The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 83: January 6, 1921 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 83: January 6, 1921 (Classic Reprint) written by George Albert Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 83: January 6, 1921 By this time a case, purposely passed, had attracted attention, and the professor made his way towards it, stating that he would show the crowning achievement in the art of manuscripts. Every eye peered forward, for in the case were plates of ivory, silver and gold. The educated guide explained how in early days the characters had been inscribed with a sharp pointed instrument oii thin sheets of metal, usually brass. But, said he, to write oii thin sheeted plates of gold surpasses all we have seen, for the hieroglyphics areas plain as when first written, making translation easy. These writings will last forever, and if we had more like them a better translation of the Bible could be made. The plates of gold were about thirteen inches long and three inches wide, bound together with small metal rings. The writer tried to question him as to what the plates signified, but the professor, thinking he had made a fitting conclusion and would be late for dinner, hurried away. The interested audi ence, however, stayed oii, especially one who had found a sur viving testimony of the existence of real gold plates, such as those from which the translation of The Book of Mormon was made. Passing on after silent meditation the writer viewed the signa tures of Shakespeare, the writings of Byron, Tennyson, Burns, Scott, Dickens, Milton, Raleigh, Pope, Defoe, and even the original Magna Charta, written in 1215. But he could not forget the gold plates. So, after making handwriting imitations he returned to take a final look at what he had hoped, for years, that he might sometime see. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.