacred records from the hand of Moroni at the hill Cumorah.

How does it compare with the vision that Joseph and others had, when they went into a cave in the hill Cumorah, and saw more records than ten men could carry? There were books piled up on tables, book upon book. Those records this people will yet have, if they accept of the Book of Mormon and observe its precepts, and keep the commandments.

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