Marcos A. Aidukaitis, “Because My Father Read the Book of Mormon” Ensign, Nov. 2008, 15-17,
I invite all who hear me today to read the Book of Mormon and to apply the promise it contains. Those who do will know that the book is true.
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Michael De Groote, “How Gold were the Golden Plates?” mormon tmes.com, July 7,2010
“For we have seen and hefted, and know of a surety that the said Smith has got the plates.” (From “The Testimony of Eight Witnesses.”)
Thud. If you dropped the golden plates, they would have made a pretty big dent in the floor — or worse, they probably would have crushed your foot. Joseph Smith carried them around, hid them in a log, a bean barrel, boxes and under hearthstones. They were picked up and fingers flipped through the metallic leaves, frrrrrrp! Emma Smith had to move them out of her way occasionally while doing housework.
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Bruce R. McConkie, “The Book of Mormon” The Improvement Era, June 1961, 402
We are laying the foundation for, and have already actually commenced, the greatest missionary undertaking ever destined to occur in any age of the earth’s history. We are going forth by command of Deity to carry the knowledge of God and of his saving truths to all nations, to preach the gospel to every creature, and to give in due course, in this life or in the next every living soul the opportunity to hear and obey these saving principles.
Bruce R. McConkie, “The Keystone of Our Religion” The Improvement Era, June 1965, 50
There are in the world great hosts of upright and good people, men and women of goodwill, who desire in their hearts to know the truth about religion. They see conflicting claims everywhere, claims supporting both the philosophies of the world and the various religious systems.
Bruce R. McConkie, “The Keystone of Our Religion” The Improvement Era, June 1968, 46
We have a volume of sacred scripture known as the Book of Mormon, which contains the mind and will and voice of God to the world today. Like the Bible, with which it is in complete conformity, it contains a record of God’s dealings with a people who had the fullness of the everlasting gospel. Thus, both the Book of Mormon and the Bible present a summary of the doctrines of salvation, of the truths men must accept and live by to gain the celestial heaven, and both record the wondrous blessings poured out by Deity upon those in former days who walked in the light of the Lord and who kept his commandments.