Just a few months after the 116 manuscript pages of the book of Lehigh were lost, a young man arrived

in Manchester, New York. He had dark brown eyes, a slight build, a prominent lower jaw,

high forehead, and as one described, a Roman nose. He was hired to be a teacher in New York's

Joint District 11. The small-framed

schoolhouse was located just about a mile south of the Joseph and Lucy Mac Smith Farm on Stafford Road.

In this first teaching job, he had 107 little scholars. Little did he know he would become a teacher for millions yet unborn. His name

was Oliver Cowdery. Welcome, dear friends, to Meridian Magazines. Come Follow Me podcast. This is Scott

and Maureen Proctor with a lesson this week called This is the Spirit of Revelation and includes Doctrine and Covenant

section 6 through 9. In order to understand these marvelous sections, we have to understand

the backstory of how they were received.

By the end of September of 1828, the Prophet Joseph had repented of his sins in succumbing to the pressures of Martin

Harris. The angel Maroni had restored the plates and the Yerminthum back to him, and he was ready

to begin translating again. He was promised by the angel that a scribe would be sent to assist in this

work. We don't always know or

understand the Lord's timing because a scribe would not be sent for nearly seven months. As Oliver was

living in Manchester, and especially with the Smith family, he could not help but hear numerous

stories about Joseph. The more he heard,

the more curious he was. He could not stop thinking about the plates and about this growing desire

to be ascribed for the translation process. We learn from Joseph's personal writings this amazing insight. The Lord appeared unto a young man

by the name of Oliver Cowdery and chewed unto him the plates in a vision and also the truth of the

work and what the Lord was about to do through me, his unworthy servant.

Therefore, he was desirous to come and write for me to translate.

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