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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Source:Joseph Smith:Wentworth letter:1 Mar 1842:The remnant are the Indians that now inhabit this country (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Parley P. Pratt:Mar 1842:Mr Stephens...penetrated a dense forest, till then unexplored by modern travellers , and actually finds the ruins of those very cities mentioned by Mormon (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Times and Seasons:2 May 1842:The Book of Mormon gives an account of a number of the descendants of Israel coming to this continent (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:John E. Page:1 Jul 1842:The city was in some region on the South of what is called at this time, North America (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Millennial Star:9 Jul 1842:the American Indians were once an enlightened people and understood the arts and sciences, as the ruined cities and monuments lately discovered fully prove (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Joseph Smith:15 Jul 1842:Stephens and Catherwood's researches in Central America abundantly testify of this thing (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Sep 1842:these wonderful ruins of Palenque are among the mighty works of the Nephites (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Sep 1842:we read in the Book of Mormon that Jared and his brother came on to this continent...and covered the whole continent from sea to sea (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Millennial Star:Sep 1842:as the western continent is separate from the eastern (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Times and Seasons:1 Oct 1842:The city of Zarahemla, burnt at the crucifixion of the Savior, and rebuilt afterwards, stood upon this land (transclusion) (← links)
- A critic of the Book of Mormon (1843): "the ruins of Central America...the existence of such ruins were known long before the publication of the Book of Mormon" (transclusion) (← links)
- Missionary responds to critic (1843): "I contend that it is North and South America both that includes the promised land to the branches of Joseph" (transclusion) (← links)
- Orson Spencer (2 Jan 1843): "I only remark that Stevens’ Travels had some influence, as an external evidence of the truth of the Book of Mormon" (transclusion) (← links)
- Times and Seasons (1 May 1843): "the wealth, architecture and splendor of ancient Mexico; when recent developments proved beyond a doubt, that there was ancient ruins in central America" (transclusion) (← links)
- Wilford Woodruff (27 Aug 1843): "the Book of Mormon...it gave a history of all those cities that have been of late discovered by Catherwood & Stephens, that it named those cities" (transclusion) (← links)
- Times and Seasons (1 Oct 1843): "a very interesting work entitled 'Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan,'...This is a work that ought to be in the hands of every Latter Day Saint" (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:LDS missionary tract:1844:where has the seed of Joseph gone to?...There is no place except North and South America to which they could have gone (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Times and Seasons:1 Jan 1844:We have been informed by a gentleman who has traversed a large portion of the Indian country of Northern Texas...that there are vestiges of ancient cities and ruined castles or temples (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Times and Seasons:15 Dec 1844:As to the original inhabitants of the continent of America, the Book of Mormon, backs up the description of immense "ruins" in central America (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:John Taylor:1 Apr 1845:cities have been discovered by Mr. Stevens in Central America'', exactly were the Book of Mormon left them (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Parley P. Pratt:13 Mar 1852:Four-fifths, or perhaps nine-tenths of the vast population of Peru, as well as of most other countries of Spanish America, are of the blood of Lehi (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Brigham Young:15 Aug 1852:it takes North and South America to make the land of Joseph (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Orson Pratt:15 Feb 1871:they landed on the south-west coast of South America (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Brigham Young, Jr.:25 Mar 1883:The leaders of the Church have in view the 5,000,000 of Lamanites located in Mexico (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:George Q. Cannon:1 Jan 1890:For these reasons we have strong objections to the introduction of maps and their circulation among our people which profess to give the location of the Nephite cities and settlements (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:James E. Talmage:1899:The hill, which was known by one division of the ancient peoples as Cumorah, by another as Ramah, is situated near Palmyra in the State of New York (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith reject the theory that the final battlefield of the Book of Mormon took place in Mesoamerica rather than New York? (transclusion) (← links)
- B.H. Roberts: "we need not be surprised if we sometimes find them mistaken in their conceptions and deductions" (transclusion) (← links)
- Joseph F. Smith (25 May 1903): "the question of the situation of the city (of Zarahemla) was one of interest certainly, but if it could not be located the matter was not of vital importance" (transclusion) (← links)
- Joseph F. Smith (circa 1918): "President Smith declined to officially approve of the map, saying that the Lord had not yet revealed it" (transclusion) (← links)
- George F. Richards (1922): "The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool" (transclusion) (← links)
- Anthony W. Ivins (Apr 1929): "Where was the land of Zarahemla? Where was the City of Zarahemla?...There has never been anything yet set forth that definitely settles that question" (transclusion) (← links)
- John E. Clark, "Archaeology and Cumorah Questions,": "The hill the plates came from is not at issue; the question is whether this final resting place is the same hill where the ending battles occurred" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Moroni bury the gold plates in the Hill Cumorah referenced in the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Have any archaeological excavations ever been performed on the site of the Hill Cumorah in New York? (transclusion) (← links)
- James E. Talmage (Apr 1929): "the Book of Mormon does not give us precise and definite information whereby we can locate those places with certainty" (transclusion) (← links)
- Melvin J. Ballard (Apr 1930): "We were made to know that the Gospel message would find thousands who had the blood of Israel in their veins in South America" (transclusion) (← links)
- Heber J. Grant (1937): "I am a firm believer that this country, both North and South America, is the choice land of the world" (transclusion) (← links)
- LDS Department of Education Study Manual (1938): "the Book of Mormon deals only with the history and expansion of three small colonies which came to America and it does not deny or disprove the possibility of other immigrations" (transclusion) (← links)
- Melvin J. Ballard (Apr 1938): "for these millions who are in Mexico, Central America and South America their day must come" (transclusion) (← links)
- Neal A. Maxwell (1986): "Whether located in Meso–America or elsewhere, they were one people among many peoples on this planet and perhaps even on the western hemisphere" (transclusion) (← links)
- John Sorenson, Ensign (1984): "the immediate land covered by the book’s events was probably only hundreds rather than thousands of miles long and wide" (transclusion) (← links)
- Encyclopedia of Mormonism (1992): "The Church has not taken an official position with regard to location of geographical places" (transclusion) (← links)
- J. Reuben Clark (1940): "Thus the hemisphere – Zion in its full area –was becoming “a land of liberty" (transclusion) (← links)
- John A. Widtsoe (Jul 1950): "under the Prophet's editorship Central America was denominated the region of Book of Mormon activities" (transclusion) (← links)
- LDS Department of Education Study Manual (1940): "There is a tendency to use the Book of Mormon as a complete history of all pre-Columbian peoples...The book does not give an history of all peoples who came to America before Columbus" (transclusion) (← links)
- George Albert Smith (Oct 1940): "They will find that it contains, in addition to what the Bible has told us about the world, what the Lord has said about this Western Hemisphere" (transclusion) (← links)
- David O. McKay (1843): "and this includes Canada and the southern republics, was a choice land when the Jaredites left the land of Shinar approximately four thousand years ago" (transclusion) (← links)
- Ezra Taft Benson (Apr 1955): "the Promised Land, the land of Zion, includes all of North and South America" (transclusion) (← links)
- Lowell T. Bennion (Sunday School - 1955): "The Book of Mormon itself does not purport to be a history of all pre-Columbian peoples in the Western Hemisphere" (transclusion) (← links)