Orson Pratt references use of Urim and Thummim in the translation process.
Orson Pratt (declarant, 1840) --- Ballantyne and Hughes (recorder) · 0.0 yrs after events · Direct
Reference
Orson Pratt, A[n] Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions (Edinburgh, Scotland: Ballantyne and Hughes, 1840), 13, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed August 11, 2021
Date of Account
1840
Date of Events
1840
Retrospective Distance
0.0 yrs after events
Hearsay Tier
Direct — Tagged 'Direct'
Point of View
todo
Status
Unreviewed
Source Type
Book
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription
With the records was found “a curious instrument, called by the ancients the Urim and Thummim, which consisted of two transparent stones, clear as crystal, set in the two rims of a bow. This was in use, in ancient times, by persons called seers. It was an instrument, by the use of which, they received revelation of things distant, or of things past or future."