I have the utmost faith

My belief is that the B of M. is of divine authenticity. I have not the slightest doubt of it. I am satisfied that no man could have dictated the writing of the mss unless he were inspired. For when acting as his scribe he would dictate <to me> hour after hour, and when returning after mealss or after interruptions, he would at once begin where he had left off, without either seeing the mss or having any portion of it read to him. This was a usual thing for him to do. It would have been impossible for improbable that a learned man could do this, and for so ignorant and unlearned as he was it was simply impossible.

Your father bought your uncle Jesse's place, off, father's farm. and we lived there till the B. of M. was translated and I think pub-lished. I was not in Palmyra, long.

6 I know Mormonism to be the truth, and <believe> the church to have been established by divine direction. I have complete faith in it.

(b) David Whitmer I believe to be an honest and truthful man. I think what he states may be relied on.

7 They were good.

9 No. There was no necessity for any quarrelling. He knew that i wished for 

nothing but what was right; and as he did not either wished nothing else we did not disagree. He usually gave some heed to what I had to say. It was quite a grievous thing to many that I had any influence with him.

(c) John Brassfield was one of the guards who watched J. Smith and others, who slept on his post, so soundly that the ones guarded escaped--he received favors for it after. J. Smith, H. Smith, Alex McCrae, S. Smith, Cabb [Caleb] Baldwin, L. Wight.

In writing for J. S. I frequently wrote for day after day, often he sitting at the table close by him, he sitting with his face bu-ried in his hat, with the stone in it and dictating hour after hour, with nothing between us. He had neither mss nor book to read from. If he had had any-thing of the Kind he could not have concealed it from me. The plates often lay on the table without any attempt at con-cealment, wrapped in a small linen <table> cloth, which I had given him to fold them in. I have felt of the plates, as they lay on the table, tracing their outline

and shape. They seemed to be pliable like st thick paper, and would rustle <with a metallic sound> when the edges were moved by the thumb, as one does sometimes thumb the edges of a book. O. Cowdery and J. S. wrote in the room where I was at work. J. S. could not neither write nor dictate a coherent and well worded letter, let alone a book like the Book of M.

(d) Baptized by O. Cowdery at Bain-bridge.

and though I was an active participant in the scenes that transpired and was present

during the translation of the plates, and had cognizance of things as they transpired, it is marvelous to me, "a marvel and a wonder," as much so as to any body else. I did not attempt to handle the plates nor, uncover them to look at them. I was satisfied that it was the work of God, and therefore did not feel it to be necessary to do so.

(e) I have been called apostate; but I have never apostatized fro nor forsaken the faith I at first accepted; but was called so because I would not accept their newfangled notion.