Show SAGE SUNDAY SCHOOL JOSEPH SMITH RECEIVES THE ANCIENT RECORDS 21 minute talk by glen perkins Perk insl from 1823 to 1827 joseph smith lived the life of any ordinary boy whose parents were vere poor we have very little account of those four e ears ars but there is no doubt th that at the task before him sobered him and kept him from making many of the foolish mistakes that were so corn com mon in in those days each year he I sited the hill cumorah and received instructions from the abfal T moroni I but we have no word of the grature of these instructions it was on cn the morning of the day of sept 1827 that joseph received the gold plates and as he held them I 1 in n his arms he heard the angel beside I 1 hm say now you have the record in in your own hands and you are but a man therefore you will have lo 10 he watchful and faithful to your trust or you will be overpowered by wicked men for they will lay every alan and scheme that is possible lo 10 0 o get it away from you and if you do not take heed they will succeed while it was in my hands I 1 could keep it and no man had power to take lake it away but I 1 give it up to you vou beware and look well to your ways and you shall have power to retain it until the time for it to be translated when joseph returned home he hd was without the plates these wrap oed in his coat were hidden in n a birch log in the woods he did not take anybody into his confidence concer concerning ning the plates or their hiding place but his friends knew he had received receive them and it long before the whole settlement knew and all manners of violence and strategy were used to get them away from him many times he h was shot at and just narrowly es caned during the following months the records found many curious hiding ag places an excavation in the hearthstone of the smith residence the loft of a workshop a barrel of beans and many other places but all efforts to get them from joseph met with failure |