{"id":26781,"date":"2015-09-30T21:05:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T03:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=26781"},"modified":"2015-09-30T21:05:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T03:05:53","slug":"historical-transparency-im-very-pleased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/09\/historical-transparency-im-very-pleased.html","title":{"rendered":"Historical transparency. I’m very pleased."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The Priesthood Restoration Site
Oakland (Harmony), Pennsylvania
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We spent at least two hours this afternoon at the newly dedicated Priesthood Restoration Site in Oakland, Pennsylvania (formerly known as \u201cHarmony\u201d), where most of the Book of Mormon was translated, where the Aaronic priesthood was restored, and in the vicinity of which the Melchizedek priesthood was returned to earth. \u00a0(Directly adjacent is the McKune Cemetery, where Isaac and Elizabeth Hale, the parents of Emma Hale Smith, and Joseph and Emma\u2019s infant firstborn son are buried.)<\/p>\n

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The facilities at the new Priesthood Restoration Site\u00a0are fabulous. \u00a0State of the art, and very well done. \u00a0The site is abundantly worth a visit.<\/p>\n

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And I was especially pleased to see a prominent photo, with explanation, of the seer stone that Joseph Smith used during the translation process.<\/p>\n

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Just now, too, I watched a brief video clip<\/a> about the newly re-opened Church History Museum in Salt Lake City. \u00a0I can scarcely wait to get back there and have a look.<\/p>\n

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Once again, I\u2019m particularly pleased to see the seer stone openly treated \u2014 along with, apparently, frank discussion of plural marriage.<\/p>\n

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I think this is all very much to the good.<\/p>\n

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Among the many pleasures of the trip that we\u2019re currently on, and which is beginning to wind down, has been the presence in our group of the artist Gary Smith, whose work I\u2019ve known for many years but whom, unfortunately, I\u2019d never previously met. \u00a0(His paintings have shown up at several places along our way, including very sacred ones.) \u00a0He and I have had some\u00a0interesting conversations about the crying need for more historically accurate Church art, and about some of his ideas for helping to create it. \u00a0Thus, I was especially\u00a0happy, at roughly 2:55-3:05 of the video to which I\u2019ve linked above,\u00a0to see on the wall of the Church History Museum his new painting of Moses, Elijah, and Elias appearing in the Kirtland Temple. \u00a0He had shown it to me on his iPhone a few days ago.<\/p>\n

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For other examples (mostly secular ones, so far as I\u2019ve looked) of Brother Smith\u2019s work, Google \u201cimages\u201d for \u201cGary Ernest Smith.\u201d \u00a0See also here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Posted from Victor, New York<\/p>\n

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