On either supposition her understanding faltered.
"It is very hard for me to believe these things, Mr.Smith.It is very hard for me to believe, for instance, about the gold plates.

How could they appear only to you and vanish again?
It doesn't seem to me reasonable." "No more is it reasonable, but lots of things in the Bible is as lacking in reason, like the sheet that appeared to Peter with beasts.

But about the plates, I'll tell you just how it was, even though it's not just the way other folks has got hold of it.

This is the truth, and you can think how hard it was to put it much straighter to folks who didn't believe in me then as they do now.

The night that the angel came down three times and stood at the foot of my bed, and told me to go and get the plates and where they were to be found, my brain just seemed to go on fire.