Comments on: Be Honest With Yourself: Read It … Test It

By: Left Field

Left Field — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:52:56 +0000

I’ve seen an illustration almost like this a hundred times, but I’ve never seen this one before. One similar to this was in my missionary flipchart back in the Carter administration. But the usual picture has an open engraved plate where the paper is, and a paper under where Joseph has his pen. Also, it shows him transcribing characters instead of writing English text. I wonder which is the original. This one looks a little odd because it looks like he’s about to write on the table while using his left forefinger to mark a line in nonexistent text.

By: middle-aged Mormon Man

middle-aged Mormon Man — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:00:01 +0000

I quite like the simplicity of “Read it…test it.”
Of course, Moroni was a bit more eloquent.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:50:26 +0000

This is one of the weaker entries in the series, I think. By the time they shifted from “Be Honest With Yourself” to “Know the Truth,” they also shifted from positive reasons to live the standards of the Church to more heavy handed apologia and doctrinal proselytizing. This one is a good example of that, no?

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:15:09 +0000

I do have a little trouble with the translation process depicted in the picture. Shouldn’t Joseph be looking at a seer stone in a hat instead?

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:14:20 +0000

The discovery of metal plates with inscriptions seems to have been the big thing among the LDS during the 1960s. I remember my first copy of the BofM (mid-1970s)had pictures of other metal plates that had been found. I also remember (if memory serves) a big replica of some of these other plates on display in the old visitors’ center in SLC.