Section 2 (Community of Christ)
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy July 1828 a total of 116 pages of the Book of Mormon manuscript has been translated. Martin Harris served as Joseph’s scribe at this time and wrote most of the translation. To quiet the ridicule of some of his relatives, Martin borrowed the manuscript, promising to preserve it with the utmost care, but the…
Section 1 (Community of Christ)
Reading Time: 5 minutesRevelation given through Joseph Smith, Jr., at a special conference held at Hiram, Portage County, Ohio, November 1, 1831. It was to serve as a preference to the “Book of Commandments.” W. W. Phelps and Company began the printing of the “Book of Commandments” at Independence, Missouri, but the plant was destroyed by a mob…