https://freerepublic.com/tag/martinharris/ en-us Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:09:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2328616/posts PROVO, Utah -- It isn't very hard to imagine what the subscribers of the Rochester (N.Y.) Gem thought about Mormons a month after The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized. You can almost picture them gathering around while someone read aloud the May 15, 1830, edition story titled "Imposition and Blasphemy!! -- Money-diggers, &c." "Some months ago a noise was made among the credulous of the earth," the article began, "respecting a wonderful production said to have been found as follows. An ignoramus near Palmyra, Wayne county, pretended he had found some 'Gold Plates,' as he is... Mormon Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2328616/posts#comment Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:09:32 GMT