Pouring Revelation

When Joseph was translating the Book of Mormon, he would stop for meals, come back, and start right up again without even asking his scribe at the time (Emma) where they had left off. What an amazing experience that must have been - to see revelation pouring from heaven into the mind of Joseph Smith and onto the pages of the "most correct of any book on earth" (Introduction, Book of Mormon).

Oliver Cowdrey, another of Joseph's scribes, said as much: "These were days never to be forgotten--to sit under the sound of a voice dictated by the inspiration of heaven, awakened the utmost gratitude of this bosom! Day after day I continued, uninterrupted, to write from his mouth, as he translated, with the Urim and Thummim, or, as the Nephites would have said, "Interpreters," the history, or record, called "The Book of Mormon" (Messenger and Advocate, October 1834, p. 14).